HomeMy Public PortalAboutCanyon Springs EIR Scoping - 36b letter.pdfJuniper Hill Property Owners (as signed below)
May 23, 2011
To: Denyelle Nishimori, Associate Planner
Truckee Community Development Dept
10183 Truckee Airport Road
Truckee, CA 96161
Re; Scoping for Canyon Springs EIR
Dear Denyelle,
Juniper Hill Property Owners are writing you to express a concern regarding the
proposed Tentative Map for the Canyon Springs Development.
Our main concern for this very large development is the Quantity and Quality of our
future water supply. Where is the water pumped from, is it from the Somerset wells ?
Water Quality: How much water would the project require and what will be the
environmental impacts of installing the infrastructure for supplying water?
What would be done to guarantee the quality of water to stay consistent?
Water Quantity: What guarantee would we have from a reliable report to not dry out
our wells for the next 50 plus years ?
How would we be able to get water if the wells are dried up ?
Since there is no infrastructure in the Juniper Hill area .
Biological Resources
The impact on Deer migration, we all know how more buildings/people/dogs are
impacting the deer population. How will this be mitigated?
Land Use Planning
Open Space, as this land was originally National Forest Land and most of us bought into
Juniper Hill assuming it would stay Forest land, how will we have the same feel and
quality of life as we had known it to be Open Forest land?
Agricultural Resources
This project borders agricultural land and forest land, which previously was national
forest land. Surrounding neighborhoods bought into this knowing that it was National
Forest Land.
Noise:
The noise impact from 20 year long construction to the Somerset/Uxbridge Dr, how will
this be addressed?
Project alternatives
Will the EIR truly address a project alternative such as an extension of land use with
Agriculture and Rural land Uses as is designated in the surrounding area of Nevada
County per their General Plan,a “No Development” alternative and keep as Open space
for the Quality of Life of human and wildlife habitats , as per TofT 2025 Vision.
What will be the comparative impacts of a project of 20 acres parcels = 10
houses, 10 acres parcels = 20 houses ?
Truckee Donner Land Trust purchase as a whole and keep it as Open Space ?
AW (Electronic signature)
Andrea Walhof‐Grisham, lot 16
11322 Somerset Dr
Roger Burns, lot 14
Somerset Dr
Heidi Zimmerman, lot 62
Foxboro Dr
William Kelly, lot 4
Coldwater Dr