This community conversation will be hosted by the JLD Ag Fund. Registration is free. Please RSVP to receive Zoom link. (Download the Zoom app)

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The board of the Jack L. Davies Napa Valley Agricultural Land Preservation Fund proudly invites Tom Daniels, PhD, professor and program director of Land Use and Environmental Planning at University of Pennsylvania, to present his analysis and recommendations put forth in his recent report on agricultural land protection programs and techniques with potential use in Napa County.

We welcome community members and responsible land stewards to a presentation with Professor Daniels and a Q&A session about the future of land use in Napa County, specifically around affordable housing development and agriculture land preservation.

We will discuss how might the Napa Valley balance the pressing needs for 1) affordable housing, 2) open space that benefits community and environmental health, and 3) agriculture which drives the Valley’s economy. Dr. Tom Daniels will present several strategies that have been successful elsewhere around the country. Q&A discussion will follow.

“Napa County, its municipalities, and LAFCO are doing a lot of things well in managing the growth of the county,” Daniels concludes in the 108-page report that forms the basis of his presentation. “The recommendations presented here are meant to add to, not replace, the efforts already underway.” He suggests various kinds of cooperative agreements, public-private partnerships, and potential funding sources.

Commissioned by the JLD Ag Fund, the report "Agricultural Land Protection, Annexation, and Housing Development: An Analysis of Programs and Techniques with Potential Use in Napa County," is available for download on our website: https://www.jldagfund.org/book/ (Available as Executive Summary or in full)

(Note: This presentation was originally scheduled as an in-person session in March 2020 at COPIA and has since been modified for a virtual-only setting for January 14, 2021.)