Copperopolis Community Plan Advisory Committee taking a hiatus

The Copperopolis Community Plan Advisory Committee (CCPAC) completed its assigned tasks and will postpone its monthly meeting schedule until further notice. District 4 Supervisor Debbie Ponte will conduct a community outreach program to inform and garner input from community residents on the Committee’s work. Additional information regarding the outreach effort will be posted on this website soon. If you have questions contact the Planning Department: gpupdate@co.calaveras.ca.us; (209) 754-6394.

Policies Hashed out at CCPAC meeting

At the 2-4-13 CCPAC meeting held at the Copper Fire station, Committee members and the community in attendance hashed out the proper wording for the policies that will be submitted to the county for implementation into the General Plan for the Copperopolis Community.

The following are the policies that were worked on, some of the wording has been changed....the final product will be released within the next two weeks after approval from the Planning Department.

1.The scenic value of the community’s key natural resources (rolling hills, oak woodlands, creeks and rock formations) and visual resources (Flowers Mountain, Copperopolis Mountains, Table Mountain, Gopher Ridge, Lake Tulloch) should not be occluded or disrupted by new development.

*Discussion of the ridgelines and their names occurred.

2. Achieve a harmonious relationship between the developed environment and its natural surroundings by preserving open space, ridgelines, oak woodlands, and agriculture/range lands.
*Discussion of the use of the word preserving occured and it was ultimately removed.


3. Entryways to Copperopolis should be architecturally distinctive and embrace the historic character of Copperopolis. Monument-style designs should be avoided.
*Monument style was removed and a clearer definition of architecture was discussed.

CCPAC meeting tonight 2-4-13

CCPAC 2-4-13 meeting agenda

CCPAC meeting for January cancelled

The January 7, 2013 meeting of the Copperopolis Community Plan Advisory Committee is cancelled. The next scheduled meeting is February 4, 2013.

CCPAC Votes on Boundaries for Copperopolis Community Plan

After nine months of deliberation and many maps, presentations and vocal community and developer input the Copperopolis Community Advisory Committee voted on a boundary map for the Copperopolis Community Plan. The vote was 4 to 3 with Steve Hutchings and Jim Tower voting no and Steve Marks abstaining.

It does not include lands East of O'Byrnes past the commercial area of Lake Tulloch Shopping Center (IGA) towards the bridge. It does include all developments either approved or pending approval with permits pulled as well as some land East of O'Byrnes just South of old town. No additional lands across Highway 4 were included. Many developers put forth presentations, speeches and information promoting more land to be included in the boundaries, most notably a 931 acre parcel in the valley of Table Top. Public Works reiterated the fact of increased cost to the benefit basin and the residents of Copperopolis if too much land was included as well as costs shouldered by the County that he felt could not be shouldered at this time.

CCWD also submitted their Copper Cove Water master plan  build out map.

 

CCPAC meeting TONIGHT! 12-3-12

CCPAC 12-3-12 meeting agenda

CCPAC would like community input

At the 11-5-12 CCPAC (Copperopolis Community Plan Advisory Committee) meeting the committee requested community input for the goals of the community. The following are the current goals listed from previous attempts at community plans, the committee would like suggestions, edits or additions to the 7 goals listed below. The following current growth facts may be helpful when formulating your suggestions.

Current growth facts:
2500  Built Lots
1500  Vacant lots within subdivisions
500     Existing legal lots
4100   Approved subdivisions not constructed
8600  lots TOTAL    20,000 people
3300  pending applications
11900  lots subtotal     27,700 people
Prior community plan drafts sat at 16,000 lots and 40,000 people.

The following are the current goals: 

 

If you would like your voice to be heard pertaining to the goals you would like to see come to fruition for the community please email your thoughts by no later than November 26, 2012 for consideration at the December 3, 2012 meeting to Brenda Gillarde at bgillarde@co.calaveras.ca.us.

