The northern portion of Coyote Valley had been the proposed site of a new world headquarters campus for Cisco Systems. However, the technology company abandoned those plans after the technology economy collapsed last year.
"The Coyote Valley Specific Plan will be a critical component of San Jose's future, and it is important that we do it right,'' says Gonzales. "We can begin this effort now so that we will be ready when development triggers are met in the future, with a solid plan to guide the creation of new community through exemplary urban design.''
Dan Kalb, director of the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club, says that much of the South Bay's environmental community opposes any further development of the Coyote Valley. "The Sierra Club and the bulk of the environmental community don't want to see any development of the Coyote Valley,'' Kalb says.
Kalb says one flaw is that the proposed task force does not contain any members with expertise in the region's most troublesome development issues: affordable housing and mass transit.
A spokesman for Gonzales says that the entire reason the mayor proposed the task force at this point was to address the housing issue before Cisco or any other company brought a significant number of jobs to the southern portion of Santa Clara County.
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