Page 13 - Sonoma County Gazette - May 2019
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FUTURE cont’d from page 12
Authority. The city of Santa Rosa is advocating for new development downtown. The cities of Rohnert Park and Petaluma are currently building new homes. The smaller cities and unincorporated communities are also doing their part. Changing course to put more new housing on rural lands far from shops, jobs and schools needs to be analyzed as part of the bigger vision for our county through the General Plan update.
Request to Board of Supervisors
1. Provide a date certain timeline for the General Plan Update to be underway not later than 2020/2021 with a specific timeline and resources, with no further delays.
2. Hold off on all development related General Plan amendments or rezoning initiatives with negative environmental impacts until the General Plan update is completed.
3. Uphold California Environmental Quality Act and ensure full environmental review of all projects, avoiding categorical exemptions and negative declarations.
4. Require conditional use permits as currently required and reduce (don’t increase) use of ministerial permits that remove public review & comment.
      Sonoma County Board of Supervisors
575 Administration Drive, Room 100 A Santa Rosa, CA 95403
(707) 565-2241
District 1: Susan Gorin - Susan.Gorin@sonoma-county.org District 2: David Rabbitt - David.Rabbitt@sonoma-county.org District 3: Shirlee Zane - Shirlee.Zane@sonoma-county.org District 3: James Gore - district4@sonoma-county.org
District 5: Lynda Hopkins - Lynda.Hopkins@sonoma-county.org
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