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California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under fire: AB 3279 would make CEQA lawsuits prohibitively expensive for NGOs: Just say NO! AB 3279 was amended in the Assembly Appropriations committee, but those amendments do not address concerns and we remain opposed along with other enviro and EJ organizations. The bill will be up on the floor …
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Blast from the past, has anything changed? North Bay’s Will Parrish explores local politics… Under the influence? How the wine industry dominates Sonoma County election campaigns Posted on February 19, 2016 by Sonoma Valley Sun A Sun exclusive by By Will Parrish For at least two decades, Sonoma County officials have sided with the wine …
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How to make a horrible project even worse…ignore CEQA, destroy wetlands/creeks allow huge trucks on narrow rural roads and cause even worse traffic. Modifications being requested include to: 1) Revise the design for a traffic signal at Stony Point and Roblar Road 2) Modify the required Roblar Road width from 40 feet to 32 feet …
Action Request from Coast Action Group: Redwood Chapter – Sierra Club Needles – Stream Protections – CEQA and Napa County I was reading the article in the Redwood Chapter Needles about the Napa Ordinance – Water Quality and Tree Protection Ordinance. The article that the new ordinance applied protection – a 35′ buffer – for …
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Action Alert! April 16 Supervisors Meeting – Speak Up for General Plan Update Sonoma County at a Crossroads! Water – Wineries – Cannabis – Climate – Greenbelts – Coast Tuesday, April 16 (A.M. Time TBD) Public Hearing – General Plan – Permit Sonoma Comprehensive Work Plan Sonoma County Board of Supervisors 575 Administration Drive, Santa …
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Newsom off to a bad start: “Most of the 35 projects are in Northern and Central California and would be completed over the course of the next year. Cal Fire worked with its local fire units to determine which projects to prioritize, assessing risk and socioeconomic factors, such as age of the nearby populations, poverty …
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