Climate Change and the Yolo County General Plan

I chair a group called the Climate Change Compact of Yolo County. We have been meeting for well over a year now discussing a host of issues that impact climate change in Yolo County. Every city and most every school district in the county has been attending regularly to share ideas. This past Friday we met at the Alumni Center at UC Davis for a meeting that I though was possibly our best. After we went around the room to update people on what each jurisdiction has done -- we had three presentations. The first was from Jillian Rich of PMC with an update on stimulus funding. The second presentation was from Clifford Rechtschaffen. He is a Special Assistant Attorney General. He talked about climate change and how it relates to land use planning. I have attached his power point here. I am not joking when I say that this was probably the best presentation I have ever heard on the topic. This guy was good. I walked into the meeting with 50 questions. He answered 48 of them in his presentation. I may not agree with his rationale but he really was solid and had a great understanding of what was going on in this policy area. He recognized the effort that has been put in place by the Yolo County General Plan team to address the climate change issue. We did not have any press there - but now I wish we would have taped it. The highlight of this part of the program was when Woodland Mayor Skip Davies prefaced his question with " I come from a practical community not a theoretical community." Somehow everyone knw exactly what he was talking about. The final presentation was from Mitch Sears about the City of Davis and their "Low Carbon Diet" Program. You can learn more about that on the Davis website.