• LandWatch has developed a succinct and understandable Five Point Program for land use reform that will stop the destructive progress of urban sprawl.
  
  
• LandWatch helped stop the ill-advised Rancho Chualar II and Mountain Valley developments, proposed on prime farmland in the Salinas Valley.
  
  
• LandWatch helped create and is supporting Marina 2020 Vision, a citizens group fighting against the most dangerous proposal recently proposed in Monterey County, a proposal to build San Jose style subdivisions on the 2000 acre Armstrong Ranch. With help from LandWatch, Marina 2020 Vision qualified and passed a precedent-setting Urban Growth Boundary initiative. Measure E was enacted by a 52.4% majority vote on November 7, 2000!
  
  
• LandWatch worked with concerned citizens in North Monterey County, and succeeded in having the Board of Supervisors declare a "moratorium" on future development in North Monterey County, where groundwater overdraft exceeds 100% of safe yield. LandWatch is continuing to work with North County residents to develop an Elkhorn Slough Watershed land use plan, to enact land use policies that will preserve and protect this priceless environmental asset.
  
  
• LandWatch has obtained a "diversity outreach" grant, which will help LandWatch build diversity into the organization, and develop outreach strategies that will better involve and include the ethnically and geographically diverse population of Monterey County in advocacy for land use policy reforms that will protect and conserve the county’s land and natural resources.
  
  
• LandWatch has published two State of the County Reports, in 1998 and 1999, which have become recognized as the definitive source of information on Monterey County land use and population trends, and on the status of approved and pending development projects. After the release of the 1999 State of the County Report, Supervisor David Potter called LandWatch the "Grand Jury of Land Use for Monterey County."
  
  
• In 1998, LandWatch secured a three-year general operating grant of $225,000 from the Packard Foundation, and has since been awarded an additional grant, to help LandWatch reach out with its land use reform agenda to the full diversity of the Monterey County community.
  
  
• LandWatch has built its membership base to over 1000 individuals and businesses, and mobilizes its members on key land use policy decisions through citizen education and action alerts.
  
  
• LandWatch has entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Center for Community Advocacy, Monterey County’s most effective organization advocating for housing and health care for farmworkers. The Memorandum of Agreement commits both organizations to work for a more effective affordable housing program, and for the establishment of strong Urban Growth Boundaries, to prevent urban sprawl.
  
  
• LandWatch actively and effectively participated in the Mayors’ Committee on affordable housing, and on a special task force established by Congress Member Sam Farr, to increase affordable housing opportunities on the former Fort Ord. LandWatch is a leading advocate for effective affordable housing policies and programs within Monterey County.
  
  
• LandWatch has built a strong, professional staff that is representing the public interest on land use and growth issues before the Board of Supervisors, and wherever key decisions affecting the future of Monterey County land use are being made.
  
  
• LandWatch has developed an impressive website that provides timely information on land use issues to all county residents, helping residents find out about proposed development projects before it's too late to have an impact.
  
  
• LandWatch continues to maintain an extremely active schedule of outreach and educational activities, and is participating in deliberations on key policy matters before the Board of Supervisors and many of the City Councils.

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