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This spring, Oxnard’s iconic Wagon Wheel Motel shut its doors forever, as the Westlake Village-based Daly Owens Group completed plans for its 64-acre mixed-use project known as The Village. Depending who you ask, those plans are either a blessing for the city that a possible new ballot measure known as the Oxnard Traffic Initiative could kill, or the latest in a series of massive developments facing the city that could further bog down an already aggravating traffic nightmare.
Larry Sabato has a point.
A group calling itself Californians for Property Rights Protection is expected to submit more than one million signatures to state election officials here this week for an initiative it wants on the June 2008 ballot. Dubbed the California Property Owners and Farmland Protection Act, the initiative would end rent control in addition to restricting governments’ use of eminent domain.
A former Petaluma City Council member is leading an effort to place an advisory measure on a 2008 Sonoma County ballot regarding possible construction of a casino and resort complex in Rohnert Park.
If Colorado for Equal Rights for Human Life and other anti-abortion groups can wrangle 76,000 signatures in the next six months, theirs could be the first state in the nation to vote on whether a fertilized egg should legally be considered a person. Despite resistance from abortion-rights groups, the Colorado Supreme Court on November 13 approved the ballot measure — 40 years after Colorado became the first state to relax abortion laws — giving a boost to a conservative political movement that has worked doggedly for decades to overturn Roe v. Wade.
A coalition led by developer Lennar Corp. took a first step Tuesday toward asking San Francisco voters to approve new zoning for a remake of Candlestick Point and adjacent Hunters Point Shipyard into a new neighborhood that could feature thousands of homes, retail shops, industry, parks and, potentially, a new 49ers stadium.
In the face of active opposition from other educational groups, supporters of a ballot initiative that would dramatically change the way California’s community colleges are funded held a news conference Monday morning at Laney College to make their case.
Californians for Property Rights Protection announced today that they are submitting more than one million signatures to qualify the California Property Owners and Farmland Protection Act (CPOFPA) for the June 2008 ballot. This eminent domain reform measure will stop government from taking homes, family farms, small business and places of worship and giving the land to other private interests.
There were enough conditional clauses in Measure 49 that some of us thought the whole thing was a con. Now a memo from the state Department of Land Conservation and development seems to prove it.
Teachers across Oregon are gearing up for a big fight over a potential 2008 ballot measure that would tie their salaries to their “classroom performance.”