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A Look at Big Basin

March 18, 2022April 13, 2022 slvpost.com1 Comment

By Larry Tierney Like many Department of Parks and Recreation employees, I spent part of my 35-year career up at Big Basin. It was my first State Parks job. I’m currently on the Board of Directors of the park’s cooperating association, Mountain Parks Foundation and have had the opportunity to tour the park on several occasions with the most recent… Read More

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Commentary: Reimagining Big Basin Project Stakeholder Recommendations

March 6, 2022August 29, 2024 slvpost.comBig Basin0 comment

By Jesus Beltran To: Will Fourt, Senior Project Planner, Reimagining Big Basin Project Hi Will, My name is Jesus Beltran and I have lived a few miles from the old Big Basin Redwoods State Park headquarters since 2017. I used to visit the Park on an almost weekly basis, logging hundreds of miles on its fire roads on my mountain… Read More

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Rebuilding Community in Ben Lomond: The Historic Alba Schoolhouse to be Rebuilt

January 14, 2022January 23, 2022 slvpost.comben lomond, fire recovery0 comment

By Julie Horner It’s full steam ahead for rebuilding the historic Alba Schoolhouse in Ben Lomond, which was destroyed in the 2020 CZU fire. Last August, the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to replace the structure, which has served as a school, a library, and most recently as a community center for the mountain… Read More

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PG&E Wood Haul Program 1/12 Meeting and 1/31 Deadline

January 9, 2022January 16, 2022 slvpost.comfire recovery, PG&E0 comment

PG&E will begin implementing their Wood Haul Program with an informational meeting on Wednesday, January 12. The program is PG&E’s solution to a PUC complaint in response to CZU fire victim outrage at the utility’s post-fire tree removal operations. The program is opt-in and application must be made by the property owner by January 31, 2022. Details on the program… Read More

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CZU Fire Survivors Navigate Difficult Rebuilding Decisions

November 8, 2021September 28, 2023 slvpost.com2 Comments

By M.C. Dwyer Last month, a group of us REALTORs was spurred into action when a unanimous vote of the County Board of Supervisors (“Board”) created the CZU Rebuild Directive. On its surface, the vote seemed positive for those who’d lost their homes in the CZU fires last August (“survivors”). In theory, this would have allowed survivors to rebuild without… Read More

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Power Outages: PG&E Responds

September 24, 2021October 9, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

Staff Report Thanks to citizen outrage and outreach to PG&E over frequent and increasing power outages in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the public utility held an online community meeting on September 24. Residents and recent outage maps reported dozens of service interruptions lasting from 45 minutes to 9 hours or more. The problem arose after PG&E installed their new tripwire… Read More

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County Supervisors Fail to Ease Rebuilding Rules for CZU Survivors

September 17, 2021June 20, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

By Antonia Bradford “We are up against a very strict timeline and the insurance companies don’t care if they make us homeless. Ironically, just this morning I got an email from Nationwide stating that we have till April to build our home. That’s 8 months from now!” – Julie Lucia, Fallen Leaf Neighborhood “Homes that are still standing and located… Read More

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Meet Dan Walters, Zayante’s New Fire Chief

September 9, 2021September 21, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

By Mary Andersen After 33 years serving Santa Cruz and Felton fire districts, longtime local Dan Walters is overseeing the Zayante Fire Protection District. He succeeded outgoing chief John Stipes at the end of July this year. “My main goal going forward is to educate the community on the fire risks that continue today and then to improve opportunities for… Read More

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Fire Recovery Lags

September 3, 2021September 17, 2021 slvpost.combonny doon, central coast, Davenport, last chance road, Swanton0 comment

By Jayme Ackemann When a 4Leaf, Inc. consulting geologist made three trips to Last Chance resident Ali McCargo’s Davenport property and couldn’t find it – Ali became concerned. Santa Cruz County promised a “streamlined process” when San Lorenzo Valley residents began returning to their fire-devastated communities. But fire survivors are asking what that really meant as we reflect on the… Read More

Column: Antonia Bradford Fire Recovery Local News

Rebuilding Challenges Continue

August 29, 2021September 4, 2021 slvpost.com0 comment

By Antonia Bradford In the year since the CZU Fire of 2020, fire families have been grieving and processing our losses all while trying to work, raise children, and rebuild our homes. For many of us, rebuilding efforts have been stalled by Santa Cruz County’s Planning Department. Before the smoke cleared last year, we were assured by County officials that… Read More