Fine wine to hold the line!

Campaign kick-off to defeat Livermore's Pardee Homes initiative

Sunday, May 22, noon, Retzlaff Vineyards, 1356 South Livermore Avenue, Livermore.

Pardee Homes, a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser, the logging company, wants to build 2,450 tract houses on 1,400 acres outside Livermore's Urban Growth Boundary in North Livermore. The project is called `Livermore Trails', but it is clearly more about sprawl housing and traffic.

The developer has gathered enough signatures to force an election over changing the UGB, and asked for a special election to be held in June, but the Livermore City Council has instead added the issue to the Nov. 2 general election. The Friends of Livermore, joined by the Sierra Club and hundreds of concerned residents, is mobilizing to keep these big developers away from the prized agricultural and open-space lands in North Livermore. We need your help this summer to educate the community and spread the word about the real impacts of this project; we will have a lot of opportunities for you to join in.

To kick off the campaign, the Sierra Club and Friends of Livermore are having a gathering at the Retzlaff Vineyards in North Livermore. There will be food, drinks, and a chance to meet other Livermore activists and learn more about how to get involved in the battle against Pardee Homes.

For more information, or to RSVP (not required), contact Chapter conservation organizer Anna Oursler at (510) 848-0800, ext. 307, or anna-at-sfbaysc.org