Email or fax your opposition to the SD Planning Commission TODAY!

SD staff is recommending approval to initiate a Plan Amendment to allow the “Quail Brush”/Santee Power Plant atrocity.

Email the Planning Commission and all local officials listed further below (copy/paste into your email as one list).

Item: Quail Brush Power Plant CPA Initiation
Email: planningcommission@sandiego.gov
Fax: (619) 321-3200
Send your note:   “I oppose the rezone of Open Space to Industrial for the ‘Quail Brush Power Plant’ abomination. Please deny the CPA initiation!”

Anthony Young (anthonyyoung@sandiego.gov); Carl DeMaio (CarlDeMaio@sandiego.gov); JerrySanders@sandiego.gov (JerrySanders@sandiego.gov); Kevin Faulconer (kevinfaulconer@sandiego.gov); Marti Emerald (martiemerald@sandiego.gov); Sherri Lightner (SherriLightner@sandiego.gov); Todd Gloria (toddgloria@SANDIEGO.GOV); David Alvarez (davidalvarez@sandiego.gov); Lori Zapf (loriezapf@sandiego.gov); DaleJack (JDale@ci.santee.ca.us); John Minto (JMinto@ci.santee.ca.us); John Ryan (JRyan@ci.santee.ca.us); Randy Voepel (RVoepel@ci.santee.ca.us); Rob McNelis (RMcNelis@ci.santee.ca.us); Dianne Jacob (dianne.jacob@sdcounty.ca.gov); Christine Kehoe (Senator.Kehoe@sen.ca.gov); DavisSusan (susan.davis@mail.house.gov); BoxerBarbara (senator@boxer.senate.gov); Dianne Feinstein (senator@feinstein.senate.gov)

QUAIL BRUSH COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT INITIATION –PROJECT NO. 2011-04

The Quail Brush project conflicts with the following documents: the East Elliott Community Plan, which designates the site as Open Space; the General Plan, which designates the site as Park, Open Space, and Recreation; and the Municipal Code, which designates the site’s zoning as single-family residential (RS-1-8). Cogentrix wants to amend the Community and General Plan by initiating a rezoning from residential to industrial in open space area that was designated to be protected.

What is the specific justifiable criteria for initiating this change? Why is the city of San Diego even considering making changes to these plans and it’s own codes at the expense of the surrounding communities and federally endangered species that live there? Is the building of the 11, 100 ft stacks, using technology that is dated and inefficient, far more important than our quality of life, health of our seniors and children, and the peace and tranquility that the Mission Trails Regional Park has provided since around 1962?

Since the park was a 2000 acre gift from the Federal Government to be used for open space supporting the residential community, shouldn’t the city of San Diego at least entertain the thought of supporting the federal government’s mandate to move away from fossil-fuel based energy and instead look to solar energy? Solar panels on rooftops will harness surplus galore since San Diego gets abundant sunshine year round.

We OPPOSE this initiation and demand its withdrawal. We, the people are watching our cities’ actions closely now and will find it suspect should the city of San Diego’s Planning Commission vote to allow this permanently damaging change so that a power company can place their plant in a location that is most convenient and cost effective for them so they can increase their gross profits at the communities’ expense in every conceivable way.

2nd Continuance: SD Planning Commission Hearing – Thurs, June 28th, 9am

The San Diego Planning Commission recommends rezoning the land to industrial  so Congentrix can proceed to build the power plant.
Attend the meeting & say NO!   Gather a group and carpool to this meeting.
(see map below)   Parking structure at this location – $18 all day parking (less if not all day)

Quail Brush Community Plan Amendment Initiation
The San Diego Planning Commission will consider a request to initiate an amendment to the East Elliot Community Plan to redesignate a portion of a 22 acre parcel from open space to industrial to allow future development of a 100 megawatt intermediate/peaking load energy generation facility.    Exempt from local, independent environmental review!

ACTION OF COMMISSION: Approve or deny the amendment initiation

SAN DIEGO PLANNING COMMISSION
THURSDAY   June 28, 2012,  9:00 A.M.
CITY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
202 C STREET, 12TH FLOOR
San Diego, CA 92101

Wall Street is behind this Power Plant

Cogentrix Energy is an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Cogentrix Energy is the organization that is trying to profit from this power plant. You will pay for it with or without your consent. click here to read “The Effect of Power Plants on Local Housing Values and Rents”

Read Goldman Sachs internal emails

April 24, 2010
Senate subcommittee investigating financial crisis releases documents on role of Goldman Sachs.

The Subcommittee, whose Chairman is Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and whose Ranking Republican is Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has conducted a nearly year and a half investigation into the 2008 financial crisis. “Investment banks such as Goldman Sachs were not simply market-makers, they were selfinterested promoters of risky and complicated financial schemes that helped trigger the crisis,” said Sen. Levin. “They bundled toxic mortgages into complex financial instruments, got the credit rating agencies to label them as AAA securities, and sold them to investors, magnifying and spreading risk throughout the financial system, and all too often betting against the instruments they sold and profiting at the expense of their clients.”

Power sources and transmission lines

“Such proposed power sources and their transmission lines should be built 1000 ft minimum from any places there may be pregnant women, small children, schools, housing with children or potential high density population centers.

I supervised a team that did 2 years of non-ionizing radiation hazard (RADHAZ) surveys. It included power line emission measurements. We only made intensity measurements but were told to avoid drawing conclusions because only highly qualified and education certified “experts” can do that.

In my presentations I offered caution as my best advice. In this case, locate such power plants out in the middle of a nowhere so ugly and desolate that developers will have no interest raising housing suburbs near it. If Santee fits that description then it is a good candidate for such a project.

Caution is called for because our experts and vested interest parties waiver on conclusive hazard findings. One knowledgeable expert once told me ‘that electrical power in the modern world is such a necessity that we must live with all its unknown acceptable risks regardless of what they may eventually turn out to be.’ Fast reproducing and dividing living cells in all living things appear to have some degree of vulnerability when in close proximity to such potential RADHAZ power sources as electrical equipment.

Few dare to take a stand on this subject or even seek funding to conduct effective research studies. Such a controversial subject can lead to unknown future results and expenses.”

– anonymous retired electrical engineer

Protect your neighborhood, homes and health

This summary of plant emissions equals 43% of actual emissions. Equal to 204.84 tons of pollution per year. This data was provided within their project proposal. However, it will be more than doubled if the plant runs at full capacity.

We are trying to Stop the power plant that Cogentrix Energy wants to put in the middle of our Santee neighborhood. It’s important to rally our community and show our city council that we won’t stand for this. The plant will burn toxic gas and spew pollution all over Santee.

Our home values will be lowered too.