R is for residential
The R1 zoning designation was originally meant to mean “Residential” – defined as a place where people RESIDE. Sonoma County decided not to rezone our neighborhoods, which would have required an open, democratic, hearing process. Instead they simply redefined what R1 means. So now life in Glen Ellen and elsewhere where residences are allowed to conduct only one type of business, that which brings loads of drunks into neighborhoods to raise hell, with no oversight – but paying lucrative TOT revenue into the county’s General Fund — is an utter misery. The greed of the BOS is destroying communities throughout the county. This must be stopped. Forcing people from their homes is a real tragedy – and an ethical breach of the public interest.
Deborah Nitasaka, Glen Ellen
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You are Absolutely Right. So that we can understand that, but also R1 is nit for Marijuana Growth, Body Shops, PersonslvTrainers and Private Wine Growth.
Also multiple Cars along the Riad, RV Storage, vehicle Repair and the list goes on.
Not everyone who rents out their homes for VRs allow such idiots to throw parties, nor do they pay the Taxes like must of us do. The Hitels and Wineries hate the Competition unless they are building a new Latest and Greatest, which gets a whole lot of Tax Deductions at Residents expense.
The reality is that we all live in a Vacation Community.
The reality is that there are more Locals behaving Badly than any Tourists, given the number of Idiots That appear in the Police Blotter everyday.
If anyone is going to stop my additional My Legal Income, then we should also start Tge Gestapo Tactics and start policing Our Neighborhoods just as much.