<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;" class="">Great journalism, indeed! Thank you, Sherri! Having Glen Colwell, an opponent of the Grist Creek rubberized asphalt plant, and Woodhouse, who sponsored the project, on at the same time to respond to each other deepened the dialogue and brought some new facts to light. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Colwell’s frustration was palpable as Woodhouse, who fast-tracked the plant last March, now shifts blame for the plant’s continued air pollution violations to the county oversight agencies that he, as a member of the BOS, appoints/hires/fires. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The asphalt plant was, by the way, vehemently opposed last March by Colwell, as well as attorneys for Friends of Outlet Creek, and many neighbors, including me. We knew that if the plant went on-line, it would be very difficult to shut down.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Over many opponents' objections, Woodhouse and the BOS approved the plant 5-0 without referring the project to Planning for internal or CEQA review. A properly conducted EIR would have shown that a former sandbar in the floodplain of Outlet Creek, located in narrow valley, is an untenable site for a rubberized asphalt plant.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kudos, Sherri!</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 18, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Cindy Swan <<a href="mailto:cswan@willitsonline.com" class="">cswan@willitsonline.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font color="#005493" class="">Kudos to Sherri Quinn </font><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">for her excellent Mendocino Currents program</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">at 9AM this morning on KZYX!</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">It was both educational and informative.<br class=""></font><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">Quinn interviewed Glen Colwell, of Friends of Outlet Creek,</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">and Tom Woodhouse, 3rd District Supervisor,</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">regarding the “Fast-Tracking” of the Grist Creek Asphalt Plant</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">. . . and the serious problems Woodhouse’s efforts to avoid a complete</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">(and objective) EIR of that project has caused.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">You can listen to this excellent Public Service program</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">at your convenience by going to:</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><<a href="http://www.jukebox.kzyx.org/" class="">www.jukebox.kzyx.org</a>></font></div></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">Again, thanks Sherri (and Lorraine)</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">for opening up the dialogue</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">on this important issue.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">~C.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">The one question that did not get asked</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">was how the Mendocino County Air Quality District</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">had the “authority” to issue any permits in April, 2015</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">for this project —given the fact that the BOS</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">had rescinded their fast-track permit approval in March, 2015?</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">==> At that juncture, shouldn’t the project proposal have gone back to</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">the Planning & Building Department for a complete (and updated)</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">CEQA analysis and environmental review?</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">It remains a mystery how Air Quality could issue operation permits</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">without prior Planning Department review and approval of the entire project, </font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class="">and perhaps here is where the solution to the current problem exists. . .</font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#005493" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Kzyxtalk mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org" class="">Kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org</a><br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/kzyxtalk<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>