Eblast: April 20, 2016
- 6th Desert Wise Landscape Tour
- Eagle Mountain Boundary Study
We have two quick messages for you today.
First, of course, we encourage you to attend the 6th Desert Wise Landscape Tour this weekend. It looks like the weather will be just perfect for the two days – clear, in the mid-70s, and not too windy! If you haven’t yet registered for the Tour, either register online by 5:00 PM this Friday, April 22, or register in person at one of the following locations on Saturday or Sunday. Although the sites span the Morongo Basin on both days, there are more West End sites on Saturday, and more on the East End including Twentynine Palms on Sunday.
Read moreEblast: April 13, 2016
- Joshua Tree Airport Solar Farm: Planning Commission hearing - April 21st
- Alta Mira Gated Community Housing Project: 248 homes on 105.24 acres
- National Park Service completes Eagle Mountain Boundary Study
I hope you can clear your schedules to take in the conservation-oriented events coming our way in coming days. Several critically important meetings for projects MBCA has been monitoring now require our attention. Of course, we can’t do “it all,” but hopefully you can find time to participate. We DO make a difference. Our presence and vigilance are being called on this spring to educate the community and decision makers!
Eblast: April 5, 2016 (2)
- National Park Service completes Eagle Mountain Boundary Study
- Altamira Gated Community Housing Project: 248 homes on 105.24 acres
- SPARC Forum, Phase 2
- MBCA Events Calendar
National Park Service completes Eagle Mountain Boundary Study
Eblast: April 5, 2016
Latest on Altamira Housing Project
Thursday, March 24, 2016 - The Planning Commission meeting about the Altamira project was again cancelled and rescheduled for Thursday, April 7. Read the Z107.7 story for a summary of the residents' commentaries and the action of the Commission on March 24.
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - The teleconferenced County Planning Commission meeting about the Altamira housing project was rescheduled to Thursday, March 24th at 9:00 AM. Due to a traffic accident that resulted in a downed power pole, the Joshua Tree Government Center could not provide videoconference service that had been set up. About 40 residents who appeared at 9 AM to make public comments about the project waited about an hour until this rescheduling decision was made.
More background on Altamira
The link below is a series of recent detailed emails from MBCA Vice President David Fick, trying to make sure the San Bernardino Planning Staff fully inform the Planning Commission about the overwhelming number of concerns in the Joshua Tree and Morongo Basin communities about the Altamira Gated Community Housing Project.
NOTE: Several links to web documents and videos are highlighted in blue in this PDF document, but to open them you must go back to this page, using the the links listed below, which are in the sequence they are found in this document, with comments to help you identify them.
Click here to read David Fick's series of emails to the County Planning Department
- Video Link #1 - (YouTube video of the Joshua Tree MAC meeting of February 19, 2009)
- Video Link #2 - (YouTube video of the Morongo Basin MAC meeting of September 8, 2014. Alta Mira presentation is at minute 57:00.
- County Planning Staff Report
- Video Link #3 - YouTube video of the flooding near the Altamira project on September 16, 2014.
- Hi Desert Star article on the flood
Eblast: March 21, 2016
Alta Mira Housing project: MEETING RESCHEDULED TO THURSDAY!
Eblast: March 15, 2016
- Alta Mira Housing project: IMPORTANT MEETING THIS THURSDAY!
- Update on Joshua Tree Airport Solar Field Project (NextEra)
- SPARC Forum – Phase 2: Community Outreach
- San Bernardino County Renewable Energy & Conservation Element
Eblast: March 10, 2016
- SPARC Forum – Phase 2: Community Outreach
- San Bernardino County Renewable Energy & Conservation Element
- 2016 MBCA Desert-Wise Living Landscape Tour: April 23 & April 24
- CELEBRATING THE THREE NEW DESERT NATIONAL MONUMENTS
MARK YOUR CALENDARS…
Eblast: February 6, 2016
- MBCA’s 47th Annual Meeting and Local Energy Symposium a Success!
- Great news for future of rooftop solar and net metering: CPUC ruling
- 2016 MBCA Desert-Wise Living Landscape Tour: April 23 & April 24
- Joining Forces: Plant to Paper Project - The Veterans Initiative in the Arts
- Stop the Tower Campaign
WEMO OHV Travel Management Plan opposed
We’re off with a strong start in 2016!
Three New National Monuments in California Desert
President Obama Protects 1.8 Million Acres
On February 11, 2016, President Obama designated three new national monuments:
- Sand to Snow (in our own backyard)
- National Trails
- Castle Mountains