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Lawrence Alpern's avatar

Wouldn't it be proper grammar to capitalize the word "Board" when it stands by itself when referring to the Board of Supervisors?

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Tammy Purcell's avatar

I try to use Associated Press style.

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Mary Kranz's avatar

Could you clarify something for me? What is meant by 'appropriate' in this sentence from the discussion of the solar array? "supervisors’ recent approval of a technology overlay district that could appropriate land currently used for farming and forestry for data centers and other tech sector industries. "

Thank you, Tammy and thanks for the clarity of your writing

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Tammy Purcell's avatar

To be honest, it’s probably not the best word choice, but better than the word I had there before. :) In this case, it means set aside for a specific purpose.

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Mary Kranz's avatar

Thank you. We were talking about it at the Rachel Levy thing the other night and somebody asked whether it meant they could just condemn your property and I assured them that was not the case and then I wondered for just a minute there

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Tammy Purcell's avatar

No. That is definitely not the case. The TOD provides additional property rights to landowners who choose to use them. It allows tech uses on some parcels that are currently restricted to ag use but does not mandate any use in particular. Still, it could lead to the loss of ag land, which was Disosway’s concern.

Anyway, I changed the sentence with the word appropriate to avoid confusion. It won’t show up in the email version obviously, but it will on the website.

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Mary Kranz's avatar

Thanks. That's what I told people at the meeting. It's nice to be right

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