Vision is a local citizens group, based in Marina.
This measure, if adopted by the voters, would establish the first Urban Growth Boundary adopted for any Monterey County jurisdiction. The Marina UGB initiative would establish a set of General Plan policies to protect the coast, and to direct growth for the next twenty years into the existing city limits, and onto the lands of the former Fort Ord. It would prevent, in other words, the kind of urban sprawl that is thepreferred alternative of the Marina City Council. In about six weeks, Marina 2020 Vision collected 1,627 signatures from Marina residents, and on June 15th, the Monterey County Registrar of Voters certified that 1,270 of these were valid. Since only 756 valid signatures were needed to qualify the initiative for the ballot, the Marina City Council must now either adopt the initiative directly, or place it before the voters for their decision at the November election.