Celebrating 50 Years!
This year we’ve been celebrating a historic milestone in Save Mount Diablo history, we turned 50 on December 7, 2021! To commemorate our big anniversary, we celebrated for an entire…
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Malcolm Sproul: Three Decades of Land Conservation
As part of our 50th anniversary celebration, we’ve been working with UC Berkeley’s Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library to create a series of oral histories of the empowering…
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Save Mount Diablo Wins Again! Court Reaffirms Victory Against Seeno to Protect Hills between Pittsburg and Concord
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY—On February 10, 2022, the Contra Costa County Superior Court handed Save Mount Diablo a major victory in its legal challenge to the City of Pittsburg’s approval of…
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Save Mount Diablo Wins Major Legal Victory Against Seeno to Protect Pittsburg’s Hills
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY—On February 10, 2022, the Contra Costa County Superior Court handed Save Mount Diablo a major victory in its legal challenge to the City of Pittsburg’s approval of…
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LAFCO Rejects Application for Seeno’s Bad Faria Project
In March, Save Mount Diablo filed a lawsuit challenging the City of Pittsburg’s approval of Seeno’s bad 1,650-house Faria/Southwest Hills Annexation project. Aside from all the negative impacts to open…
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The Seeno Way—Why the Seenos Are Bad Community Partners
Developing the former Concord Naval Weapons Station will be a huge project in Concord, with more than 2,300 acres at stake. The project has the potential to be the city’s…
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Measure T Saves the Antioch Urban Limit Line
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA—On June 7, 2021, Contra Costa Superior Court ruled on a legal challenge to Measure T, the “Let Antioch Voters Decide” initiative. Measure T was approved by…
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Save Mount Diablo Sues Seeno Discovery Builders to Protect Major Ridgeline in Pittsburg
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY— Discovery Builders’ Faria project would damage the major ridgeline between east and central Contra Costa County, threaten views from throughout the region, and impact the new regional…
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GLOBAL CLIMATE STRIKE: 1LUV WILL SOS
Our Mount Diablo area youth speak out. Save Mount Diablo and our partner schools recently came together at our conserved Curry Canyon Ranch to support the Global Climate Strike. John…
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Watch “A Vision for Mount Diablo” on NBC Bay Area’s OpenRoad with Doug McConnell, featuring Save Mount Diablo
Watch “A Vision for Mount Diablo: East Contra Costa County Advocacy in Action”, broadcasted on NBC Bay Area’s OpenRoad with Doug McConnell on Earth Day, April 22, 2018 | Explore eastern Contra Costa County, one of the fastest growing regions in the Bay Area, and encounter significant land use choices facing people there and statewide that will affect the future of parks and open spaces in Contra Costa for generations to come.
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