EXTERNAL ARTICLES & PUBLICATIONS

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Stanislaus should not allow Riverbank expansion, June 16, 2024, Modesto Bee, PDF Link.

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Riverbank plan to build 2,400 homes draws concern, Modesto Bee, The (CA), May 26, 2024, PDF link.

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Problems with River Walk, largest Stanislaus Proposal in two Decades | Modesto Bee, May 2023, PDF link.

How best to guide Modesto’s future | Modesto Bee, January 2023, PDF link.

Patterson and Turlock have more to learn about good planning | Modesto Bee, May 2022, PDF link.

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How to get more Stanislaus housing while protecting farms | Modesto Bee, December 2020, PDF link.

Stanislaus farmers keep going even during Pandemic | Modesto Bee, April 2020, PDF link.

Reliving two decades of Farmland Working Group’s fight against sprawl in Modesto, Stanislaus County | Modesto Bee, August 2019, PDF link.

Farmland Working Group has fought sprawl in Valley | Modesto Bee, August 2019, PDF only.

If You Can't Beat the Bay Area, Join It | Connecting California | Zócalo Public Square (zocalopublicsquare.org), July 2018, PDF link.

Modesto’s Measure I seeks to protect area’s best soils, water recharge areas | Modesto Bee, October 2015, PDF link.

Sprawl debate rekindled by ballot measure to set boundary for Modesto | Modesto Bee, October 2015, PDF link.

Jeani Ferrari: Having a high enough in-lieu fee protects precious farmland | Modesto Bee, February 2015, PDF link.

Patterson’s proposed farmland mitigation fee is contested | Modesto Bee, November 2014, PDF link.

Mike Dunbar: Modesto battle over Wood Colony could get louder | Modesto Bee, January 2014, PDF link.

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Jeani Ferrari and Allen Gammon: Jobs not a good enough reason to cover up Wood Colony | Modesto Bee, January 2014, PDF link.

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Our View: Reasons not to develop Wood Colony | Modesto Bee, January 2014, PDF link.

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Modesto City Council to tackle farmland vs. development | Modesto Bee, January 2014, PDF link.

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Alan Cover: Why would anyone want to pave over my home? | Modesto Bee, December 2013, PDF link.

Patterson City Drops Growth Request - Patterson will try to revise Proposal for Growth | Modesto Bee, February 2013, PDF only.

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Saving Farmland, Growing Cities: A Framework for Implementing Effective Farmland Conservation Policies in the San Joaquin Valley | FIC (farmlandinfo.org), An American Farmland Trust Report, January 2013, PDF link.

Patterson annexation plan omits Farmland Clause | Modesto Bee, September 2012, PDF only.

$3 Billion and Growing - Crop Report Signals Strength, Steady Gain of Income, Ag | Modesto Bee, September 2012, PDF only.

Occupy the Farm activists reoccupy UC Berkeley farm plot in Albany | The Mercury News, August 2012, PDF link.

City, County Mull Salida Annex Study | Modesto Bee, August 2012, PDF only.

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Growth Initiative is Lauded | Modesto Bee, February 2012, PDF only.

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Farmers express worries over loss of Ag land to city | Modesto Bee, January 2011, PDF link.

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The biggest question to ask ourselves after vote is ‘Salida how?’ | Modesto Bee, August 2007, PDF link.

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Larger Ag Land Parcels Could Reduce Sprawl | Modesto Bee, May 2006, PDF only.

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Modesto Bee editorial on Hughson policy | Modesto Bee, April 1995, PDF only.