CCPAC Meeting July 2 (Tomorrow!)
See the agenda below. Our neighbor Greg Glaser attended the last meeting and reported:
I noticed the group there is very pro-development. I don’t think they really grasped (or no one mentioned at least) the concept that the committee is allowed to consider more than just endangered species. They are allowed to promote biodiversity in all its particulars, which not coincidentally promotes increased development and land values. But by focusing solely on the endangered species ‘canned issue’, they sort of played into a prefabricated red herring designed to foment community discord and partisanship (a kind of neo-conservative anger/frustration with environmental law) rather than analyze the opportunity presented in the context of the already biodiverse Copperopolis landscape. As just one example, a key purpose of the ESA is to protect the habitat in which the endangered species lives, not just the species itself for its own sake – I suspect this purpose of the law may have been lost on much of the group due to the reactionary response invited by the structure of the meeting, and perhaps also a lack of education and interest in environmental diversity.
Here is an article about the last meeting from the Union Democrat:
So, if you have an interest or an opinion on any of this, please try to make it to the meeting. If you go and can send a report back, that would be great. Send it to me at jim@jperry.net.
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