[Sosfbay-discuss] Fwd: BAREC Referendum update, CEQA Challenge, City Council Aug 21st

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In a message dated 8/16/2007 9:42:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time,  
kmathewson at secretgardens.com writes:

Dear BAREC  Supporters,
 
I am pleased to announce the overwhelmingly  positive feedback we have 
received from the community regarding the referendum  drive.  Our website has been 
updated with all the latest articles and it  continues to be a place for 
updates.  Please look at: _www.SaveBAREC.com_ (http://www.savebarec.com/)   when you 
have time.
 
Additionally, we continue to lead the community  in the effort to protect the 
citizens and the BAREC land.  On Friday,  August 10, 2007, SaveBAREC.org 
filed a CEQA (California Environmental Quality  Act) lawsuit against the City of 
Santa Clara for adopting what we feel is an  inadequate Environmental Impact 
Report (EIR). The lawsuit (actually a petition) challenges six major  flawed 
areas in the Environmental Impact Report (EIR), including the soil  testing and 
cleanup, traffic, significant impacts, loss of farmland, and  history. 
 
In filing this "Petition for Writ of Mandate," SaveBAREC is challenging the 
validity of the  Environmental Impact Report (EIR) in an effort to protect the 
residents from a  faulty cleanup process and the community from an 
environmental document that  is inaccurate.
 
I, Kirk Vartan, was nominated to be the sole  spokesman for the group during 
the referendum and CEQA petition proceedings.  This means should  anyone 
contact you or ask you for information, please direct them to me via  email (the 
best way) or by phone.  Contact information is as  follows:
 
Email: _spokesman at SaveBAREC.org_ (mailto:spokesman at SaveBAREC.org) 
Phone: 888-BAREC-80, press 0 (888-227-3280, press  0)
 
Our priority right now is the referendum.   We would like you to attend the  
Tuesday, August 21, 2007 City Council meeting at 7pm when they discuss the 
referendum  and determine the next steps.  We hope the Council will save the City 
of  Santa Clara over $172,000 and simply rescind the resolutions.  If they do 
 not, the Council will be forced to put these two resolutions on the ballot 
in  February 2008, costing the taxpayers an additional $172,000.
 
As a side  note, the Tuesday SJ Mercury News article (August 14,  2007) had a 
slight error when it stated SaveBAREC was a non-profit.  VIVA  is the primary 
501(c)(3) non-profit supporting the grassroots community  SaveBAREC  
_http://www.savebarec.org/docs/sj-merc-aug-14-2007.pdf_ 
(http://www.savebarec.org/docs/sj-merc-aug-14-2007.pdf) 




We continue  to work for the public good and for protecting the LAST 
significant piece of  public agricultural land in Santa Clara. 

Thank you,

Kirk Vartan
SaveBAREC  Spokesman

_spokesman at SaveBAREC.org_ (mailto:spokesman at SaveBAREC.org) 
_www.SaveBAREC.org_ (http://www.savebarec.org/) 
888-BAREC-80

 



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