%0 Journal Article
%T The Napa County Agricultural Preserve: Fifty Years as a Foundation of America¡¯s Premier Wine Region
%A Tom Daniels
%J Journal of Planning History
%@ 1552-6585
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1538513218769042
%X In 1968, Napa County, California, created an agricultural preserve of 23,000 acres zoned for agriculture, wineries, and houses with a large minimum lot size of twenty acres. Over time, the agricultural preserve was expanded to 32,000 acres and the zoning tightened to a forty-acre minimum lot size. Concerns about nonfarm development and marketing activities at wineries compelled county voters to pass three referenda that limited population growth in the countryside and required a countywide vote for any zoning changes in the agricultural preserve. Thanks in part to the agricultural preserve, Napa County became America¡¯s most famous wine-producing region
%K agricultural land
%K agricultural zoning
%K referendum
%K wineries
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1538513218769042