CCPAC meeting recap - an editorial

I must begin this editorial with the caveat that in order to clearly report the events of the 11-15-12 CCPAC meeting it would simply be an exercise in repetition. I must also state that my understanding of a community plan is to determine the best use of land within a boundary for the benefit of the members of the community, with goals of improving social and economic environments and ensuring orderly development.

The CCPAC meetings began in earnest in April of 2012, with each agenda produced and presented by the county planning department, with community boundary and land designation taking center stage. At each of the meetings these issues continue. Vision statements were just recently brought up at the October meeting after the committee was asked to go about town and look for areas where they would like schools, parks, etc, without knowledge of goals or vision, let alone land use designation for the areas in question. In addition, after multiple requests from the committee for the county to produce a boundary map that they had requested, one was finally produced following property lines and AFTER county claimed to have discussed the land use designation with the potentially affected property owners.

CCPAC would like your input

At the 11-5-12 CCPAC (Copperopolis Community Plan Advisory Committee) meeting the committee requested community input for the goals of the community. The following are the current goals listed from previous attempts at community plans, the committee would like suggestions, edits or additions to the 7 goals listed below. The following current growth facts may be helpful when formulating your suggestions.

Current growth facts:
2500  Built Lots
1500  Vacant lots within subdivisions
500     Existing legal lots
4100   Approved subdivisions not constructed
8600  lots TOTAL    20,000 people
3300  pending applications
11900  lots subtotal     27,700 people
Prior community plan drafts sat at 16,000 lots and 40,000 people.

The following are the current goals:

If you would like your voice to be heard pertaining to the goals you would like to see come to fruition for the community please email your thoughts by no later than November 26, 2012 for consideration at the December 3, 2012 meeting to Brenda Gillarde at bgillarde@co.calaveras.ca.us.

To see the current proposed boundary lines and school placements please click read more.

CCPAC meeting 11-5-12

CCPAC meeting 11-5-12

CCPAC Meeting November 5,2012

The next CCPAC (Copperopolis Community Plan ADvisory Committee) meeting will be held at 6 pm at the Copperopolis Fire Protection District meeting room on Main Street on November 5, 2012.
Agenda will post as soon as it is made available.

CCPAC re-cap of 10-1-12 meeting

The agenda, prepared by Calaveras Planning Director Rebecca Willis, was handed out to the audience and committee alike. The sole speaker on all subjects on the agenda was Calaveras County Planning Director Rebecca Willis.

When asked why Willis prepared the agenda her response was, "The Board of Supervisors set up the committee so that planning and public works be involved." When asked if planning prepared and ran other community advisory meetings for other communities, Willis responded, "No." According to a previous planning commissioner the BOS requested that Willis "facilitate" the meetings.

CCPAC meeting agenda 10-1-12

CCPAC meeting agenda 10-1-12

CCPAC will not hold September meeting

The Copperopolis Community Plan Advisory Committee meeting will not be held Monday September 3 due to the Labor Day holiday. The next meeting will be Monday, October 1.

CCPAC meeting tinught! 8-6-12

Copperopolis Community Plan Advisory meeting recap - discussion of a 4 lane Little John Road

At the 7-2-12 CCPAC meeting all appointed Board members were present, this was the first meeting appointee Bill McHale attended, alternate Carlene Sargenti -Mansour had attended all previous meetings.

Conflict of interest protocol was presented by Planning Director Willis. Willis stated the advisory committee are not elected public officials, their presentations will be given to the BOS and final decision will be made at that level. With that information the CCPAC agreed that members of the CCPAC disclose if land owned by any individual member is affected by CCPAC decisions and allowing the member to participate and vote.

A new proposed boundary line was submitted by Willis including areas on the East side of O'Byrnes Ferry road from IGA to Hwy 4 up to the edge of the hillside where allowable by terrain. The map below shows the area in red as the additional area added to previous boundary map. Willis stated that the plan attempts to not cut parcels, preferring to follow the parcel boundaries.