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233 East O Street <br /> Lathrop, CA. 95330 <br /> (209) 858-1186 <br /> E-Mail:robertoliverl@luno.com <br /> January 6, 2000 <br /> My name is Robert Oliver, I live at 233 "0" Street, Lathrop. In the absence <br /> of Mayor McKee and Vice-mayor Rhodes, I am glad to speak for the Lathrop City <br /> Council and its citizens in opposition to this proposal. <br /> Significant changes have been made since the original application was <br /> approved by the previous County Planning Commission. <br /> 1. The original application was fora custom slaughter house, processing <br /> possibly 50 animals per day". This application speaks of perhaps 500 per day. <br /> Visually, the change looks like this. <br /> 2. The area to the south, in Lathrop's sphere of influence, has not been <br /> annexed because our city has a firm policy of annexing only after a specific plan has <br /> been submitted. Since the earlier application was granted, a specific plan has been <br /> submitted for a development of approximately 2,000 homes with sites for both an <br /> elementary school and Lathrop High School. That specific plan is being processed, <br /> annexation documents are being prepared. This proposed slaughter house is only <br /> 1,800 feet from the northern boundary of this project. Development of this <br /> slaughter house may make it impossible to locate a school west of 1-5. <br /> 3. With our city growing in this direction, we have submitted to LAFCo a <br /> request to extend northward our sphere of influence west of 1-5 to Roth Rd. City <br /> staff has cited the regional benefits of traffic routing. I mention the benefit of <br /> "squaring-off" our northern city limit and re-affirm the inapropriatness of this activity <br /> in a transition zone that will one day be within Lathrop City limits. <br /> 4. On the east side of 1-5, within our City limits, and directly down-wind from <br /> this site, Stonebridge development has about 250 houses finished or under <br /> construction, and grading is being done for Joseph Widmer Elementary School. This <br /> will eventually be a community of about 900 homes. Council persons and city staff <br /> receive calls on a daily basis protesting this location of a slaughter house. Though <br /> the Hayres Egg Ranch has not operated for over 5 years, citizens well-remember the <br /> odor blanketing the area all the way to west Manteca. <br /> 5. Mr. Brian Stagno addressed the Lathrop City Council on November 2, <br /> 1999, and assured us that no slaughtering was being done on the property. He <br /> assured me in a private conversation after that meeting that what the neighbors had <br /> seen and complained about was the removal of animals who had died of natural <br /> causes. The records of Modesto Tallow Works indicate that between November 1 <br /> and December 13 they had been called out to remove approximately 240 animal <br /> carcasses from this property and Mr. Stagno had brought in 57 more. Among these <br /> pick-ups, some sheep carcasses had been included, which the Tallow company <br /> refused to accept due to possible disease contamination. <br /> I respectfully request the Planning Commission to deny this new and larger <br /> slaughter house application <br />