posted Nov 25, 2013, 9:10 PM by Lori Parlin
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Dear Shingle Springs residents and supporters,
Shingle Springs Community Alliance/No San Stino/Stop Tilden Park held a community wide meeting on Thursday, November 21, at 6:30pm. The purpose of the meeting was to share a timeline of events for Shingle Springs over the past year, give an update on the proposed San Stino project, and then to survey the community to find out what course of action they want to take next in our fight to keep Shingle Springs rural. Thank you to everyone that made it to the meeting and participated in the survey.
The Shingle Springs Community Alliance will be presenting a conceptual overview of the Shingle Springs Community Plan to the Board of Supervisors on January 14, 2014, at 2:00pm to get their buy-in and support. Please plan to attend if you are available to support our Community Plan as we advocate for it to become part of the El Dorado County General Plan. We will send out a reminder as the date approaches. |
posted Nov 11, 2013, 7:40 AM by Lori Parlin
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLAN FOR ACTION! COMMUNITY MEETING TO PLAN NEXT STEPS FOR SHINGLE SPRINGS SHINGLE SPRINGS, California (November 11, 2013) The Shingle Springs Community Alliance, No San Stino, and Stop Tilden Park organizations are holding a Community Meeting to present the progress that has been made and the roadblocks that have been encountered to preserving our lifestyle of a peaceful country community with ranches and homes on acreage. - Hear the latest about meetings held with the San Stino Development Team and a Revised Project Description.
- Get up to speed on the status of the Tilden Park development proposal.
- Listen to Community members discuss options for removing the Community Region Line, which allows for high denisty urban type development in our community.
- Receive a progress report on the Shingle Springs Community Plan.
The meeting will be held on Thursday, November 21, from 6:30 to 8:00pm at Discovery Hills Church, 4270 Shingle Springs Drive, Shingle Springs, next to Buckeye Elementary School. Please note that Discovery Hills Church is not affiliated with the sponsoring organizations. For all newcomers and as a refresher for everyone, a short presentation will cover what we've done as a community to keep Shingle Springs rural. The meeting will then shift gears to presenting information on options to take as we move forward. Options include recall, initiative, referendum, litigation, and lobbying. All are serious endeavors that need careful consideration and your input is vital. More information can be found on these websites: www.ss-ca.net, www.NoSanStino.com, and www.StopTildenPark.com. |
posted Nov 6, 2013, 1:53 PM by Lori Parlin
Dear Shingle Springs Residents and Supporters,
Please see the attached file of a draft initiative that is being considered to keep Shingle Springs and other areas of El Dorado County rural. It is an option to consider for removing the Community Region Line (urban limit line) from Shingle Springs.
Leave comments on this post, or email them to: info@ShingleSpringsCommunityAlliance.com
Any off-topic comments will be deleted, so please stay on topic of the initiative only. Thank you. |
posted Oct 24, 2013, 10:40 PM by Lori Parlin
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Dear Shingle Springs residents and supporters,
The Board of Supervisors unanimously denied the Wilson Estates rezone at the October 22nd meeting (Supervisor Santiago was absent due to illness). The Wilson Estates project was proposed on a 28-acre piece of land on the north side of Green Valley Road (near the Latter Day Saints Church) currently zoned for one-acre parcels. This is good news to communities all over El Dorado County as it was the first of many project applications that proposed to increase the density of the current zoning.
The community had sent emails, made phone calls, and packed the room to make sure their voices were heard by the Board. Members of the Shingle Springs Community Alliance also attended the meeting to show their support for preserving low density zoning in El Dorado County.
This is good news because it shows that when we come together as a community, we can make a difference. Let's keep this in mind as the county moves forward with the project applications for San Stino and Tilden Park. Your voice does matter and we appreciate you taking action when we send out Action Alerts. |
posted Oct 20, 2013, 8:36 PM by Lori Parlin
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This is being forwarded from the Green Valley Alliance (GVA) because they have traffic and land use issues similar to Shingle Springs, including traffic safety along Green Valley Road.
