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LUCERNE VALLEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
Re: LADWP GPN Transmission Line
From: Chuck Bell, Sec. 760 964 3118 chuckb@sisp.net
The GPN route isn’t “green”.
It passes through the community of Lucerne Valley - @7000 population - along the
north slope of the SB Mt. Range - over a significant amount of private parcels -
including BLM parcels slated for a land-exchange for private and multi-use
purposes. There is not sufficient time at this meeting to describe the severity
of the power line's economic, environmental and land-use impacts to our already
economically depressed community - notwithstanding the disruption to our largest
residential area directly within the proposed R/W – especially with the drastic
land-use constraints associated within its 2 + mile corridor width – at no
benefit to us - all for the City of LA that has viable options for its own
localized solar generation and alternative transmission routes (ie: through
Banning Pass). Existing corridors established in the1980 BLM CDCA Plan – which
LA County endorsed - (some of which pass through Lucerne Valley) are not being
considered.
The Mojave Desert already subsidizes the over-populated coastal basin with
limestone, cement and aggregate (with its incessant truck traffic), existing
solar and fossil-fuel power plants, recreation (particularly the
resource-consumptive and largest OHV open areas in the world), transmission
line/pipeline corridors, tremendous amounts of acreage for expanding military
bases (critical for our nation's defense), public open space, immense areas
set-aside for habitat protection, etc. etc.
If this proposal isn't scrapped due to its obvious and absolute absurdity - and
reaches the environmental "scoping" stage - we insist on a meeting in Lucerne
Valley. We can help set it up.
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