With the concern everyone feels about the environment, and quality of living issues in general, having additional oversight, even if a tad before the legislative body has developed the regulations called for in their legislation, is not a bad idea.
Brown to look at green impact of Placer project
By Andy Furillo - Bee Capitol Bureau
Published 12:00 am PDT Wednesday, August 22, 2007
With a San Bernardino County greenhouse gas agreement in his hip pocket, California Attorney General Jerry Brown is now setting his sights on the global warming impact of a massive housing development recently approved for 5,000 acres west of Roseville.
Brown has not filed a lawsuit, but he said officials in his office are already in touch with Placer County over the unanimous July 16 vote by its Board of Supervisors to approve the 14,132-home Placer Vineyards project.
"I believe now we have a real grass-roots movement," Brown said in an interview, after announcing the San Bernardino agreement in which the fast-growing county will amend its general plan within 30 months to include a greenhouse gas reduction policy. "And it's growing throughout the state and throughout the country, and I'm going to do my best to help it along."
Brown said that "toward that end, I will be traveling to different counties, like Fresno, and throughout the (Central) Valley and Northern California."
