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Andrea Braun, Director & Chair, Rural Lands Sustainability Committee

 

Comments Regarding MROSD Annexation Plan of San Mateo Coastal Zone

 

·        It is clear from reviewing the MROSD Coastal Annexation Plan that this Special District is neither a competent resource manager of their current 46,000 acre Biomass Fuel Depot  nor are they  prepared to provide San Mateo County coastal residents with a watershed resource management plan, wildland/urban interface (WUI) fire management plan or fiscal business plan.

·        The Coastside Fire Safe Council finds it alarming that the MROSD Board of Directors clearly doesn’t understand  the sole purpose of the CEQA environmental review process: The California Supreme Court has declared:   “ CEQA’ purpose is to inform the public and its responsible officials of the environmental consequences of their decisions “BEFORE” they are made.  Thus, the EIR protects not only the environment but also informed self-government.”  The MROSD annexation approach to “Urban Open Space Sprawl” is not only the antithesis of CEQA but contrary to the basic principles of “informed consent”.

·        Over the last thirty years, the District has created a 46,000 acre “Biomass Fuel Depot” (aka MROSD open space urban  green belt) that places all  San Francisco Peninsula communities at risk of a catastrophic WUI wildfire.

·         Where is the MROSD Open Space Watershed Fire Management Plan?

·         Where is the MROSD  Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Fuel Management Plan? 

·        MROSD WUI Defensible Spaces Plan?

·         Watershed Resource Management Plan? 

·        District Business Plan?

·        Why should the San Mateo County Coastal Communities trust MROSD to do the right thing?

·        How is MROSD going to do to protect us from their 46,000 acre        Biomass Fuel Depot Catastrophic WUI Wildfire Time Bomb?!