Month: May 2021

California drought continues to intensify; Cooler temperature and robust marine layer to offer some temporary relief Filed in Weather/Climate Discussion by Daniel Swain on May 10, 2021 • 196 Comments California descends deeper into drought; “Drought Emergency” declared in NorCal Well, unfortunately, the overall drought trajectory has not changed since the last post: it’s still getting worse. And pretty rapidly worse,…
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August 28, 2016Press Democrat BY PAUL GULLIXSON “Santa Rosa wants this industry here. I think this is probably going to be the New Age Amsterdam.” – Larry Schaeffer, owner of Cherry Kola Farms near Penngrove, a medical cannabis collective Really? Says who? I don’t mean to be rude. But who in the world made the…
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There are several misleading claims in Ron Ferraro’s April 28 op-ed, Cultivating Cannabis in Sonoma County. The public hearing process is not normally a three to five year process. If the county and the industry had not brazenly decided on cannabis regulations without listening to or responding to neighborhood concerns, cannabis applications would have moved…
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If the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approves the draft cannabis ordinance, some permits will be ministerial with no notice given to neighbors and no way to object to site-specific particulars. Health and safety protections and notice to impacted neighbors will disappear. The presumption is that a cannabis operation is no different than a tomato…
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Following was recently posted on Sonoma West site, but apparently did not meet editorial guidelines. RE: Recent Sonoma West article Barnum & Bailey coined the phrase “there’s a sucker born every minute.” This seems to be the business model of pot promoters who proclaim grass grown in Sonoma County is somehow “better” or different,” prompting…
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There is a reason that of 58 California counties only 15 allow outdoor commercial cannabis. Impacts on neighborhoods are just too severe to offset with any mitigations. Sonoma County started out with a use permit process, which is what is required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) but is now attempting to go to…
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