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Return to previous page - (Sewer Impacts) |
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ROAD CONSTRUCTION IMPACT |
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Road construction impact: The City's General Plan requires a new, 1/4 mile long road be constructed when this land is developed. This new road is to provide access to and from North Mt. Shasta Boulevard for safe and more direct access to this subdivision. It is needed because this land is located in a part of the City where existing street access is partially boxed in by the McCloud Railroad tracks. Without this new road, subdivision traffic has to flow indirectly through existing neighborhoods. But the developers refused to construct it. They instead planned residential lots to block its future connection to the subdivision. The EIR and the City Council also ignored that requirement. The City violated the General Plan and essentially awarded the developers the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars by not requiring them to construct or pay their fair share for this new road. |
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This drawing shows the new road as required from the City of Mt. Shasta's General Plan that was in effect during this subdivision's application process: |
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The City Council even rejected the developers' last moment offer to donate some land for this road's future construction. Their designation of some land for a "remainder parcel" so this road might someday be constructed was illusory because their offer wasn't accepted, no restrictive conditions were imposed, the City didn't acquire a road easement across it, and it still remains zoned and privately developable for homes. At its worse, the last moment tactic of creating a remainder parcel was further profitable to the developers because it increased their ability to now build up to 45 dwellings on these 10 acres -- --- which is seven percent more dwellings than the EIR ever disclosed. Subdivision residents will suffer increased safety risks and unnecessarily longer driving routes if it is not required. Taxpayers will be stuck paying for this expensive blunder. |
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Next: (Global Warming Impacts) |
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Pacific Municipal Consultants staff members who prepared this Project's EIR offered no explanation for the Draft EIR never mentioning nor analyzing the General Plan's requirement for this new road nor evaluated what share of its future costs should be paid by the developers. |
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This drawing is from the City of Mt. Shasta's current General Plan update with the Moss Mountain Meadow Subdivision added to it for clarity. |
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