Public Meeting At High School Thursday, Jan. 25
Plans for a 531 home development called Gorman Post Ranch seeks to remove 2,375 oak trees and 13 million cubic yards of hillside. The required public hearing process begins at Frazier Mountain High School this Thursday at 7:00 p.m.
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) calls for a public meeting at the beginning of a project, before it embarks on preparing an Environmental Impact Report (EIR).
Among planners, developers and environmentalists, this is called the “scoping meeting.” The items proposed for study at this session create, in effect, the table of contents for the Environmental Impact Report, and define the consultants and scientific research which will be required.
The public is invited to attend to submit their list of items which they feel should be included within the scope of the EIR research.
Notice for this public meeting can be found on page 37 in the legal notice section of this issue of The Mountain Enterprise.
From the Blogosphere:
Messages have already been blazing aross the internet among members of the local group, the Tri County Watchdogs, about the Gorman Post Ranch project.
Notably amusing was the Blog by Cuddy Valley’s Jan de Leeuw, who serves his opinions liberally sprinkled with facts…and vice versa. He writes: Another Proposed Pearl
Gorman Post LLC and Rox Consulting are proposing to build another abomination at the intersection of I-5 and SR-138.
This Gorman Post Ranch Project borders Centennial and Tejon Mountain Village, so it nicely fills the remaining open space and finally finishes off the Gorman wildflower area. The most salient characteristics of the project are:
- Total area 2,725 acres;
- 531 single family lots on 422 acres;
- Oak Tree Permit application to remove 2,375 oak trees, including 20 heritage oaks, and encroach upon 1,677 oak trees;
- Conditional Use Permit (CUP) application for “Hillside Management,” which includes 13,000,000 cubic yards of cut over 400 acres of slopes,
- 16 acre waste water treatment plant in the nicely visible southwest corner of the triangle (another 70,000 cubic yards of cut).
By far its most endearing characteristic is that it actually makes the Frazier Park Estates project look environmentally sensitive.
de Leeuw’s www.cuddyvalley.org/projects/ is a factual overview of the development projects in this region.
This is part of the January 19, 2007 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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