Phillip Bader

Dec 10, 2024 | swordandscales.org | Nicole W.C. Yeatman |James Burling |Joseph Kast |Phillip Bader

“Is there a reason none of your email addresses got the letter I sent yesterday?” Jessica Pilling calmly asked the members of the Healdsburg Planning Commission as she stood in front of them at the podium.  It was a Tuesday evening in February 2024. All the Pillings had come to the planning meeting: Jessica, her husband Chris, and their three young children. (“We didn’t have anyone to watch the kids,” Jessica remembers.) The kids played at the back of the room.