(NBBJ) - As most people know by now, a very tiny but vocal and bitter minority of opponents and a Kafkaesque California regulatory environment has driven filmmaker George Lucas’s latest project out of Marin County and perhaps California. But, of course, something like this could never happen to the North Coast wine industry, which today is the principal driver behind a world-class lifestyle and key underpinning of the regional and statewide economy present and future. Or could it? The answer is, unfortunately, just watch. Local, regional and state regulators have demonstrated an uncanny ability to drive away business across a broad variety of industries. For wine, they could do the same, whether with new rules on water, frost protection, hillside vineyards or open space and on and on.