CEQA Blanket EIR
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RSM city council letter urging CUSD to abandon blanket EIR

Jan 26, 2007
Alejandra Molina, Rancho Santa Margarita News "The city will send a letter to Capistrano Unified School District, urging it to abandon the preparation of an environmental report studying the effect of maximizing the number of portable classrooms at schools. The City Council on Wednesday voted 5-0 to authorize Mayor Tony Beall, who made the recommendation, to send the letter." A report to the City Council, written by Beall, says the environmental report would threaten the 1,050-student cap at Arroyo Vista, a kindergarten through eighth-grade campus, and possibly lead to higher enrollment at crowded Tijeras Creek Elementary.

RSM mayor pro tem dissappointed with interim superintendent over blanket EIR

Jan 26, 2007
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Gary Thompson, Rancho Santa Margarita News “We thought we had an interim superintendent who was actually going to come in there and make some good changes.” RSM Mayor Pro Tem Gary Thompson opposes the district-wide environmental impact report. Discussions about the report stirred hard feelings from last year’s conflicts with then-Superintendent James Fleming and the school board. In December 2005, school trustees voted to contract for the report. Reform trustee Larry Christensen wants the board to discuss abandoning the study in its Feb. 12 meeting.

CUSD proposes blanket EIR to maximize portables throughout the district, City of RSM opposes EIR

Jan 26, 2007
Alejandra Molina, The Ladera Post "The Rancho Santa Margarita City Council backed Mayor Tony Beall in sending a letter to Capistrano Unified School District, urging it to abandon the preparation of an environmental impact report. The EIR would study maximizing the number of portable classrooms on each of the district’s school sites. The discussion recalled hard feelings left from last year’s conflicts with then-Superintendent James Fleming and the CUSD board." The proposed blanket EIR is particularly offensive, since Marlene Draper and other CUSD leaders assured voters during the recall and ABC reform slate campaigns that CUSD had a "strategic plan" to remove portables. Now, just weeks after the November election, CUSD is scheming to circumvent the environmental process with a district-wide EIR for the purpose of "maximizing" the number of portables at every CUSD campus. Molina is a reporter for the Orange County Register.