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New Board Members Expand Diversity
The LandWatch Board of Directors just got bigger! New Board members will help LandWatch expand its community outreach. (12.18.04) |
Well-Planned Growth Is Best For The Community
This article by the President of the Board of Directors of LandWatch Monterey County makes a good case for well-planned growth. It also explains why that is so hard to achieve. The short answer? Billions of dollars in developer profits will not be available if strong General Plan policies are adopted! (11.26.04) |
LandWatch Receives Grant Award
The Catherine L. and Robert O. McMahan Foundation has made a grant award to LandWatch Monterey County, to assist LandWatch with its work on affordable housing. (11.21.04) |
LandWatch
and Common Ground Agree
LandWatch Monterey County and Common Ground Monterey County
have issued a Joint Statement on Conservation and Development
principles. Both organizations believe that, as growth occurs,
it is important to phase and locate that growth in a way that
conserves both important natural resource lands, and the commercially
productive farmlands that are at the basis of the agricultural
industry that sustains our local economy. The Joint Statement
calls on the Board of Supervisors to set a new direction in
land use policy for Monterey County. (posted 02/15/02) |
Patton
Receives Award As"Environmental Educator"
LandWatch Executive Director Gary Patton has been recognized
by the Ventana Chapter of the Sierra Club for his efforts in
environmental education. He will receive the Ventana Chapter
2001 Environmental Education Award on November 4th. |
Chris
Fitz Comes to Work for LandWatch (03/26/01)
Chris Fitz has stepped down as a member of the LandWatch
Board of Directors in order to become a paid consultant
to LandWatch. Chris will work half time on a variety of
tasks involved with building membership, fund raising, and
grassroots community building. We are delighted to have
Chris carry on his work for LandWatch in this new capacity. |
New
Look To The LandWatch Website! (4/17/00)
LandWatch is proud of its redesigned website. We hope
you find our brand new look even more attractive and functional
than the earlier format. |
New
LandWatch Office in Salinas (3/9/00)
LandWatch opens a new office in Salinas, to improve
its ability to influence critical land use decisions. |
LandWatch
Awarded Packard Grant
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation awarded LandWatch
Monterey County a three-year, $225,000 general operating
grant. These funds will support LandWatch's efforts to research
and monitor local land use plans, organize citizen involvement,
and improve the quality of life through long-range, comprehensive
land use planning. |
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