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SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br /> COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT <br /> Development Services Division <br /> Attention: Chandler Martin <br /> Re: Application No. SU-92-15 <br /> January 13 , 1999 <br /> Page 3 <br /> potential contamination of the local groundwater supply" was not <br /> even considered. At the Board hearing' in 1997, at the time <br /> extension request, Mr. Hantzsche, an engineer with a background in <br /> water analysis, explained to the Board how the environmental impact <br /> report, dated 1992 , by -Kleinfelder Engineering, used false and <br /> misleading information to show that there would be no groundwater <br /> contamination. This report had been available to the developers, <br /> attorneys for months before the hearing and he, in fact, presented <br /> evidence to the Board about this false and misleading information. <br /> What this indicates is that the initial environmental impact report <br /> was knowingly prepared containing misleading analysis of the <br /> "groundwater pollution. " Initially, Mr. Hantzsche had been <br /> involved in the environmental impact report by the developers. He <br /> was then terminated and went to Kleinfelder Engineering after they <br /> did not even get the report that they wanted concerning the one-- <br /> acre subdivision. This report alone compels the need - for an <br /> environmental impact report. <br /> F Secondly, the Community Development Department ignores the <br /> 1000 vocal community opposition to this project. Aside from all <br /> the reasons below, the developers bought this property and let an <br /> orchard die from lack of water, remove the orchard and had been <br /> trying to develop it without regard to any type of CEQA <br /> considerations for the past ten (10) years. They had the zoning <br /> recharged but there is no consistent line with the zoning <br /> (originally it had been the Central Traction Railroad tracks) . on <br /> December 8, 1998, I presented the Board with a petition signed by <br /> 373 residents surrounding the project, requesting that the zoning <br /> be changed back from rural residential one to Ag 40. <br /> Finally, there is no indication from the developers that they <br /> have ever been able to obtain the consent from Central Traction <br /> Railroad to put a water line along the railroad tracks to the <br /> Calaveras River to hold a draining basin. Without that consent <br /> from the railroad, the project cannot go forward. It has now been <br /> over four years since it has been approved and still there is no <br /> consent. If the developers have not been able to obtain it in this <br /> four year period, it would seen unlikely that they will be able to <br /> obtain it in the future. If there is no place to drain the water <br /> t <br />