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A Northern California ballot campaign crystallizes the debate over how California's wildfires should affect its housing policies.

The forum, hosted by Smart Growth Advocates at Chico Women’s Club, gained a full house after rescheduling twice. Guests took pamphlets, paid for by campaign committee Stop Valley’s Edge, urging residents to vote no on local Measure O and Measure P. Maps of Chico, placed around the hall, highlighted areas of potential infill and special planning development — Valley’s Edge was marked with a red X.

The forum, hosted by Smart Growth Advocates at Chico Women’s Club, gained a full house after rescheduling twice. Guests took pamphlets, paid for by campaign committee Stop Valley’s Edge, urging residents to vote no on local Measure O and Measure P. Maps of Chico, placed around the hall, highlighted areas of potential infill and special planning development — Valley’s Edge was marked with a red X.

Projection: the psychological defense mechanism (or rhetorical technique) of accusing others of doing what one does oneself. A few days ago, a mailer was sent out funded by developers of Valley’s Edge featuring a bizarre personal attack on me around a topic with no connection to the issue. Earlier this week you published a letter […]

Debbie Guillon’s letter of January 30 was very disturbing to me. As a member of the Stop Valley’s Edge team, I can assure everyone that we are dedicated to making our campaign to stop the development about facts, evidence, and logical arguments. We never, EVER, attack the people who support the project. We might question […]

Valley’s Edge, as a development, worries me. The area encompassed by Valley’s Edge is said to be almost as large as our neighboring city, Gridley; but it will lack the same amenities. Gridley has a small hospital and a skilled nursing facility. There are no plans for any comprehensive medical facility in Valley’s Edge. There […]

Everyone loves the 1,448-acre property in the foothills of the southeast corner of town; what's divided folks is its use.

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Organizers of the Valley's Edge referendum plan a protest Tuesday coinciding with the Chico City Council meeting with two hearings on housing.