FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
A worker tills soil at Larry s Produce in Suisun Valley, Friday, June 21, 2019. (Robinson Kuntz/Daily Republic)
Regional agriculture plan may include Solano County
FAIRFIELD A $225,000 planning grant awarded to Santa Clara County for the development of a Bay Area regional agricultural plan lists Solano County.
The effort also links to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s Plan Bay Area 2050 as related to “protection of work lands.”
The California Strategic Growth Council awarded the grant as part of $52 million in grants for planning projects, acquisition projects, easement acquisition projects, as well as the planning grants.
“The proposed project builds on the SALC-funded Santa Clara Valley Agricultural Plan and aims to develop a framework for a regional Bay Area Agricultural Plan,” the council announcement states.
As we prepare to bid goodbye to 2020, Streetsblog SF continues its interview series with local and national experts to lay the groundwork for the best possible transit mega-measure for the 2022 (or 2024?) November election. Last month Streetsblog spoke with Adina Levin, with Friends of Caltrain, about lessons learned from recent ballot measures, including RR, which passed in November 2020 to support the expansion of Caltrain.
This month, Streetsblog spoke with Ian Griffiths of Seamless Bay Area. Griffiths echoes Levin’s call for a transit agency, most likely MTC, to step forward and lead a public process to craft a new measure that brings all stakeholders to the table. Griffiths, like many in the Bay Area, believes that a firm plan on how to integrate all transit agencies’ fare structures is necessary for a mega-measure to pass.