<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">We are now way over our goal for paying the $1,000 filing fees for the appeal, on the City of Fort Bragg Planning Department's decision approve a deeply flawed "Mitigated Negative Declaration" and not require an EIR for the proposed shopping center at Hare Creek.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Deepest thanks to the Mendocino Coast community and beyond, for your overwhelming show of support with dozens of checks and hundreds of dollars over our goal. We're still counting the tab, and will be returning some of the donations that came in late.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Please do not send any more money! </p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">CACLU (Citizens for Appropriate Coastal Land Use) may accept donations in the future, but right now the hard work of putting together this appeal is being done on a purely volunteer basis.</p>
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<p style="margin:0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;font:12.0px Helvetica">Thanks so much to all who care about and appreciate our coast!</p>
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