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To: Bob Manis
Subject: Fw: SRCA Nighthawk Battery Storage - Granite Construction Amended Conditional Use Permit Hearing Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 3:54:49 PM
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Been awhile Mr. Manis. Should expect some Stonebridge Estates residents who want to oppose the Nighthawk project.
Here is an email update that the Scripps Ranch Civic
Association sent out today.
We have been involved since day one with residents
requesting assistance to understand the proposed project.
Bob Ilko
Scripps Ranch Civic Association President (SRCA)
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Subject: SRCA Nighthawk Battery Storage - Granite Construction Amended Conditional Use Permit Hearing
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City of Poway City Council Meeting
Granite Construction Amended Conditional
Use Permit Application
Tuesday April 4th at 7 pm
(In person and via online)
This update was sent the moment we
heard about the City of Poway City
Council meeting to approve or deny
the request to amend the existing
sandmining Conditional Use Permit.
04/04/23: This project is to install a
generation transmission (gen-tie) line
for the proposed Nighthawk Energy
Storage Project within the City of
San Diego. The gen-tie line spans the
City of San Diego, the City of Poway,
and a small segment on the Miramar
Marine Corps Air Station. The
components within the City of San
Diego jurisdiction begin South of
Beeler Canyon Road and will provide
the connection to the San Diego Gas
and Electric Company (SDG&E)
Sycamore Canyon Substation
(approximately 0.6 miles of gen-tie
facilities). In my first meeting with the
developers, they agreed to
underground the transmission line
rather than overhead as initially
proposed.
The City of Poway is reviewing the
approximately 300-megawatt battery
energy storage system (BESS)
located on an 82.93-acre site on APN
320-031-0300. The proposed BESS
Project is located southeast of the
intersection of Paine St. & Kirkham
Way, Poway, CA.
The proposed generation
transmission line will be utilized to
transfer energy to and from the
SDG&E Sycamore Canyon
Substation and the Nighthawk Battery
The Scripps Ranch Planning Group in
March unanimously recommended
approval of the City of San Diego
Conditional Use Permit including the
inclusion of Nighthawk cleaning and
maintaining the established
emergency access routes and
Stonebridge Estates Homeowners
Association approval of the necessary
easements.
You can review the City of San Diego
Conditional Use Permit documents at
the following link ==> Nighthawk CUP
Documents
Nighthawk developers issued a
confirmation letter to the City of San
Diego Fire Department Fire Marshall
regarding cleaning and maintaining
the emergency access routes. Here is
a link to the letter (Nighthawk Letter re
Energy Storage project. The project
will include telecommunication
facilities in the form of underground
fiber optic lines and a 138 kV gen-
tie. Construction of the gen-tie line will
take roughly 3 months to complete.
All areas will be restored to the pre-
construction condition following
construction.
The Stonebridge Estates
Homeowners Association has
recieved a request to grant an
easement to underground the
proposed transmission line. The
homeowners association attorneys
are evaluating the offer.
On March 29th there was a Scripps
Ranch community digital meeting with
the Nighthawk developers to provide
an update as to the project.
Scheduled for an hour the meeting
lasted for two hours. Questions were
submitted in writing and in person at
the meeting. Here is the link to that
meeting agenda and presentation
March 29th community meeting
agenda and presentation.
The two hour meeting will be made
available soon. Once we get it, we will
post to the SRCA webpage for the
Scripps Ranch Planning Group where
other documents are ready for you to
review.
Access Routes)
The City of Poway is processing an
amendment to an existing Conditional
Use Permit and a separate project
Conditional Use Permit. Tonight is a
hearing on the Granite Construction
sandmining Amended Conditional
Use Permit. Here is a link to the City
of Poway supporting document
providing history and the request for
an amendment (City of Poway
Amendment to Granite Conditional
Use Permit).
There should be a seperate City of
Poway City Council hearing on the
Nighthawk Conditional Use Permit.
Date to be determined once city staff
has completed its due diligence
review the application.
If you cannot make the meeting
tonight here is a link to attend online
(
www.poway.org/meeting). Join using
"Computer Audio".
Please email us if you have any
questions, concerns, solutions or to
be added to the email distribution list.
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Bob Ilko, President
Scripps Ranch Civic Association
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From: Heather Skale
To: Steve Vaus; Barry Leonard; Peter De Hoff; Caylin Frank; Brian Pepin Subject: Lyon Estates Questions & Concerns
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 4:07:39 PM
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Greetings,
I wish to express my concerns about Agenda Item #8 for tonight’s meeting in three points.
1. I wish to know what the plan is for providing trail access to Twin Peaks Mountain from Larchmont Street as was promised by the Council. I do not see any trail plans from the plans and have asked Austin Silva the same question and have gotten no response. I own property next to the development, which includes trails. I want to make sure that wildlife and existing trails are protected properly.
2. When my development, Chimney Rock, was planned, it was required that the colors of the homes blend in with the natural environment. I don’t see how the white colors of Lyon Estates keep in line with that. I think that natural tones would blend in better with Twin Peaks, especially since some of the homes will be in line with the mountain peak views.
3. The noise from Lyon estates has been excessive. Right now, as I write, they are again pounding rocks with large machinery and it is very, very loud. I ask is that the developer be a good neighbor, as they have asked me to be, and let us know when excessively noisy work is planned to be performed. No member of our household can work from home when such work is being done (and Andrew has court hearings via zoom from home).
