Articles and Letters to the Editor

  1. Lookout LTE “No trees, no voice: How the City of Santa Cruz is greenlighting development without the public”, published January 13th, 2026.

https://lookout.co/no-trees-no-voice-how-the-city-of-santa-cruz-is-greenlighting-development-without-the-public/story

Lookout Quick Take:

After Santa Cruz’s planning commission approved doing away with public hearings for some large affordable housing projects and moved a special zoning area forward, activist Gillian Greensite warns that the public could not only be robbed of its voice but of some of the city’s heritage trees, too.