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Findings and Recommendations 6 findings
F1
The Napa County Grand Jury finds that:
The Planning Department, the agency responsible for bringing unincorporated Napa County a CAP, has generally been responsive to stakeholder groups’ critiques of and suggestions for the Plan.
Related Recommendations (1)
R1
The Planning Commission and the Planning Department continue its community outreach efforts with more public hearings for a 60-day period starting in January 2019.
F2
The Napa County Grand Jury finds that:
Ten years after adoption of Napa County’s (updated) General Plan, the County is not in compliance with the General Plan’s action item to prepare and adopt a CAP. While specifically the County’s jurisdictional area, a CAP covering only the unincorporated areas of the County runs contrary to the comprehensive countywide approach favored by the County entities we interviewed and does not target GHG emissions reductions countywide.
Related Recommendations (1)
R2
The CAP should consider including incentives starting in 2019 for carbon sequestration and woodland preservation and/or restoration projects under the guidance of the Planning Department.
F3
The Napa County Grand Jury finds that:
There is no effort to coordinate Climate Action Plans between each of the jurisdictional communities within Napa County, which complicates the ability to identify, target, and reduce GHG emissions countywide in compliance with CEQA and BAAQMD regulations.
Related Recommendations (1)
R3
The Planning Department should consider including a proposal to quantify and mitigate winery operations GHG emissions in the next CAP draft revision expected in January 2019.
F4
The Napa County Grand Jury finds that:
The County delayed its timeline for completion of the Plan because of the legal challenges that arose from the court ruling in the Sonoma County CAP lawsuit.
Related Recommendations (1)
R4
The County finalize and adopt the Napa County CAP by June 30, 2019, executing under the terms of the current amendment to the professional services agreement. 10
F5
The Napa County Grand Jury finds that:
The existing draft CAP does not take into consideration all sources of GHG emissions, most notably winery operations emissions.
Related Recommendations (1)
R5
As follow-up upon completion of the CAP: In February, 2019 the Planning Department take the lead to bring all the County jurisdictions to the table to discuss ways to coordinate all the existing climate change mitigation efforts in the County geographical area. We suggest each jurisdiction furnish the department (as a clearinghouse) with emissions targets and reduction results for inclusion in countywide reporting.
F6
The Napa County Grand Jury finds that:
Tools exist to measure winery GHG emissions enabling the County to include winery emissions reductions in its CAP.
No recommendations for this finding
No Responses Found 1
Government entities assigned to respond to this report. No response documents have been linked in our database.
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