Napa Group
Conservation Goals 2001
Contain Sprawl
- The Sierra Club supports slow growth within local cities that provides
for protection of wildlife habitats, agricultural lands, and watersheds
while accomodating affordable housing and transportation for the local
work force.
- We will work for slow growth in each of the cities of Napa County and
containment of urban sprawl by monitoring and commenting at public forums
the proposed RUL issues/expansions, densities, transportation, water and
sewer plans.
Smart Growth?
Support Open Space In Napa County
Green Valley State Park:
Green Valley Fault State Park
Protect Napa County Hillsides and Watershed
Our wildlife is being pushed off the hills by the relentless march of
development from the valley floors to steeper and steeper slopes. Our water
quality is diminished each year by damming, diversions, chemical loading
and increased siltation by each new, additional vineyard and housing development
that is approved by public agencies. We feel the hillsides have reached
their capacity to sustain high quality water production and we are opposed
to any further natural vegetative removal.
- Hillside protection from vineyard and others who would destroy Oak
woodland and compromise water quality and further put at risk our just
listed Salmon and Steelhead population. Urge stiffer penalties and fines
based on acreage to give teeth to hillside ordinance.
- Possibly institute a citizen's referendum to re-zone the hillsides
to the original Ag-Watershed designation.
Defending Sierra Club Hillside
Lawsuit
Other Local Goals & Projects:
- Encourage recycling with a new sign "It is Illegal to Dump Used
Oil or Toxic Chemicals in this Container. Please call the following number
for Recycling Collection Centers" to be put on the inside lid of all
garbage company household trash containers.
- Conservation Update
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The Sierra Club has four national priority campaigns: protect
America's water from factory farm pollution; protect wildlands; challenge
sprawl; and end commercial logging in our national forests.
Sierra Club Challenge to Sprawl Campaign
Poorly planned development is threatening our
environment, our health, and our quality of life.
In communities across America "sprawl" - scattered development
that increases traffic, saps local resources and destroys open space - is
taking a serious toll. But runaway growth is not inevitable. Hundreds of
urban, suburban and rural neighborhoods are choosing to manage sprawl with
smart growth solutions.
Objectives:
- to establish urban growth boundaries
- to revitalize communities within growth boundaries
- to protect lands outside growth boundaries
- to improve conditions for pedestrians, bicycles, mass transit and other
alternative forms of transportation
Transportation Action Network
- Tools, information, and contacts to make communities more livable through
transportation policy.
Smart Growth Network
Sustainable Communities Network
Wildlands Campaign
The Sierra Club's Wildlands Campaign is an ambitious agenda to secure
lasting protection for 100 million acres of wild America in the next decade.
For more information on the Sierra Club's campaign to protect America's
Wildlands please contact Dan Lavery at 202-547-1141 or e-mail him at dan.lavery@sierraclub.org
Stop Logging Our National Forests!
America's first National Forests were established for the people more
than one hundred years ago. The timber industry has turned our publicly
owned National Forests into a patchwork of clearcuts and logging roads.
For more information on the Sierra Club's campaign to End Commercial
Logging in our National Forests please contact Dan Lavery at202-547-1141
or dan.lavery@sierraclub.org
Protect America's Water from Factory Farms
CAFOs: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations are giant corporate-owned
livestock
factories which churn out cattle, hogs, chickens, and turkeys in staggering
numbers and which produce staggering amounts of animal waste in the process
(2.7 trillion pounds per year). Too often, this waste leaks into our rivers
and streams, contaminating drinking water and spreading disease. |
