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

Planning Commission meeting changes

Planning Commission meetings will now be weekly on Thursdays to handle the workload of the GPU. Yesterday’s PC meeting videos are now posted: https://calaverascap.com/video/ New info just released for PC meeting next week (see below). Planning Commission website: http://planning.calaverasgov.us/PlanningCommission.aspx ********************************* Planning Commission Meeting – February 11, 2016 AGENDA 2015-075 Appeal of 2015-002... Read More

Key Land Use Community Meetings – Reminders

February 9- there will be 6 Asphalt Appeal Hearings before the Board of Supervisors.  Starting time 9 a.m. Planning Commission Meeting – January 14, 2016 AGENDA Planning Commission review and recommendation to the Board of Supervisors on the General Plan update.  (Peter Maurer, Planning Director)         Topics of discussion: Conservation and Open Space Element Staff Report    Conservation and Open Space Element  Open Space... Read More

Planning Commission 2016 Meetings

The Agenda and Staff Reports for the January 28, 2016 Planning Commission Meeting have been posted to the website. http://www.planning.calaverasgov.us/PlanningCommission.aspx Planning Commission Meeting – January 28, 2016 AGENDA  2015-075 APPEAL of 2015-002 AUP for California RSA No. 3 LP d/b/a Verizon Wireless  2014-028 Conditional Use Permit for Burson Market See Summary of January 14, 2016 PC Meet by Colleen Platt on this page: https://calaverascap.com/planning-documents/general-plan-documents/  Read More

Planning Director refuses to let the Planning Commission hear CAP/CPC appeal on release of Minitier General Plan

On December 18, the CPC filed an appeal with the Fawn McLaughlin, chair of the Planning Commission, to review Planning Director Maurer’s decision to censor the Mintier General Plan.  On December 21, Director Maurer refused to let the appeal go forward to the Planning Commission.  You can read the appeal and Director Maurer’s response on this website .  Read More

Developer will not pay for improvements to Olive Orchard Road

After less than 20 minutes of discussion, an almost 12-year debate over who will pay to improve a roughly one-mile stretch of Olive Orchard Road leading from Highway 26 to the Olive Orchard Estates development came to a conclusion Tuesday when a divided board of supervisors decided it would not be the developer. Read article here  Read More

Calaveras County throws out the 2010 Mintier General Plan

Calaveras County denies CPC’s public records request for the Mintier General Plan. In the December 4 letter of denial  the County states the one reason for the denial is “that the County no longer has a copy of the December 2010 Mintier General Plan.” You can read the December 4 letter, a press release from CAP/CPC facilitator Tom Infusion, and his response to the denial in a testimony at the County Board of Supervisors meeting... Read More

Calaveras Planning Coalition requests copy of Mintier General Plan

In  a press released on Tuesday November 24, the Calaveras Planning Coalition presented a formal written request to Calaveras County Planning Director Peter Maurer for a copy of the Mintier General Plan. “That plan was prepared over a four year period, at a cost of over $900,000, before the consultant was replaced in November of 2012.  Since then, the County has refused to let the public see the Mintier General Plan, and has entered into... Read More

Resource Production Element of Draft General Plan to be reviewed at Planning Commission meeting Nov. 19.

Next week’s Nov.12 PC meeting will have only 4 Ag preserves on the agenda; nothing on the GPU.  Read More