Inventory of the James H. Hickey Papers D-649

Liz Phillips
University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections
2020
1st Floor, Shields Library, University of California
100 North West Quad
Davis, CA 95616-5292
speccoll@ucdavis.edu


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: University of California, Davis Library, Dept. of Special Collections
Title: James H. Hickey Papers
Creator: Hickey, James H., 1927-2017
Identifier/Call Number: D-649
Physical Description: 4.4 linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1952-2008
Abstract: Materials related to James (Jim) Hickey's work as Planning Director for Napa County, including materials on the Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve, Jack L. Davies Land Trust, and Napa County Winery Definition Ordinance. The collection also documents his career as a municipal planning director in Miohigan and Ohio, and his work with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) in California.
Physical Location: Researchers should contact Archives and Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.

Biography

James H. (Jim) Hickey (1927-2017) began his career in 1952 as the first Planning Director for Oak Park, Michigan (1952-55). In 1955, he became chief administrative planner for Springfield-Clark County Regional Planning Commission in Ohio, followed by becoming Township planner for Southfield, Michigan in 1956. In 1958, he moved back to Ohio, where he worked as Regional Planning Director for the Stark County Regional Planning Commission in Canton from 1958-1964.
In 1964, Hickey moved to California, where he became the first full-time regional Planning Director for the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG). During his tenure he oversaw the development of the first Bay Area Regional Plan, which balanced housing, open space, transit, and commercial growth. From 1970 to 1990 he worked as Planning Director for Napa County, during which time he led the effort to develop, expand, and maintain the Napa County Agricultural Preserve. As part of this effort, he proposed a clear definition of a winery and standards for winery and vineyard development. This proposal was ultimately implemented in 1990 by Napa County Ordinance 947.
Following his retirement from Napa County, Jim Hickey consulted for regional open space organizations. He served on the Board of the Jack L. Davies Agricultural Land Preservation Fund from 2002-2012 and as President of the Board of the Napa County Land Trust, helping to develop the Connolly Ranch Agricultural and Environmental Education Center in Napa.
Source:
"James H. Hickey, 1927-2017." Napa Valley Register, 22 December 2017. https://napavalleyregister.com/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/james-h-hickey/article_146a79cd-4505-5104-b2fb-3e9570958993.html . Accessed 23 January 2020.

Scope and Contents

Materials related to James (Jim) Hickey's work as Planning Director for Napa County, including materials on the Napa Valley Agricultural Preserve, Jack L. Davies Land Trust, and Napa County Winery Definition Ordinance. The collection also documents his career as a municipal planning director in Miohigan and Ohio, and his work with the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) in California.

Access

Collection is open for research.

Processing Information

Liz Phillips processed this collection with the help of student assistant Husnain Jafrani.

Acquisition

Gift of Wakoh Shannon Hickey, 2019.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], James H. Hickey Papers, D-649, Archives and Special Collections, UC Davis Library, University of California, Davis.

Publication Rights

All applicable copyrights for the collection are protected under chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code. Requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California as the owner of the physical items. It is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Napa Valley (Calif.) -- History
Agricultural conservation
City Planning
Hickey, James H., 1927-2017 -- Archives

 

Box 1

Box 1, Folder  1

Jim Hickey Speech 2008 1971-2004

Scope and Contents

Ag Preserve speech and related materials
Box 1, Folder  2

Jack L. Davies Agricultural Land Preservation Fund 2008: Oral History Project 1995-2009

Box 1, Folder  3

Jack L. Davies Napa Ag Preserve Fund Brochure Draft 2012

Box 1, Folder  4

Jack L. Davies Fund: Napa Ag Preserve Anniversary Brochures 2008

Box 1, Folder  5

Jack L. Davies Agricultural Land Preservation Fund Oral History: Interviewee Transcript (Draft) 2008-2009

Box 1, Folder  6

Jack L. Davies Napa Ag Preserve Fund 2005-2014

Scope and Contents

Letterhead, Board minutes, Hickey's letter of resignation from Board, information on Ag Preserve exhibit.
Box 1, Folder  7

Jack L. Davies Napa Ag Preserve Fund Brochure (Final) and General Information 1994-2015

