TranslatePurpose and Background
Community Separators are lands that function to separate cities and other communities, to contain urban development, and to provide city and community identity by providing visual relief from continuous urbanization. Community Separators were originally designated in the 1989 Sonoma County General Plan with a Scenic Resource designation in the Open Space and Resource Conservation Element. Community Separators are currently designated on the General Plan Open Space maps and do not affect the underlying land use designations or the allowable land uses, which generally have an agricultural or rural land use designation.
August 2, 2016: The Board of Supervisors expanded Community Separators and amended the General Plan to strengthen city-centered growth policies. Adopted Board documents are located below: