Sac County's CAP is Still Bogus – Tell Supervisors: “DON'T APPROVE”
In 2011, Sac County promised to adopt a Climate Action Plan (CAP) “within a year.” We’ve pushed them hard for five years to do that, and critiqued five technically and legally insufficient drafts. The problem is that the County is committed to approving several very large, high-GHG, sprawl developments outside the County’s growth boundary, and an effective CAP would get in the way.
This Wednesday, the County will try to steam-roll us, adopting a final CAP with the same deficiencies as before, claiming the CAP isn’t subject to environmental requirements. We’re not buying it.
Please click through and send a pre-written email to our County supervisors. It’s a little wonky
because we’re making legal points, but feel free to substitute or add your own feelings (for example,
about elected officials irresponsibly prioritizing land speculators and sprawl over, you know,
saving the world).
Oh, and all this proposed sprawl would do nothing to solve the housing crises. The County has
already approved over a 100 years-worth of growth in infill and new projects. With the new
sprawl, they will have adopted almost 200-years of growth capacity. That won’t build out in
anyone’s lifetime; but it will start to build out as small tracts scattered across the County – the worst
possible land use for climate stabilization.
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