HomeMy WebLinkAboutCEQA17-0004_MagaliaForestHealthProject_Notice Department of Development Services Tim Snellings, Director
Pete Calarco, Assistant Director
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Oroville, California 95965 F: 530.538.7785 buttecounty.net/dds
BUTTE COUNTY ZONING ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
MAGALIA FOREST HEALTH PROJECT
CEQA17-0004
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Butte County Zoning Administrator will conduct a public hearing
regarding Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Magalia Forest Health Project CEQA17-0004. The hearing is scheduled at 10:00 am, Wednesday, September 6, 2017 in the Butte County Development
Services Conference Room, 7 County Center Drive, Oroville, California.
The Magalia Forest Health Project is a grant funded program under the general guidance of the Butte
County Fire Safe Council that covers 1066 acres on numerous Assessor’s Parcel Numbers of publicly
and privately owned property in the Magalia and Paradise Pines area. This project is bounded by
Coutolenc Road on the east and Nimshew Road on the west, on property owned by Paradise
Irrigation District, Paradise Unified School District, Paradise Pines Property Owner’s Association,
and others, extending from Andover Drive in the south to just south of Steiffer Road off of the Skyway
to the north. The Butte County Fire Safe Council’s vision is to create communities that are resistant
to the devastating impacts of wildland fires. The Fire Safe Council has been promoting Shaded Fuel
Breaks as a deterrent to major wildfires in the Magalia/Paradise area. This project proposes the
creation of shaded fuel breaks through the removal of brush and small trees, reducing understory
fuels to reduce the vertical continuity of the forest stand structure. Large trees may be pruned, and
dead and down material, including both trees and shrubs, less than 10 inches in diameter will be
removed. Treatment methods include hand cut and pile burning, hand cut and hand chip, and
mechanical treatment using a Skid Steer mounted Masticator. Work is projected as a ten-year
program on the subject properties and would occur as funding becomes available.
A Mitigated Negative Declaration has been prepared for this project consistent with the requirements
of the California Environmental Quality Act and is available for review at the Butte County Department of Development Services, 7 County Center Drive, Oroville, CA 95965, and online at
www.buttecounty.net/dds/Planning/CEQA.aspx.
If you challenge the CEQA document in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues
previously raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to Assistant Director Pete Calarco. If you have any questions, please contact Pete Calarco at (530)
538-2167 or pcalarco@buttecounty.net.
In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate
in the hearing, please contact us at (530) 538-6571. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing
will enable staff to make reasonable arrangements.