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Focus on Local Agencies
Cambria Community Services District
(CCSD)As an independent special district, the goal of the Cambria Community Services District is to provide high quality water, wastewater, fire and other community services to its customers in a safe, cost effective, and environmentally sensitive manner. Below is an overview on the CCSD, its objectives and other important information.
Cambria Water Quality Control Plant
As the provider of wastewater treatment to the community, we strive to protect the environment, public health, and public investment of District assists in the most cost effective way possible. To facilitate in the education of the community to the benefits of wastewater treatment and to keep them abreast of the new technologies.
Visit this site to see the conservation easement documents for the Fiscallini Ranch.
Provides emergency medical and ambulance services from the Monterey County Line South to Harmony and as to the Crest of the Coastal range.
Cambria Cemetery District Website
Cambria Community Cemetery, officially known as the Cambria Cemetery District, truly the only California cemetery in the pines by the sea.
We have organized county information and services to be easier to find using terms that are more familiar to the public. This will be an ongoing effort. Our goal is to create a citizen-centric view of local government that helps you find the information you need easily and quickly.
The NCAC focuses primarily on matters relative to areas of direct county supervision. The NCAC’s authority is advisory only. The NCAC provides comments on items and issues before it, recommends approval or disapproval of them, and submits comments and recommendations that it has adopted to the Board of Supervisors, the Planning Commission, or other appropriate body.The NCAC strives to develop a unified, cooperative effort among individuals, organizations and public jurisdictions interested in furthering sound community development, with resulting in a positive quality of life in the North Coast Area. The NCAC seeks to be an organization truly representative of the people of the North Coast Area in matters of civic interest, and to represent the community before all bodies, public and private, where the subject is appropriate to the objectives of the NCAC. The NCAC serves as a forum for public review of matters identified with sound development including, but not limited to: land use, public services, circulation, zoning, public improvements and all aspects of orderly community growth.
SLO Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo)
Focus on Community Services Districts
CA Special Districts Association
Special District Consolidation Assistance Act.
Community Services District law (SB 135 Kehoe)
Enacted on January 1, 2006, this law consolidated government code related to special districts into a single section of the Government code. This version is PDF and has highlights and comments added by Amanda Rice. For PDF without comment choose CSD Law (SB 135 Kehoe) without comments or highlights
Focus on State Agencies
California Association of LAFCos (CALAFCo)
CALAFCO serves as an organization dedicated to assisting member LAFCos with educational and technical resources that otherwise would not be available. The Association provides statewide coordination of LAFCo activities, serves as a resource to the Legislature and other bodies, and offers a structure for sharing information among the various LAFCos and other governmental agencies.
The mission of the Coastal Commission is to: Protect, conserve, restore, and enhance environmental and human-based resources of the California coast and ocean for environmentally sustainable and prudent use by current and future generations.
CA Agencies, Department, Boards & Commissions
a Listing of contact and website locations for many government bodies
The source for various publications needed for reference in government business.
Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Governor’s personal research team, prepares reports to educate the governor on current state of particular issues being considered in Sacramento.
Official CA Legislative Info Site
Find complete versions of any California Code in this very detailed searchable resource.
Resources for local agencies or governments
National Environmental Training Center for Small Communities
Assisting small communities by providing training and training-related information and referral services in the areas of wastewater and drinking water. This site has a self-assessment tool and Protecting Your Communities Assets: A Guide for Small Wastewater Systems
California Society of Municipal Finance Officers
Dedicated to excellence in municipal finance management
Calafco’s resource links for special districts
Local Government’s Environmental Assistance Network The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network has provided this toolbox as a resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health.
California State Senate Local Government Committee Information.
Resources for Homeowners and Residents
“Window To My Environment” (WME) is a powerful web-based tool that provides a wide range of federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice. This application is provided by U.S. EPA in partnership with federal, state and local government and other organizations.
Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site
Find out about the pollution problems in your community and learn who is responsible.
Energy Efficient Rehab Advisor
This Advisor describes the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) guidelines for conducting energy efficient housing rehabilitation.
Footprint Calculators
This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you’ll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet.
Calculate the potential savings of switching to Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs from incandescent.
Paper Choice Environmental Impact Calculator
By choosing the right paper, you can save wood, water, and energy, and cut pollution and solid waste. The Paper Calculator shows the environmental impacts of different papers across their full lifecycle.
The water footprint of an individual is defined as the total amount of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual as a result of its own consumption pattern and country of residence.
Pollution from cars and making electricity is a major cause of global warming. Take a personal pollution inventory and see how you can help.
The Office Footprint Calculator
considers your energy use, waste stream, and purchasing patterns to measure both the Global Acres required to support your activities and the CO2 emissions that result. The use of exact figures is encouraged, but the option to input averages is provided.
Focus on Land Use, Development, Conservation, Land Trusts
Land Use Planning Information Network (state of California)
California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
CEDS Community & Environmental Defense Services
How To Win Land Development Issues and other resources for citizens
CEQA California Environmental Quality Act
CEQA Process Flow Chart - an interactive flowchart of the process that includes an EIR.
Abbott & Kindermann Land Use Specialists :
“Attention Water Suppliers and Municipalities: A Step-By-Step Guide to Implementing SB 221 and SB 610 Has Arrived”
Governor’s Office of Planning & Research
Planning Publications
The Pacific Institute is dedicated to protecting our natural world, encouraging sustainable development, and improving global security.
The Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national, nonprofit, land conservation organization that conserves land for people to enjoy as parks, community gardens, historic sites, rural lands, and other natural places, ensuring livable communities for generations to come.
Local Planning Documents from the UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies.
All of California’s 500+ cities and counties issue planning documents. The state of California requires local jurisdictions to produce them and to update them periodically. The documents take various forms. They can be issued as consolidated general plans or as separate elements (e.g., land use, open space, housing, conservation, noise, seismic safety, transportation, etc.).
s a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national organizations advocating on behalf of historic preservation, the environment, farmland and open space preservation, neighborhood revitalization and more. Our state- and regional-level members are community-based organizations working to save treasured landscapes while making our towns and cities ever more livable and lovable.
Focus on Climate Change and Local Sustainability
ICLEI—Local Governments for Sustainability
is an international association of local governments and national and regional local government organizations that have made a commitment to sustainable development. ICLEI works with local governments through international performance-based, results-oriented campaigns and programs. ICLEI provides technical consulting, training, and information services to build capacity, share knowledge, and support local government in the implementation of sustainable development at the local level. The basic premise is that locally designed initiatives can provide an effective and cost-efficient way to achieve local, national, and global sustainability objectives.
Sustainable Industries
a magazine that bills itself as the independent source for Green Business leaders
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth defends the environment and champions a healthy and just world.
Sustainable Communities Network
Linking Citizens to resources and one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities.
offers great resources, tools, links to articles and publications, and community success stories on a variety of topics from Community Energy, to Green Development, to Sustainable Business.
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