Sonoma County Gazette - January 2018

JANUARY 2018
C C l l e e a a n n i i n n g g u u p p K K e e e e p p C C u u s s t t o o m m e e r r s s Y Ye e a a r r s s o o f f W W o o r r k k B B l l o o o o d d D D o o n n a a t t i i o o n n
T h e C h a n g i n g Face of Medical Marijuana ~ 55
Toxins after the Fire ~ 14
Coming Back for More ~ 22
Lead to Roseland Annexation ~ 28
Fire ghter
Bucket Brigade ~ 47
Healing
Wrestling
Our
Resilience is not what happens to you.
It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you. ~ Jeffrey Gitomer
with
Home
Vacation
By Vesta Copestakes
Right now our community
is standing on the edge of
change. Our fires have provided an opportunity for us took at building codes, land-use policies, transportation corridors, housing, public services, emergency response systems...EVERYTHING that impacts our daily lives into the future that was changed by the touch of these flames.
What an incredible opportunity for improvement!
From where I sit - at my desk with information streaming
to me continuously - I see
HOPE - CHANGE - an amazing outpouring of love for Sonoma County. Yes, there’s greed and people generating anger and
fear - but that’s always been present in our lives. What this fire has brought forth is kindness, generosity, concern, compassion, understanding, and a chance to
p a u s e before we move forward.
HEALING cont’d on page 12
Rentals
© Leslie Curchack 2017
Seeking balance between housing needs, property rights
By David Abbott
The fires that descended on
Sonoma County last October destroyed thousands of homes and increased pressure on an already tight housing market, leading
the board of supervisors to take
a closer look at the role Vacation Rentals play in exacerbating those problems.
In order to have time to get
a more complete picture of the state of housing, and to reduce the opportunity for housing speculation as the county maneuvers its way through an unprecedented crisis, at the end of October the supervisors adopted an interim 45-day moratorium
on the issuance of new vacation rental permits.
VRBO-VREZ cont’d on page 7
The EVERYTHING to DO Calendar: pgs 53 - 71
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