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SAN ANDREAS – Building a second home or in-law cottage behind an existing house just got easier in Calaveras County. In particular, an ordinance that the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors approved unanimously Tuesday makes it possible to build second units in many more places. Previously, county code limited second units to lots of an acre or larger. The new code, in contrast, sets no minimum lot size and allows a second unit on any lot... Read More
Shooting rules are up for renewalWritten by Sean Janssen, The Union Democrat March 01, 2013 07:03 am A temporary set of restrictions on target shooting at the Candy Rock Quarry in the Calaveras Ranger District of the Stanislaus National Forest is set to expire next month. In an open letter distributed Wednesday, Calaveras District Ranger Teresa McClung writes that the two-year provisional rules that limit the hours weapons can be fired at the quarry — infamously within earshot... Read More
Climate change threatens wolverines; protections proposedA new proposal to list wolverines as threatened under the Endangered Species Act could lead to reintroduction of the species in alpine regions where it is not currently found. LA Times Read More
Jarvis Taxpayers Association files suit aginst Fire Protection FeeOn Tuesday, March 12, the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association served the California State Board of Equalization, Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Department of Justice with a lawsuit on behalf of all those charged with the allegedly illegal Fire Prevention Fee. The class action lawsuit has been in the works for some time, with a large number of people affected by the “fee” backing the lawsuit. Recently, Governor Jerry Brown has... Read More
Still mining gold in the golden stateGold Mining has more regulations than mining for decorative rock does – so Carson Hill Rock Products is mining it only from rich pockets as a byproduct to side-step the regulations. KQED Quest, March 7 Read More
General plan’s land use map to debut TuesdayThe long-awaited second draft of Calaveras County’s land use map will be unveiled Tuesday, March 19, at a special meeting of the Board of Supervisors and the county Planning Commission. The meeting is open to the public for discussion and comment. In addition to the introduction of the new draft of the land use map, comments received regarding the first draft – released Feb. 2012 – will be reviewed and discussed and new data associated with... Read More
Historic Lode road straightening inches alongBy Dana M. Nichols February 22, 2013 Record Staff Writer February 22, 2013 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – Ranchers whose refusal to allow biologists onto their properties threatened to delay a $60 million highway project by a year and add millions to the cost have relented, Calaveras County officials said. Biological studies and other field work required to prepare plans for the straightening of a 6-mile-long section of Highway 4 between Copperopolis... Read More
CCWD in the ring for state grant fundingPosted: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:22 am After five years of struggling to work together, the Tuolumne-Stanislaus Integrated Regional Water Management Program –which includes local water agencies like Calaveras County Water and Murphys Sanitary districts – put forth a package of prioritized projects that may qualify for state grant funding Participating agencies have been working to better understand each other’s objectives and duties as well... Read More
Wagon trail project keeps rolling alongBy Kristine Williams | Posted: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:13 am http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/news/article_8cf4bc4a-7d11-11e2-855f-0019bb2963f4.html A necessary “boots on the ground” deadline for securing continuance of the contentious Wagon Trail Realignment project was met earlier this month. As of Feb. 15, the Wagon Trail project development team secured right of entry consent from more than a dozen potentially affected property owners.... Read More
Rancher, 94, sues to block quarry project near his propertyBy Sam Stanton sstanton@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 1A Forty years ago, Fraser West pulled onto Dutschke Road outside Ione and drove less than a mile before he found his destiny. Stretching out below him, West could see the 40-acre ranch he would snap up in 1973, a wide-open swath of grassland and heritage oaks where he has raised generations of longhorn cattle and horses with Teddy, his wife of 68 years, and... Read More