Napa County

To enhance local fire protection and reduce wildfire risk in Napa County by: ensuring defensible space around homes, neighborhoods, and businesses; creating fuel breaks; reducing vegetation and flammable brush; improving early wildfire detection and suppression systems; and, clearing emergency access roads for first responders and residents, shall Napa County establish a ¼ cent sales tax for 10 years, providing approximately $10,000,000 annually, with citizen oversight, independent annual audits, and all revenue staying local?

To protect drinking water by preserving and restoring watersheds, rivers, creeks; protect natural open spaces and wildlife habitat; reduce wildfire risk; and maintain local parks and trails; shall Napa County enact a 1/4 percent sales tax for the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District raising an estimated nine million dollars annually for fifteen years with citizen oversight, annual audits, and funds that cannot be taken by the State?

Shall Ordinance No. 2018-__ be enacted? (To increase, improve, and preserve affordable and workforce housing in Napa County, the Ordinance would increase the existing transient occupancy tax on hotel charges to visitors of 30 days or less in the unincorporated area from 12% to 13%, with all revenue from the 1% increase (estimated: $1.1 million annually) to be restricted to providing programs and services for affordable and workforce housing.)

Shall Napa County Ordinance No. 2018-01 be adopted? (Amending the Napa County General Plan and zoning code creating water quality buffer zones within the Agricultural Watershed (AW) zoning district and restricting tree removal within those zones; strengthening oak removal remediation standards and establishing a permit program for oak tree removal once 795 acres of oak woodland have been removed.)

Shall Napa County Ordinance No. 2018-02 be adopted? (Amending Napa County Code Section 18.120.010 to disallow the use of personal airports and helipads and to limit the circumstances under which helicopter takeoffs and landings in support of direct agricultural activities may take place.)

Shall voters authorize a plan to reduce auto and truck traffic, relieve crowding on BART, unclog freeway bottlenecks, and improve bus, ferry, BART and commuter rail service as specified in the plan in this voter pamphlet, with a $1 toll increase effective in 2019, a $1 increase in 2022, and a $1 increase in 2025, on all Bay Area toll bridges except the Golden Gate Bridge, with independent oversight of all funds?

Shall Napa County Ordinance No. 2016-04 be adopted? (Compromise ordinance requiring the Animal Shelter to do the following in a cost effective way: (i) prepare behavioral and medical evaluations for impounded or surrendered dogs, cats and rabbits before destruction, (ii) work with non-profit animal organizations, (iii) provide veterinary care, socialization, and exercise, and (v) publish a list of nonprofit animal organizations and a list of statistical release rates of dogs, cats, and rabbits.)

(INITIATIVE) Shall Napa County Ordinance No. 2016-03 be adopted? (Amends the Napa County Code requiring the Animal Shelter to (i) prepare behavioral and medical evaluations for impounded or surrendered dogs, cats and rabbits before destruction, (ii) work with non-profit animal organizations, (iii) provide veterinary care, socialization, and exercise using all resources available, and (v) publish a list of nonprofit animal organizations and a list of statistical release rates of dogs, cats, and rabbits.

To protect drinking water by preserving and restoring watersheds, rivers, creeks; protect natural open spaces and wildlife habitat; reduce wildfire risk; and maintain parks and trails; shall Napa County enact a 1/4 percent sales tax for the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District raising an estimated eight million dollars annually for fourteen years with citizen oversight, annual audits, and funds that cannot be taken by the State?

To protect San Francisco Bay for future generations by reducing trash, pollution and harmful toxins, improving water quality, restoring habitat for fish, birds and wildlife, protecting communities from floods, and increasing shoreline public access, shall the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority authorize a parcel tax of $12 per year, raising approximately $25 million annually for twenty years with independent citizen oversight, audits, and all funds staying local?

Shall the ordinance increasing the Transactions and Use Tax by .25% be adopted?

Shall Napa County Ordinance 2012-01 be adopted? (This Ordinance, if approved by the voters , amends the Napa County Code to change the existing requirement that Napa County Airport Runway 18 Right-36 Left be designed and constructed to a maximum dual-wheel load-bearing strength of fifty thousand (50,000) pounds and instead require that Napa County Airport Runway 18 Right-36 Left be designed and constructed in accordance with Federal Aviation Administration standards whenever repair/replacement of the runway is needed).

Shall Ordinance No. 2012-01 be adopted? (If adopted, revenues will be used exclusively to fix potholes, repair, maintain and improve local streets, roads and sidewalks in Napa, American Canyon , SI. Helena, Calistoga, Yountville, and unincorporated areas within Napa County, by extending an expiring one-half percent sales tax for 25 years, resulting in no new increase in existing local sales tax rates. All revenues will be subject to strict, local citizen oversight and annual independent audits).

(INITIATIVE) Shall the Angwin General Plan Amendment Initiative be adopted? (The Initiative, if approved by the voters, would redesignate certain lands in Angwin from Urban Residential to Agricultural, Watershed and Open Space (AWOS) or Public Institutional, permit modernization and expansion of an existing sewage treatment facility west of Howell Mountain Road despite its AWOS designation, and prohibit further subdivision of Public Institutional Lands countywide).

Shall Resolution No. 2012-086 and Ordinance No. 2012-02 be adopted? (The Resolution and Ordinance, if approved by the voters, would permit the existing restaurant and banquet facilities at the existing Chardonnay golf course to be open to the general public as well as to golf patrons, club members, and their guests).