Dec 9 2024 Newsletter -Soon Your Home May No Longer be Your Castle

Soon Your Home May No Longer be Your Castle

Permit Sonoma, directed by the Sonoma County Supervisors, is on the verge of assaulting your right to defend your home from businesses that spew carcinogens into your yard and your house.

The proposed cannabis ordinance will allow growers, who often have no long-term connection with Sonoma County, to plant fields of marijuana that emit the carcinogen Beta-Myrcene 100 feet from your property.

You can be minding your own business and suddenly a nearby orchard or vineyard will be growing marijuana.

The County calls it a “crop swap.”

The County claims that growing apples is just like growing a crop that emits a skunk-like stench that contains a carcinogen. There will be no environmental review, no notification to neighbors, no opportunity to object.

The Neighborhood Coalition didn’t decide that Beta-Myrcene is a carcinogen. Scientists in California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment reached that conclusion a decade ago.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Supervisor James Gore told a resident that if she does not like living near marijuana, she can sell her home (probably at a depressed price) and move somewhere else.

If you are content with moving to another county or state, do nothing.

If not, call your supervisor (707-565-2241) and ask if he or she supports crop swaps.

Send this message to friends and neighbors and ask them to call their supervisor.

PLEASE DONATE

Take action - DONATE TODAY.

Donate generously to our legal fund to resist this outrageous and unconscionable policy.

Your tax-deductible donation also will fund technical experts and research that are critical to our effort to require the County protect our environment, children, and the health and safety of our neighborhoods.  New research, health studies and economic trends identify viable options. Our goal is to enlighten and persuade public decision-makers to make better choices.

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.

You can also mail a check to:
Sonoma Neighborhood Coalition
PO Box 1229
Sebastopol, CA 95473

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

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