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| New map will guide Valley Springs growth - Record Posted: 01 Jun 2010 11:58 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. SAN ANDREAS - Valley Springs got a new map Tuesday to guide its fate as county officials craft a General Plan, and it isn't the map that was crafted with $250,000 in California Department of Transportation money. The Calaveras County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 with board Chairwoman Merita Callaway opposed, to adopt instead a map hammered out since May 4 by Supervisor Gary Tofanelli and an impromptu committee he organized. That vote also relegates the earlier Valley Springs plan crafted during a year of often-stormy public meetings to secondary status as an alternative that will get a lower level of analysis. That earlier plan sought to promote "rural smart growth," a concept pushed by Caltrans that is intended to compact growth in town centers, reduce sprawl and preserve open space. Caltrans backs the idea as a way to make communities walkable and reduce the need for more roads and cars. But Tofanelli and other critics of the plan said that because of the Caltrans agenda, the process was never neutral and failed to heed the concerns of many Valley Springs property owners about what such a plan would do to their land values. Tofanelli said he initially supported the community planning effort but became concerned when one of the groups involved ran an advertisement promoting rural smart growth. "I felt used," Tofanelli said. The rural smart growth plan called for areas immediately south of the intersection of Highways 12 and 26 to become a regional community center - or downtown - surrounded by commercial and residential areas. The new plan instead designates much of that area as industrial - just as it was in the previous Valley Springs Community Plan, adopted in 1974. The new plan also differs in that it designates hundreds of acres to the east and west of downtown for "mixed commercial and residential" development. Under the rural smart growth plan, those areas were designated for agriculture. Another difference is the level of input from large property owners. "No changes were made without the landowner's agreement," said Michael Weitrick, a Valley Springs resident who was part of Tofanelli's committee. Representatives of MyValley Springs.com, the group that obtained the Caltrans grant, and others involved in the community meetings for which it paid said they felt betrayed. "We have been thrown under the bus," said Marti Crane of Valley Springs, who said she was involved in working on the community plan since "the beginning." Contact reporter Dana M. Nichols at (209) 607-1361 or dnichols@recordnet.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/calaverasblog. Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||
| Chimani Launches Acadia National Park Iphone App - OfficialWire Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:25 PM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
| Chimani, LLC, a developer of national park content and applications for mobile devices, is proud to announce the launch of the first comprehensive guide to Acadia National Park for the iPhone and iPad. Now available on iTunes, the app is designed to work entirely off-line without any cell phone connection and is an all-in-one guide to Acadia National Park. The app includes over 300 points of interest and unique features like a custom-made GPS-enabled map with shaded relief, a 35 minute audio tour of the Park Loop Road and a year's worth of projected sunrise/sunset data (from top of Cadillac Mountain) as well as projected tidal data and the best time to visit Thunder Hole. Other unique features include schedules for the Island Explorer shuttle bus and the park's Ranger-led events which are updated throughout the season. "For the typical price of an audio guide, map, or guide book, the Chimani Acadia app allows you to have all the information and resources right on your iPhone," explains Kerry Gallivan, President and Founder of Chimani. "This is a 'Maine-Made' app which has been developed by people who know and love Acadia National Park." The app's general and operational park information includes detailed descriptions of hiking trails and guides to bicycling, camping, lighthouses, unique points of interest, museums, parking, restrooms, ranger stations, picnicking, swimming areas, birding tips, boat launches, fishing, horse riding and accessibility. The Chimani's Acadia app also allows users to create a "Favorites" list, conduct global search, turn map annotations on and off and download new content. The app's remarkable photo galleries were taken by professional photographer David Patterson. ABOUT CHIMANI, LLC: PRESS CONTACTS: Kerry Gallivan (Chimani, LLC) Phone: (207) 221-0266 E-mail: kerry@chimani.com Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
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| Map tool: Zeroing in on that perfect hike - The Wenatchee World Online Posted: 01 Jun 2010 10:29 AM PDT Message from Five Filters: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. UPCOMING EVENTSWednesday, June 2 Douglas County Commission Wednesday, June 2 City of Wenatchee Diversity Advisory Committee Wednesday, June 2 East Wenatchee Water District Wednesday, June 2 WVC Hepcats Swing Dance Classes Five Filters featured article: Into the Abyss. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | ||
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