Never Ending Development
If you wander down to the river, the first thing that strikes you is where did it go? Wind forward after the build-out and consider those that still remain looking at that river wondering why couldn't they see back then that there isn't enough water. The blindness of greed is a blessing indeed.
Your partners and concerned developers will build all they say they will and you and I have absolutely nothing to say about it. The EIR's are a hoax at best and specifically benefit developers and the County because without the tax basis constantly expanding with sloppy planning, the folks who write EIR's, related bureaucracies and the developers would be without jobs. Simply put, there is no NEED for this just as there was no need for the massive over building that has caused the financial disaster affecting the entire planet and if you haven't noticed, RM. Why else did all those mortgage companies write loans that could not stand up to any test of ethical practice? To get those homes off the market as they came of the line.
As far as EIR's, it appears that anything can be "mitigated" including global warming.
Those of you who can't drive the 15 minutes to Folsom now will not have to worry. Before long you won't have to and traffic won't encourage you to.
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I will quote Teddy Roosevelt from a meeting of governors 1906 as the position I see as logical, reasonable, indisputable and desireable. It was my father's philosophy and mine though I never realized it until I saw the sign at the bottom of the Grand Canyon that said "take only pictures, leave only footprints."
TR 1906
"We must handle the water, the wood, the grasses so that we will hand them on to our children and our children's children in better and not worse shape than we got them".
The signs are about plans to quarry there for the next 25 years. The public comment period on the plans runs to Nov. 6. You can see the county's environmental documents on the project here.
Jeff Thatcher, project manager for Teichert Aggregates, said the company's quarry project is going through the California Environmental Quality Act review process. Thatcher said Teichert will construct its own road for the quarry. "We're not putting any trucks on lower Scott Road," he said.
He advised people to view the draft environmental impact report that's available
on the Sacramento County Department of Environmental Review and Assessment web site (link above), where they can see maps of the area proposed for the quarry.
"We'll have meetings coming up, probably in November, starting with the Cosumnes CPAC," Thatcher said, "and then it will go on from there -- Planning Commission to the Board of Supervisors. And then we go from the draft EIR to the final EIR sometime between the Planning Commission and the board."
Here's a summary of the project, taken from the draft environmental impact report:
The Applicant proposes to develop a new hardrock quarry on property currently utilized for grazing land (see Figure 2.0-5, Existing Conditions Aerial Photograph). The Project would be located on approximately 380 acres of the 580-acre site. Associated with the Quarry would be an aggregate processing facility, administration complex, parking areas, on-site access road, and various other stockpiles and processing areas. The Project would also include construction of a conveyor to transport a portion of the mined material from the quarry site to Teichert Aggregates’ existing Grant Line Rock Products facility (Grant Line facility), located along Grant Line Road and west of the proposed Project site. The conveyor would extend overland from the quarry along a 100 foot wide easement through the intervening Barton Ranch property to the Grant Line facility. The conveyor easement would include the above ground conveyor, water pipeline, electricity infrastructure, and an access road for maintenance. The Project would also include construction of a public access road for ingress/egress to the Project site. The proposed access road would be constructed to a 33-foot pavement width within an existing 110-wide unimproved County right-of-way and would extend from the entrance/exit of the Project site north approximately one mile to White Rock Road.
The maximum proposed annual aggregate production during the Project life would be 7 million tons per year (about 4,750,000 cubic yards). A maximum of 6 million tons would be distributed directly from the quarry site on haul trucks using the proposed access road. A maximum of 3 million tons and a minimum of 1 million tons would be conveyed to the existing Grant Line facility for further processing and sale under the maximum production scenario of 7 million tons a year. Mining would continue for up to 25 years through two mining phases. A total of about 135 million tons (90 million cubic yards) of material would be mined over the life of the Project. At the conclusion of aggregate production, a two- to four-year final reclamation phase would extend the total Project lifespan to 27 to 29 years. Certain reclamation activities would be ongoing throughout the operational life of the Quarry.
The proposed post-mining land use for the Project site would be a return to grazing land.
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