Sensible Cinema: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
When:
February 9, 2025 @ 12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
America/Los Angeles Timezone
2025-02-09T12:30:00-08:00
2025-02-09T15:00:00-08:00
Where:
Unitarian Church
1187 Franklin St.
SF
CA
Greetings All,
Sensible Cinema is doing a special, ‘Once in a Blue Moon’, film screening. It will take place only at the church (without Zoom) this month. It’s an important topic in Sonoma County, but affects all of us in the Bay Area. We have three speakers to address the situation.
Sensible Cinema
Unitarian Universalists of San Francisco
1187 Franklin Street
Presents
SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
Sunday, February 9, 2025
*Takes Place Live at the Church*
12:30pm (PDT)
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Small Is Beautiful by director/writer Carolyn M. Scott is a brief documentary on the all too familiar battle between massive urban development (developers) versus communities (citizens) this time the battle takes place in the Valley of The Moon region, a scenic rural area enveloping the towns of Eldridge and Glen Ellen in Sonoma County. The proposed development includes 930 homes, 400,000 square feet of commercial space and a luxury resort hotel all to be built in a crucial wildlife corridor and a high fire danger zone, which has already experienced extreme fires.
The film (25 mins. in length) examines other significant urban scale developments planned for the Valley of the Moon and exposes the collusion between state mandates and profit driven developers. It also sheds light on the driving forces behind such developments, including new laws and housing mandates that replace local zoning and environmental laws in the name of “Affordable Housing”– which we discover is not affordable at all.
Following the screening will be a discussion with Carolyn M. Scott Director/Writer and Dennis Richards, former Vice President of the San Francisco Planning Commission and Stuart Flashman, Public Interest Attorney and Biochemist.
Lunch will be available for a nominal cost.
For more information please contact:
Melvin Starks (melvinstarks734@yahoo.com) or Larry Danos (415-722-6480)
