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How Many Acres?

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Supervisor Mike Rippey
Napa County Board of Supervisors  
1195 Third Street 
Room 310
Napa, California  94559

28 January 2003

Dear Supervisor Rippey:

You asked Deputy Planning Director Patrick Lowe at 4:55PM, Jan. 28th meeting, how many acres does the proposed Ordinance Amendment affect? Patrick Lowe's answer was, in effect, he doesn't know, can't say for sure, but will get back to you on that subject.

Excuse me, but doesn't your question, and failure to obtain an answer, reveal precisely what is wrong with Planning Staff and the Jones and Stokes Consultancy?  Are you, with your reputation as an inquisitive Biologist, appalled at the abject failure by Staff to have an answer, on the 28^th of January 2003, to the most fundamental question regarding this proposed redraft of  County Conservation regulations?  How could the County have expended so much time and money, for so many months, and not have an answer to THE most fundamental question:  how much acreage does the proposed amendment affect?

I asked the same question you posed today, at a Planning Commission meeting last September.  I wrote a letter to the Editor, published in October, criticizing the absence of this and other basic, fundamental facts and calculations.  I demanded an answer to this question in my 13 October 2002 letter to Will Selleck.  I again demanded an answer to this question in my 18 November 2002 appeal of the Planning Commission decision, which you received a copy of.  I asked again for this and other relevant facts at your 10 December 2002 Public Hearing.  Incredibly I asked again for this information, in writing, 7 January 2003, directly to Charles Wilson, and copied to you. 

Absurdly, and inexplicably, neither one of us can get the question answered on January 28^th.  What are you going to do about this intolerable abuse of discretion right now?  I want my questions answered, not someday, or after March 11^th, but, now:

            A:  How much acreage is affected by the proposed increased setbacks?

            B:  Where is the data to support Jones & Stokes' contention that Class III streams rather than Class IV streams are primary sediment sources?

            C:  What is the new total dollar amount Planning Director Charles Wilson proposes to pay Jones & Stokes?

            I anticipate  your thoughtful, substantive reply, or a copy of your request to Staff that they answer my Public Disclosure requests with thoughtful, substantive replies. 

Kind regards,

Edward Schulz

Cc:  Supervisors, Charles Wilson, via Fax

       NVLSA Membership, via email

       Napa Valley Register, via email

       St. Helena  Star, via email

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