Brisbane Quarry newsletter

Hello Everyone,

Outline:

1. A brief change of proposal and where MBC stands

2. Contact Brisbane Council members

3. Join/Register Orchard Partners (developers) twice monthly

virtual office hours to ask questions.

• Our current focus is stopping the development to the

Quarry in Brisbane.

• Orchard Partners are proposing a new EIR possibly

completed in January of 2026.

You may have heard that the monstrous freight-forwarding

complex proposed for the San Bruno Mountain Quarry has been

downsized. The new proposal, not yet submitted by the

developer, will be a 890,000 square-foot two-level building

suitable for a combination of modern warehousing, light

industrial, assembly and manufacturing uses, or “advanced

manufacturing”. All I know is that the position of most Brisbane

residents, and the environmental coalition fighting this project, is

that we want no project. This is the wrong project in the wrong

place!

Many of the Impacts listed in the first Environmental Impact

Review (EIR) remain in the reduced proposal:

• Excess air pollution, noise, light and use of water

• Increased traffic

• Destruction of open space and endangered species habitat

• 19 permit not completed with unknown consequences

• Hours of operation may be 24/7

• Parking structure is not part of the sq footage

• 1.8 Million will go to San Mateo Parks HCP to use at any

park in San Mateo County not necessarily for San Bruno

Mt.

This project will be built just adjacent to neighborhoods,

businesses, a middle school and a child care center. A forty-foot

wide road with sidewalks will be built from the new warehouses

through open space and endangered species habitat. The road

will destroy one third of the riparian habitat there and create

constant noise!

The Brisbane City council will be voting on whether to allow

excess development in the Quarry in this day and age of a

catastrophic climate crisis, when we should be protecting open

space and wildlife.

So what can we do?

Talk or write to the decision makers: Tell them a still monstrous

development proposal is inappropriate for a place that is one of

the most biodiverse places in the world (Scientist E.O. Wilson). It

is time to heal the heart of the Mountain; not scar her further.

Email the Brisbane Council members at

Councilmembers@Brisbaneca.org

Should you attend their events, tell them you don’t want their

development in Brisbane.

Attend Orchard Partners Virtual Office Hours: (You have to

Register)

These are informal sessions on line (Zoom) that will last up to one

hour, where community members can ask questions about the

project. Instead of formal presentations, we’ll focus on listening

to your concerns and collecting questions to help us build a

comprehensive FAQ that you will be able to access from our

project website.

When to Join

We're holding sessions twice each month between now and the

end of 2025 (via Zoom) to give maximum options:

2nd Wednesday of Each Month

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Register to attend meetings on the 2nd Wednesday of each month

4th Wednesday of Each Month

4:00 – 5:00 PM

Register to attend meetings on the 4th Wednesday of each month

You can join either session or both, as often as you’d like –

whatever works best for your schedule.There are two Zoom links,

so please make sure to register for both if you’d like to have both

on your calendar.

Here are our upcoming Virtual Office Hours through the end

of 2025:

• August 13

• August 27

• September 10

• September 24

• October 8

• October 22

• November 12

• December 10

We will not have Office Hours on November 26 or December 24,

due to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

If can’t attend: Contact kit@kitcoleconsulting.com

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Mountain Butterfly Collective says Thank-you for your

concerns and spoken words!

-MBC