The Organizations for Rural Quality – the Rural Quality Coalition and the Rural Quality Foundation – are non-profit organizations dedicated to
  • a common Sierra Foothill mission and goals to
  • conserve and enhance a vigorous and sustainable balance
  • between people, the economy, and natural resources, and to
  • the advancement of policies and programs that foster this balance.

Grass Valley Managed Growth Initiative


Working Issues


September 2007: What Has the Rural Quality Foundation Been Working On?

May 2007: Yuba Highlands, Pine Ridge, Agricultural Loss

March 2007: What has the Rural Quality Coalition Been Doing Lately?


GVCommunity Survey Results

Summary: Stick to the Grass Valley General Plan (PDF file)

Additional Special Development Areas (SDA) Information