Will growth management techniques be enough to maintain the farming industry and high quality of life? Or will sprawl steadily eat through the countryside?

"Is it our intention, as the most productive agricultural area the world has ever known, to house the world or feed it?"
-Denny Jackman
     

NEWSLETTER

Support Turlock's Smart Growth Tradition in General Plan Update: Fall 2010

Rethinking the North County Corridor: Winter 2009

Two Stories of Farmland Protection in Stanislaus County: Fall 2009

Striving to protect food, families and farmland 10 years!: Summer 2009

If you want to know your past, look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future, look into your present actions: Winter 2008

Growing Smart: Summer 2008

E Changes Everything!: Spring 2008

Protecting Farmland
and Growing Efficient Cities: Winter 2007(PDF)


Salida How? County tax payers: Who's to pay on going costs of Salida now?: Summer 2007 (PDF

Farmland Mitigation– Stanislaus County and Modesto to follow San Joaquin County and Stockton?: Spring 2007(PDF)

Blueprint for our future! Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley: Winter 2006 (PDF)

LINKS TO OUTSIDE STORIES

Expert to San Joaquin Valley Planners: Growth Not the Answer

Our View: County Takes The Initiative on Housing - Actions by the Merced County Board of Supervisors Effectively Weaken the Save Farmland Initiative

Jackman: Support Turlock's smart growth tradition in general plan update

Supervisors Blow It Again With Vote to Ok Cemetery by Denny Jackman

As If We Never Passed the Stamp Out Sprawl Initiative
by Denny Jackman


County adds 3,300 acres of protected ag land

Can California Break Sprawling Habit?

Initiative Measure To Be Submitted Directly to the Voters

Stanislaus gives Salida growth plan the go-ahead

Grip on Growth

Drawing the Lines: Stanislaus County seeks input on general plan's ag element

Ag plan fallout on West Park?

Stanislaus Ag Element Revise
Given Ok


Growth: Yes on E, no on L

County Unveils lush Hilmar vision

Voters gave county, city clear, new directions

Modesto council deletes builder charges

Dan Walters: California growth will lead to more development conflicts

 
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