[CPEO-MEF] ENCROACHMENT: Near Beale Air Force Base (CA) - Yuba Highlands project abandoned

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

County officially buries Yuba Highlands project

By Ben van der Meer
Marysville Appeal-Democrat (CA)
January 11, 2011

Yuba Highlands was formally, and perhaps permanently, sunk when Yuba 
County supervisors voted Tuesday to end a development agreement for the 
controversial project.

A community barbecue looks to be the only activity in the near future 
for the 2,500-acre property, which at one time was slated for hundreds 
of homes but never gained much favor from county residents.

"It was a bold plan at the time," said Kevin Mallen, the county's 
director of community development and services, in his board 
presentation. "Things have changed since then."

The county's two actions, to end the development agreement and also let 
the property owner pay off associated bonds, clear the way for the land 
to eventually become conserved open space under the oversight of nearby 
Beale Air Force Base and the state.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/county-103010-public-project.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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