Protecting our environmental resources and promoting social justice
Looks like we have three solid votes for updating Tree Ordinance. Thank you. Today at the Supes meeting Supervisors Zane, Gorin, and Hopkins said a couple of times each…it needs to be on the work plan! Solid support. We submitted 480 signatures with your help. You all did it. Thank you to those who signed …
Local author Jonah Raskin talks about what some observers have dubbed “The Juggernaut” and its effect on residents, the water supply, and the struggle to preserve rural character. By Jonah Raskin Posted on April 5, 2018 by Sonoma Valley Sun By Jonah Raskin | for The Sonoma Sun Lila Weinberger, the cofounder and co-owner of …
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Income inequality, neighborhoods as investments not homes, loss of Mom & Pop servicing businesses to tourism shops, low wage industries control economy, unaffordability as citizens compete with investors for housing, crumbling infrastructure due to massive tourism impacts, pollution impacts, high rate of tourist police calls, safety issues due to traffic problems, families split apart due …
Wine tourism: booming. Mass transit: zooming. Big cannabis: looming. For a once-quiet agricultural region, Sonoma is suddenly an economic engine. And not everybody’s loving the noise. By Patrick Hoge 9/25/17 https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-new-sonoma-crush-0/ Liza Hinman lives in two Sonoma County worlds on the same continuum. In one, she is cofounder and chef of the Spinster Sisters, a …
Appearing online now and in print August 1. 9/27 PRSC’s story in the Bohemian appears. http://www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-news-article-5458.html Sonoma County Winery Events facing Changes in Rules Sonoma County Winery Events facing Changes in Rules By Padi Selwyn and Judith Olney, Co-chairs, Preserve Rural Sonoma County July’s winery events study session by the Board of Supervisors was a …
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http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/5764324-181/outdoor-recreation-is-a-green?artslide=0 The above article from Bill Swindell of the Press Democrat in June 26th “….official’s look for ways to attract active tourists to Sonoma County”. With massive traffic jams in and around the county and the Sonoma County Supervisors still budgeting big bucks to attract more tourists, it makes you wonder where do they live? Certainly not …
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