To: Board of Supervisors
From: Supervisor Williams and Supervisor Gjerde
Meeting Date: July 25, 2023
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Item Type: Consent Agenda |
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Agenda Title:
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Appointment of Supervisor Williams and Supervisor Gjerde to a “Climate Refugees” Ad-Hoc Committee with the Mandate to Engage Stakeholders, Identify Potential Growth Challenges, and Initiate High Level Planning Efforts for our County’s Future
(Sponsors: Supervisor Williams and Supervisor Gjerde)
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Recommended Action/Motion:
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Appoint Supervisor Williams and Supervisor Gjerde to a “Climate Refugees” ad-hoc committee with the mandate to engage stakeholders, identify potential growth challenges, and initiate high level planning efforts for our county’s future.
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Previous Board/Board Committee Actions:
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Summary of Request:
In the decades to come, the warming climate will likely catalyze migration toward temperature climates Mendocino County should begin discussions and engage with state and federal partners. We often plan infrastructure for the present population with an assumption of slow growth. It has become evident that prudent planning demands a focus on the population to come rather than looking in the rearview mirror. We should hold public hearings and invite the best minds to define, scale, and scope the challenges Mendocino County will face between now and 2025 (when all new cars and light trucks sold in the state will be zero emissions). We should invite demographers to make projections of estimated county population growth. We should ask MCOG and County GIS to map buildable areas with water, power, and access to roads and highways, overlaying the County’s General Plan and zoning. We should start looking for opportunities to leverage federal and state funding to expand infrastructure to accommodate growth. For example, Fort Bragg’s and the Mendocino City Community Services District’s sewer treatment plants are huge emitters of greenhouse gasses, and they fail to reclaim and recycle wastewater that could be used to support expanded commerce and residence. Should we be demanding Clean Water Act funds to upgrade our County Water Treatment Facilities? The board has time and time again discussed the housing shortage. We need to give serious consideration about where we would place one million people within our County.
Alternative Action/Motion:
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Does This Item Support the General Plan? Yes
Strategic Plan Priority Designation: A Safe and Healthy County
Supervisorial District: All
vote requirement: Majority
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CEO Liaison: Executive Office |
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CEO Review: Yes |
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CEO Comments:
FOR COB USE ONLY
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Executed By: Atlas Pearson, Senior Deputy Clerk |
Final Status: Approved |
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Date: July 25, 2023 |
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