<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font color="#005493">Kudos to Sherri Quinn </font><div><font color="#005493">for her excellent Mendocino Currents program</font></div><div><font color="#005493">at 9AM this morning on KZYX!</font></div><div><font color="#005493">It was both educational and informative.<br></font><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">Quinn interviewed Glen Colwell, of Friends of Outlet Creek,</font></div><div><font color="#005493">and Tom Woodhouse, 3rd District Supervisor,</font></div><div><font color="#005493">regarding the “Fast-Tracking” of the Grist Creek Asphalt Plant</font></div><div><font color="#005493">. . . and the serious problems Woodhouse’s efforts to avoid a complete</font></div><div><font color="#005493">(and objective) EIR of that project has caused.</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">You can listen to this excellent Public Service program</font></div><div><font color="#005493">at your convenience by going to:</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><<a href="http://www.jukebox.kzyx.org">www.jukebox.kzyx.org</a>></font></div></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">Again, thanks Sherri (and Lorraine)</font></div><div><font color="#005493">for opening up the dialogue</font></div><div><font color="#005493">on this important issue.</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">~C.</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">The one question that did not get asked</font></div><div><font color="#005493">was how the Mendocino County Air Quality District</font></div><div><font color="#005493">had the “authority” to issue any permits in April, 2015</font></div><div><font color="#005493">for this project —given the fact that the BOS</font></div><div><font color="#005493">had rescinded their fast-track permit approval in March, 2015?</font></div><div><font color="#005493">==> At that juncture, shouldn’t the project proposal have gone back to</font></div><div><font color="#005493">the Planning & Building Department for a complete (and updated)</font></div><div><font color="#005493">CEQA analysis and environmental review?</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493">It remains a mystery how Air Quality could issue operation permits</font></div><div><font color="#005493">without prior Planning Department review and approval of the entire project, </font></div><div><font color="#005493">and perhaps here is where the solution to the current problem exists. . .</font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><font color="#005493"><br></font></div><div><br></div></body></html>