Greetings!

Next Tuesday’s Planning Commission meeting will be a major moment in the E-Group Solar Farm approval process and a major opportunity to make opposition voices heard.

See Agenda items here. Note how much material the Planning Commission is being asked to vote on! The packet contains hundreds of pages of detailed information that is largely brand new to us. The content of those pages will largely determine whether the solar plant will be built and what parameters apply if the project goes ahead. It’s a lot.

SO: Do the best you can to prepare a 3-minute comment on whether you want the Planning Commission to deny the project, approve it, or receive more time to read and understand the all-important, suddenly released materials. Chose one or more issues you are concerned about to talk about. Dust? Tortoise impacts? Community character? Aesthetic impacts? Something else? Fill out a comment card in the lobby outside the meeting room and hand it to a staff member before the meeting begins at 5 sharp.

Where: Twentynine Palms City Hall, 6136 Adobe Road

When: Tuesday February 17, 5:00 pm

Also: The Desert Trumpet is requesting that you send them the letters you all have written recently in response to the Draft Environmental Impact Report. They would like to include excerpts in the Planning Commission Agenda Preview. Please consider forwarding your letters to: editor@deserttrumpet.org. Letters need to be sent by 5PM today (Friday).

And if you haven’t joined our Facebook group, we could use as many members as possible. If you are already a member, forward to anyone you know who might be affected by this ill-advised project.

Thanks!