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D 2%16193 San Joaquin Co. Planning Division 1810 F. Hazelton St . FEB 171993, Stockton , Calif . 95205 COMMUNITY UtVELupmtffl'[)Eff. Dear Loree. Gou l d and the entire p 1 annn i ng Staff : PLANNING WISION This letter in response to - the Planning bivisions. appiications #SA-93-0003 & #SA-93-0004. . .We are adamantly opposed to this development as we were to the one proposed last Novemeber. We believe that the main reason for Sierra Hill 's withdrawal of their former plan is due to the united and unexpected opposition that we and approximately twenty other homeowners and farmers. put up at the hearing. Sierra Hills has revised their plan. The plan is essentially the same' as the one proposed in November . However, the new plant .will be larger than the- old plant (consist of 159,000' sq. ft .\ instead of #29,000 sq. ft . ) , and will generate even more truck traffic. The issue of traffic and safety does not go away by simply rerouting initial traffic from Fairchild Rd. to. Jack Tone Rd. The argu.ementthat most trucks will Vse Fairchild Road because _it__-is the shortest route to Highway 99 or Interstate. 6 is still. .valid. To prove our point , countless residents gave verbal testimony In Nov. about all -types of. trucks ( 18 wheelers, double trailers, refridgerated, . flat beds, etc. ) already using Falrch ..ld.-Road, Sierra Hills redoing their plans- .does not solve the problem of unsafe .truck . traf f i c _on.- Fal:rch 1-- cr The 'truci dr i~vers_w 11;1: - continue to use Fairchild because It- s_ the shortest way back :to the freeway . Anyone who driven- Fafrdh1ld Road knows that. it 1s a .narrow,: busy, hast , ,wL -a_r� ndy ,- d--dangerous:.load.w i lrha t- even one - - tcuck traveling It . Add the' fog, rain', setting sun , bikes: children playing, children waiting for school buses, and school buses stopping and going along with dozens and hundreds of trucks and you end up with- a potentially catastrophic situation. .it'_sr „ust a matter of time until someone gets seriously hurt or killed. ?: ease do not be fooled by what is on Sierra Hills application . ,his expansion under the guise of an "agricultural permit" is actually a muti-million dollar project that will bring hundreds and hundreds of additional trucks up and down Fairchild Road at all hours of the day and night . This so .c-ailed "seasonal, locale cnecry packing shed" operation , if approved, will become a year round ousiness that will bring in produce from all over the Western United States, pack not only cherries but all sorts of and vegetacies through out the entire year , . and ship the rruit oack to markets all over the United States and Pacific Rim countries. This all translates into additional truck traffic up and down Fairchild Road and Jack Tone Road all year long! ! ! ! Sierra Hills is big business! Big business belongs ln . non-farm areas. The argument that this "packing shed" needs to be near their customers farms is- baloney. In the Oct. 1992 issue of. Frult Growers Magazine it stated that Sierra Hills packs apples of. " for 30 growers spread from Yuba Clty in the north to Visalia in. the South . Besides selling apples in Washington , Sierra Hills has a, active customer list throughout much of the West , Midwest , and Eastern .U.S. , plus brisk export sales to several. Pacific Rim . countries. " The article further states that Sierra Hills not only