Save the Ridge!
The Pittsburg City Council should SAVE THE RIDGE for everyone and ensure public access to the new regional park for Pittsburg residents.
Save the ridge to keep our area a beautiful and desirable place to live, work, and visit!
Join us and sign our Save Pittsburg Hills/Save Mount Diablo petition urging the Pittsburg City Council to SAVE THE RIDGE and require the Seeno/Discovery Builders Faria development to be relocated off the top of Pittsburg’s ridge.
One of Pittsburg’s best features is the beautiful ridge and rolling Los Medanos hills above town, from Black Diamond Mines and Kirker Pass to Willow Pass.
Two years ago, the Pittsburg City Council voted to approve the Faria project, a 1,500-housing-unit Seeno company development, which would have spread grading and houses over more than 600 acres—right on top of the scenic ridge separating Concord and Pittsburg.
We stopped Faria for two years, but now it’s back.
The developer, a Seeno company, has been trying to get project approvals before revealing Faria’s full impacts by providing very little details of the project and doing a minimal environmental review.
Save Mount Diablo filed a legal challenge to Faria’s approval, and in February 2022, the Contra Costa Superior Court ruled in our favor—Seeno and Pittsburg’s Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Faria violated the law.
Save Mount Diablo has continued to fight these legal battles to defend Pittsburg and protect the environment and ensure that any development is done thoughtfully and for the benefit of all residents.
We’re not opposed to all development; we just think the Pittsburg City Council and the developer should move it off the ridgetop.
Seeno already has thousands of units approved, but not yet built in Pittsburg. Ridges are a bad place for development—they are rich in natural values, and are windy, which means there is a higher risk for fire, and ruin everyone’s views when developed.
This plan would violate state environmental regulations by failing to protect air quality and ensure a viable water supply, and gut the General Plan by eliminating long-standing policies that protect hillsides, ridgelines, creeks, and drainages. For example, the city deleted the ridge from a map showing major ridgelines even though the ridge between Pittsburg and Concord is obviously a major ridge.
It would also betray the voters who approved Measure P in 2005 and placed the entire site in the protective hillside zoning. Now Seeno wants to change the zoning to bulldoze the steep hills for massive subdivisions.
Because the site is almost entirely over 30 percent slope, with substantial parts at 50 to 70 percent slope, Seeno’s proposed new zoning will allow up to 25 times as many houses as the current Measure P zoning that the voters approved.
This ridge is spectacular and next to a new regional park.
The Pittsburg City Council should SAVE THE RIDGE for everyone and ensure public access to the new regional park for Pittsburg residents.
Join us and sign our petition urging the Pittsburg City Council to SAVE THE RIDGE and require development to be relocated off the top of Pittsburg’s ridge.
After you sign the petition, please email the Pittsburg City Council and tell them to SAVE THE RIDGE!
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