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Our letter to Solano County Board of Supervisors, County Administrator, and Director of Resource Management re: the $50M deficit and prime farmland protection

By California Forever · Mon Oct 21 2024

The Solano County Board of Supervisors' Priority Workshop on October 8, 2024 highlighted the critical goals of closing our county's $50 million structural deficit, and focusing agricultural protection on prime farmlands.

We've shared a letter with the Solano County Board of Supervisors, County Administrator, and Director of Resource Management to propose that both of these objectives can be achieved by evolving the Orderly Growth policy into one that maintains similar ideals, but better achieves the dual goals of generating tax revenue through sustainable economic development, while protecting our most valuable agricultural lands. Let’s call it Sustainable Growth.

You can read the full letter here.