SCALE is a California unincorporated association formed to advocate for a balanced development plan for Sonoma Developmental Center (SDC) lands. Together with its co-petitioner, Sonoma County Tomorrow, Inc. (SCT), on January 18, 2023, SCALE and SCT filed a legal challenge to the County of Sonoma’s December 19, 2022 Certification of the SDC Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR).
SCALE opposes the County’s SDC Specific Plan, which is out of step with neighboring communities, the most acute housing needs in the area, and the need to enable mitigation of wildfire risk and retention of evacuation capacity from wildfires across an already limited, rural transportation system. SCALE supports affordable housing over market-rate, and at a density that does not disrupt the wildlife corridor or turn the rural site into a small city. This environmentally sensitive, historically important, and culturally significant landscape deserves better than business as usual.