25c • BIG SUR, CALIFORNIA 93920 1979 Leavy Asks Highlanders Seek CAC for'CZ' Prescriptive Rights • Rezoning Coastal Co:mllUSEllOfler who also sits as a Solutions of the Citizen An"""",.." lJOlmUUUee, asked GARY KOEPPEL For the fifth time in as many month!!, residents of the • Carmel Highlands and Coastal Zone turned out in numbers to question the Coastal Commissioners about the origin, seope, problems created by the controversial prescriptive rights investigations being condllded in the name of the Coastal Commission the State Attorney General's Office. Carmel resident Robert the for clarification as to whether or not • had been for a '''-''''''Tntl.l Drl~sente,d a letter dated November 6 from General Ken Williams to Leo Woods Association which names Imlestigation. Carbon of letter • General Charles Getz '. THE GREENING of Big Sur.· Begiaming revered by residents. With fewer Vijllitnr·,1. with the rains and eetinuing \lotil 'and little enjoy. the Big "quiet period" is Sur. and that the Commissioners is being seriously wasted. Reselttment against the Commission • Carter grows. Trespass is increasing, titles remain cloufled, property values are threatened, and owners are being treated like squatters on their own land," be concluded. INCORPORATION Approves Another Highlands resident, Clare Willard, e.x- on controversial pressed disapproval of the "duplicity which my political outside ~ the USFS's queries have been answered" and because "many of my of their jurisdictions. questions. have been answered with lies.". argued that the COMMITTEE "Behind Back" • committee 'should write a Rare II She said on November 20 she and other residents had letter to the supervisors The Carter administration been assured by Chairperson Hendersen, Deputy recommendipg 1m­ announced last week its Gen. Getz, and Executive Director Brown that "the of the new REACHES GOAL plans to assign designations torney General's Office had no interest whatsoever in because, eventually, to 62 million acres of United Yankee Point Beach." the plan would have States Forest Service lands. She cited the November 6 letter from to conform to chapter 3 of "The Committee for the f"1'.""",,,,, •• ti,, Some 36 million acres are Williams which Yankee 'Beach as in­ • the Coastal Act. in excess of the number to be designated "multiple vestigation, carbon copies of which had been sent to Getz When interviewed to the matter to the next use," another 15 million will and Brown. Gazette hearings," reported committee chairman be classed as "wilderness Mrs. Wlllard called the investigation "a violation of Mr. Harlan and the committee are not moving areas," and the 11 private rights amder tbe guise of 'protection of public the process forward because others are still million acres will be rights.' " and the and we aside" for further study and Bob Reordan, president of tbe Higblands Property to until at least of the future Owners Association, requested a definite response from • residents feel way to The the Commission as to "whether or not Yankee Point Beac:' be Sur and its people." which is under investigation." up to the to guidelines established were issued by the Mr. and Mrs. Richard of the wrote a "U'UlJl"~"JU of the LCP when Formation Commission, Continued on page 2 Continued on page 7 would assume of an area must a lJ"I,'Ll~'U of incorporation to them for evaluation and The committee will vote • at their LAFCO is a commission which functions as an arm of the scheduled for Board of and is the which rules on such Jan. 7 p.m., at the Big matters as annexations and incorporations. Sur Grange Hall. Toe chairman emphasized that signing the petition was The pUblic is invited to not a vote for or against incorporation, it is a request to attend and participate in the bring the matter to public hearings. After a lengthy discussion. process, LAFCO then determines whether or not it gets to • the ballot for .a vote. Objections This Issue:'. 'When asked what were the most frequent objections Pacific Adventure people. had about Sur becoming a town, Mr. Centerfold Harlan said some of the people think new services would be required and town would the Gorda Residents a & area or their Page 4 the contrary," res.pondlld Mr. Harlan, uno new Fire Brigade services would be ali, and the services we do PageS have could be '"""""'''''''' Editorial effect on the coastal en­ Pages 6,7 Mr. Harlan believes that Sur which best ",.,,,t,,,,,t,, Hawk's Perch Page 13 SOUTH COAST JUi:SII)E.!I>lTS boulders as the ones pictured) from Continued page :2 the USFS from .... .,.... '11.... '" Willow Creek Beach. See on page 4. Page 2 BIG SOft GAZETTE JANUARY, 1979 TOWN COMMITTEE REACHES GOAL • Continued from page 1 The three most frequent argumen~s in support of in­ corporation, he are self-determination, economic feasibility, and protection from government encroachment. "The type of person who gravitates to and is able to survive in Big Sur is a