News Archive (6192)
The Jackson City Council
conducted a public hearing Monday
night to hear the appeal of an approved conditional use permit to construct a
new senior facility at 135 Agate
Place. Ron
Regan, the applicant, requested the permit to construct the new facility
adjacent to the existing Oak
Manor Senior
Center off New York Ranch Road.
The proposed facility would include 14 residential units for congregate care of
the elderly, and would have a covered walkway between the proposed structure
and the existing facility, which could be used by both residents and staff. The
project was reviewed and approved by the Jackson Planning Commission in August
of last year. Subsequently, two appeals
were submitted. The first, from Gerald
Browder, a resident of Placer
Drive, which is near Agate Place, cited several impacts,
including light and noise pollution, inconsistent land uses, parking problems,
and the increased impact on public services.
On February 26 the Amador County Board of Supervisors are scheduled to vote whether to accept or to reject the Intergovernmental Services Agreement that has been negotiated with the Buena Vista Indian Tribe. Citizens voiced their opinions in the third in a series of town hall meetings last Saturday in Jackson. There was a lot of frustration expressed by the panel and the participants over the lack of support from the federal and state governments.
Managing growth was the hot topic of the evening at the Sutter Creek Planning Commission Monday night. The meeting saw detailed discussion over several of the city’s current projects related to housing, including updates to the housing element of the city’s general plan, and architectural guidelines that the city is looking to implement for its historical residential combining zone. City staff presented the commission with a revised updated housing element, which included several changes to the wording of the document that the commission requested at a previous meeting.
New Development Proposal Sparks Eminent Domain Discussion
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released its Sierra Proposed
Resource Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/EIS).
The plan provides
direction and guidance for more than 230,000 acres of public land located
primarily in nine central California counties including Amador, Calaveras, El
Dorado, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, Tuolumne and Yuba counties.
Knight Foundry Price Tag Jumps: City of Sutter Creek’s New Strategy
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On the Sutter Creek City
Council’s agenda Monday was the Amador County Recreation Agency’s request for
an increase in their member contributions. ACRA Executive Director Tracey
Towner-Yep was present and explained that ACRA has been a very viable
organization over the past few years putting on such events as summer camps,
Shakespeare in the park, park upgrades at Bryson Park, etc. ACRA is quickly growing into a full
fledged agency, and in turn asked Sutter Creek to incorporate a $5 per person
membership fee for the next 3 years. In 2006-07 Sutter Creek contributed $9,025 and if they
approve the request their contribution would be $14,720 for the next 3 years.
Ongoing discussions over the Sutter Hill Transit Center Project continue in Sutter Creek. Minor
revisions to the project outline have recently been made, and this week, the
incorporation of new civil engineer Aaron Busatori and funding realities
were looked at more closely to be ensure consistency with the original project
plan. The Transit
Center is a project
proposed by the Amador Regional Transit System, or ARTS, in conjunction with
the Amador County Transportation Commission. Included in the original project components are a
transportation center building, a 1.2 acre plot of land to be dedicated to the
city as a public park, and a 50-75 space park-n-ride lot with a solar electric
shade structure. An agreement is currently being proposed between the
center and the Amador Tourism Council to possibly staff the facility.
The center will be under continuous video surveillance, funded through Homeland Security. The original cost estimate for the project was approximately $2.5 million, but with the increasing costs for all things associated with construction, modifications were necessary. During the presentation of the project Charles Field of ACTC stated that the necessary funds needed for phase 1 of the project were not fully raised, so the city will be receiving a combined sum of approximately $1 million from Calaveras and Tuolumne Counties Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality Improvement Program, a federally funded program that allocates money for projects which specifically reduce air pollution. Because of the struggles with the various funding outlets “we had to be realistic with phase 1” stated Field. When asked the likelihood that phase 2 will ever be completed, he responded that “We are committed to it” and that ACTC and the City are “working like hell to get it built.”
