New Report Finds Action Needed to Manage Sonoma County's Growth
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New Report Finds Action Needed to Manage Sonoma County's Growth |
Greenbelt
Alliance has released a report outlining how Sonoma County must take action
now to manage future growth. The report, Toward a Bright Future: Updating
Sonoma County's General Plan, recommends how to update the General Plan
to deal with the county's projected growth of 130,000 people by 2025—the
equivalent of adding a city the size of Santa Rosa. Since 2001, the County has
been working on updating the plan, which is its blueprint for growth for the
next 15 years. This report is the first comprehensive analysis of the update
process since it began.
Some of the recommendations included in Toward a Bright Future are ways to: keep cities from sprawling into one another; protect the county's forests and watersheds; preserve farmland by keeping local agriculture viable; build affordable housing throughout the county; and reduce traffic.
This document is a .pdf file and you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (free from Adobe) to view it.
Download the report here:
Report Cover (PDF of cover only, 365 KB, 1 minute via 56.6K modem)
Toward a Bright Future: Updating Sonoma County's General Plan (PDF of report, no cover, 1.2 MB, 4 minutes via 56.6K modem)