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For a town that professes no great love for the Sierra Club, they sure do a lot of our heavy lifting. First it was lawsuits against developers over air pollution. Now, it’s ag land preservation. For the uninitiated, a couple of years ago, the Sierra Club sued over several developments that had been blithely rubber stamped by our elected officials with zero air pollution requirements. The Sierra Club argued that because the developments would create more air pollution, developers should pay a fee used to reduce pollution elsewhere (that’s known as “mitigation”). Developers settled, and, in some cases,  voluntarily entered into contracts with the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to avoid lawsuits. You’d think the people elected to represent us would have our best interests (such as the ability to breathe) in mind and require air pollution mitigation right off the get. But no, the Sierra Club had to push the issue....
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