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UPDATE: 3-2 Supervisor vote for wine interests…Winery Event Ordinance Returns Yet Again to Sonoma Board of Supervisors

As many readers may recall, in December 2014 in response to community outcry, the Board of Supervisors directed staff to prepare options for updating policy on regulating winery events, particularly in the over-concentrated wine areas of Sonoma Valley, Dry Creek Valley and Westside Road, either as a zoning amendment or local event guidelines. Finally, after …

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Re-cap of Board of Supervisors Meeting May 19th on winery events by local group

“Our government has the responsibility to protect public health and safety. The briefing from Staff side-stepped the long-awaited results of the 2017 cumulative impact studies, and quickly devolved into recommendations from the Supes that would result in rolling back long-standing protections for neighboring property owners.” (rec-ap of the BOS meeting on May 19th when winery …

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Sonoma to limit, reduce downtown wine tasting rooms

Community takes steps to reclaim their community….. Sonoma to limit, reduce downtown wine tasting rooms JASON WALSH SONOMA INDEX-TRIBUNE EDITOR | January 21, 2019, 9:59AM Limiting the number of wine-tasting rooms? Yes. Creating wine-tasting business licenses? No. That was the scorecard at the end of the Jan. 14 meeting of the Sonoma City Council, which …

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Sonoma Locals Continue To Struggle With New Winery Construction

She adds that between 2000 and 2015 there has been a 300-percent increase in the number of new wineries in the county. “Existing wineries, event centers and tasting rooms would benefit by slowing down the relentless competition they are all experiencing! Because of all the competition they face […nearly 500 wineries/tasting rooms here competition for the …

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Enough is enough

Enough is enough!  Preserve Rural Sonoma County needs your help with our efforts to lobby the Board of Supervisors to stop approving more and more winery development, while delaying the Winery Event ordinance promised nearly 3 years ago (to put some reasonable regulations on this out of control industry). We are launching a petition and …

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