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WM. WALTER FOSKETT, III
100 VERNAL DRIVE MAY 2 61993
ALAMO, CA 94507-1230
(510) 935-0741
CLERK BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
CONTRA COSTA CO.
May 26, 1993
The Honorable Tom Torlakson, Chair
Members of the Board of Supervisors
Contra Costa County
c\o Clerk of the Board
County Administration Building
651 Pine Street, Room 106
Martinez, CA 94553-1293
Re: Item H.7 - Calendar for the Board of Supervisors, Contra
Costa County, May 18, 1993 . Hearing on recommendation of the
Contra Costa County Planning Commission on a County initiated
General Plan Amendment (2-93-CO) for the Marsh Canyon Landfill
site. The proposed project is to change the County General Plan
land use designation for the subject site from Landfill to
Agricultural Lands. The plan amendment would also require
related changes to Chapter 7 of the County General Plan-Public
Facilities/Services Element, Marsh Creek Road area.
Dear Chairman Torlakson:
The purpose of this letter is to request a rehearing on the above
referenced matter. The bases for this request are enumerated in
my letter of May 12 , 1993 , my speech at the Planning Commission
meeting on April 6, 1993 and my speech at the Board of
Supervisors meeting on May 18, 1993 .
As you know an agreement was reached last year to settle a
lawsuit between litigants in the Marsh Canyon Landfill site
matter that included the possible removal of the site from the
general plan as a landfill site. That portion of the agreement
was to study the possibility of such a change, not to make the
change.
In fact the study in support of the change was extremely brief
and did not do a comprehensive review of the question at hand. In
conducting the study in that manner and subsequently removing our
land from the General Plan as a landfill site, you have violated
our due process rights as granted by the United States
Constitution and the Constitution of the state of California.
It is noteworthy that your staff never even contacted me for a
meeting to discuss this matter. That no mention was made in the
study of the objective data that formed the basis for placing our
land in the General Plan as a landfill site and how those data
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changed in the mean time to require the present change. That no
discussion of the legal ramifications of the change were
discussed in staff report. That there is no justification in the
staff report relative to the need for the change to promote the
public health, safety, morals or general welfare of the people of
Contra Costa County. That there is no mention of the fact that
County bureaucrats have been looking in Utah and Washington for a
landfill site because Keller Canyon does not work due to its
expense. That there is no mention of the fact that your Planning
Commission rejected this change in the General Plan. That there
is no discussion of the recent cases that allow waste disposal
companies to haul waste across county lines and thereby possibly
greatly reducing the life span of Keller Canyon Landfill Site.
In short the entire process has been nothing but a sham that
benefits the large garbage companies to the detriment of the
Foskett family and the people of our county.
Will you kindly instruct your staff to conduct a proper study in
this matter so that a decision can be make based on objective
land use determinants.
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