We’re lucky to have such abundant access to nature as San Ramon residents. But more work is needed to ensure that this access to nature remains. Toxic pesticides used in our parks put ourselves, our pets, and local wildlife at danger. Global warming makes our summers drier and hotter, increasing the risk of wildfires on our hills. We can help support our environment by encouraging the use of non-toxic pesticides in our parks and prohibiting environmentally wasteful land uses, like data centers that use excessive amounts of water and electricity and drive up bills for residents.

• Adopt an integrated pest management (IPM) plan to reduce the use of cancer-causing and other toxic pesticides currently used in City parks.

• Support our local ecosystem, reduce park maintenance costs, and strengthen local sense of pride by requiring all new landscaping or landscape renovation in City parks to use exclusively native plants.

• Prohibit the construction of data centers in San Ramon. Although there are not currently any data centers proposed to be built in San Ramon, we should prepare now by banning them so that we aren’t scrambling in a decade or two to do something that we should be doing now. Large data centers have limited economic benefits for communities and increase our water and electricity bills. Prohibiting the building of data centers falls under the land use powers that California cities have, meaning it is also legally feasible: voters in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles, voted to ban the construction of new data centers in June 2026.