I had asked Austin about this in October (after a June request for information), and he told me that they should not be doing noisy work, as it wasn’t even grading approval yet. I invite anyone into my backyard to hear the noise.
I regretfully cannot attend tonight’s meeting, due to conflict with a planning meeting for the Poway Community Safety Fair for Kiwanis Club of Poway. But please know that I am concerned about these issues and hope to get answers.
Respectfully submitted,
Heather & Andrew Skale
12741 Sagecrest Drive in Poway
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From: Bettyrexford
To: Steve Vaus; Caylin Frank; Barry Leonard; Peter De Hoff; Brian Pepin; Carrie Gallagher; Betty Rexford Cc: Mary Shweid
Subject: Fwd: Agenda Report 4/4/2023 item #7 a request to modify CUP Granite construction Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 1:08:02 PM
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Date: April 4, 2023 at 11:11:46 AM PDT
Subject: Agenda Report 4/4/2023 item #7 a request to modify CUP Granite construction
April 4,2023
Mayor Member of Poway City Council
Mayor Steve Vaus, Council members, Barry Leonard, Peter DeHoff,
Caylin
Frank, Brian Pepin
I am writing today to oppose item 7, on Poway Council City meeting
a request to
modify CUP granite construction.
date April 4, 2023. On Poway City agenda
I don’t believe you should be rewarded for
bad behavior that Calmat cement
company and now Granite
did for over the last
40 year. Which the Matz family
still owns the land and want to make a large profit by selling it to Nighthawk.
Calmat Mr. Matz
proposed a cement plant in Poway Creek Road and
Beeler
canyon road area was County then.
Creek Rd homeowners took it to court.
Court
said
it was a County road and those days you could put anything anywhere.
That’s why we became a City
to control our own destiny. We lived here first in
case you want to say we knew they were here. San Diego County gave them a permit for 14 years, they were to clean it up and leave the canyon many years ago.
Which they did not.
Calmat never adhere to the permit the
County gave them. Creek Road neighbors
complaining calling San Diego County to no
avail, Calmat
ran cement trucks all
hours of the day by our homes, crushed rock at night search spotlight
lighting the
canyon at night broken our windshields with rocks driving by our homes and
many many more to numerous to mention we live through hell.
They did not obeyed any of the permit or any of permit conditions. Even the owner of Calmat at that time came to my house to apologize Mr. Rudy Matz said he did not have the money to do
what the county permit ask him to do having his
business there
In my world if you don’t have money to run a business, then you I
don’t run the business and destroy a neighborhood, but he continue to do it.
Fast forward 1980 Poway became a City took over their permit with the promise they be leaving soon and would clean up the habitat land in the Canyon they destroyed. And to follow the permit to the laws.
Then Poway build Business Park, Calmat wanted to put an asphalt plant down in canyon and run it through Business Park, Poway said no after a long battle with the residence. They allow them to stay there with Calmat to be leaving soon and cleaning up they were supposed to be leaving according to their permit. And putting the land back together, the stream and habitat.
Sorry if I’m boring you Im explaining this because the majority of the council members were not here when this happened 40 years ago when all that transpired over time. But many of the residents of Poway were here and are still here. I believe the city Council is elected to represent all the residents of the City of Poway. So sorry Mary Shepardson died. She could’ve did the story much better.
So no, I don’t support the Matz family Calmat and Granite, construction putting the industrial pad in a slightly different place, which will require manufacture slopes, and to be allowed to build the industrial pad before they are finished with the mining and have restored the land. The reason they want to do this is because one of the partners Matz in the mining project wants to put a battery storage farm on the pads.
It would be a novelty, for Poway City to make people do what they’re supposed to do adhering to the federal and state laws and just the conditions of the city of Poway.
In general, battery storage is an important strategy in converting to cleaner energy use. The batteries can store the energy from rooftop solar so it’s available when the sunsets. One problem, is that these battery farms have fires that are difficult to put out and create toxic clouds that require people to remain indoors for days.
Plus the area is in a hi-fire area that could be problematic if the fire spreads. And it’s hard for firefighters to put out. They are extremely dangerous for firefighters to fight as we have records of what happened to firefighters and how hard it is to put the fires out.
This location is not the best location for this plant in a thriving business Park, and close to homes in a high risk Beeler canyon which has had many of the large fires in Poway over the years and burnt many homes. The project is a PG&E not a SDG&E although I don’t know why PG&E is setting their project in San Diego county probably money.
At a previous council workshop, all the council members gave negative feedback for the project. The owner has supposedly gotten permits to underground the utilities.
Which Poway wanted I went to meeting with the developers Nighthawk in Scripps last summer they were talking they didn’t know who I was and they said that F -ing Poway is making us underground the lines. Who does that F -ing Poway think they are ? I would call that not good business practice. I know the original council would not want a business in Poway that talked about us like that .
The permits for the battery storage farm will not be decided on Tuesday, but the CUP changes are leading up to the project being approved by counsel of a later date.
This is the reason the council is doing this because the minute they give the OK to change what they need to do for a pad in the business park Tesla nighthawk, energy storage, Project. Is moving forward as we speck.
Sorry, I cannot make the meeting tonight but wanted to give my concerns Thanks for your time and consideration on this matter I appreciate the council members that read our letter ito the end.
Elizabeth F. Rexford
Paul W Rexford. Signed date April 4,2023 Sent from my iPad