To: "Green Valley Alliance" <gvralliance@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:04:53 AM Subject: GV Corridor Traffic Study, Public Workshop!!
Great news from the Green Valley Alliance-
County staff has scheduled the public workshop to gather input for the Green Valley Road corridor traffic study scope. If you wish to provide input before the study begins - especially if you signed the petition to help make this happen! - then attend this meeting:
Thursday, October 24, 2013 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Pleasant Grove Middle School Multi Purpose Rm, 2540 Green Valley Rd, Rescue; see attached flier forwarded from County staff.
ADDITIONALLY: If you have not seen the "Twelve Days of Wilson" on the GVA website, you need to! (https://sites.google.com/site/greenvalleyroadalliance/gallery) The staff report 'recommends this project for approval', so as obvious as a NO vote by our Board of Supervisors would seem, this is not a slam-dunk. Please look at this project, attend the hearing, and/or write to the supervisors, if you see the problems that we see.
COUNTY STAFF PROBLEM? Some members of county staff are having 'denial' issues. They do not seem able to 'deny' problematic projects, and they are in 'denial' over constraints of Measure Y that are intended to protect you and me as county residents. Link to Village Life article by Julie Samrick: http://www.villagelife.com/news/county-responds-to-measure-y-presentation/ . As of Monday, 10/14, county staff is still refusing to acknowledge the full import of the Caltrans letter dated 9/25 (presented 9/30) and are continuing to spread misinformation. We need to stop this. These are the people informing our Board of Supervisors on their votes.
If you do not understand the problem, please ask - do not allow the county or yourself to be 'run over', literally or figuratively.
Ellen Van Dyke on behalf of GVA
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Claudia Wade <claudia.wade@edcgov.us> Date: Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:43 PM Subject: 10/24/13 Green Valley Road Study Public Workshop
The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors has recently launched a study to address current safety and traffic conditions along Green Valley Road and it's intersections from the El Dorado County line to Lotus Road. The El Dorado County Community Development Agency, Long Range Planning Division is holding an interactive workshop to begin a dialogue between members of the community and County staff to discuss the draft work plan prior to starting the study. The workshop will be held on Thursday, October 24th at 6:30 p.m. in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Pleasant Grove Middle School, located at 2540 Green Valley Road in the Rescue area. Attached is a flyer, a map of the corridor and the draft work plan. Please feel free to post the information and/or distribute it to anyone who is interested in attending. Community input is important to a successful plan, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts. For more information, contact: Best Regards,
Claudia R. Wade, P.E. Senior Civil Engineer Community Development Agency, Long Range Planning County of El Dorado Office: (530) 621-5977 |
posted Oct 18, 2013, 10:43 PM by Lori Parlin
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updated Oct 18, 2013, 10:51 PM
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MIG, INC and San Stino L.P. hosted a small group meeting on Sept 14th. A followup meeting was held Oct 16th
We posted the meeting notice soliciting comments prior to the meeting on Sept 4th. Please see our Sept 4th post.
We posted the results of the meeting on Sept 18th.
We finally received the video of the Sept 14th meeting on Oct. 14th
The material presented at the Sept 14th meeting is here:
It's disappointing the meeting material is titled as a San Stino Community Meeting. We have voiced our displeasure about this as we are by invitation only and not appointed community spokesmen.
The followup MIG-San Stino Meeting was held Oct, 16th. We had hoped to post the video and the material well in advance of this follow up meeting. It's disappointing that the meeting material was once again labeled as a community meeting.
Three options were presented at this meeting. All three options involved 690 rooftops compared to the original 1041 rooftops. The options involved relocating the higher density lots within the middle or northern end of the development. We pointed out that the location of the lots will have no impact on traffic or our rural lifestyle, but rather the amount of lots are the impact.
We felt this density is still an assault on Shingle Springs' rural character and lifestyle.
The developer and its investor were disappointed with our response to the density. The meeting was lively.
The meeting was video-taped by the developer using a PC tablet and cell phone.
There was no material handed out. Hopefully we will receive the video of the meeting to post soon.
Frank Verdin and the No San Stino Coalition.
