[Kzyxtalk] this just in -- follow-up to last Tuesday's BOS meeting

[sako4 at comcast.net]

Re: the recent hearing on the Central Coast Transfer Station 







Dear Board of Supervisors and Fort Bragg Councilmen: 







After listening to the indignant denouncement of the CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife and the CA State Parks by each of the Supervisors and Councilmen, we would submit a few observations. 







Blame for the delay was laid heavily on the agency staff, but the responsibility may also be laid to the office of Mr. Sweeney. DF&W has stated in each of their letters that their offers to meet have been ignored. Their comments to the DEIR have been ignored or dismissed with bland repeating of the DEIR statements. No attempt has been made to reconcile these interests prior to the hearing, even though DF&W called the Solid Waste Management office immediately after the FEIR was released to reiterate the problems with the FEIR. DF&W has acted like a model agency and repeatedly responded in a timely manner, only to be ignored. 







State Parks also have not been kept informed or consulted in the process. The swap lands have not been evaluated or analyzed in the EIR and the conservation easement has not been thoroughly discussed at the appropriate levels. One phone call to the local SP Supervisor from over five years ago is inadequate. The Sierra Club asked for a copy of an MOU about the State Parks conservation easement over a month ago, to which Mr. Sweeney replied “There is no MOU”. (memo June 23, 2015) 







The FEIR fails in the absence of a true environmentally superior alternative (Leisure Time RV Park), the absence of evaluation of the impacts of trading 12 acres of protected forest, and the rehabilitation of the old Caspar Transfer Station site. 







Please read the letters from DF&W, State Parks, CA Native Plant Society and Sierra Club and really listen to the concerns. The transfer station should be sited on a property that is already bulldozed, not on a piece of undisturbed rare habitats. 







Sincerely, 







Rixanne Wehren, Mary Walsh, Linda Perkins 

Exec. Committee, Mendocino Group, Sierra Club 


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