Supervisors Unanimously Approve Community Separator Ballot Measure and Designations
In August 2016 the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors voted 5 – 0 to renew longstanding protections for green buffers between towns and cities for another 20 years with a ballot measure requiring a countywide majority vote in the November General Election.
The Community Separator Protection Ordinance will extend existing protections for rural open space and agricultural lands designated as community separators by preventing conversion to shopping malls, housing tracts or resort hotels without a vote of the people.
The supervisors also added lands to the existing eight community separators and established a long overdue community separator between Healdsburg and Cloverdale.