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posted Oct 5, 2013, 8:16 PM by Lori Parlin
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Dear Shingle Springs residents and supporters,
We want to first and foremost thank everyone for sending in emails, making phone calls, and attending the meeting. Despite our requests to Chairman Briggs to have a focused agenda, the Land Use meeting turned out to be quite a long day, starting at 10am and ending at 10pm, due to extraneous items added to the agenda by the Board and staff. The two major items of interest are summed up here for your information. The video of the meeting is available: https://eldorado.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
Community Region Lines (CRLs): The Board of Supervisors did not take immediate action to remove the Shingle Springs CRL as we had requested. Instead, the direction from the Board to the staff was to work with communities to create their Community Plans (which include Community Identity). When the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for the General Plan Update (Land Use Policy Programmatic Update - LUPPU) is released in January 2014, each Community Plan can be evaluated to see if it fits within the scope of the DEIR and then become part of the General Plan. The Board then directed staff to revisit the CRLs for El Dorado Hills, Camino/Pollock Pines, and Shingle Springs and evaluate modifying them using both the DEIR and Community Plan. Including CRL changes to the EIR while it is already in progress is questionable. We view this as a delay and diversionary tactic.
Early Review of General Plan Amendment projects: The direction of the Board to the staff was to finalize the Early Review policy and bring it back to the Board for approval. Unfortunately, Supervisors Briggs, Mikulaco, and Santiago would not support the policy to be retroactive; meaning it will not be applied to projects that are currently in the process, like San Stino and Tilden Park.
This was not the result we had requested from the Board. It appeared that the influence of the 17 developer representatives in the Board Room outweighed the concerns of the citizens in the Board's decision. The attached videoclip shows Kirk Bone of Parker Development chastising the Board for even considering a retroactive policy: http://youtu.be/quamljvoSyU. We, the community, must stay attentive to this process as it unfolds.
We, Shingle Springs Community Alliance/No San Stino/Stop Tilden Park, are not satisfied by the Board's continued lack of action and are looking into all our options, including an initiative, recalls, or litigation.
Remember, “We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.” Thomas Jefferson |
posted Sep 26, 2013, 6:16 PM by Lori Parlin
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Dear Shingle Springs residents and supporters,
The agenda for the Board of Supervisors Special Meeting on Monday, September 30, 2013, at 10:00am is attached. To see documentation and staff reports associated with each item, open the agenda and click on the blue link next to each item number.
Here is a quick run down on the agenda items:
Items #1 and #2 are informational and Supervisor Ron Briggs felt they were pertinent to the remaining agenda items. They are expected to be brief presentations.
Item #3 is about a study for the Green Valley Corridor.
Item #4 is about increasing the public notification for projects. It is currently only 500'.
Item #5 is about Community Region Lines, which are urban boundary lines. The staff is recommending that the Board of Supervisors (BOS) defer action on this. We need as many people as possible to show up and request that the BOS reject the staff's recommendation and instead move forward with removing the Shingle Springs Community Region Line. Shingle Springs does not want to be a target for high density development.
Item #6 is the Early Review policy that will require all projects needing a General Plan Amendment to come before the BOS for a hearing to decide if they warrant further processing. We need as many people as possible to show up and request that the BOS approve this policy immediately and start hearings to review and deny projects like San Stino and Tilden Park.
REMINDER: What can you do?
1. Be at the September 30th meeting to tell the BOS to take action and deny the projects and remove the Community Region Line. This is an important day. There is power in numbers and we encourage you to be at the meeting if you can.
Monday, September 30, 2013, 10:00am Board of Supervisors Meeting Room 330 Fair Lane, Building A Placerville, CA 95667
2. Write emails and make phone calls telling the BOS that you want them to take action on September 30 and start the process to deny the San Stino and Tilden Park projects and to remove the Community Region Line (CRL). Contact information is below.
This has been a busy year for the Shingle Springs community and our vigilance is starting to pay off. We must stay focused on reminding the BOS that they are to represent the will of their constituents. That is why we urge you to make those phone calls and send those emails. As one resident says, "A phone call a day keeps San Stino away!" And how about, "A phone call a day keeps Tilden Park away!" And one more, "An email a day takes the CRL away!"
