It has been nearly 6 1/2 years since the Board of Supervisors, led by Tom Tryon, passed Resolution 07-242, the beginning of the end of the entire economy in Calaveras County.
Referred to as the "40 Acres and a Mule" policy, it was initially written as a policy to take the place of a moratorium on building in Calaveras County.
Since you could not build a home on any piece of land of less than 40 acres without public water and sewer, it effectively ended any new development.
After this went into effect developers called this paper and complained about the Planning Department telling them they would not accept their plans to develop any parcel with less the 40 acres/
Many of them believed what the Planning Department at the time told them, and lost a lot of money.
In comes the new Planning Director, Rebecca Willis, and suddenly the video was not available. Public Access TV said it had been taken back by the County for technical problems.
Since many of us had reviewed that tape many times and knew there were NO technical gliches in the video, when it was returned to the shelf, with a qualifier that some parts were missing due to technical problems, we were all suspicious.
Then all of a sudden the original resolution and agenda for that meeting were changed to reflect that the Resolution 07-242 was only a suggestion, not a policy.
HUH? Trust your government to never change any documents or videos? NEVER!! County Counsel Janis Elliott was given the job of announcing at a Board meeting that is was all just a misunderstanding; that 07-242 was never intended to be a solid policy.
When we called some of the developers who had complained, they said that because the Planning Department never wrote them letters (nothing in writing), they had little way of proving damages due to this change.
We tried to get the original copies of the two agendas that 07-242 was listed on; they had disappeared from all files. We even tried to get a copy from a past county official. No one would say they had one.
Now, at yesterday's meeting, ex-Supervisor Tryon, got up and tried to push for the Supervisor sitting now, to put it in the new General Plan Update. WHY?
Simple; because he has very developable land which has now been put in the Angels Camp sphere of influence, to get public sewer and water.
Very valuable land, especially if everyone else is outside of public sewer and water. GET IT?
Is there anyone out there with the guts and honor to come forth with the truth about the agendas, video and minutes of the 07-242 meetings? If so, please contact this paper. You can remain anonymous!
4 comments:
Why not have those who were denied or those who actually applied write to the grand jury. And I'd course the articles written that the county never disputed are tacit agreem even if it was not " in writing"
I always knew it was true, but just like everyone else, it's hard to prove now. So they didn't put it in writing, when they turned people away at Planning?
Isn't it interesting to see and hear how corrupt, deceitful past Board of Supervisors were?
Worse yet, it, 40 acres and a mule, continues as a what, policy, regulation?
U N Agenda 21 strategies are firmly embedded in Calaveras against taxpaying property owners.
Have you head about the new transparency requirements effective Jan. 2014? The biggest blow out yet. Pension Deficit Liabilities are going to have to be shown on the accounting ledgers and in the budgets. Insolvency, here Calaveras comes! Be prepared for all the sweet talk to raise taxes from the local elite.
Does this mean Tryonville is moving forward? Is it true T.T.Tryon has been meeting with Castle & Cook's representative?
How long would it take to put Tryonville in the City of Angels? How long would it take to put together a significant Tryonville project for approval by the city?
Where is the signed 07-242 document with Claudino's signature? Will we ever know the truth?
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