Stanislaus National Forest proposes commercial rezoning at Pinecrest
Pinecrest Management Direction Forest Plan Amendment: Community Center Zoning Change & SUP Issuance
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The groups on this fight
4 groups work California
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- California Wilderness Coalition
Works California: spent years building the designation campaign with Tribal nations and now defends the monument as an intervenor in federal court.
- Friends of the Desert Mountains
Works California: coachella Valley land conservancy that helped establish Sand to Snow and worked with The Wildlands Conservancy on acquisitions inside the monument footprint..
- Friends of the Inyo
Works California: runs the Eastern Sierra opposition to the gold exploration projects around the Bodie Wilderness Study Area and hosts the Bodie Hills Conservation Partnership's donation and newsletter operations..
- Los Padres ForestWatch
Works California: has led opposition to oil drilling in the Los Padres region for two decades and is fighting the plan to reopen 400,000 acres to leasing.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
The Forest Service is moving toward allowing commercial operations at the Pinecrest Community Center on national forest land.
What’s at risk
Only people who submitted written comments during the earlier 30-day comment period are eligible to object. The Pinecrest Community Center on the Stanislaus National Forest would be rezoned from its current designation to commercial use, and a Special Use Permit would authorize commercial operations there.
If this goes through
The Forest Plan amendment and Special Use Permit would be finalized, locking in commercial zoning and authorizing commercial use of the Pinecrest Community Center on national forest land.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
4 holes in the agency’s own analysis
What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document
- I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below.
- I oppose amending the Stanislaus National Forest Plan to rezone the Pinecrest Community Center from its current designation to commercial use, which permanently changes how this public land is managed.
- Do not issue a Special Use Permit that authorizes commercial operations at the Pinecrest Community Center on the Summit Ranger District.
- Rezoning the Pinecrest Community Center to commercial use sets a precedent for commercializing community spaces within the Stanislaus National Forest that should not be taken lightly.
- I urge the Forest Service to reconsider the draft FONSI and conduct a fuller review before locking in a commercial zoning change at Pinecrest.
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- Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
In the agency’s own words
Pinecrest Management Direction Forest Plan Amendment: Community Center Zoning Change (to Commercial) & SUP Issuance (for commercial use of community center.
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