How Local Food Is at the Heart of America’s Rural Renaissance

What happened? How did downtown Corbin land more than 20 new businesses since 2012, pushing its 40 percent vacancy rate to practically zero? You will want to read this here  Read More

New Fire Fees and Planning Fees on BOS agenda Tuesday

Fire Mitigation Fees Ordinance and Planning Fees Resolution first on BOS Regular Agenda Tuesday Feb. 23 Click the link below for complete Board agenda, reports, and ordinances: http://calaverascountyca.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=1957     REGULAR AGENDA ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE Introduce, after a waiver of the reading requirements, an Ordinance relating to Fire Mitigation Fees* The staff report for the Fire Mitigation Fee Ordinance... Read More

Valley Springs Asphalt Plant Update

 CALL TO ACTION !!! PLANNING COMMISSION (PC) OVERRIDES COUNTY ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT DECISION— NO CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT (CUP) REQUIRED FOR HAZARDOUS HOGAN QUARRY ASPHALT PLANT? SIX APPEALS OF PC DECISION FILED; TO BE DECIDED AT PUBLIC HEARING AT BOARD OF SUPERVISORS CHAMBERS, GOVERNMENT CENTER, SAN ANDREAS FEBRUARY 9, 2016 at 9 a.m. or soon thereafter RISKS of No CUP, Local Control, & Oversight: Contamination of Your CCWD Drinking... Read More

Scrapped general plan unlikely to see light of day

Calaveras County officials have denied at least two Public Records Act requests – one from the Calaveras Planning Coalition and one from the Calaveras Enterprise – to access the draft general plan produced between 2006 and 2011 by the Mintier-Harnish planning consultant firm at a cost of more than $900,000. Read Here: Calaveras Enterprise  Read More

Transit troubled after a decade of county control

The Calaveras County Short Range Transit Plan, prepared by the consulting firm Mobility Planners, found that since the Calaveras County Board of Supervisors made Calaveras Transit part of the public works department in 2004, costs and fares have increased while service and ridership have decreased. Read Here: Calaveras Enterprise  Read More

2nd disastrous drought year for endangered California salmon

Endangered native salmon suffered a second straight disastrous year in California’s drought, with all but 3 percent of the latest generation dying in too-shallow, too-hot rivers, federal officials said Monday.  Read More

Coalition moving to remove Klamath dams without Congress’s assent*

After progress on agreed-upon dam removals was blocked by Congress, Oregon, California and other parties are pressing forward to remove dams that harm salmon and water quality. Sacramento Bee, February 2  Read More

Debate over new supplies is microcosm of water wars*

Recent disagreements at the State Water Resources Control Board show that a wet winter doesn’t solve the state’s water conflicts. Sacramento Bee column, February 5  Read More

Conservation measures stay, despite rain

CCWD  leaders in coming months will consider whether to modify restrictions such as those on outdoor watering before the summer gardening season. Read Here: Calaveras Enterprise  Read More

California extends mandatory water cuts despite growing snowpack

California’s drought regulators agreed Tuesday to extend water conservation mandates through the end of October. The decision came in spite of increasing evidence that El Niño is delivering better-than-average precipitation, including an encouraging measurement of the Sierra Nevada snowpack recorded just hours earlier. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/water-and-drought/article57924198.html#storylink=cpy  Read More