Welcome Friends and Neighbors to the Hwy 68 Buzz! This site is a focal point for news and action on the proposed developments in the Toro and Hwy 68 Corridor with links to documents such as the Environmental Impact Reports, maps, and County planning information that can help you get the information you are looking for.
The Corral de Tierra Shopping Center was approved on a 3-2 vote.
Please read the commentary which was published in the Herald on September 7: Corral de Tierra center's water plan troubling by Beverly Bean.
Video of the Supervisors meeting approving the shopping center is available, here .
At the May 17 Board of Supervisors meeting, the slightly smaller project presented was not approved. But neither was it outright denied. The Supervisors asked the Phelps to come back on July 12 and present a smaller project. View the plan presented on May 17 here: http://publicagendas.co.monterey.ca.us/MG99754/AS99773/AS99779/AI101814/DO101818/Document.htm
- The Encina Hills / Harper Canyon project is "tabled indefinitely". The County is waiting for the applicant to let the County know when they want to reactivate the County review process. The applicant is waiting for resolution from the PUC as to the complaint regarding the water company.
Past postings:
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The Toro LUAC turned down the CalAm request for a 120,000 gallon
water tank in a 3 to 1 vote. The LUAC recommended undergrounding the tank, as has been done in other places.
- People are wondering what the black fence is for between the Villas and the Phelps property. It turns out that the California Department of Fish and Game requires and has issued a permit for a 1 1/2 foot hight perimeter ditch and traps set for endangered salamanders.
- "Seeking a breath of fresh air for Monterey County politics" The Californian - December 11,2010.
- County Planning Commission delays Corral de Tierra shopping center decision - The Herald, December 9, 2010.
El Toro Basin Groundwater Study - Monterey County commissioned a study of the groundwater in the El Toro Basin which was completed in 2007. Read the Executive Summary here or read the entire document here.
Download "Corral de Parking Lot" - a powerpoint presentation on the issues (updated 10/9/10).
Current proposed developments:
- Corral de Tierra Shopping Village
This is the Phelps proposal for a shopping center on Corral de Tierra Rd at Hwy 68. More information on traffic, water and visual impacts, photos, links to the Draft Environmental Impact Report, etc.
Download the petition here, (or here in Spanish) sign, and mail to Hwy 68 Buzz, 129 San Benancio Rd, Salinas, 93908. Or, you may sign the petition here online.
- Encina Hills / Harper Canyon Housing Development - 17 lot subdivision is proposed, to bring the number of houses to 39 or 40 on Meyer Rd, off San Benancio Canyon. See the Meyer Community Group page for more information. This project is tabled indefinitely by the applicant.
- Ferrini Ranch Subdivision - housing development between River Rd and San Benancio Rd along Hwy 68 including
the lupine field:
"Subdivision of an approximately 866-acre property into 212 residential lots including 146 market-rate lots, 23 clustered lots for workforce housing units & 43 lots for Inclusionary housing units; one commercial parcel fronting on River Road and 600 acres of open space." Detailed Project Description (County website)
We are a group of concerned citizens from the Highway 68 Coalition, the Meyer Community Group and other individuals.
Check out the Toro Area Coalition of Homeowners' Associations
new website: www.toroareacoalitionhoa.org!
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- Corral de Tierra Shopping Village