Box 1, Folder  8

Jack L. Davies Napa Ag Preserve Fund: Volker Eisele Memorial 2015

Scope and Contents

Program and article from Napa Valley Register
Box 1, Folder  9

Napa Valley Ag Preserve 25th Anniversary Celebration 1994

Box 1, Folder  10

Measure J: DeVita v. County of Napa Transcript 1995

Box 1, Folder  11

Measure J: Ordinance Drafts 1983-1989

Box 1, Folder  12

Jim Hickey Notes: Ag Preserve 1996-2012

Box 1, Folder  13

Ag Preserve Accomplishments; Farmland and Open Space Preservation 1994-2009

Box 1, Folder  14

Jim Hickey: "The Final Speech" 1955-2018

Box 1, Folder  15

"The Final Speech" - For the Future 2007-2009

Box 1, Folder  16

Jim Hickey Correspondence 1982-2009

Box 1, Folder  17

Napa Land Trust 1990-2009

Scope and Contents

Newsletters and meeting notes
Box 1, Folder  18

Napa County Land Trust Goals 1991

Box 1, Folder  19

Napa County Land Trust: Connoly Ranch 1991-1994

Box 1, Folder  20

Napa County Land Trust: Connoly Ranch Site Plans, Events 1992-1997 2008

Scope and Contents

Includes CD-R: "Luncheon in honor of Land Trust founders Si and June Foote, August 24, 2008"
Box 1, Folder  21

Napa County Land Trust: Norman's Pearls - Connoly Ranch News 1995-2006

Box 1, Folder  22

Napa History 1978-2014

Box 1, Folder  23

Ag Preserve History 1996-2010

Box 1, Folder  24

Ag Preserve 1963 1963

Box 1, Folder  25

Ag Preserve 1965? 1965

Box 1, Folder  26

Ag Preserve 1966 1966

Box 1, Folder  27

Ag Preserve 1967 1967

Box 1, Folder  28

Ag Preserve 1968 - Support 1967-1968

Box 1, Folder  29

Ag Preserve 1968 Media 1968

Box 1, Folder  30

Ag Preserve 1968 -Against 1967-1968

Box 1, Folder  31

Ag Preserve 1968 - Official 1968-1969

Box 1, Folder  32

Ag Preserve Official '68 1968

Box 1, Folder  33

Ag Preserve Board of Supervisors 1965-1968

Box 1, Folder  34

Napa County Planning Commission 1967-1968

Box 1, Folder  35

Napa County Planning Commission 1969

Scope and Contents

"Minutes of pertinent meetings"
Box 1, Folder  36

Napa County Planning Commission 1/15/68 1968

Box 1, Folder  37

Planning Department, Napa Count: Land Conservation 1965-1989

Box 1, Folder  38

Ag Preserve 1968 Hearings 1968

Box 1, Folder  39

Ag Preserve 1969 Media 1969

Box 1, Folder  40

Ag Preserve Photos undated

Scope and Contents

Tree with Ag Preserve Plaque, Yountville; Ag Preserve Kiosk, Napa Valley Museum (3 different photos)
Box 1, Folder  41

Info on Ag Preserve 1968 1968

Box 1, Folder  42

Ag Preserve 1970 Inquiries 1970

Box 1, Folder  43

Ag Preserve 1970 Media 1970

Box 1, Folder  44

Ag Preserve 1971 Media 1971

Box 1, Folder  45

Ag Preserve 1972-74: Media 1972-1974

Box 1, Folder  46

Ag Preserve 1989 Media 1989

Box 1, Folder  47

Ag Preserve Media 1989 1989

Box 1, Folder  48

Ag Preserve 1992-1993 1992-1993

Box 1, Folder  49

Ag Preserve: 1994 - 25th Aniversary Planning 1994

Box 1, Folder  50

Jim Hickey Speech 1994 - Napa Valley Community College Proposed Course 1994

Box 1, Folder  51

Ag Preserve 1994 Media 1994

Box 1, Folder  52

Napa Valley 2000 Symposium 1994

Box 1, Folder  53

Napa County Planning: "The Story of 'Historic Planning Landmark' Awards, Presented 1994-1995, to Napa County and its (Historic) Cities" 1994-1995

 

Box 2

Box 2, Folder  1

Ag Preserve - 1995 - Media 1995

Box 2, Folder  2

Ag Preserve Media 1995 1995

Box 2, Folder  3

Ag Preserve - 1997 - Media 1997

Box 2, Folder  4

Ag Preserve - 1998 - Media 1998

Box 2, Folder  5

Ag Preserve Media 1999 1999

Box 2, Folder  6

Ag Preserve Schramsberg 1999 1998-1999

Scope and Contents

"Querencia" Ag Preserve benefit cuvee
Box 2, Folder  7

Ag Preserve Media 2000-2001 2000

Box 2, Folder  8

Ag Preserve 2002 Media 2002

Box 2, Folder  9

Ag Preserve Media 2002 2002

Box 2, Folder  10

Ag Preserve Media 2004 2004

Box 2, Folder  11

Ag Preserve: 2003 (35th Anniversary) 1987-2003

Box 2, Folder  12

Jim Hickey Speech 2004: Napa Valley's World Class Wine Industry; "What Is the Ag Preserve?" 1994-2008

