Novato Community Alliance

Update on Marin Energy Authority - Opt Out Deadline & PGE! I have 4 updated positions that will make you think twice about the deal that Novato City Council struck with Marin Clean Energy.

UPDATE: SB 1220 (Housing Tax) goes for a vote this week - 4/25 Because of a huge opposition effort by the California Association of Realtors (CAR), sponsors of SB 1220 last week negotiated a change to the bill's content, essentially removing some of the documents at issue in this bill. This will result in a reduction of about 1/4 billion in revenue, from $750 m...

This is huge news... we need to get our City Council members, whom seem to be followers to now follow and stand in solidarity

Corte Madera council votes in favor of leaving ABAG With what is becomming a 'David and Goliath' struggle, first it was Palo Alto challenging the MTC/ABAG population and jobs estimates. Now the snowball is beginning to grow larger and pick up speed. The City of Corte Madera made a very strong statement on Tue March 6, about local control. That statem...

One Planner doesn't buy MTC/ABAG Projections The NCA Site features for the first time the ability to adapt on all screen resolution, from mobile phones to PDA's, small laptops or wide monitors.

Novato & NCA Members speak out on Bob Brown Hire We finally have the video snippets of the Novato Community Alliance members speaking out against Bob Brown at the Novato City Council, this past Tuesday Feb-28. There were 20 speakers, 10 of which were NCA members. Take a look at the playlist below. They ranged from very passionate to very pithy; to...

Op-Ed: Bob Brown is "an affordable housing activist" and not right for Novato There are at least two sides to the interim appointment of Bob Brown as Interim Community Development Director. Here, a 30-year resident lays out her opposition.

Everyone has to contact ABAG/MTC or your representatives and tell them that OneBayArea is over the top with pushing their agenda based on faulty estimates

ABAG/MTC Population Estimates are being Challenged The City of Palo Alto is preparing for a long and drawn out battle with ABAG/MTC (State of California Population Estimates) over population/housing estimates. In the Palo Alto Weekly recently, they wrote that the City Manager James Keene predicted that Palo Alto would take the lead in the regional c...

Please show your support on this Tue to speak out against hiring 2 housing advocates..

Bob Brown as Interim Community Development Director - We say not! When Dave Wallace announced his retirement, a vacancy for community development director was created. Rather than hire a full time employee, Michael Frank has chosen two half-time employees. Anne Cronin Moore is a contract planner, meaning she is a planner who is hired for a limited time to get a sp...

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Comment to KSRO Report on Sonoma County MTC/ABAG Meeting It is important that environmental concerns with the MTC-ABAG plan get heard. As noted, there's no time scheduled for it at the meetings. Plan Bay Area promotes development in urban settings in order to slow development in rural settings, but nobody except developers and planners say we need *more* ...

Plan Bay Area Update MTC/ABAG's One Bay Area is beginning to show signs that its true approach and methods are being exposed and that concerned citizens are beginning to understand and realize exactly what Plan Bay Area really is.

Please show up and tell the council to push back and demand answers from MTC/ABAG on these grossly inflated numbers.

One Bay Area Arbitrarily DOUBLES Novato's Housing Numbers This Tuesday (Jan-10) the Novato City Council will take up under general business item 8, Dave Wallace's courageous and informative Staff Report, which describes the most recent MTC/ABAG Sustainable Communities Strategy (SCS), its changes from the last version, and the implications to the City of No...

California Supreme Court Ends Redevelopment in State The California Supreme dealt the final blow to the many redevelopment agencies established around the state in a decision handed down yesterday (Thursday) by Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye. This decision is especially noteworthy to Novatoens due to Novato's use of its redevelopment agency in many proje...