We are not going to give you a template for this one. The phone calls and emails need to come from your heart. If you are tired of taking time off from work to attend meetings, tell the Board. If you want them to stop wasting our time and to take action, tell the Board. We are the people, and the Board serves at the will of the people. Tell them. Phone them. It only takes a few minutes a day. We can do this!
Contact information for Board of Supervisors:
Thank you to all for staying vigilant and speaking up to keep Shingle Springs rural!
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posted Sep 23, 2013, 2:01 PM by Lori Parlin
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updated Sep 23, 2013, 2:02 PM
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22. 13-1174 Hearing to consider the recommendation of the Planning Commission on Ordinance OR13-0001/Medical Marijuana Distribution Facility and recommending the Board take the following actions: 1) Find that the adoption of the proposed ordinance is not subject to CEQA pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines; 2) Adopt an amendment to Title 17 of the County Code prohibiting new medical marijuana distribution facilities based on the Findings presented; 3) Adopt Ordinance 4999 for said amendment; and 4) Direct staff to return to the Board with a Resolution of Intention to amend the ordinance to address the following items: (a) Allow safe access; (b) Establish limitations on new dispensaries; (c) Processing of product; and (d) Capitalize on economic opportunities.
23. 13-1175 Hearing to consider the recommendation of the Planning Commission on Ordinance OR13-0002/Medical Marijuana Outdoor Cultivation and recommending the Board take the following actions: 1) Find that the adoption of the proposed ordinance is not subject to CEQA pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines; 2) Adopt an amendment to Title 17 of the County Code regulating medical marijuana outdoor cultivation based on the Findings as presented; and 3) Adopt Ordinance 5000 for said amendment.
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posted Sep 18, 2013, 10:05 PM by Lori Parlin
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updated Sep 18, 2013, 10:08 PM
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Dear Shingle Springs residents and supporters,
The Board of Supervisors (BOS) is holding a Special Meeting on Monday, September 30, 2013. Many of the land use policies that we have been advocating for will be on the agenda for that day. We need to show up and tell the BOS to take action and deny projects that require a General Plan Amendment, like Tilden Park and San Stino, and to remove the Community Region Line from Shingle Springs so that it is not a target for high density development.
What can you do?
1. Be at the September 30th meeting to tell the BOS to take action and deny the projects and remove the Community Region Line. This is an important day. There is power in numbers and we encourage you to be at the meeting if you can.
Monday, September 30, 2013, 9:00am Board of Supervisors Meeting Room 330 Fair Lane, Building A Placerville, CA 95667
2. Write emails and make phone calls telling the BOS that you want them to take action on September 30 and start the process to deny the San Stino and Tilden Park projects and to remove the Community Region Line (CRL). Contact information is below.
3. If you are available to speak during Open Forum at any Tuesday Board meeting at 9am, go before the BOS and tell them that you want them to start denying the San Stino and Tilden Park projects now and to remove the Shingle Springs Community Region Line.
This has been a busy year for the Shingle Springs community and our vigilance is starting to pay off. We must stay focused on reminding the BOS that they are to represent the will of their constituents. That is why we urge you to make those phone calls and send those emails. As one resident says, "A phone call a day keeps San Stino away!" And how about, "A phone call a day keeps Tilden Park away!" And one more, "An email a day takes the CRL away!"
We are not going to give you a template for this one. The phone calls and emails need to come from your heart. If you are tired of taking time off from work to attend meetings, tell the Board. If you want them to stop wasting our time and to take action, tell the Board. We are the people, and the Board serves at the will of the people. Tell them. Phone them. It only takes a few minutes a day. We can do this!
Contact information for Board of Supervisors:
If you are new to our email list and not familiar with some of the items mentioned above, take a look at the attached handout that sums it all up. If you'd like detailed information, visit our website and read through the Announcements or watch a few of the video presentations to get a better understanding of the issues.
Thank you to all for your continued support! |
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