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We, the undersigned live, work or shop in Redding and advocate for the revision and strengthening of the Tree Management Ordinance. Originally enacted in 2006, the ordinance is in need of changing to better address the following pressing concerns: Therefore, we urge the Redding City Council to prioritize the strengthening or adoption of a new…
Congratulations to many of you who sent in comment emails on the discussion of a new tree ordinance for Redding by the Planning Commission, taking up where the Redding Tree Committee left off. We had almost 100 emailed comments that went to the Planning Commission and most were cc’d to the City Council and this…
Redding’s Draft General Plan will be coming back to the Planning Commission in February, according to a statement by Development Services Director Jeremy Pagan. The original plan was horrific, consisting of a series of weak platitudes such as “strive to,” “seek,” “consider,” and “encourage.” Due to considerable criticism of the weak, meaningless wording, the language…
Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI) submitted a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) in 2016 covering 355,000 acres of SPI land in northern California, primarily the Sacramento and Trinity River watersheds. In return, SPI received an Incidental Take Permit from NOAA IN 2021….
Providing more protection for important lands in northern California. By David Ledger The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is still soliciting comments on its updated Northwest California Integrated Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement (NCIP) which involves 382,000 acres of land in northern California managed by the Redding and Arcata offices. BLM is offering five…
Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik The Development Services/Planning Department has listened to many critical comments made regarding the Draft General Plan and because of those comments, they have strengthened some of the language. Much of the draft plan had phrases such as “consider, strive to, or work to” all of which are so vague as…
The Highland Plains Shooting Range proposed by Supervisor Patrick Jones in the eastern Millville Plains passed on a 3 to 1 vote on October 24 following a packed five-hour contentious meeting. The supervisors approved a zoning change to Commercial Recreation (C-R), the same zoning change proposed for the Hawes Ranch amusement center. The gun range…
Last spring Shasta Environmental Alliance (SEA) got word that a company called US Waste to Energy (USWTE) was in escrow with the City of Redding to purchase a property in the Stillwater Business Park. USWTE advertises itself as using “green technology” to convert plastic and tires to jet fuel. It sounds “too good to be…
Photos by Doug Mandel Two successful Saturdays in October with work by many volunteers, putting in a lot of time and energy led to many shade trees being planted in the front yards of Redding residents. This was nearly a year in the making and with a grant from The Bower Charitable Foundation, SEA and…
There is currently a trail in the late planning stage that would roughly follow Jenny Creek in the Sunset Terrace neighborhood running from TR Woods Park on Royal Oaks, traversing through the City of Redding-owned open space between the homes on Royal Oaks Drive on the northwest and Sunset Drive, Pioneer and Overhill Drives to…
The proposed re-zoning of agricultural land at the Hawes Ranch amusement park project was temporarily set back due to a lack of a quorum at the Board of Supervisors meeting on October 3rd. Supervisors Rickert, Crye, and Jones recused themselves from voting due to conflicts of interest. This left only Supervisors Kelstrom and Garman to…