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:
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, 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
23
Ag Preserve History
1996-2010
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, 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, 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
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
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
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
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