Chances are no one ever lost an election by opposing a new government office building.
However, the time comes when it stops making economic sense to replace floors, move walls and lease more and more space for public agencies.
That time has arrived for Sonoma County, where supervisors started talking about a new administration building in the early 1990s. The county has been setting aside money for several years, and last summer the Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to buy the old Sears building and a parking garage at the Santa Rosa Plaza shopping mall as the site for new offices.
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