By Jim Reece - County Planner Susan Grijalva said Wednesday that she fully expected an appeal to be filed for the Wicklow Way Subdivision set for the Martell area, which has a 10-day appeal period. Anyone can appeal the decision if they file the 400-dollar appeal fee and paperwork in the county clerk’s office by November 7th. The meeting was continued to November 18th, when developers Lemke Construction will give a presentation on the Wicklow Subdivision project. Commissioners John Gonsalves and Ray Ryan asked staff before the vote if they had any procedural problems to worry about, and also asked about a 2007 court ruling dealing with water supplies in EIRs, brought up by a member of the Foothill Conservancy. Deputy Council Greg Gillott said the scenario was different in that ruling, on a 22,000-home Vineyard Development in Rancho Cordova. He said the Vineyard project’s EIR had two-thirds of its water supplied from underground sources, and the other one-third of the water supply vaguely said it could come from the American River or other sources. The Vineyard Project lost the ruling for not showing how it would supply water. Gillott said the situation was different because the Amador Water Agency has a water pipeline and gave spread sheets and a study showing it would have adequate water to build out the Wicklow project. Gillott said state law required analysis of the supply, and getting the water to the treatment plant, as AWA does with its Amador Transmission Pipeline. He said “getting water from the agency to the subdivision is not required.” The commission in its vote amended the EIR to show that either the AWA or the City of Jackson could be purveyors of water to the Wicklow Subdivision, so as to not give the impression of favoring one over the other.
Thursday, 30 October 2008 03:36
Planning Commission Discusses Wicklow Water Issues
By Jim Reece - County Planner Susan Grijalva said Wednesday that she fully expected an appeal to be filed for the Wicklow Way Subdivision set for the Martell area, which has a 10-day appeal period. Anyone can appeal the decision if they file the 400-dollar appeal fee and paperwork in the county clerk’s office by November 7th. The meeting was continued to November 18th, when developers Lemke Construction will give a presentation on the Wicklow Subdivision project. Commissioners John Gonsalves and Ray Ryan asked staff before the vote if they had any procedural problems to worry about, and also asked about a 2007 court ruling dealing with water supplies in EIRs, brought up by a member of the Foothill Conservancy. Deputy Council Greg Gillott said the scenario was different in that ruling, on a 22,000-home Vineyard Development in Rancho Cordova. He said the Vineyard project’s EIR had two-thirds of its water supplied from underground sources, and the other one-third of the water supply vaguely said it could come from the American River or other sources. The Vineyard Project lost the ruling for not showing how it would supply water. Gillott said the situation was different because the Amador Water Agency has a water pipeline and gave spread sheets and a study showing it would have adequate water to build out the Wicklow project. Gillott said state law required analysis of the supply, and getting the water to the treatment plant, as AWA does with its Amador Transmission Pipeline. He said “getting water from the agency to the subdivision is not required.” The commission in its vote amended the EIR to show that either the AWA or the City of Jackson could be purveyors of water to the Wicklow Subdivision, so as to not give the impression of favoring one over the other.
