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May 23, 2008
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Letter: Review preparation notice Editor, The Friday Flyer:
I am writing this letter to encourage all Canyon Lake residents to go to Canyon Lake City Hall and review the Notice of Preparation regarding Goat Hill.
This document is very detailed and the final summary findings are all rated as “potentially significant impacts “ to our community. We should also advise our friends in Canyon Hills and Menifee to go to City Hall, because anyone who encounters Railroad Canyon/Newport Road will be impacted by 300 truck loads a day of material removal and poor air quality. Please drive to I-15 and Nichols Road for a preview of a rock quarry and degraded landscape and what it will look like in our community. The Notice of Proposal is not about creating an aesthetic hillside with pretty homes on it – it is a plan for rock mining in a residential neighborhood.
This potential project is not just a detriment to the few homeowners who live near Goat Hill, but could affect everyone’s property values. If this project is approved, will all potential home sellers have to disclose that the hill that is visible and aesthetically pleasing today will be degraded in three years time? Will sellers have to disclose that a rock quarry is operating five to six days a week with on going explosives and a rock crushing plant that makes noise five to six days a week in a residential neighborhood?
We have all felt the sting of lowered property values due to the economy; do we need another reason for lowered values? Disclosure is a very important part of real estate transactions and these are serious questions. I wouldn’t buy a house near a rock quarry.
Our City Council members should review their civic duties and their responsibility to make Canyon Lake a better place for the its residents and follow the adopted General Plan which states “the focus of the community aesthetics are the lake and golf course. Other community aesthetics include the rolling hills and other large open space areas.” We hope that our City Council will remember who their most important constituents are – the homeowners of Canyon Lake – and reject this conditional use permit for a rock mining quarry.
Linda Freeman
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