The Road is being built 500' from Tesoro High School With No Vegetative Screen to Protect Students from Dust

Dirty Politics is putting Tesoro High School kids at risk.

The TCA wants a Toll Road that connects the 241 to the 5. The Ranch needs roads to support what will be 14,000+ homes and a City the size of San Clemente. They couldn't get the job done legally so now they are doing it in pieces to get around CEQA; the California Environmental Quality Act, a statute that requires state and local agencies to identify the significant environmental impacts of their actions and to avoid or mitigate those impacts, if feasible.

The diagram below illustrates that the Oso Parkway Bridge is being built by TCA while the Ranch builds the Los Patrones Parkway (to Toll Road Specifications). The road; when complete, will be transferred to the County then to TCA and converted to a toll road.

The picture below shows that the Los Patrones Parkway is right at 500' from the Tesoro Campus. At that point there is no vegetative barrier to protect the students from dust and debris which may contain contaminants.

If the Toll Road goes through to Pico the Toll Road will sandwich San Juan Hills High School between La Plata and the Toll Road and San Clemente High will be tucked in the middle of Pico, the 5 freeway and the Toll Road and will lose some of its fields.



http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher/Agenda02_09_2016_files/images/A15-001715.HTM

The document below shows that the County Board of Supervisors was being asked to:

"Find that the subject activity is not a project within the meaning of CEQA Guidelines Section 15378 and is therefore not subject to review under CEQA."

"Compliance with CEQA: This action is not a project within the meaning of CEQA Guidelines Section 15378 and is therefore not subject to CEQA since it does not have the potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment. The approval of this agenda item does not commit the County to a definite course of action in regard to a project. This proposed activity is therefore not subject to CEQA. Any future action connected to this approval that constitutes a project will be reviewed for compliance with CEQA. "

The County - The Ranch and the city of Rancho Santa Margarita know that this land may contain hazardous materials. The City of Rancho Santa Maragarita has on it's web site



The Cooperative Agreement can be found at this link: http://cams.ocgov.com/Web_Publisher/Agenda03_28_2017_files/images/O00917-000212A.PDF

The following documentation is evidence that the City of Rancho Santa Margarita and The Ranch itself know, or should have known that there could be possible contaminants in the soil near Tesoro High School.









http://www.militarymuseum.org/Plano-Trabuco-Target-Area.pdf

"The 1800 acre range lies within the partially completed planned community of Ranch0 Santa Margarita, which is located east of Mission Viejo and south of the O'Neill Regional Park."

at page 17

"c. Tijeras Creek Golf Course (8th Hole) During our inspection of the site, Mr. Land pointed out the Tijeras Creek Golf Course; in particular, the fairway for the 8th hole. This is the location of several tons of buried OEW. It had been gathered/excavated by the Ranch0 Santa Margarita Company during land development and buried 20' to 30' under the surface of the fairway (see Photos J-I, J-7, and Plate 2). No OEW was observed by the inspection team in this area. "

at page 19

"e. Overall Area
In paragraph 7.b., the adobe hut was noted as the apparent target area. However, because the target was an apparent "target of choice" rather than a technically designated one, it must be understood that this allows for a larger area of disbursement than would normally be expected. Any given pilot could have homed in on a sage brush, etc., to use as his target. Consequently, varying degrees of OEW have been (could be) found throughout the entire area. However, it does appear that little, if any, OEW has ever
been recovered in the extreme northern area of the range. Plate 2 represents Mr. Lands assessment of OEW disbursement noted during site development.