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Just a reminder to attend the Salida Municipal Advisory Council’s (Salida MAC) meeting tomorrow night at 7 pm at the Salida Library Community Room. The topic will be the Salida Annexation and Goodwin Consulting Study.
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By Emerson Drake
This is for anyone who missed the January Salida MAC meeting or those who want to see it again here is a link that will take you straight there.
If any Modesto City Council members, Board of Supervisors’, LAFCO members, Modesto Planning Commission members, Modesto Chamber of Commerce members, Stanislaus Alliance members, or members of the public would like to see a committed group of people who are unwilling to be hijacked by Modesto just check out the above link.
— at Salida Regional Library.
I’ll be looking forward to seeing everyone there.
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During Modesto’s State of the City address Marsh Declares WAR on SALIDA, and the response of a few Salidans, Stage 2 on the Cat Killer Ordinance, a recap of the Modesto City Council meeting, the politics and challenges behind getting a city ordinance passed, Lower TIN CUP limits, this and much more Wednesday night at 7:00 PM.
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The call in number is 1-347-215-9414
REMINDER: The Salida Municipal Advisory Council meeting is Tuesday, January 29th at 7 pm @ the Salida Library Community Room. Modesto Mayor Garrad Marsh and Councilman Dave Cogdill plan to attend because they want your questions about Modesto’s potential annexation of Salida. Please plan to attend and bring your family, friends and neighbors. — at the Salida Library.
Attitudes are welcome, tar and feathers are optional…(metaphorically speaking, of course.)
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on-line to protest the attempted annexation of Salida by Modesto you will want to read and possibly sign.
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By Emerson Drake
As most now know, Stanislaus County and Modesto have paid $30,000 each towards a study of the costs surrounding the possible annexation of Salida by Modesto. After going to several meetings in Salida, from the Hammett Road Interchange meeting to a Salida MAC meeting, it’s obvious most civically active Salidans are overwhelmingly against the annexation. Unfortunately governments are seldom driven by what their constituents desire, rather, they are motivated by either special interest groups or political self-interest.
In this case it’s obvious it’s both.
Stanislaus County would like to get Salida onto someone elses checkbook. Salida has a simple problem, they don’t have the tax base necessary for easy independence at this time. In years past Modesto held the metaphorical gun to their head when it stole Costco and the rest of the stores on the north side of Kiernan from Salida in a water/sewer deal for the sales tax generated by these businesses. The County has been careful to keep the small strip business parks lining North 99 for themselves too.
Now developers like Modesto Councilman Joe Muratore, who was caught with his finger in the Federal HUD/NSP2 money pie, are at it again. Councilman Muratore, thru his company Benchmark Realty, is representing land owners in Salida, one being a current business partner, Stephen Endsley. At the same time the Councilman voted to move Modesto a step closer to the annexation of Salida. See it’s easier to control development if you have friends on the Planning Board and are a Councilman. Modesto already has 5,700 acres in their sphere of influence to develop but that isn’t enough according to Modesto politicians and their political donors.
At a recent City and County liaison meeting we once again heard the term developers love, when the phrase “low hanging fruit’ was used several times when referring to Salida.
Most Salidans say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
An online petition has been created for Salidans, Modestans, and indeed ALL citizens of the county to sign to register their concerns. I invite everyone who wants to help David from being devoured by Goliath, to sign and let their thoughts be known. Say NO to greedy special interest groups who would plant driveways instead of crops and change the quaint, rural environment of Salida into the city controlled by developers that Modesto has become.
Please consider clicking on the link and filling the form out. Thank you.
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Did MID’ Directors Tom Van Groningen and Glen Wild vote yes to save face to stop the water sales? Have you heard about MID’s Allen Short wanting to spend $30,000 on his outer office furniture? Is Judy Sly intentionally misleading the citizens of Salida about the annexation? Are we seeing the beginning of the demise of the bail bond industry in Stanislaus County? The heart warming story of four homeless men who rescued a 15-year-old girl from a sexual predator. What is it about the veteran’s job bill made Republicans vote against it?
Join me tonight won’t you.
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Our call in number is 347-215-9414
By Emerson Drake
Following the Hammett Road Interchange meeting held on 7/31/12 between county residents, StanCOG, and County officials, seven questions had been brought up or came to mind regarding the possible annexation of Salida California. Supervisor Terry Withrow was extremely helpful in getting these questions answered, since several of them are not just looking for documents but explanations of legal positions. I wish to thank Supervisor Withrow, County CEO Monica Nino and all of the people involved in answering this extensive request.
Now obviously these aren’t the only questions but I thought these might be a good place to start. Ground zero so to speak. Here are the question made to the County Board:
1. Is it possible for Salida to have a referendum and vote to refute the County Boards’ Salida Now land use vote from 2007?
2. Are Salida citizens guaranteed by law a vote in any annexation attempt by Modesto?
3. How much is left in the account the County says developers contributed to in order to push the Hammett Road Interchange?
4. Exactly how many years are remaining from the Salida Now vote regarding land use designations?
5. Exactly how many years will remain on Salida Now land use rules if Modesto annexes them?
6. Will Modesto citizens get to vote on annexing Salida?
7. For the sake of openness, exactly which companies and their owners were the land use guarantees made to?
The following pdf is the County’s response.
To see the entire ordinance click on the link at the bottom.
ORDINANCE C.S. 1005
Upon motion of Supervisor Grover, seconded by
Supervisor Monteith, Ordinance C.S. 1005 was
passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the
Board of Supervisors of the County of Stanislaus,
State of California, this 7th day of August 2007, by
the following called vote:
AYES: SUPERVISORS: Grover, Monteith,
and DeMartini
NOES: SUPERVISORS: Mayfield and Chairman
O’Brien
ABSENT: SUPERVISORS: None
ABSTAINING: SUPERVISORS: None
Ordinance C.S. 1005 adopted without alteration the
County of Stanislaus Salida Area Planning, Road
Improvement, Economic Development, and Farmland
Protection Initiative. The Board also accepted
as a critical and integral component to the Initiative
and Development Agreement signed copies of
the First Amendment to Development Agreement,
which clarifies the authority of the Board of Supervisors
to condition or deny a development plan that
includes residential development if such development
cannot fully fund the cost of infrastructure for
business Park and industrial development. This ordinance
amends the County General Plan and County
Code to expand the Salida Community Plan area
and create a comprehensivelY planned Salida Community
Plan and related zoning classifications.
This new Community Plan will Provide for transportation
improvements, industrial business, commercial
centers, parks, school sites, and residential.
This ordinance approves a development
agreement that establishes the general plan and
zoning designations for twenty-five years, irrespective
of any growth control measures later enacted
by the voters or the Board of Supervisors. This
ordinance is not the final approval to develop the
Salida Community Plan. This ordinance requires
that any development within the Salidc Community
Plan Amendment Area requires the prtparation of
a programmatic-level Environmental Impact Report
prior to development.
A full copy of Ordinance C.S. 1005 is available online
at and is available for review at the Clerk of
the Board’s Office, 1010 10th Street, Suite 6700, Modesto,
CA. For further information, call the Stanislaus
County Counsel’s Office at 525-6376.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD
OF
SUPERVISORS
DATED: August 7,2007
ATTEST: CHRISTINE FERRARO TALLMAN,
Clerk of the Board of Supervisorsof the County of
Stanislaus,State of California
BY: Elizabeth A. King,
Assistont Clerk of the Board
AUGUST 20, 2007
To see the entire Salida Now Package click on 810 ordinance.
Aditional file footnotes.
http://www.co.stanislaus.ca.us/bos/agenda/2007/20070807/B10Ordinance.pdf
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