Box 2, Folder  13

Jim Hickey Speech 2004: Agricultural Land Preservation - The Best Planning Idea in the Past Sixty Years 2004

Box 2, Folder  14

Ag Preserve Media 2004 2004

Box 2, Folder  15

Ag Preserve Media 2007 2007

Box 2, Folder  16

Ag Preserve 2007: 2006 Email Survey Results 2007

Box 2, Folder  17

Ag Preserve - 2008 (40th Anniversary) 2008

Box 2, Folder  18

Ag Preserve Media 2008 2008

Box 2, Folder  19

Jim Hickey - 2008: Presentation - How to Achieve a World-Class Wine Industry 2008

Box 2, Folder  20

Ag Preserve Media 2011 2011

Box 2, Folder  21

Ag Preserve Media 2012 2012

Box 2, Folder  22

Ag Preserve Media 2013 2013

Box 2, Folder  23

Jim Hickey 2013: Draft for Napa Ag Preserve Brochure; DVD with Presentation by Jim Hickey on Ag Preserve 2013

Scope and Contents

Two copies of DVD with presentation to Leadership Napa Valley at Trefethen Winery (April 5, 2013)
Box 2, Folder  24

Ag Preserve Media 2015 2015

Box 2, Folder  25

Measure A (Napa County Slow Growth Initiative) 1987-1988

Box 2, Folder  26

Measure J: Annotated Ballot Text undated

Box 2, Folder  27

Jim Hickey Drafts of Speeches and Letters to the Editor 2009-2013

Box 2, Folder  28

Jim Hickey: Letters to Editor Regarding Opinion Piece on Winery Definition 2003-2004

Box 2, Folder  29

Napa County Conservation, Development, and Planning Department (CDPD): di Rosa 1991-1996

Box 2, Folder  30

Napa County Conservation, Development, and Planning Department (CDPD): di Rosa 1991-2006

Box 2, Folder  31

Winery Definition: General 1990-2009

Box 2, Folder  32

Winery Definition: Media and Jim Hickey's Drafts of Letters to the Editor 2005

Box 2, Folder  33

Winery Definition - General Plan 1988-1989

Box 2, Folder  34-35

Winery Definition 1985 1974-1988

Scope and Contents

Minutes, memoranda, and correspondence
Box 2, Folder  36-37

Winery Definiton 1986 1985-1990

Scope and Contents

Memoranda, meeting notes, reports, and correspondence
Box 2, Folder  38

Winery Definition 1989 1989

Scope and Contents

Legal guidance letter
Box 2, Folder  39-40

Winery Definiton 1987 1975-1987

Scope and Contents

Memoranda, meeting notes, reports, and correspondence
Box 2, Folder  41

Napa County General Plan: Scenic Highway Element 1990

Box 2, Folder  42

Winery Definition (Feb 1989) 1975-1989

Scope and Contents

Wokring files, memoranda, legal guidance
Box 2, Folder  43

Napa County Conservation, Development, and Planning Department (CDPD): Winery Definition Ordnance 1989 1985-1989

Box 2, Folder  44

Winery Definition Ordnance as Adopted 1-17-90 1990

Box 2, Folder  45

Winery Definition Legal Briefs 1988

Box 2, Folder  46

Two audio casettes- Interview of James Hickey undated

Scope and Contents

two audio casettes
 

Box 3

Box 3, Folder  1

The Urban General Plan, T. J. Kent, Jr. undated

Scope and Contents

Photograph of Jim Hickey and the author (?) glued to front flyleaf. Back cover has pocket with related material.
Box 3, Folder  2

American City Planning Since 1890, Mel Scott 1969

Scope and Contents

Invitation glued to front flyleaf: reception celebrating the publication of the volume.
Box 3, Folder  3

Economic Survey of Napa County and Adopted Master Plan of Napa County 1960-1994

Scope and Contents

Annotated copies
Box 3, Folder  4

1967 "Pages of Time" and Napa Valley Register Front Page (September 6, 1966) 1966-1967

Scope and Contents

Napa Valley Register has article titled "City, County Probe Areas of Cooperation"
Box 3, Folder  5

