April 11th 2025 Newsletter - Workshop

April 11th, 2025

Please Attend the Cannabis Workshop, Tuesday, April 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m.

• No consideration of Exclusion Zones, where cultivation and other cannabis activities are forbidden, despite explicitly being told to include such a program.
• Force neighbors to breath the carcinogen Beta-Myrcene in their homes because of inadequate setbacks
• Reduce minimum lot size for cultivation from 10 acres to 5 acres.
• Reduce minimum setbacks of a cultivation site from your home and property from 300ft to 100ft.
• Allow a field of grapes to be “swapped” to cannabis without any environmental review or neighborhood input.
• Allow retail sales and consumption at “farm stands,” which will attract crime and encourage stoned driving on our narrow rural roads.
• Allow events, sales, and consumption in rural areas, which will attract crime and encourage stoned driving on our narrow rural roads.
• Allow cannabis manufacturing in rural areas.
• Allow locations that cannot meet new restrictions to get permits and be grandfathered.

The draft environmental impact report is now scheduled to be released in early May, and we will have 60-days to respond to it.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

If you are concerned about neighborhood compatibility, phone the Supervisors switchboard (707-565-2241) and/or email (see addresses below) and tell the Supervisors you want the revised cannabis ordinance to protect neighborhoods and require that cannabis be grown only indoors with carbon filter systems. Your family’s health is more important than catering to a failing and harmful commercial industry.

1. Become fully aware of the cannabis ordinance changes at the County’s website that impact your property;
2. Visit Neighborhood Coalition Sonoma County to learn more ways you can get involved and help protect your neighborhood
3. Make a donation You can donate online , or you can mail a check to:
   
   Sonoma Neighborhood Coalition
   PO Box 1229
   Sebastopol, CA 95473
   

Our campaign to preserve what we all hold near and dear needs your support. Your tax-deductible donation will fund technical experts and our legal team that are critical to our effort to require the County to protect our environment, children, and the health and safety of our neighborhoods.

The Neighborhood Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, volunteer-based, dedicated to advocating for proper cannabis and land-use policies that benefit the community. All donations support these efforts.

Thank you for your support and donation.
The Neighborhood Coalition team


Board of Supervisor’s emails
1st District:
Rebecca Hermosillo
Rebecca.Hermosillo@sonoma-county.org

2nd District:
David Rabbitt
David.Rabbitt@sonoma-county.org

3rd District:
Chris Coursey
district3@sonoma-county.org

4th District:
James Gore
District4@sonoma-county.org

5th District:
Lynda Hopkins
Lynda.Hopkins@sonoma-county.org

Please send a copy of your letter to sonomaneighborhoodcoalition@gmail.com

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