Our campaign brings together thousands of local residents, along with residents throughout Orange County. With the assistance of the Sierra Club, these residents have formed Friends of the Foothills, an informal alliance of elected officials and local leaders of Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, Audubon groups, homeowner associations and other local groups.
What is our campaign?
We are over 7,000 individuals in a grassroots movement dedicated to preserving the last open space of our area and protecting our communities' quality of life. For too long Californians have watched as their natural heritage and their towns have been degraded so that developers can continue to build urban sprawl further and further from established job centers.

We seek the protection and restoration of our region, as well as innovative and forward-looking planning for growth, transportation and environmental protection.

First, however, we must defeat two massive development proposals —the Rancho Mission Viejo residential and commercial development and the Foothill-South toll road. Alone, either project would cause great harm to South Orange County. Together, they will destroy our open space, endanger our clean surf, congest our communities with more traffic, and deprive our future generations of their natural heritage.