" Thank you for placing it on the ballot. Now we can enjoy the democratic process. "

" Napans will never give up their voice on growth. We'll take on the state mandates in the courts if we have to, but enough is enough. "

" Enough!!!!! Time to head to Sacramento! This affordable housing mandate is being used by developers as a loophole to build thousands of market rate houses, strip malls, hotels and office parks!

Enough! "

" Boots, while I agree with your sentiment, this measure is not the way to fight the state housing mandate - we need to choose the right battle. This measure is so riddled with flaws it will threaten our existing protections against growth like Measure J.

NapaCitizen, this measure is not about stopping growth, it's a trojan horse designed to put growth exactly where we want it the least - on ag lands and open spaces around our cities.

We should fight sprawl, but this measure will have the opposite effect, just bringing more of the wrong homes and more traffic, to all the exact wrong places.

Let's not let our passion for controlling growth lead us to take the bait -- don't you wonder why no local environmentalists, slow-growthers, or farmers have emerged as leaders in support of this measure, and the whole campaign is being waged by a lawyer front-man and a group of out of town consultants who do all their work for developers? "

" This is a bad initiative. Big money backers hiding in the shadows trying to mold Napa for their gain. It stinks! "

" Well stated, Jeff. I am a dedicated slow-growther but am convinced that this initiative will hurt us way more than it will help us. I would not be at all surprised to find that the unknown backers of this measure are developers who own large parcels of annexable land who will reap hundreds of millions of dollars if this thing passes.

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" Come June we'll all know what's under the covers. Bottom line if this stops the rape of Napa then it's a great thing. If it's a wolf in sheep's wool it'll be shot down. Right now I welcome any movement to stopping the ruination of our valley. If the state takes it to court I'm sure we'll do every county a favor in stopping the insanity of carte blanche development. "

" I'm not saying I'd vote for it -- there is much to learn about it yet. We must stand up to Sacramento and not let them ram mandatory housing development down our throats. "

" A 35-foot height limit? What's wrong with building upward? There's more open space outside of town when you build up instead of out. "

" I agree. I think that this ballot measure stinks! No doubt it is placed by someone who does stand to gain a great deal while using us as his pawns.

Now, about the Democratic Process ... this initiative goes completely against the type of democracy that we believe in! In the USA we vote for elected officials who then make these types of decisions-- they are the best people to be making these decisions because they have the TIME, PERSPECTIVE, PROCESSES, and RESOURCES necessary to make good decisions.

All the ballot measure does is takes away the authority for the County officials to make decisions about growth and gives it to the masses of uninformed citizens who don't understand all of the issues that should be considered with new development. Further, the formal processes associated with new development will no longer necessary-- Traffic studies, water studies, economic impact studies can all be avoided.

Further, the county really does need affordable housing. It will stop Sacramento from taking millions of our property tax dollars and it will solve some of our traffic problems.

Let's kill this initiative before it kills us! "

" Is there a copy of the Initiative available on line to actually read? "

" keep napa napa is a joke. they tell us they want to keep napa napa while trying to shove 3000 condos down our throats after the anniliation of down town and redevelopment for private interests with public money in the name of flood control. they have taken away homes and business along the river and will in the end redevelop the whole area with more condos new businesses and of course hotels. the wine industry has dealt themselves with the help of our politicians a private reserve of the whole vallely where they are the only ones who can have a a business. what is the reason that the 1000's of acres around napa are off limits for development. it is simply because they want it that way. i would rather see houses all the way up the valley than what has been created in the name of wine. all the growth and traffic and the multitude of other problems they have created have combined to create a morass where nothing matters but big business. when will they realize money is not everything? never. its the same situation country wide and world wide. this is what happens when the only thing that matters is money. i urge all napans to vote for responsible growth and let our so called leaders know in no uncertain terms that we cannot take any more development on the scale it has been shoved down our throats. i would be very happy to see development of community swimming pools, bowling alleys or other places where our young people can go for some healthy recreation. lets keep napa napa by blowing the blowhards out of the water with our votes against them at every turn. "

" Why would we want to give up industrial uses and possibly new companies which would provide hi tech jobs? These uses would pay a lot of taxes and demand few services. And the cleanup for houses would be so much more expensive than for industial. Besides the cost if houses were flooded would be astronomical. We need more profitable business not costly houses which would require a new police station, new schools costing many millions of dollars.
We should get out of ABAG so we don't have to build houses for San Francisco people.
Build business not houses there. "