LIVE: Redding Council weighs Bethel's $25,000 offer for police drones
The City Council will also consider whether to approve a subdivision's expansion plans in the face of a challenge by conservationists.
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Some background for tonight's meeting:
Bethel Church offers to give Redding $25,000 for police drones
Redding Record SearchlightRedding City Council scheduled to vote Tuesday on accepting the money to pay for two drones, licenses and training for six officers. -
More:
Group wants Redding to study threat to rare plant before subdivision expands
Redding Record SearchlightNative Plant Society asks Redding officials to study whether housing development will affect plant found only in Redding. -
This may also come up:
REU late fees in organizations' crosshairs
Redding Record SearchlightThe city collects $1 million a year in late fees a year to help pay for general expenses, but nonprofits and churches say they hurt local families. -
In ~8 minutes, the Redding City Council will hold its last planned meeting of 2017by Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 1:53:41 AM
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Vice Mayor Francie Sullivan is out tonight due to a scheduled absence, City Clerk Pam Mize saidby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:03:48 AM
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Mayor Kristen Schreder is giving special recognition to the Shasta Wolves football team for its 2017 season https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRdIGdQVAAAeXB_.jpg
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Here’s the whole team https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRdISCkUEAAFurp.jpg
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"A police escort out of town, thank you for that. That was a once in a lifetime experience," Shasta Coach J.C. Hunsaker saysby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:10:40 AM
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We're now hearing from Shasta County Assessor-Reorder Leslie Morgan, who's presenting her office's annual reportby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:19:05 AM
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If you're keen on following along with this bit, go here: reddingcityca.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileO…by Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:24:43 AM
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The short version: Total taxable value is up year-over-year in Shasta Countyby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:26:12 AM
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Now onto public comment. If you're an avid follower or Redding.com reader, you'll know the council voted recently to swap the order of comments to earlier in the meetingby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:34:17 AM
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Nick Gardner says he's got a stormwater runoff issue at his house off Bechelli & Hartnellby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:35:09 AM
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Gardner lives in the county - a small patch surrounded by city land - but blames the city's stormwater systemby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:36:31 AM
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Gardner wants the city to address the issue, which he says is an overgrown runoff canalby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:37:09 AM
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Peter Rogers up now: he's apologizing for previous comments that marijuana delivery systems operating in Redding were unlawful.
He does say, however, they're unregulatedby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:38:08 AM -
On to consent calendar. Tyler Brown up speaking on angled parking downtown.
He recommends engineers consider back-in parking for cyclist safetyby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:42:45 AM -
Correction: That's Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster twitter.com/seanlongoria_R…by Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:43:11 AM
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Now we're on to an appeal of a map for The Vistas subdivision expansion in north Redding, which I wrote about: redding.com/story/news/loc…by Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:46:48 AM
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That’s Planning Manager Paul Hellman https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRdRXUtVAAI3ett.jpg
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Some technical details on the environmental review process https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DRdRnI8UMAA24FK.jpg
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"We do feel that the potential habitat for this species will be avoided," Hellman says of sewer line's possible threat to rare flower, the Sulphur Creek brodiaeaby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:51:59 AM
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If Council upholds appeal, the developer will be required to be conduct a plant survey during blooming season, the spring, and prepare another environmental impact reportby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:53:42 AM
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Councilwoman Julie Winter asks about erosion control
Hellman: grading will be reviewed and inspected in field to make sure erosion control is properby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:55:10 AM -
California Native Plant Society members speaking nowby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 2:57:53 AM
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John Livingston pushing through a presentation by the plan society
He says developer's consultant study was only publicly available starting Dec. 15
"Accepting an after the fact study by the developer does not allow for public input."by Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:00:42 AM -
Correction: This is John Springer twitter.com/seanlongoria_R…by Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:01:08 AM
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Livingston says he's toured the site, the hillside is unstable and some of the slope has been sprayed with herbicide, which could affect the plantby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:03:00 AM
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Livingston also notes water runoff potentials and removal of trees from open spaceby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:03:56 AM
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Janet Wall, a member of the Wintu Audobon Society, says no biological study was completed for the project and other surveys were done past blooming season of the plansby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:04:54 AM
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California law - the California Environmental Quality Act, to be specific - wasn't followed in the process, Wall says
Planning Dept also provided information that wasn't publicly offered until very recentlyby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:06:16 AM -
David Ledger of CNPS is up now
Initial study of subdivision didn't do a plant survey, he saysby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:07:49 AM -
"Planning did not know about this plant at all until I went to a Planning Commission meeting. They did not know, to my knowledge," Ledger saysby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:08:34 AM
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"It seems that Mr. Hellman and maybe the Planning Dept... there may be some disagreement in how that may be interpreted but we believe that if were brought to a court-type situation, we would prevail," Jones saysby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:11:50 AM
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Susan Libonati up now. She's a retired Shasta College teacher and CNPS member
"How cool is it that we have a really rare, really beautiful plant right here in Redding? I think it's wonderful and I think we should do everything we can to preserve it."by Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:13:41 AM -
Another speaker up now supports preservation of the Sulphur Creek brodiaeaby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:14:21 AM
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Tyler Brown Cifu Shuster is up again
"I think it might be the opinion of some people that this species is very small and somewhat inconsequential," but species is very adaptive to this area, he saysby Sean Longoria via twitter 12/20/2017 3:16:54 AM
