Post by lakeman on Apr 4, 2008 14:20:57 GMT -5
For you that ride in the Red Rock area, north of Reno and west of Stead, you might
be interested in an alert a myspace friend sent me. Sounds like another land grab by a developer.
Here it is:
Please take action on this and repost! Thanks! - Heather
EVANS RANCH ALERT FOR UNINCORPORATED AND INCORPORATED RESIDENTS:
Please go here to download information on the initiative petitions: http://planevada. org/content/blogcategory/75/446/
We wanted to alert you to concerns about the environmental and recreational impacts of the proposed Evans Ranch development on Reno residents who care about wildlife, public lands, outdoor recreation, and the environmental impacts of sprawl. Evans Ranch is a huge development of 5,556 homes that has been proposed for the area between Red Rock Road and Petersen Mountain, which is currently only zoned for 40 homes. See the attached "Notice of Public Hearing.
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If approved by City Council, this high-density development will have many negative effects on our community:
* The Evans Ranch property borders BLM on the west, and is near the beautiful Petersen Mountain Natural Area. If built as planned, the project will negatively impact wildlife, including the local herd of pronghorn and the Washoe-Lassen mule deer herd that winters there and uses a critical spring that is part of the property. Although the City’s proposal acknowledges the likely negative effects on wildlife, the proposal for Evans Ranch does not include a specific plan for how these negative impacts will be reduced. And when 15,000 people are added to this remote valley, all the nearby public lands which are so great for hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, wildlife viewing and other responsible recreational usage will suffer immensely.
* The density of the proposed Evans Ranch development will change our quality of life forever. The development will have a major impact not only on recreational opportunities and on wildlife, but will produce 1.6 million gallons of sewage per day, will use more than 625 acre feet of water per year, and will add to light pollution. Although Evans Ranch is so large as to be a project of “Regional Significance,” the proposal includes no construction management plan, no adequate traffic study, no specific plan for where the water will come from or even where the effluent water will be pumped out to.
* In the form it is proposed, Evans Ranch is an example of the sort of unchecked growth and urban sprawl that threatens to ruin our way of life in the Truckee Meadows. It does not depend on principles of contiguous urban planning, instead leapfrogging open land to put dense urban developments in rural areas. It increases not only the volume of traffic but the distance it travels, and does so without adequate plans for the expansion of infrastructure.
It is made possible only by unsustainable water importation schemes that ignore the environmental realities of local aquifers and watersheds as real limits on growth in the Reno area
WHAT YOU CAN DO: PLEASE take a moment to tell the Reno City Council that you are concerned about the impact of Evans Ranch, and that you oppose the plan. If you would like to attend the hearing at which this will be decided, please join us at City Hall, 1. East 1st Street, at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9. Or, you can email Lynnette Jones, Reno City Clerk, at jonesl@ci.reno.nv.us or send a letter to the City Clerk at PO Box 7, Reno, NV 89504. PLEASE SEND YOUR EMAILS AND LETTERS BY FRIDAY, APRIL 4! Your note to City Council can be very short, and can just say that you have concerns and so you oppose the Evans Ranch proposal.
TIME IS VERY SHORT! PLEASE HELP PROTECT WILDLIFE, OPEN SPACE, AND WATER RESOURCES BY ATTENDING THE HEARING ON APRIL 9 AT 6:00 P.M. OR BY WRITING TO THE RENO CITY COUNCIL TO OPPOSE EVANS RANCH.
Please go here to download information on the initiative petitions: http://planevada. org/content/blogcategory/75/446/
be interested in an alert a myspace friend sent me. Sounds like another land grab by a developer.
Here it is:
Please take action on this and repost! Thanks! - Heather
EVANS RANCH ALERT FOR UNINCORPORATED AND INCORPORATED RESIDENTS:
Please go here to download information on the initiative petitions: http://planevada. org/content/blogcategory/75/446/
We wanted to alert you to concerns about the environmental and recreational impacts of the proposed Evans Ranch development on Reno residents who care about wildlife, public lands, outdoor recreation, and the environmental impacts of sprawl. Evans Ranch is a huge development of 5,556 homes that has been proposed for the area between Red Rock Road and Petersen Mountain, which is currently only zoned for 40 homes. See the attached "Notice of Public Hearing.
"
If approved by City Council, this high-density development will have many negative effects on our community:
* The Evans Ranch property borders BLM on the west, and is near the beautiful Petersen Mountain Natural Area. If built as planned, the project will negatively impact wildlife, including the local herd of pronghorn and the Washoe-Lassen mule deer herd that winters there and uses a critical spring that is part of the property. Although the City’s proposal acknowledges the likely negative effects on wildlife, the proposal for Evans Ranch does not include a specific plan for how these negative impacts will be reduced. And when 15,000 people are added to this remote valley, all the nearby public lands which are so great for hiking, bicycling, horseback riding, wildlife viewing and other responsible recreational usage will suffer immensely.
* The density of the proposed Evans Ranch development will change our quality of life forever. The development will have a major impact not only on recreational opportunities and on wildlife, but will produce 1.6 million gallons of sewage per day, will use more than 625 acre feet of water per year, and will add to light pollution. Although Evans Ranch is so large as to be a project of “Regional Significance,” the proposal includes no construction management plan, no adequate traffic study, no specific plan for where the water will come from or even where the effluent water will be pumped out to.
* In the form it is proposed, Evans Ranch is an example of the sort of unchecked growth and urban sprawl that threatens to ruin our way of life in the Truckee Meadows. It does not depend on principles of contiguous urban planning, instead leapfrogging open land to put dense urban developments in rural areas. It increases not only the volume of traffic but the distance it travels, and does so without adequate plans for the expansion of infrastructure.
It is made possible only by unsustainable water importation schemes that ignore the environmental realities of local aquifers and watersheds as real limits on growth in the Reno area
WHAT YOU CAN DO: PLEASE take a moment to tell the Reno City Council that you are concerned about the impact of Evans Ranch, and that you oppose the plan. If you would like to attend the hearing at which this will be decided, please join us at City Hall, 1. East 1st Street, at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 9. Or, you can email Lynnette Jones, Reno City Clerk, at jonesl@ci.reno.nv.us or send a letter to the City Clerk at PO Box 7, Reno, NV 89504. PLEASE SEND YOUR EMAILS AND LETTERS BY FRIDAY, APRIL 4! Your note to City Council can be very short, and can just say that you have concerns and so you oppose the Evans Ranch proposal.
TIME IS VERY SHORT! PLEASE HELP PROTECT WILDLIFE, OPEN SPACE, AND WATER RESOURCES BY ATTENDING THE HEARING ON APRIL 9 AT 6:00 P.M. OR BY WRITING TO THE RENO CITY COUNCIL TO OPPOSE EVANS RANCH.
Please go here to download information on the initiative petitions: http://planevada. org/content/blogcategory/75/446/