It's time for Watsonville to move forward, but also to protect farmland
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here.Many of you know that in 1978, Sa...
Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here.Many of you know that in 1978, Santa Cruz County passed Measure J — a countywide growth-management measure that created agricultural zoned parcels protected from development. This has given Santa Cruz County some of the strongest farmland protection in the U.S.In 1998, the City of Watsonville attempted to annex 1,000 acres of that protected farmland, and the community came together with Action Pajaro Valley and four years later passed Measure U, which established an urban limit line (ULL).