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DESCRIPTION:Public Urged to Attend Meeting to Comment on UCSC's Timber Harvest 
 Plan\n\nThe California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) 
 should holdoff on approving the University of California-Santa Cruz's 
 logging any trees related to its Long Range Development Plan until the 
 legality of the plan's Environmental Impact Report is established in court, 
 says Don Stevens, co-founder of CLUE, the Coalition for Limiting University 
 Expansion.\n\nThe validity of the LRDP EIR is the subject of several court 
 suits brought by the City and County of Santa Cruz, CLUE and other 
 community groups. The first court hearing on the suits was scheduled to be 
 heard in Santa Cruz Superior Court on June 11, but has been postponed until 
 at least mid-July.\n\nUCSC has submitted a Timber Harvest Plan to CDF to 
 clear land for the first projects under the LRDP, a huge Biomedical 
 building and a tower to provide building cooling. UCSC has claimed it has 
 no obligation to provide an EIR for the projects, as required by the 
 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), asserting they are covered by 
 the LRDP EIR. CLUE's position is that no work should be done on any of the 
 projects under the LRDP until the legality of the EIR is established in 
 court. "Once they are cut down, these trees can't be replaced," says CLUE's 
 Don Stevens. "If the EIR is decertified there is no legal basis for the 
 timber harvest."\n\nUCSC eventually plans to log about 150 acres of trees 
 for its expansion projects.\n\nCalFire will hold a public meeting on the 
 UCSC Timber Harvest Plan at 6:30 p.m.on Wed., June 13, 2007 in the Santa 
 Cruz Board of Supervisors chambers. People concerned about the issue should 
 attend.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/13/18427106.php
SUMMARY:Meeting to Comment on UCSC's Timber Harvest Plan
LOCATION:Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors chambers\n701 Ocean Street\nSanta 
 Cruz, CA 95060
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/13/18427106.php
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