2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 23 Apr 2007 15:37:36 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Yuba Highlands - Camp Beale (CA)
 
Yuba developer won't wait
Contractor hired because military too slow

By Russell Carollo
Sacramento Bee (CA)
April 22, 2007

Green hills roll into the horizon. The Sacramento skyline is barely visible 45 miles to the south. The Sutter Buttes tower above the pastures to the northwest. Spring calendar scenes can be seen in every direction.

A perfect place for houses, attracting buyers from as far away as Sacramento with the promise of fresh air, larger lots with views and cheaper prices.

That's why in 1990 developer Gary Gallelli started buying land, much of it cattle pasture, for what is now the proposed Yuba Highlands: more than 5,000 homes, an 18-hole golf course and a shopping center.

Any large development in California faces years of maneuvering through a maze of environmental, zoning and construction regulations, and Gallelli was prepared for that. But he wasn't prepared for what he said he learned later.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/159102.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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