Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
Economic Development Board Report (pre-pandemic) shows tourism is only 6.5% of our GDP. Our children can’t afford to live here, we need less tourism, more resident protections. Pesticides and vineyards have been permanently banned in California coastal communities due to environmental destruction. Let’s not let the wine industry destroy another area of our county. Planners …
Since the pandemic, the supervisors have used shelter in place as a screen to push through policies with little oversight. With the pandemic to be worked out by summer, the supervisors are throwing it all up in the air hoping we are not paying attention to their business friendly agenda that does nothing to address …
We Need to be alert: Future Local Coastal Plan Workshops and you need to be there Read More »
8/11/20 To Permit Sonoma from Save the Sonoma Coast Dear Cecily, Steve, Gary and Tennis: Thank you for your efforts and good faith to create a document worthy of governing the Sonoma coastal zone’s future. To that end, and in support of your efforts, we offer the following candid comments, which we hope will be …
Houston we have a problem: The draft Local Coastal Plan (LCP), let’s do it right! Read More »
It’s time to get serious about comments on the Draft Local Coastal Plan update. The Planning Department is targeting a 11 November Board of Supervisors date for a discussion workshop. They are looking for comments to be submitted by August 3, 2020 so that they can analyze the feedback. There were huge problems that became apparent in …
It’s time to get serious about comments on the Draft Local Coastal Plan update. The Planning Department is targeting a 11 November Board of Supervisors date for a discussion workshop. They are looking for comments to be submitted by August 3, 2020 so that they can analyze the feedback. There were huge problems that became apparent in …
As Sonoma County works on the draft Local Coastal Plan, let’s keep them out of our coast also! Our fragile coastal lands are water scarce, we don’t need all their synthetic chemicals compromising flora and fauna during climate change and megadrought predicted. “remain prohibited due to a number of identified adverse impacts attributed specifically …
Vintners Lose Challenge to Local Coastal Program Ban on New Vineyards Read More »