Posted on 09/10/2002 7:07:16 AM PDT by John Jorsett
SACRAMENTO -- A formidable Capitol coalition of local governments, builders and landowners is feeling the power of California's Native American lobby in a fight over a bill created to safeguard sacred sites.
Senate Bill 1828 would compel government agencies to notify a Native American tribe of any proposed development within 20 miles of its reservation and could require developers to reduce the effects of such a project.
According to business groups and other opponents, if it is signed into law, the reality could be an avalanche of lawsuits and endless development delays. They say economic growth and development in California are at stake.
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I foresee what's going to happen all over California: the board, which has to be majority Indian, and is appointed by the governor, will delay and hinder projects until the tribes and politicians are paid a tribute by the developer. This is just a way for both of these groups to extract more dough out of private business.
They tell you which tribe they represent, but that tribe might have lived 150 miles away... Well, all I've got to tell you is that they seem to know an awful lot about land they've never visited. There's no telling how they were "discovered" to be local tribal representatives (much less certified as such), seeing as many of those tribes have been gone for over a century. Sometimes they tell patent lies about the way the land was "before the white man came" (usually detailing how it was when they were kids around 1940). It's fascinating how huffy they get when confronted with historical facts that refute their claims.
After the tribes get done with you, then there are the archaeologists. In Santa Cruz County, anything on your land over 50 years old, constitutes a possible archaeological site. Then there's the biotic survey... the geotechnical report... the geological hazards assessment... the soils report...
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I bebeive our own Wes Chesbro sponsored this.
Does the geotechnical include the Tsunami studies as now required in Eureka ?
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