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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Wes,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please advise.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Page 15 of May 21-27 Metro News section discusses angry city residents and members of the San Martin Neighborhood Alliance who are tying to <b>incorporate</b> surrounding agricultural lands (presently outside the city boundaries) and make San Martin "its own self-governing city."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But what they want for the ag lands is a mix of small farms, <b>some estate home</b>s, produce markets, and <b>commercial businesses</b> that "cater to a rural, farming community."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The lands are part of SC County and are being used for junkyards, dumps, run-down businesses—or are being approved for an expansion of the airport, a huge seafood distribution plant, a metal-box storage company, and more junkyards.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; ">The fight is going on in LAFCO hearings; SJCC member Pete Constant is a swing vote, Bd of Sup Don Gage is in favor, and SJCC member ("liberal"?) Linda Le Zotte is against.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">While the San Martin group claims to want to protect these lands from developers and county abuse, it's interesting to note a comment by Brian Schmidt of the Palo Alto Committee for Green Foothills:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>"There are a lot of pitfalls to this."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Are you in favor of incorporation?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Andi</div> </body></html>