JIV Environmental Evaluation Public Meeting
Thursday April 5th
Cottonwood Golf Course
4:00-8:00pm
Court Reporter will be present to take your comments.
JAC will post more information as we receive it.
Some Questions to ask at the Public Meeting: (Underline links to email)
Who's going to pay to make all the needed improvements to Highway 94?
Arsenio Mataka -
Assistant Secretary for Environmental Justice and Tribal Affairs
Boards, Departments, and Offices Tribal Liaison Contacts:
Air Resources Board - Sylvia Oey
Department of Pesticide Regulation - Pam Wofford
Department of Toxic Substances Control - Patrice W. Bowen
State Water Resources Control Board - Gita Kapahi
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment - Amy Dunn
Where is the
DFG and
BLM permits to build adjacent to a Ecological Preserve?
Can
SDG&E's system handle the load for additional power?
Will Jamul have brown outs and black outs from the drain?
Will Rancho Jamul Estates lose water pressure?
Will Whispering Meadows and Melody Rd area residents lose water pressure?
When will the CEQA process begin?
Have the families of those buried at the cemetary been notified of the proposal to build a parking garage 10 feet from their relatives?
Community Meeting
Wednesday April 18th
Jamul Primary School - Multi Use Room
7:00pm
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Amicus Brief
The Supreme Court of the United States granted a oral arguements hearing on the case Salazar v. Patchak. Patchak, a homeowner in the State of Michigan filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, stating that a tribe that was not a federally recognized tribe in 1934, does not have the right to take land into trust and "A PRIVATE CITIZEN HAS A RIGHT TO OBTAIN JUDICIAL REVIEW OF FEE-TO-TRUST CONVERSIONS IN HIS OR HER NEIGHBORHOOD".
JAC was contacted by Cheryl Schmidt of Stand Up for California in January 2012 to join in an Amicus Brief to be read into the oral arguements. 28 community groups in California joined in support of the brief. It's time the Supreme Court enforce their decision on Carcieri v. Salazar.
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Respones from the Jamul/Dulzura Planning Group to the tribe's last EIR's. They can be found here:
The current "EE" addresses some of the issues but does not show the issues need any mitigation.
Links to the Draft "EE" can be found here: www.jacjamul.com right column under JIV proposal. (large files, may take time to load)
Caltrans has yet to produce their Traffic Study. The tribe hired Kimley-Horn and Associates for the traffic portion of the EE. The traffic study Appendix 10 can be found on the website www.jacjamul.com. The study is 801 pages long but still does not address the danger of Highway 94.
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Issues
Lakes dropped the tribe and the tribe owes them $58M.
Where will the tribe get the money?
The past environmental reviews failed. What makes the tribe, let alone another developer and financier,
think this one will pass?
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Send in those letters in opposition!
Please copy the Jamul/Dulzura Planning Group, Senator Feinstein, Duncan Hunter, Brian Jones, and Dianne Jacob on all communication to the tribe.
Please register and Post them for your friends and neighbors in the forum at:
http://jacjamul.com
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No Casino! Not Now! Not Ever!
The fight is not over!
Community Meeting April 18th 7:00pm
Jamul Primary Multi-Use Room
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