The John W. Christian Greenbelt is a stretch of green land in northern Sunnyvale

Sunnyvale

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, California.

Location

It is 80 ft (24 m) wide and runs east to west for 2.7 miles (4.3 km) above the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct

Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct

The Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct is a conveyance of Tuolumne River water runoff from federal lands in Yosemite National Park to San Francisco and its client municipalities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area...

, linking Orchard Gardens Park on the Santa Clara border and Fairwood Park in Sunnyvale.

History

It was created under the name Hetch Hetchy Greenbelt in the mid-1970s as an asphalt track for pedestrians and bicycles, and part of it was improved by a landscape beautification project. Between 1994 and 2001 the landscaping was completed.

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On June 10, 2002 it was renamed after John W. Christian, who initiated the second phase of the landscaping as Parks and Recreation Director, but died in 1996 before it was finished. The land is owned by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, leased out to the city of Sunnyvale.