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Day: November 23, 2007

  • George Rebane Dear Reader, the articles below posted today 23 November 2007 all address community growth as it affects our small (pop approx 100,000) Sierra foothills county.  However, the issues we grapple with here in Nevada County are at least national in scope.  I’ve done my best to gather these together from their originally published…

  • George Rebane (This appeared on NC Media Watch on 7 April 2006) If I had my druthers, I’d like western Nevada County to grow into what a lot of folks call a ‘balanced community’.  We all have differences in what we consider balanced, my own vision is something close to Simi Valley in Ventura County,…

  • George Rebane (Originally published on NC Media Watch on 4 February 2006.) Today the ill-defined notion of a balanced community is almost universally worshipped by all right-thinking people.  The other night in Grass Valley the balanced and sustainable community was rolled out during a public forum on growth. Everyone there accepted its obvious merits as…

  • George Rebane (originally posted on NC Media Watch on 14 January 2006.) On the larger scale the growth issue in Nevada County is a tempest in a teapot.  But to those of us who live in this lovely little teapot that issue promises to brew itself into a full-blown hurricane.  Let me posit that the…

  • George Rebane (This first appeared on The Union’s website December 2005.) Before we again go all over the map on affordable housing and rent control — or in more obtuse blather, “rent stabilization” — perhaps we should first do something simple and straightforward when renting in mobile home parks. These renters always seem to be…