Please, speak for the trees!

Maintaining an urban tree canopy that can help mitigate the causes and effects of climate change, including extreme heat events, takes long term planning. A seemingly small but critical change now, such as an even more permissive tree ordinance than the original, sets a course towards a much reduced tree canopy 30-50 years in the future, when climate change effects will be much more extreme.

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Redding is in the process of updating its General Plan. By state law, any decisions relating to the physical development of a community must be consistent with the General Plan. Redding’s most recent update was October 2000, over 22 years ago.
As drafted, the new General Plan language fails to require the adoption of a Climate Action Plan, which could improve Redding’s access to State grant money. Further, the proposed revisions repeatedly weaken protection of our environment. Where the existing Plan calls for protections for creek corridors and threatened species, and against pollutants, the revised draft asks the City only to “Strive to” or “Seek to” keep environments intact. Protections of parks, neighborhoods, and lands yet to be developed become a matter of the judgment of the day instead of the clearly defined requirements of the existing General Plan.

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This month NSCA wants to make sure our friends and neighbors are aware of good information sources for the provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA, enacted January 1, 2023) that can help individuals and families reduce carbon footprints starting at home. We will try to de-mystify the entire range of personal options for minimizing green transition costs, while shrinking carbon footprints. The IRA is recognized internationally as the biggest step the United States has ever taken to reduce greenhouse gases and prevent disastrous climate change. The IRA contains many incentives for industries and citizens to transition away from using fossil fuel by electrifying nearly all our energy needs. The new or extended federal incentives in the IRA are additive to state and local programs like a 3-layer cake.
NSCA summarizes the federal, state, and local incentive programs for individuals and families providing easy access to the best current information we could find.

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Our town is in blue oak woodland on the outskirts and in former valley oak woodland closer to the Sacramento River. But how many of us know much about the native oaks that live among us? Did you know that a slender 16 inch diameter blue oak can be older than the United States? Or that the gigantic Hooker Oak in Chico’s Bidwell Park was actually two valley oaks that grew together?

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Be An Oak Protector

Thanks to several environmental groups’ years long effort, the Redding City Council is now on board to strengthen the Tree Ordinance.

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Get Your Hands Dirty This Fall!

Each of us can have an impact on the health of our environment by taking care of the oaks growing in our own yards or planting (more) oaks in our landscape this fall and winter.

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Wind farms are a source of cheap, clean, renewable energy and fight climate change. In our area, we experience climate change as more severe droughts, heat waves, and wildfires. A blanket prohibition of future wind farm projects, such as the Shasta Board of Supervisors will be considering, without evaluating the site specific benefits and drawbacks is not reasonable or productive as a solution to climate driven disasters.

Please email the Board of Supervisors (clerkoftheboard@co.shasta.ca.us) or call them (530-225-5557) to let them know you oppose a blanket county-wide wind farm prohibition, and each individual project deserves to be considered on its site specific merits. Also, you should be aware that comments at the board meeting are always a powerful option, if you feel comfortable doing that.
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Update on Planning Commission Wind Farm Ban Consideration:

On April 14th, the Shasta County Planning Commission considered a resolution for ordinance changes prohibiting wind farms in all unincorporated areas of Shasta County, regardless of the project’s potential merits. The Commission continued the hearing until Thursday, May 12th, when they passed the resolution. Now it will go to the Board of Supervisors for consideration.

Email scplanning@co.shasta.ca.us or call the Planning Commission (530 225-5532) to share your position on this issue.

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Redding will soon begin master planning the riverfront in response to an unsolicited proposal to purchase and develop city owned property.  This “Master Planning” will gather public input regarding potential uses citizens envision for the Open Space, Turtle Bay, Civic Auditorium, & Rodeo Grounds parcels north of Highway 44.

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Redding City Council To Consider Making a “Declaration of Surplus Property” on the Civic Auditorium and Rodeo Grounds at Next Meeting Tuesday April 19, 2022 at 6pm.

What can you do as an individual?

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If this proposal is approved, every home with solar panels will pay a fixed monthly charge of about $50. Non-residential customers with more panels, such as schools, churches, and small businesses, would pay thousands more. Additionally, this proposal would threaten the livelihoods of those working in California’s burgeoning solar industry.