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Greenbelt Alliance, thank you for this alert. We voted overwhelmingly to support community separators last election cycle. This is an attack on our community values. Zombie project lives! Luxury resort and retreat center in the community separator and burned area of Larkfield Wikiup is back! A public hearing just announced for 1:30 pm on Nov. 7. …
Pete Parkinson, retired planning director for Sonoma County, just issued a sobering mea culpa ten months after the devastating Northbay wildfires. He lost his own home, as did others in his family, so we can understand why it took him so long to speak up. Now that he has, our current planners and electeds need …
Communities that have voter approved community separators have very few abuses if the provision that any building in the community separators must go to the voters was included in the initiative and takes the discretionary powers of our supervisors to override away. Napa is one such county and has virtually stopped all bad projects in community separators. …
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It’s the old “bait and switch” that the binge tourism-big wine regularly practice, ask for more than they want and “settle” for their original intention. 81% of voters wanted green spaces in Community Separators initiative, we need less tourism not more. The impacts have reached critical mass. Community Separators Put to Test By Teri Shore, Sonoma …
2015 dairyman BIM aerials click to view slide show Aerial photographs of the proposed site of the Dairyman Winery at Highway 12 and Llano Road. The link, courtesy of BIMPIX.com, shows a series of photographs. http://bim.smugmug.com/Ultralight-flying/2015-dairyman/47706565_D52S8X#!i=3898634592&k=Kn37tNb