Vacaville Reporter - Daily. Hobrecht new city attorney [Vacaville Reporter - Daily]

Come this summer, Assistant City Attorney Jerry Hobrecht gets a promotion.

Hobrecht, who has worked for the city of Vacaville for 11 years, has been appointed to take over for his boss, City Attorney Charles Lamoree, when Lamoree retires in June. He officially becomes city attorney July 1.

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Options for smart growth unveiled
( By Lisa Vorderbrueggen, CONTRA COSTA TIMES, 04/11/2002 03:01 AM PDT)
[Bay Area - Local]

OAKLAND - The Bay Area can grow without paving over farmland, polluting the air and water or sentencing workers to hostile commutes, according to a study unveiled Wednesday.

Sponsors of the Regional Livability Footprint Project released three "smart growth" options for housing and jobs for the additional 1 million people expected to call the Bay Area home by 2020.

"There is a resounding understanding that we can grow in a lot smarter way with less impacts," said Sunne Wright McPeak, director of the Bay Area Council and a former Contra Costa County supervisor. "Let's challenge the pattern of dumb growth."

Footprint authors -- Bay Area Council, the Association of Bay Area Governments, and regional air quality, conservation and transportation agencies -- assembled the options after a series of meetings last fall where more than 1,000 people debated how and where the Bay Area should grow.

Each uses the principles of smart growth, which challenge the pattern of continuously building on the urban fringe and forcing people to drive farther and farther to work."

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