LandWatch Memo on GPU Comments
Memo
To: LandWatch Members and Supporters
From: LandWatch Executive Director Gary Patton
Date: June 20, 2002
RE: What You Can Do Now To Help Achieve A Good County General PlanThis memorandum is to ask for your help—and for a rapid response.
The future of Monterey County depends on our ability, as a community, to do good planning for the future. In July, the Board of Supervisors will be making some key decisions on a proposed General Plan Update (GPU). We need your help to convince the Board that Monterey County needs to change its "business as usual" approach to growth and development.
Attached is a letter just submitted to the Monterey County Planning Commission, that states our position on the proposed GPU. We hope you’ll agree with the points we make!
If you do agree with the League of Women Voters of the Monterey Peninsula, the Carmel Valley Association, the Sierra Club, Friends, Artists and Neighbors of Elkhorn Slough, National Audubon-California, the North County Citizens Oversight Coalition, the Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Native Plant Society, and LandWatch, please help convince our public officials to make the right decisions.
It is absolutely vital that you let the Board of Supervisors know your views on the proposed General Plan Update before they vote on the GPU in July.
Please take one (or both) of the following actions:
- Write
a letter to the Board of Supervisors, stating your position. Addresses
are attached. You can use our joint letter as a model.
- Write a letter to local newspapers, stating your position. Again, addresses are attached. While you can use our joint letter as a model, Letters to the Editor must be very brief (200-250 words).
Thanks for your help! Working together, we can protect and preserve the unique treasures of the Monterey Bay Area for our children, and their children, and can ensure a strong economy, a healthy environment, and a just and equitable society.
Contact Addresses
| Monterey County Board of Supervisors | Newspaper Addresses |
| Dave
Potter, Chair 1200 Aguajito Road, Suite 001 Monterey, CA 93940 Phone: (831) 647-7755 FAX: (831) 647-7695 Email: district5@co.monterey.ca.us |
Salinas
Californian Box 81091 Salinas, CA 93912 FAX: (831) 754-4293 Email: sfaust@salinas.gannett.com |
| Fernando
Armenta, Vice Chair 60 West Market Street, Suite 110 Salinas, CA 93901 Phone: (831) 755-5077 FAX: (831) 755-5876 Email: district1@co.monterey.ca.us |
Monterey
County Herald Box 271 Monterey, CA 93942 FAX: :(831) 753-6169 Email: lshackel@montereyherald.com |
| Louis
Calcagno 10681 Mc Dougall Street P.O. Box 787 Castroville, CA 95012 Phone: (831) 755-5063 FAX: (831) 633-0201 Email: district3@co.monterey.ca.us |
Coast
Weekly 668 Williams Avenue Seaside, CA 93955 FAX: (831) 394-2909 Email: mail@coastweekly.com |
| Edith
Johnsen 2616 1st Avenue Marina, CA 93933 Phone: (831) 883-7570 FAX: (831) 384-1839 Email: district4@co.monterey.ca.us |
Carmel
Pine Cone Box G-1 Carmel, CA 93921 FAX: (831) 624-8076 Email: mail@carmelpinecone.com |
| Judy
Pennycook 1000 South Main Street, Suite 213 Salinas, CA 93901 Phone: (831) 755-5022 FAX: (831) 755-5431 Email: district2@co.monterey.ca.us |
Monterey
County Post Box 22650 Carmel, CA 93922 FAX: (831) 625-5718 Email: post@montereycountypost.com |
| General Address: | |
| Board
of Supervisors Offices 240 Church Street, 2nd Floor Salinas, CA 93901 Attention: Clerk, Board of Supervisors Phone: (831) 755-5066 FAX: (831) 755-5888 |
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