Badlands declares Sunshine Week

Badlands is declaring the coming days a Sunshine Week to post a number of documents submitted to Merced County government in the last few months. Some of these documents have been included in the official packets of information for Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission meetings. Others have been suppressed.

This material best understood by reference to the audio or video archives of supervisors' and planning commission meetings and we encourage readers seriously interested in understanding their local government to go to the Merced County webpage, http://www.co.merced.ca.us/CountyWeb/, to seek out these hearings, particularly the two board of supervisor meetings on July 1 and July 8.

To begin, we refer readers to two prior Badlands postings for reference:

Burch letter on Robinson subdivision application appeal, June 10, 2008
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=481
We are posting a letter from Attorney Marsha Burch, representing San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center and Protect Our Water (POW) on a proposed subdivision on the Robinson Ranch, which straddles the Merced River above the Shaffer Bridge on Highway 159, because it raises important issues concerning this apparently innocuous application. We will post a report […]

Public comment on the Felix Torres Project
Friday, June 27th, 2008
http://www.badlandsjournal.com/?p=489
On behalf of San Joaquin Raptor Rescue Center and Protect Our Water, two local environmental groups, attorney Marsha A. Burch filed the following letter to the Merced Local Agency Formation Commission on June 26, regarding Planada Community Services District proposals to extend its sphere of influence to annex the new Felix Torres farm worker housing […]