TRUCKS OR DUCKS?? IT'S UP TO US!

New Printable Petition

We need your help to collect names & emails for Sonoma County residents opposed to the Dutra Asphalt Plant at Haystack Landing. Please collect contact information for folks in your community and forward the lists to us at our office:

Friends of Shollenberger Park
322 Western Ave
Petaluma, CA 94952

Or scan and email to us at SaveShollenberger at gmail.com

We are hearing that the new Dutra proposal will go in front of the County Supervisors in early December...so time is of the essence! Thanks!!

Comments

  1. UnknownOctober 20, 2009 at 12:02 PM

    We visited your town (and park) this weekend for the first time and it's only 40 minutes away. What a fun place. The park was fantastic, the town was amazingly beautiful. Seems almost absurd that anyone is even considering putting an asphalt plant out there, one of the few accessible trails we've found for my niece. We'll be back. Unless it gets stinky, loud and gross, of course.
    MJ and Stan Wong from El Sobrante

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  2. Vesta CopestakesNovember 8, 2009 at 9:03 PM

    The biggest mistake Dutra made was taking down their old asphalt plant and selling that land for a housing development. If they had been wise, they would have planned better. Thinking that no one would object to an asphalt plant directly scross from a favorite park is absurd. Yes, we need asphalt - but like so many things that are unappealing, there are places where this would work just fine - like where the old plant was. No one objected then. Forethought could have saved Dutra a lot of money and headache.

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