Kidder Creek Orchard Camp EIR NOP Comments SCOTT VALLEY AREA
Kidder Creek Orchard Camp EIR NOP Comments SCOTT VALLEY AREA PLAN: This proposed expansion and zone change is the type of development that the SVAP specifically is designed to prevent. There are numerous references throughout the 44 pages that prohibit this expansion, but I particularly want to call your attention to Policy 42 and Policy 43 that “...shall apply to all lands within the Scott Valley Watershed.” Policy 42 states that “It is the policy intent of this plan to channel heavy commercial and industrial land uses into areas that have good, existing access, away from residential areas, and into the existing urbanized areas of Fort Jones, Etna, Callahan, and Greenview.” Certainly a commercial activity, industrialized recreation including 844 people, meets the definition of “heavy commercial and industrial.” Policy 43 states that “It is the intent of this plan to channel all high density residential development into the existing urbanized areas of Fort Jones, Etna, Callahan, and Greenview.” If this proposed expansion does not meet the definition of heavy commercial and industrial than surely it can be defined as residential development since it is proposing year around occupancy by a greater population than either Etna or Fort Jones. In terms of impact, it matters not whether the population is transient or permanent. The impact is the same. FIRE SAFETY: Given the recent catastrophic and explosive wildfires and the high likelihood that this will be the new normal due to climate change, it is incredible that anyone is in favor of 844 people stuck at the end of a dead end road surrounded by fuel and without adequate vehicles on site for an emergency evacuation.
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