General Plan on Tuesday > Rexroad.com

The Yolo County Board of Supervisors will be having a meeting on Tuesday that largely focuses on the General Plan. We have a couple small items on consent that should not take any time and a resolution.

At this point I think the only real issue for discussion will be on the agricultural districts. I am looking at a stack of a couple hundred signed forms from people saying "I object to the imposition of an agricultural district int he Dunnigan Hills." Now how can that be?

Until we work on it on Tuesday we don't even know what an agricultural district is. So am I to believe that if the ag district concept included property tax breaks to those people within it -- these signatures would stand? I doubt it.

I understand the opposition to housing in the rural parts of Yolo County. I get it and understand it. What I will never understand is how people can oppose something when they don't even know what it is.

What if only the ag district area was allowed to take parcels down to 5 acres -- and those outside the district could not? I would bet many of these same people would yank their cards in a flash.

It will be interesting to see how this issue breaks on Tuesday.

The one issue that I would like to tackle but will lose will be Madison. This is an area that should not add any more homes....yet that is exactly what we are going to do. The commercial on the east side is something that I can partly get my mind around but the housing is just more sprawl in the agricultural areas of Yolo County. I will make one more attempt to kill this stupid thing on Tuesday but realize that I will probably lose 4-1 again. Oh well.

Comments

By JordanLDiaz @ Monday, September 17, 2007 9:15 PM

Ok well first of all we object because we cannot support something that we have no idea what it is. No one can give any of us a straight answer, and everything that we have heard is a bunch of legal talk that no ordinary person can read and fully comprehend, or when they do read it they are blindly lead astray by the nice picture that is trying to be placed in front of them. And second of all these people that have said they are opposed to the Ag-District are opposed to it because they do not want any form of development WHAT SO EVER. And even if it ment a tax break these people will not "pull their cards" because they think they can save a few bucks, I know that that the world revolves around money, but when it comes to development around our rural home land people tend to be a little bit sensitive. I hope that tomorrow at the meeting you and your fellow supervisors will open your eyes and see that everyone who shows up is in opposistion to the ag districting, and any form of development that you describe.

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