Support Tesla at OAS Annual Potluck June 5

Posted on by June 4, 2018

Ohlone Audubon Society (OAS) is holding their Annual Meeting Potluck Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 6:00 pm at Alviso Park in Pleasanton. 

Proceeds from the Birders Faire will go to Save Tesla Park. 

Attend to support OAS and Tesla!

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OAS Annual Potluck June 5, 6:00 pm

Installation of Officers, Equipment Show-N-Tell and Birder’s Faire!

Date: June 5, 2018 Time: Setup: 5:00 pm Dinner 6:00 pm

Location: Alviso Adobe Community Park 3465 Old Foothill Road, Pleasanton

There will also be a Book and Birding Paraphernalia Faire!

Birding guides, bird feeders, birding equipment. All funds collected will be dedicated to Saving Tesla Park. Pick up a book, make a donation!

SB 1316 passes the Senate

Posted on by June 4, 2018

SB 1316 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area (Glazer, et al) passed the Senate yesterday. 

Thank you for all of your help with letters and attending hearings and so much more! 

You can review the bill’s detailed progress through the Senate at this link https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1316 .  

Next SB 1316 will go to the Assembly where we expect the opposition to build.  

 

This is why we need your help to pass SB 1316.

 

You can help by:

  • Contacting your Assembly member to ask that they support SB 1316.
  • Ask your friends and family throughout California to contact there Assembly members to support SB 1316.
  • Attend hearings when set.

Thank you again for all of your help to Save Tesla Park.

Support SB 1318 – Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area

Posted on by March 20, 2018

SB 1316 (Glazer) will change state law to allow the State Parks Department to dispose of the 3,100 acre Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area (also known locally as “Tesla Park”) in order to permanently preserve the land if it is determined by the Department to be in the public interest. Proceeds from any such sale would be returned to the OHMVR Division.

SB 1316 does not require that the Department make a determination to dispose of the Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area, but it permits it.  Then, in the future, there could be a decision that disposal of the Alameda-Tesla Expansion Area is in the public interest.

SB 1316 provides a path forward to resolve this long standing local controversy in a way that is wise and fair – by recognizing the preference for local control to preserve an irreplaceable natural and cultural native landscape in Alameda County as a legacy for future generations, by using local open space mitigation funds to purchase the land to ensure preservation, and by returning proceeds from any sale to the OHMVR Division for use in another area that wants OHV recreation.

Please support SB 1316.  Go to your State Senator’s and Assembly Member’s legislative web site and enter your support for SB 1316 on line.  

Tesla Park West Ridge to Mount Diablo

 

 

More Legislators Support Tesla Preservation Proposal

Posted on by September 14, 2017

One reason why we need to protect Tesla

More Bay Area Legislators have joined the call encouraging State Parks to act on the Alameda County Altamont Landfill Open Space Committee buy-back opportunity to purchase Tesla Park in a July 20, 2017 letter. 

We strongly support this proposal as a way to permanently preserve Tesla Park. 

 

Please help build more legislative support for this sale/purchase proposal. Get your Legislator to sign on if they have not already, and thank them for taking this important step to protect Tesla Park with no OHV use.

 

Friends drops support for SB 249

Posted on by September 14, 2017

Based on recent amendments to SB 249 in the Assembly, Friends of Tesla Park determined that on balance we could not longer support of the bill.

Our work to Save Tesla Park continues undeterred through our litigation challenging the the EIR and General Plan and continued advocacy with policy makers, including through the purchase opportunity presented by the Altamont Landfill Open Space Committee.