Molina, Alejandra
RSM city council letter urging CUSD to abandon blanket EIR
Jan 26, 2007
Alejandra Molina, Rancho Santa
Margarita News "The city will send a
letter to Capistrano Unified School District,
urging it to abandon the preparation of an
environmental report studying the effect of
maximizing the number of portable classrooms at
schools. The City Council on Wednesday voted 5-0
to authorize Mayor Tony Beall, who made the
recommendation, to send the
letter."
A report to the City Council, written by Beall, says the environmental report would threaten the 1,050-student cap at Arroyo Vista, a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus, and possibly lead to higher enrollment at crowded Tijeras Creek Elementary.
A report to the City Council, written by Beall, says the environmental report would threaten the 1,050-student cap at Arroyo Vista, a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus, and possibly lead to higher enrollment at crowded Tijeras Creek Elementary.
CUSD proposes blanket EIR to maximize portables throughout the district, City of RSM opposes EIR
Jan 26, 2007
Alejandra Molina, The Ladera
Post "The Rancho Santa
Margarita City Council backed Mayor Tony Beall in
sending a letter to Capistrano Unified School
District, urging it to abandon the preparation of
an environmental impact report. The EIR would
study maximizing the number of portable classrooms
on each of the district’s school sites. The
discussion recalled hard feelings left from last
year’s conflicts with then-Superintendent James
Fleming and the CUSD board."
The proposed blanket EIR is particularly offensive, since Marlene Draper and other CUSD leaders assured voters during the recall and ABC reform slate campaigns that CUSD had a "strategic plan" to remove portables. Now, just weeks after the November election, CUSD is scheming to circumvent the environmental process with a district-wide EIR for the purpose of "maximizing" the number of portables at every CUSD campus. Molina is a reporter for the Orange County Register.
The proposed blanket EIR is particularly offensive, since Marlene Draper and other CUSD leaders assured voters during the recall and ABC reform slate campaigns that CUSD had a "strategic plan" to remove portables. Now, just weeks after the November election, CUSD is scheming to circumvent the environmental process with a district-wide EIR for the purpose of "maximizing" the number of portables at every CUSD campus. Molina is a reporter for the Orange County Register.