Julie Hutcheson named new executive director of Green Foothills, a Palo Alto group founded in 1962
After Green Foothills and other conservation groups fought development for years in the area, a $93 million deal was reached in November, 2019 for San Jose, the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority and the Peninsula Open Space Trust to purchase 937 acres in Coyote Valley on San Jose’s southern edges to preserve the property for wildlife, open space and flood control.
In more recent decades, the group, previously known as Committee for Green Foothills, has won drawn-out battles to preserve thousands of acres farmland and open space in Coyote Valley on San Jose’s southern edges, an area Cisco and Apple once eyed as world headquarters in the 1980s and 1990s. It also helped convince Caltrans to abandon plans to reroute Highway 1 over the hills at Devil’s Slide near Pacifica and build a tunnel through the Coast Range instead.
Hutcheson has worked for the group since 2013 in a variety of roles, including legislative advocate. She succeeds Megan Fluke, who served as executive director for 10 years before stepping down to work as a non-profit consultant and leadership coach.
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