Wednesday APRIL 18!!!
Please attend this critical meeting!
JAC Community Meeting
Wednesday April 18th
Jamul Primary School Multi Use Room
7:00pm
History of our opposition
JAC lawsuit vs Caltrans
Amicus Brief to the US Supreme Court
Jamul/Dulzura Planning Group
JIV "EE" Proposal
-Crime and Law Enforcement
-Noise and Air Pollution
-Rural Character
-Construction/Grading/Sewage Disposal
-Traffic/Highway 94
-Public Safety/Emergency Services
San Diego County Response
Sample Letters will be available to send in opposition
Op/Ed Sunday April 15th Union Tribune:
Win, lose or draw? Casinos bring benefits, complaints
Editor's note: The growth of Indian casinos in San Diego County over the last dozen years has meant big changes for area tribes and local communities. The impacts on traffic, land use and the social and political landscape concern some residents, but casino gambling has also transformed formerly poor tribes into big business with lots of employees and charitable donations. Here is a look at a proposed Jamul Indian Village casino in East County.
Handmade signs urging residents to "Stop the Casino" dot the two-lane road known as state Route 94 as it cuts through the East County hamlet of Jamul. Just south of town sits Jamul Indian Village, a rolling, 6-acre patch of rocks and dirt being eyed for a $230-million gaming center projected to generate more than 10,000 automobile trips every day.
The tribe says the casino will employ more than 1,600 permanent workers while sending millions of dollars to local governments and charities.
Residents see a disaster. "The casino would create an unsafe environment that won't be mitigated," said Michael Casinelli, chairman of the Jamul Delzura Community Planning Group. Traffic safety is the foremost community concern. "We have one lane in each direction. There are no sidewalks and no lights. With the amount of congestion that would be generated by that project, well, people are worried."
Jamul is not unique. The debate playing out in the backcountry town has consumed rural communities throughout the state since voters approved Nevada-style slot machines on California reservations in 2000. San Diego County has more Indian reservations, more casinos and more tribes with state gambling agreements than any other in the nation....
Questions that still need answers: (Underline links to email)
Where is the Caltrans Permit?
Whiere is the Caltrans Traffic Study?
Who actually gets the say on the Permit for access to Highway 94?
Who's going to pay to make all the needed improvements to Highway 94?
Pam Scanlon - SANDAG Public Safety Committee Project Manager
Laurie Berman - San Diego Caltrans District 11 Director - 619-688-6668
Bill Figge - San Caltrans District 11 - Planning Deputy District Director - 619-688-6681
Gus Silva- San Diego Caltrans District 11 Tribal Liaison - 619-688-6807
Trent Clark - San Diego Caltrans District 11 Tribal Liaison - 619-688-3140
Lonora Graves - Caltrans Sacramento - Branch Chief, Native American Liaison Branch - 916-653-6315
Lorrie Lau - Federal Highway Administration - Tribal Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty
Lonora Graves - Caltrans - Branch Chief, Native American Liaison Branch
Wade Hobbs - Federal Highway Administration - California Field Office Tribal Contact
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 are 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?
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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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Amicus Brief - April 24th, 2012 - U.S. Supreme Court
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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The fight is not over!
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