Andrea Braun, Director & Chair, Rural Lands
Sustainability Committee
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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Where is the MROSD Open Space Watershed Fire
Management Plan?
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Where is the MROSD Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Fuel Management Plan?
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MROSD
WUI Defensible Spaces Plan?
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Watershed Resource Management Plan?
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District
Business Plan?
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Why
should the San Mateo County Coastal Communities trust MROSD to do the right thing?
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How
is MROSD going to do to protect us from their 46,000 acre Biomass Fuel Depot Catastrophic
WUI Wildfire Time Bomb?!