Napa History News Clippings 1991-2000

Scope and Contents

Includes photographs from trip to Ireland (?)
Box 3, Folder  6

Jim Hickey Speeches 1970s 1971-1994

Scope and Contents

Also includes text of presentations from 1985 and 1994
Box 3, Folder  7

Jim Hickey Regional Planning Drafts and Memos 1968-1988

Box 3, Folder  8

Urban Planning: Patrick Geddes Nine-Squared "Thinking Machine" undated

Box 3, Folder  9

Planning SF 1980-2008

Scope and Contents

Clippings and flyers
Box 3, Folder  10

CA Planning: Land Use Forum 1992

Scope and Contents

Volume 1, Number 1: Winter 1992
Box 3, Folder  11

Bay Area Planning 1972

Scope and Contents

History of regional planning in the SF Bay Area
Box 3, Folder  12

Planning - Gen. 1988-1994

Scope and Contents

Notes, drafts, and reference copies of regional plans
Box 3, Folder  13

Planning 1994 - Reference 1994

Box 3, Folder  14

CA Planning: Professional Organizations 1979-1996

Box 3, Folder  15

Jim Hickey: Conservation, Development, and Planning Department 1967-1987

Scope and Contents

Napa and Bay Area
Box 3, Folder  16

Jim Hickey: Conservation, Development, and Planning Department (CDPD) Files 1967-1994

Scope and Contents

Napa
Box 3, Folder  17

Jim Hickey: Conservation, Development, and Planning Department (CDPD) - Winery Definition 1985-1988

Box 3, Folder  18

Napa County Planning: History and Working Files 1971-2015

Box 3, Folder  19

Napa County - Parks & Recreation 2003

Box 3, Folder  20

Napa County 1991 1991

Scope and Contents

"Excerpts from Napa County Zoning Ordinance - Agricultural Districts"
Box 3, Folder  21

Napa County 1983 1983

Scope and Contents

Local Agency Service Fees and Charges
Box 3, Folder  22

Napa County General Plan 1975-1995

Box 3, Folder  23

Jim Hickey Speeches 1968-1983

Scope and Contents

"County Planning: The Hot Issues Ahead" and presentation at State of California Department of Housing and Community Development Housing Element Symposium
Box 3, Folder  24

James Conaway 1999-2017

Box 3, Folder  25

Women's Congress on Housing 1956

Scope and Contents

Includes certificate of recognition to Mrs. James H. Hickey for her contribution to the Women's Congress on Housing.
Box 3, Folder  26

Regional Home Rule and Government of the Bay Area 1966

Box 3, Folder  27

Interchange Area Development: Limited Access Highways 1961

Box 3, Folder  28

Interchange Area Development: X Marks the Spot 1962

Box 3, Folder  29

Bay Area Regional Planning Program: Regional Open Space Element 1969

Box 3, Folder  30

Bay Area Regional Planning Program: Refuse Disposal Needs Study 1965

Box 3, Folder  31

Napa County General Plan: Land Use Element 1975

Box 3, Folder  32

Proposed NAPA County General Plan: 1990 Scenic Highway Element 1990

 

Box 4

Box 4

Binder: James H. Hickey Career 1952-1964

Scope and Contents

Compiled and annotated by Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Box 4

Binder: James H. Hickey Career, Napa Valley 1970-1983

Scope and Contents

Compiled and annotated by Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Box 4

Binder: Upper Napa Valley Associates (UNVA) 1963-1995

Scope and Contents

Compiled and annotated by Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Box 4

Binder: Firing 1989-1990

Scope and Contents

Materials regarding Hickey's forced resignation from the Napa County Board of Supervisors. Compiled and annotated by Wakoh Shannon Hickey.
 

Box 5

Box 5

Binder: James H. Hickey Career, Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG) 1964-1993

Scope and Contents

Compiled and annotated by Wakoh Shannon Hickey
Box 5

Audio reel: Association of Bay Area Governments General Plan Presentation, General Session 4 November 1966

Box 5

Preliminary Regional Plan for the San Francisco Bay Region November 1966

Scope and Contents

5 copies
Box 5

Regional Plan, 1970:1990, San Francisco Bay Region July 1970

Scope and Contents

4 copies, one signed. Some copies have loose items between cover and first page.
Box 5

Regional Open Space Plan, Phase 2, San Francisco Bay Region April 1972

Box 5

And on the Eighth Day...The Last Word on City Planning and Planners, Richard Hedman and Fred Bair, Jr. 1961