Sonoma County Gazette - May 2019
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 MAY 2019
  KOWS Community Radio MOOOves to Santa Rosa ~ 6
Plan for a
FIRE SAFE & Firefighter SoCo’s Tree Summer ~ 16 BENEFITS ~ 52 Ordinance ~ 60
Mother’s Day
Time to UPDATE
         Renter’s
     RIGHTS
 Organizing for Protection
By Teri Shore, Greenbelt Alliance Sonoma County is at a crossroads
By Will Carruthers
As the forces fueling gentrification
right now with new and ongoing challenges such as climate change and extreme weather, housing needs, and transportation that have the potential to change the face of our communities and lands for decades to come. The General Plan and zoning code are the tools intended to provide a vision and path forward and to provide certainty for residents and voters in the long- term.
The General Plan update has been postponed for the past three years due to the fires and floods that have devastated our communities.
in the Bay Area continue to spread into the North Bay, some of the tactics of renters’ resistance are moving northward as well.
The North Bay Organizing Project
has launched a group to organize around tenants’ rights continuing the group’s track recorder of organizing political campaigns to win additional protections for tenants and local demonstrations reprimanding landlords who mistreat tenants.
In May, the group will host a series of educational events intended to educate Sonoma County residents about the history of tenants’ struggles and invite attendees to join the Sonoma County Tenants Union, NBOP’s latest effort to organize renters.
The County of Sonoma urgently needs to respond to changed conditions since the last General Plan and to plan for an uncertain future and a “new normal.”
As rents in the North Bay continue to increase, tenants are put in an increasingly difficult situation – especially when they don’t have enough money to put a deposit on a new apartment. Put under pressure
In order to respond to these changes and forge a path forward, Greenbelt Alliance, Sierra Club, Preserve
Rural Sonoma County, Wine and Water Watch, and Mobilize Sonoma
 RENTERS cont’d on page 10
Your Home Town: 28-44
FUTURE cont’d on page 12
Everything To Do CALENDAR: pgs 50 - 71
   








































































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