FINAL VOTE 3 -2 in favor of Dutra.
Kelley, Kerns and Carrillo vote YES to amend the General Plan and rezone the Dutra parcels to light industrial. Supervisors Zane and Brown vote NO.
Yesterday the county counsel and planning staff made a mockery of CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act), which was created to protect the environment and the citizen’s right to participate in the CEQA process. Yesterday morning at 9 AM 180+ pages of information were released by county planning staff to our attorneys and limited distribution, with only 4 hours until the hearing. The new information was not distributed to the list of interested citizen parties and no one was allowed speak at the hearing.
Sonoma County Legal Counsel advised the Board to prohibit public comment on the Dutra agenda item. Even Mayor Torliatt, Vice Mayor Glass, Council members Rene and Barrett were not allowed to speak.
What exactly did the Supervisors NOT want to hear?
NO information on the environmental impact of building a conveyor belt across Shamrock’s mitigated wetlands.
NO questioning of why there is no Health Risk Analysis for Revision I, the third version of the Dutra project.
NO pointing out that there is no written agreement with Shamrock, indicating Shamrock’s willingness to supply Dutra with aggregate for the next 50 years.
Supervisor Zane did point out that the project cannot operate without SMART approval of the conveyor crossing its tracks. It cannot go forward without Shamrock’s agreement, so she asked why vote to approve a General Plan amendment, with no assurance these pieces will come together? She voted NO.
Supervisor Brown was still concerned with Dutra’s record and voted NO.
Supervisors Kerns, Kelley and Carrillo, willing to sacrifice our public park and fresh air for Dutra’s private profits and 7-10 jobs ,voted YES. Kerns, Kelley and Carrillo continued to ignore the unanimous opposition of the City Council of Petaluma, Mayor Torliatt, and to ignore District 2 Supervisor-Elect David Rabbit’s public statement of opposition.
NEXT STEPS:
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Friends of Shollenberger announce the Legal Defense Fund Campaign to challenge the County’s woefully confused, incomplete, and illegal process.
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