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BAREC - 17 Acre Bay Area Research and Extension Center needs your help

by Kirk Vartan (kirk [at] kvartan.com)
The former UC Davis Ag Center (aka Bay Area Research and Extension Center) is owned by the State of California. The State is in the process of selling it to SummerHill Homes and the City of Santa Clara for housing developments. This is 17 acres of "Prime Farmland" that is agriculturally zoned...the last of its kind. Please get involved.
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We need your help. Please go to our web site. Please contact the local politicians and tell them not to develop this land. Our organization (along with thousands of other people and organizations) want to turn this back into a small urban farm, something that is greatly needed to balance this over-developed area. Send your emails to: Gloria Sciara, Project Manager, City of Santa Clara mailto:gsciara@ci.santa-clara.ca.us Santa Clara City Council (they have to vote to change the current agricultural zoning): mailto:mayorandcouncil@ci.santa-clara.ca.us,
§Turf studies
by Kirk Vartan (kirk [at] kvartan.com)
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Prior uses on the property...all buildings still exist, inlcuding the three greenhouses.
§Facility open to the public
by Kirk Vartan (kirk [at] kvartan.com)
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The community used to come in all the time to enjoy this bit of open space.
§Visitor center
by Kirk Vartan (kirk [at] kvartan.com)
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Build of local redwood in the early 1920s, the building still stands there today.
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