This AB 109 stuff is really important but so few people in Yolo County are really following it. Thought you might like to see a Powerpoint that came to the Board of Supervisors today.
What is this?
This just arrived in my county office. Wow. All I can say is “Wow”.
Very convincing case.. to a guy from Woodland
Dear Mr. Rexroad,
I have been away from Yolo County for several years. When I returned this fall, I realized ”Davis is so much better than I remembered- now that I know how backwards the rest of the world is, I realize how wonderful it is here.” But then I drove to Woodland. Instead of the small-town feel of Davis, there were instead huge sprawling malls with no continuity, roads that seemed to wind around forever through huge parking lots. And a bleak and lonely feeling. Who planned this future wasteland?
I’d been to Sacramento that week, and saw what a mess that was: traffic snarls, disenfranchised people, poor, drug-infested neighborhoods.
It seems like Woodland thinks it can get the fast buck, but it doesn’t see what’s coming down the pike at it: a big problem.
Consider how this tower will continue the “downgrading” of Yolo County. Don’t let Yolo County become a dumping ground for projects that other places would like to avoid, or quick money that is gotten at the cost of our future, our livability, our environment, and our reputation.
It would be so easy for Yolo County to just become a crappy place between Sacramento and San Francisco.
But right now you still have some semblance of a unique and almost mystical zone of beauty: the pacific flyway at its most amazing. As people pass over the Yolo Causeway, hurrying on their way to mundane appointments, business meetings, chores of daily life, and they gaze out at the immense expanse of birds and water, it sets an indelible stamp on their minds: “This is a place of beauty”.
And as they wander off the beaten track, looking for that certain address, they pass through the calming and wide expanses of fields, they gain respect for the place- a respect that cannot be found when the flash of strobes and the towering of metal scaffolding obstructs the peace.
Don’t uglify our county any further. If anything, find ways to draw visitors to this lovely place by removing some of the eyesores that now exist, and restoring some of the areas that have already been “uglified” by so many poorly thought out quick-buck schemes.
We strongly oppose the Results Radio tower proposal, and we urge the Board of Supervisors to deny the extension of the permit to construct the tower.
We know that the Board of Supervisors has the discretionary power to deny the extension of the permit (Yolo County Code Sec. 8-2.3205).
Yolo County must consider the economic impact on the area before allowing features that negatively affect livability.
If the Davis Open Space Commission came out strongly against this tower, and recommended that you deny it, and if the Davis City Council unanimously asked you to deny the permit, it would seem there is good reason to rethink this permit, and it would also seem like a very divisive thing to go forward with. People don’t want this tower.
And the tower is bad news for Yolo County
Davis City Council
This guy walked into the Davis City Council meeting right behind me. Wow
Classic
E-mails have been coming today from residents in North Davis objecting to a radio tower that may be placed at the Yolo County Landfill. This one is my favorite. This person lives more than two miles from the proposed site and has the entire Wildhorse development between them and the landfill. I have removed the name and address of the person and bolded my favorite part.
Amazing. You don’t see stuff like this in Woodland.
I oppose the huge radio tower proposed at the Yolo County Landfill. It will flash high-lumen lights all night that are likely to reach my neighborhood, disturbing my sleep and melatonin cycle, and making the outdoor night sky lose beauty and appeal. Local wildlife will be even more bothered in their sleep and feeding cycles. Has any study shown it won’t further endanger burrowing owls, for example?
Furthermore, the tower violates U.S. Fish and Wildlife policies forbidding tower citing “in or near wetlands, other known bird concentration areas,…, in known migratory or daily movement flyways, or in habitat areas with high incidence of fog, mist and low ceilings” ”
Thank you,
New LAFCO Executive Director
Yolo County LAFCO has a new Executive Director. She is Christine Crawford.
Look for LAFCO to be a new force in Yolo County. See article here.
Kind of a strange letter – most letters invite me to things, not the other way around
Dear Supervisors Rexroad (edited line),
This the same message as the letter you should have received in the mail with the addition of Physicians for Social Responsibility as a signatory. We are writing as your constituents, as U.S. taxpayers, and as members of groups that advocate strongly for human rights. As such, we urge you not to attend the December 4, 2011, Annual AIPAC Sacramento Membership Event, (AIPAC is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee).
Our government’s continued political, military and financial support of Israel is politically and morally untenable: it promotes war and oppression, not peace and justice. As Americans, we are deeply concerned that the United States continues to isolate itself from world opinion with regard to basic human rights, respect for international law and equal treatment for Palestinians. We are outraged that the Obama administration has cut off U.S. support for UNESCO after this important humanitarian agency recently voted to admit Palestine as a member state. While AIPAC lobbies Congress to persist in supporting Israel’s bankrupt policies by giving it more than $3 billion a year (mostly military aid), the Israeli government continues to: steal Palestinian land and water for its illegal settlements (including another 60,000 illegal units in occupied east Jerusalem) and the “separation” wall; destroy Palestinian homes, farms and orchards; and maintain its military checkpoints in the West Bank that wreak havoc on Palestinians’ daily lives and prevent their freedom of movement.
Israel also continues to deny equal rights to Palestinian citizens of Israel, who face discrimination on a daily basis, without equal access to housing, education or transportation. The Israeli military systematically arrests, tortures and imprisons Palestinian activists, including children, who attempt to organize non-violent resistance to their oppression. While people all over the Middle East are demanding freedom and democracy, AIPAC supports denying these basic rights to Palestinians under the guise of security for Israel, which disingenuously claims to be “the only democracy” in the Middle East.
Your attendance at the AIPAC event indicates that you support its efforts and demonstrates a lack of concern for the suffering of Palestinians as they struggle for self-determination. AIPAC does not represent the interests or views of most American Jews, Israelis or Americans. The policies that AIPAC supports through its massive lobbying efforts benefit corporations such as Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and other weapons manufacturers. We ask that you take a stand for a just and peaceful end to the conflict in the region, which means opposing AIPAC and its support of Israel’s policies of aggression and repression. We also ask that you meet with representatives of our organizations to discuss a human rights-based U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel. To set up a meeting, please call 916-448-7157.
Sincerely,
American Muslims for Palestine,
Sacramento Davis Committee Palestinian Rights
Grandmothers for Peace
Israel Divestment Campaign,
Sacramento Jewish Voice for Peace,
Sacramento Chapter Palestine American Congress,
Sacramento Peace in the Precincts,
Sacramento Physicians for Social Responsibility,
Sacramento Sacramento Area Peace Action
Veterans for Peace,
Sacramento Chapter Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Sacramento
