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This Page Last Updated September 9, 2007

Early Warning Local - AMBAG Clearinghouse Newsletter
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Early Warning - State Clearinghouse CEQA filings
How to Appeal a Bad Decision
Recent Letters on Projects by HOPE
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* Protect Monterey Pine Forest Species & Habitat Preserves for Jeffers' Forest and surrounding Jack's Peak. Stop Aerial Chemical Spraying of Monterey Peninsula
* Monterey County General Plan Update Pebble Beach Company

Measure A - the phony "Protect the Forest for Clint" Ballot Measure.

* County Local Coastal Plan Update Stop Landwatch (that is not a misprint) from Forcing a General Plan allowing 40,000 new housing units and a 125,000 population increase on us.
Dispel the harmful Myth that Monterey Pine Forests Need Burning for Their Health! Fort Ord Burning - Mileswide Smoke so thick it shorted out power lines and sent Spreckels schoolchildren to the hospital !
Monterey City General Plan Update September Ranch (It's Baaaaack!) & EIR
Monterey Bay Sanctuary Plan Update Rat-Poison Planned for Your Drinking Water - Flouridation
Peninsula Water Allocation Plan Update (Water District) Last done in 1990 - before ESA listing of steelhead, red-legged frog and Order 95-10. How California can get our $40 Billion back - by de-chartering the energy corporations who have overcharged us by at least $45 billion.
Recent Letters on Other Projects by HOPE
Carmel Local Coastal Plan and General Plan Update Continual Building Approvals in spite of Our Water and Electrical Supply Emergencies
Pacific Grove General Plan & Local Coastal Plan (on hold for 5 years) Smoke Quadrupling Approved
Campaign Finance and Conflict of Interest Reform for Pacific Grove Cruise Ships - making deafening underwater noise, and persistently dumping hazardous waste.
Public Records Access  Improvements for Pacific Grove Rancho San Carlos - 30 square mile Subdivision. Back for TWO MORE Subdivisions - Chamisal and Potrero in 2003. All approved.
Increased Public Notice for Development and Tree cutting and trimming in Pacific Grove Highway Widening Threats - (Hwy 68, 152 and Moss Landing to Watsonville).

Sunshine Ordinance for Pacific Grove

 
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Sunshine Laws -- 

In San Francisco, Public Records Only Cost a Penny per Page.

Open Meeting Violations
Requiring all governmental officials to tell the truth. Serious penalties for lying. A law could require serious penalties if Government Officials refuse to answer Questions or if they Lie. Pacific Grove Hiding Our Public Records and Overcharging when they finally deign to let us copy them.
Publicly Noticing Interagency Meetings. Outrageous Land Use Appeal Fees - County Raised theirs from $50 to $671. Pacific Grove charges up to $15,000 or more !!!
Kelp Harvesting Moratorium Pacific Grove Sewage Spills City was sued under Federal Clean water Act as of July 2003, and settled in 2004. The settlement has court enforced deadlines for sewer repair. (Our letter to EPA)
Pacific Grove Tree Ordinance Deadly Pesticide Use on Agriculture, Roads and Schools
PG Neighborhood Improvement Program Cal-Am - Our Greedy Monopolistic for-profit Water Supply Corporation
  Cannery Row Market Place II (Ocean View Plaza)
  Send Forest Hill Manor - Back to Pacific Grove Planning Commission
  U.S. EPA Trying Hard to Allow Imperiled Species Extinctions
Recent Letters on Other Projects by HOPE
Projects Done
Growth Inducing Carmel Highway One Climbing Lane Supervisors approved California's First Deer Slaughterhouse in south Monterey County in 2002 - in the face of Texas and S. Carolina just closing their borders to Deer Importation because of the deadly Deer version of Mad-Cow Disease! 

A suit filed locally by several National Animal Rights groups in Aug 2002. The Judge ruled in Favor of the deer in June 2003 and requires an EIR if the project is to proceed!

Dangerous "science" report on Carmel River Flows by Jones & Stokes. Unanimously Repudiated and Rejected by Water Board July 2003 PG's 'Fairy Woods' (Investmark project between PG's David Ave & PB's Congress Ave) would destroy important Native Monterey pine forest Wildlife Corridor. On County Supervisors April 22, 2003 Agenda.
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