Sonoma County Board of Supervisors

Forest Unlimited: Tuesday November 28th for Tree Ordinance and Oak Woodlands Protection

Climate, ICYMI, Rights of Nature / November 14, 2023

Forest Unlimited Supporters, There are two significant tree protection ordinances coming up before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, November 28 for approval. One is an ordinance protecting individual trees and one is on protecting oak woodlands. The Planning Commission had hearings on them and gave their approval. We do not want to take anything for granted so please write …

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Tuesday April 4th Final Hearing of Sonoma Coast

Coastal Issues, ICYMI / March 28, 2023

Don’t let Permit Sonoma usurp community and Planning Commission recommended wording. Mining, vineyards, toxins, off shore industrial development and more. Tell your supervisor to stay with what was proposed and tell Permit Sonoma NO!

FOG UPDATE – SUCCESS!!!

News / May 19, 2021

FOG UPDATE – SUCCESS!!! For those who didn’t attend the Board of Supervisors meeting this morning, the vote was 5-0 for an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Cannabis Ordinance. There will be no moratorium for new or ongoing permits under the existing ordinance, but there will finally be the in-depth environmental study that should …

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Friends of Graton Update: CORRECTION Please take this quick and easy FOG action to protect your neighborhood!

News / January 9, 2023

Friends of Graton Update: CORRECTION Please take this quick and easy FOG action to protect your neighborhood!   Please note additional email address below (cannabis@sonoma-county.org). If you have sent an email to the supervisors, as many did today, please just forward your email to the last address below. Thanks. We have come to the final …

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SoCo Occupy: What will California’s dry spring do to wildfire season? Here’s what researchers say

News / April 29, 2021

Our supervisors policies are putting us at risk…Hopkins still pushing biomass industry. What will California’s dry spring do to wildfire season? Here’s what researchers say A blow up in the Palisades above Calistoga prompted a response from aircraft, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, as a retardant line is put down between Highway 29 over Mt. St. …

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On Gore & Hopkins watch: the county’s cannabis regulations have been a fiasco.

Cannabis Issues, News / April 13, 2021

Hopkins is on a roll: Sebastopol Inn purchase (state felt it over priced, Oakland housed 100 for Hopkins 31 same $), Measures in special election failed, power grab as board president failed, pushing biomass industry (dirtier than coal), cannabis ad hoc co-chair with Gore FIASCO.   Hopkins’ comments EDITOR: I found Supervisor Lynda Hopkins’ comments …

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