El Cajon gives 2 5 percent raises to employees, city manager and city attorney
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Ojai Valley News - Judge calls city of Ventura water lawsuit a huge time suck
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OVN Editorial:
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has leaped into the water lawsuit adjudication pool with a resounding splash, ripping the proposed Physical Solution (a step, not an end, in the water adjudication process) with a letter vigorously admonishing the city of Ventura, on behalf of Fish and Wildlife and the State Water Resources Control Board.
The state Department of Justice outlines the missteps of the Ventura City Council on numerous procedural issues, including the rush to judgement ahead of the Watershed Criteria Report that is to be completed this year and its modeling work in 2022; lack of transparency regarding five phantom experts; neglect to serve all parties in the case; the assumption that surface water rights can be included when they have yet to be ruled upon by the judge; a deficiency of findings to support Ventura’s claims of rights; a failure to meet requirements relevant to California statutes; the unmet burden-of-proof
The fate of the 3,000-home Fanita Ranch development now rests with voters.
The Santee City Council, with Mayor John Minto absent, unanimously voted Wednesday to place a measure on the November 2022 ballot asking whether the project should be built.
But pending legal challenges
by HomeFed Fanita Rancho, LLC, the project’s backer, and possibly others, may alter the council’s decision and the ballot measure’s future.
The City Council gave its green light in September for the housing in the hills beyond Santee Lakes. Shortly thereafter, residents collected enough signatures, 3,854, to force the council to either rescind its approval or put the measure on the ballot.