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Other Letters and Articles

  • April 30, 2009 - Newsletter to supporters
  • Robert Redford joins SRA Advisory Council. Listen to an interview on KQED where he discusses the Angwin issue.
  • A bald eagle in Angwin. Our rare national bird sits majestically in a tree in Angwin (photo courtesy Peter Avina). How can a big development be contemplated in an area with such rare and threatened wildlife?
  • Press release, February 10, SRA urges county supervisors - Save rural environment in heart of angwin more...
  • Press release, February 10, Angwin community sees major victory. County punctures Angwin Urban Bubble, pulls agricultural lands out of urban category. more...
  • SRA Quarterly Newletter Nov 08-Jan 09
  • January 27, Legal analysis of the Angwin Bubble
  • Napa county Farm Bureau states its support for the SRA plan
  • Sierra Club submits GP comments on eliminating the "Urban Bubbles"
  • Fundraising brochure
  • SRA Press Release 3/19/2007
  • Triad has a page describing their view of the development
  • Napa County district 3 Supervisor Diane Dillon announces her opposition to the development

  • Picketing Triad - Angwin supporters have taken to the streets to challenge the Triad scheme for Angwin. A group has been picketing on Main Street one day a week for a long time now. And lots of people are giving them the victory sign. Kellie Anderson organized this activity. Pictures...
  • Triad appears to be involved in a huge potential development in Middletown. How many of these folks would be driving through Angwin?
  • There's another interesting web site set up apparently by PUC alumni, to oppose the development
  • PUC claims to protect the forest and oppose vineyards, but has been happy to cut trees and sell to vintners when it makes them money
  • Open letter to the PUC Alumni
  • 2003 letter discussing land sales proposed by PUC Board member Bryan Breckenridge
  • Triad project gets named "Worst Development" in Solano County. Lawsuit is filed. Friends of Lagoon Valley Park opposes the development. See also Greenbelt Alliance
    • Triad is buying up other property in Napa Valley, and using vineyard property with large houses to avoid measure J votes
  • The St. Helena Star reports that Triad was chosen for its track record on "...albeit smaller-scale, projects." and that development will be larger than anything Triad Development has done before. On 6/29/2006, Curt Johansen, Executive VP Triad Communities, confirmed this in a "pre-General Plan" meeting. He also stated that the largest development Triad had done was Hiddenbrooke in Vallejo. When asked about the Star's report, he said it must have been talking about size in acres as opposed to number of homes. However, PUC's press release states that the college will retain 1000 acres after the development and it currently owns roughly 1800 acres, meaning that 800 acres are planned for development. There are 1200 homes in Hiddenbrooke on 1300 acres. Mr. Johansen stated many times as did Jim Henry, real estate agent for PUC, that there has been no planning or discussions with respect to size of the development. This assertion by both representatives of PUC seem to be inconsistent with Mr. Collins' statement in the Star and their own press release. In the fall of 2006 we were finally told publicly by PUC that they planned to develop 885 acres. Funny how that matched what we figured out. We also know they had a signed development agreement in November 2005 that included an option to purchase land. Does anyone believe that agreement didn't specify specific parcels? We now find a letter from 2001 where PUC talked about a sale of 885 acres, yet they kept claiming in early 2006 there were "no plans" and that they didn't know how much land would be developed.
  • Wildlake Ranch has been protected. Local people support open space.

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