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Residents urge Mountain View to favor natural grass over artificial turf, citing health and environmental concerns
Summary
Two residents addressed the Environmental Planning Commission during oral communications urging the city to avoid artificial turf in parks and playfields and offering to provide research and a formal presentation; speakers cited a Sunnyvale decision to keep natural grass and referred to a county discussion on a turf ban.
Two residents used the meeting’s oral communications period to ask the commission to consider restricting artificial turf in local parks and recreation projects.
Andrea Wald, co‑founder of Community for Natural Place Surfaces, introduced herself and said her group educates public and private stakeholders on the harms of artificial turf and other synthetic materials. “Artificial turf is not good for us and I’d love to know that Mountain View…
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