The Great Redwood Trail Agency has released a draft master plan for the northern portion of the Great Redwood Trail. There will be a number of community meetings for anyone who is curious but has not yet read the 600-page document, including one tonight from 5:30-7:30 at the Ukiah Valley Conference Center at 200 School Street in Ukiah. Lauren Schmitt of KMUD news reports.

Amy Goodman, the host of Democracy Now! was in northern California over the weekend to speak about the bombing of Gaza and the role of the media in times of conflict. On Friday, she addressed a packed crowd at the SPACE theater in Ukiah, and the next day she was in Berkeley to celebrate the 75th birthday of KPFA.

The county Planning Commission approved a coastal development use permit for a controversial water project in the town of Mendocino at its regular meeting on April fourth. The project, a joint venture between the Mendocino Unified School District and the Mendocino City Community Services District, includes up to ten new wells and two large storage tanks that are supposed to meet the community’s needs in drought or fire emergencies. The new infrastructure will be located on school district property on Little Lake Road, just east of the intersection with Gurley Lane and a mile outside the center of town.

Fort Bragg is in the initial phase of trying to get absentee property owners to take care of properties that are vacant most of the year, or for years on end. But a recent proposal by code enforcement, to require a registry of vacant properties, did not meet the approval of community members or the city council committee tasked with bringing a more fleshed-out proposal before the full council.

The Great Redwood Trail is getting some opposition, both from advocates for leaving the train tracks in, and tribal people whose villages were destroyed when the tracks went through the state in the mid-19th century.Kelly Lincoln, of KMUD news, reports on a meeting of the Great Redwood Trail Agency’s board on March 28.

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