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Yeah, yeah. Wine grapes are California's biggest fruit industry, nearly half a million acres planted in 48 counties. This valley has been a major part of that giant industry from the beginning, nearly 200 years ago. It still is, but there is scant emphasis on that business here

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right now, and none of the tranquility indicated by these pictures for the napa Valley has become the battleground over a precedent setting zoning ordinance in California, and the fight has rankled both winners and losers on the face of it. The new zoning ordinance appears to be

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just the thing to stop the continuing California inundation of concrete and houses from swallowing up the napa Valley. But there are other implications in the new ordinance, implications that do not sit well with some residents of the preserve and when john Daniels complains of them, he

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does not speak for himself alone. Well, our principal objection to the thing is that it's completely one sided, that there are a group of people without any interest or very little financial interest in the area, all who want to get in the poker game without buying

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any chips. And these include the man with a house on the hill and an acre of land around it, who wants to look down and see the vineyards just as they are, the conservationists who like to drive up the valley and see is that as it

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is, winery owners who want to freeze the landing vineyard so that they will have a supply of grapes at a price that's advantageous to them. Because if there was this freeze, they would certainly benefit in that the landowner would be at a disadvantage and he would

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have to come to them pretty much at their prices. There's also the professional planners who will be uhh widening there field of influence and last but not least people in other parts of the county who have land or our homes who wish to sell them or

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release them and where they wouldn't have the competition that might be available if this ordinance was not enacted. This is being done to preserve the agricultural character of the valley and to preserve the wine and grape industry in the valley. You think there is a need

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to preserve it. In other words, is the valley in danger. Well, anyone who's traveled around California at all, I don't think could decide otherwise. It's certainly in danger of an influx of population in the future, which would automatically precluded as an agricultural area. Daniels and Martini

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are talking about a zoning rule passed this afternoon by the Napa County Board of Supervisors, which forbids the partitioning of land into any portions smaller than 20 acres and further restricts the use of the land to agricultural purposes. The 25,000 acres of the Valley coming under

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the jurisdiction of this new law is to be called the preserve and the name implies. The basic reasoning behind the move to get that law on the books, Mr martini, What would happen to the valley in your opinion if this ordinance were not passed? Well, I

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think eventually it would end up much like santa clara Valley is now, it would just be uh very definite in concentration of population up here. The Williams was act grants tax relief to a man who keeps his land in agricultural production. Isn't that enough to preserve

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the Valley in your opinion? No, actually, we feel that what's needed to preserve the valley is a combination of both zoning and the Williamson Act because just keeping just tax relief won't do it because the people that are not interested particularly in in retaining their land

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and agriculture, will go ahead and subdivided and agriculture and uh concentrated areas of population, They're very difficult to live side by side. That's a a little bit like a control of a child where if it reaches out for something on the table instead of telling them

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not to do it, threatening to chop off their arm, it really doesn't have to be that way in order to accomplish what as desired as with most heated controversies, there are valid arguments, both pro and con. Those arguments aside, at least for the moment, the result

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of this controversy has been a zoning ordinance which for the first time in California has been specifically aimed at protecting an area from some of the hazards of progress. Whether this ordinances that protection or a greater hazard, is an argument that has yet to be settled,

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