HomeMy WebLinkAbout10.9.20 Board Correspondence - FW_ ATTENTION ALL Supervisors!!
From:Schuman, Amy
To:Alpert, Bruce;Bennett, Robin;Clerk of the Board;Connelly, Bill;Cook, Holly;Lambert, Steve;Lucero, Debra;
McCracken, Shari;Paulsen, Shaina;Pickett, Andy;Ring, Brian;Ritter, Tami;Rodas, Amalia;Sweeney, Kathleen;
Teeter, Doug
Cc:Daneluk, Paula;Hatcher, Casey
Subject:Board Correspondence - FW: ATTENTION ALL Supervisors!!
Date:Friday, October 9, 2020 5:02:31 PM
Good afternoon,
Please see the email correspondence below regarding the Ch. 53 Ordinance passed at the 9/29/20 Board meeting.
Amy Schuman
Associate Clerk of the Board
Butte County Administration
25 County Center Drive, Suite 200, Oroville, CA 95965
O: 530.552.3300 |D: 530.552.3308 | F: 530.538.7120
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From: Susan <copelasi53@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, October 9, 2020 10:07 AM
To: Clerk of the Board <clerkoftheboard@buttecounty.net>
Subject: ATTENTION ALL Supervisors!!
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Mr Connelly, Ms Lucero, Ms Ritter, Mr Lambert, Mr Teeter
The Magalia community has reached out to you all numerous times in the past couple of weeks regarding a very
concerning issue we have with dry camping in the Magalia and Upper Ridge community. It would be appreciated if
we would receive some form of a response and knowing that you’re paying attention to this matter. Doug Teeter has
responded to a degree but the community needs to know that you are willing to re-look at this chapter 53 ordinance
that was created shortly after the campfire to accommodate a serious housing shortage that we were experiencing.
That is no longer relevant and now our community is turning into an RV park without utilities.Please read the
following, lengthy post.
Magalia Collaborative -This Facebook group was created for the Magalia, Upper Ridge community to specifically
comment and share pictures related to the illegal and dry camping that we are experiencing in Magalia.
My hope for the site is that people will share their ideas and avoid profanity, judgment and attacks to others that are
expressing their opinions. We need to do this the right way and that is by flooding our board of supervisors with our
ideas and our requests to protect our community. and the economic affect this is having on our community .
The board of supervisors recently voted to extend Chapter 53 Camping ordinance through 2021.
The actual camping ordinance is contained within a document called chapter 53 that Butte County supervisors voted
on shortly after the campfire. It is available to the public and I can tell you it’s very confusing at times to figure out
what their intention was. But one thing I can tell you for sure it was created because we had 53,000 people
evacuated and in shelters throughout our county and communities. There were no homes available there were no
rentals and people were living in parking lots and on the streets and needed a place to go.
The board of supervisors created this camping ordinance to allow “residents” to live on their properties and rebuild
while living there. There has been no VETTING to assure that they were campfire survivors. That is addressed
within this camping ordinance as to “how” they can confirm that these folks were living in the campfire area on
November 8, 2018. but Code Enforcement has not enforced this !!
They loosened existing restrictions about camping in our county in order to accommodate our “residents”! . But that
need is no longer relevant as that there is plenty of housing available within our community and surrounding
communities now.
SO we need the community’s input and suggestions on how we can still provide people with the ability to live on
their property while they rebuild but at the same time weed out the people that are just camping because they have
nowhere else to go.
If they are not the property owners, do we want to encourage “ indefinite” Dry camping ? that has definitely had a
negative economic impact on our property values!
We are now dealing with squatters with trash with raw sewage with crime with multiple RV’s and with non-
campfire survivors moving into our county because they heard you could live for free on land!
How are they going to control people coming in, buying property, sticking an RV on it and show no signs of
rebuilding ( this is already happening)
We have neighbors that are not returning because of the situation.!!
We need YOUR input sent to the board of supervisors as to how they can protect our investments while showing
compassion for those in need.
The permits are too high for the average person to pay ! But by requiring permits we would have a better idea of
what is going on in our community. I think $25 is reasonable for just a camping permit to stay on your OWN
property while you REBUILD!
And I feel for the renters that lost their homes and there needs to be a ordinance for them that will continue to focus
on rebuilding our community. CampFire recovery funds should be made available to those “renters”.
It is my belief that our goal to rebuild the community should be first priority but we also need an incentive for
people to come back and rebuild!!
Thank you
Susan Copeland
13801 Skyway
Magalia
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