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  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  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

Important Meeting Notice

Public Notices Notice of Public Hearing Road Impact Mitigation (RIM) Fee Increase The RIM Fee Program funds transportation improvements required to mitigate the cumulative traffic impacts of new development. Notice is hereby given that increasing the RIM fee will be considered at a public hearing pursuant to Government Code Section 66001 and Calaveras County Code Section 12.10.090(B)1. The public hearing will be held at 9:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter... Read More

Planning Commission hearing for Sawmill Lake

The public hearing for the Sawmill Lake Project will be held on Thursday, Dec 13th at 1:00 pm. The staff report for the Dec 13th hearing is posted on the County Planning Dept website under “Sawmill” . Below is the link: http://www.co.calaveras.ca.us/cc/Departments/PlanningDepartment.aspx  Read More

Completion of General Plan considered a top priority

New Calaveras Supervisors are eager to take board seats. Calaveras County supervisors shook off any hints of post-election paralysis last week; narrowly kick starting a long-awaited general plan update over loud objections from a pair of outgoing board members who fretted over handing the reins to a trio of board “unknowns” who won’t be seated until January. Read this article here: Calaveras Enterprise, November 20, 2012  Read More