By Frank Landis, Chair Conservation CommitteeAs I write this in November, it’s quiet on the conservation front, although this is certainly the lull before a storm of CEQA documents that will probably bring, well, strong emotions to my holiday season. Because some important issues are coming up in the March 2020 election, I wanted to use this month’s column to talk about one of them, the Save Our SanDiego (SOS) initiative within the County. CNPS-SD officially supports this initiative, and I wanted to go into some detail as to why.None of this is news if you regularly read the newsletter. What may be news is that there’s a lot of money lining up against the SOS initiative, including from developers and people employed by developers. Since you’re likely to get bombarded by stuff designed to either confuse you or make you not want to vote, here’s what the SOS initiative is about the bigger context, and how it relates to native plants and CNPS issues.As you probably already know, the SOS initiative covers unincorporated San Diego County, although everybody in the County votes on it. The process the SOS proposes is: