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some of the staff reports before you, including the one from the planning director mentioned the desirability of, of preserving green belt areas. Well, we agree, but as we have been in public office. No, the only way you can preserve a greenbelt ordinarily is to condemn the

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land and tax the people to maintain apart. There is no other way. The ordinarily the unique thing that the Canyon proponents have offered is a proposal to seriously limit the population of Canyon to no more than 20 additional families and now live there by appropriate county

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zoning to build a sanitary district that meets that need and not let anybody else move there by zoning. This has the effect of preserving contra Costa County's muir woods, a great public asset. We believe that it is in the public interest to preserve. Mhm. I have

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a daughter, a 10 year old daughter who right now is very frightened every time she sees a policeman, but she's seen policemen condemned houses. They've condemned her tree house, she has a treehouse and I wish I had the documentation to show you on her tree house.

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A tree house was condemned because it doesn't have plumbing. This is a seven by seven structure in a tree. Uh, in fact, they threatened to send her to juvenile shelter if she entered her own treehouse. Uh, they have dog catchers in canyon. The dogcatcher is probably

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out there today rounding up dogs in violation of the leash law that they have for this county, which is a law passed for places like this, not for a wooded area. My friend Tim Biggins had his house condemned because his plans were not approved because he

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didn't have room for two car parking and that's in the middle of Madrone Forest up an incline that a mule can't get up. This is the kind of harassment we've had from the county. In the end analysis, the decision made by the board of supervisors over

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this sanitation issue will really determine whether the small town of Canyon will continue to exist. Bellevue Davis for Eyewitness News in Martinez. Mhm.