Sonoma County Gazette Oct. 2019
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    OCTOBER 2019
                        Will Violation Punishment Fit the Crime? ~ 14
Your 2019 Guide to FALL FUN Festivals - Trick or Treat Tours - Pumpkin Patches Cemetery Tours - Dia de los Muertos - Shows ~ 68 - 71
Measure B for Rohnert Park: what’s a UGB?~ 34
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Keeping
you SAFE
Local Fire Service Ballot Measures
2-year anniversary of the 2017 North Bay Fires on October 8th, we are reminded about our vulnerabilities, our struggles to recover, and our continued need for resiliency. Fire and emergency services have been elevated issues over the past two years. They deserve our attention, our respect, and our support.
            Changed
             Our Coast
A First Responder is any individual who runs toward an event rather than away.
  Sometimes History Sneaks Up and Taps You on the Shoulder
By Vesta Copestakes
As our community arrives at the
By Eric Koenigshofer
This is the case right now as our
county government embarks on an update of the Local Coastal Plan (LCP). If you like life in Sonoma County, and especially if you like the magnificence of our coast, you should know about the LCP and the update process.
As fire departments countywide are grappling with how to best serve their communities, the local Fire Protection District Boards of Directors in Graton, Gold Ridge and Occidental have decided to take matters into their own hands by placing funding measures on the ballot for a special election this November 5th.
Your time to engage in local government and local politics is right now. A little history always helps to set the stage.
Most people have heard something about the Coastal Commission,
that state government body which regulates land use and development of the coast while also protecting the coastal environment and guarding the public right to access the coast. The Coastal Commission was established by a grass roots political movement in the 1970’s when in 1972 California voters passed Proposition 20, the Coastal Initiative.
Challenges facing our fire departments have been growing
for decades as the demographics and economy of Sonoma County have changed. Once it was possible to rely on all-volunteer firefighters who worked and lived near their fire stations, and would drop whatever
COAST cont’d on page 8
Images by: Wernher Krutein / Photovault.com
FIRE cont’d on page 10
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