self-regulating person who. by • moving and living here. in the past had achieved a desirable state of isolated self-determination. A change is imminent, and many people realize that a town is the best to maintain self-determination," said Mr. Harlan. further explained that the Zion report established the economic feasibility of the town, and that sufficient opClrat,mg funds were presently being generated, but that now exporting those dollars to Salinas and • Sacramento. " As to the argument that incorporation provides protection from government agency encroachments, Mr. Harlan said that, with all of the government agencies and their various planning efforts, that the time had come for to get together to protect themselves from "Big Hl'lltheri:sm." • Next Steps Mr. Harlan contends that many persons who were to from the outset have changed minds and are now lending support because they now understand the lack of realistic alternatives. Fire Area When he the Incorporation Committee to • Ventana Wilderness Boundary submit their petitions to LAFCO? Big Sur COastal Planning Unit requirements, we have up to six months from which is when we initiated the Proposed Wilderness Additions V",".,,," drive. We're in no rush. It's far more important for CQluumn.u;y to take their time on such an important matter, and for th~ of the people to want a town USFS,- MAP shows newly designated wilderness areas rather than to rush it the required number of • south of Monterey in Big Sur country. The new areas ;:ug.'~".u.~,,, have been " he concluded. Rare II • Approved 68,200 Big Sur Acres State Coastal Panel Continued-from page 1 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Designated Wilderness Bob Bergland, wiU to Hear Ventana (, Gelbart presented to the Of the 15 million acres H Access to the Coast Congress sometime in April. reclassified as Road areas will still By PAUL DENISON • Designations "wilderness areas," two be walk-in only, Mr. Monterey PemJlSula Herald National Forest lands segments of the Los Padres added, "there Staff Writer which are designated Forest totalling will not any "multiple use" allow such 62,800 acres, have been vehicular access." BURLINGAME-State coastal com­ ever made." uses as mining, timber roolesil'fIlated and added to Proposed Acquisitions to decide Burleigh corroborated Leavy's account. harvesting, agricultural and the Wilderness. The Big Sur Unit Plan will Inn can add units Open Space Idea a variety of recreational The largest segment runs be of a much and whether writer "".• ua,[ • can build Leavy said he thought the Big Sur Land • uses. from Anderson Peak south Forest Land a hillside house with an tram in Big Trust, in which he is active, or some other Contrastingly, "wilder- along the USFS boundaries Plan which is sctleduled Sur. organization, might be interested in ac­ ness areas" are set aside as to Nacimiento Road, . .by Both had been denied Central cepting Gelbart's land as open space. But preserves and no to Camp Antonio, Cbast coastal commissioners. State Gelbart told him he intended to build on the development or motorized then north to Indian Station will hear and con land. access. is .allowed, including and the Coast ar:llrurrlents and make their next Leavy said that when Gelbart sub· roads, fire-breaks, or heli­ Road to Anderson sequently submitted an application to build • pads. Peak. Gelbart's attorney accused a house with a tram instead of a driveway, Bare II The second, smaner ..."""',,."" commissioner Zad of he did not disclose the phone conversation Since June 1976 the U.S. se~~mlmt forms a a conflict of in because he did not consider it a conflict of Forest Service has been area, the apllro;dm.ate to it. interest. He also said that he tried to stay preparing a plan for the corners of acres. JUTnr,,,'v Myron Etienne Jr. said out of the discussion on Gelbart's ap­ designation and subsequent Secll Indian The USJ<'S does not have to buy land about a plication, adding his views only after management of the 62 and Bear Mountain. the of eminent year before Gelbart a coastal sevel'al other commissioners raised ob­ • million of its tota1187 million Coast Ridge Road thus to build a house on 'Coast Ridge jections to the permit. acres of holdings. Two other areas, which to Deputy Attorney. General Charles Getz CaIled RARE II, an straddle a section of the who lives on the same road, voted said Wednesday that Etienne's conflict of acronym for Roadless Area Coast Ridge Road, were with interest charge was not germane to the Review and the removed from wilderness four voted question of whether the state commission USFS effort in- consideration because screenwriter should hear Gelbart's appeal and "even if volved more had been included as at the back of the room, true, does not establish a conflict of in­ • of a million cornmlenlts approved unless access exists, Etienne read aloud Gelhart's terest" under the Fair Political Practices the public.