Mountain Democrat (Newspaper) - March 7, 1986, Placerville, California t's Friday Classifieds For Details Check The CLASSIFIEDS Editorial A Foothill Life A Logbook A4 Public Notices Disaster aid centers opening A disaster aid center for thoM whoM personal farm or business was damaged or lost in the recent storm wiH open tomorrow at the Veterans Memorial Building at the El Dorado County The which will be open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and will offer grants for immediate needs such as food end shelter and loans for longer-term A center will also be sat up in South Lake Tahoe March 12, 13 and 14. The at the City Recreation Center at 1180 Rufus Allen will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. each VOL. 135 NO. 31 Times 1986 by me Mountain all reserved MARCH Serving El Dorado County since 1851 TWO SUPPLEMENTS 25e Gas falls below By MICHAEL RAFFETY Staff writer Regular gasoline dropped below 90 cents Wednesday in Placerville for the first time since 1979. Dennis owner of the Shell Station at Main and Spring streets appeared to lead the price battle as he dropped his price for regular 5 cents from the day Other stations soon followed Ezy Way Self Service Exxon on Placerville Drive also dropped to 89.9 cents a gallon for regular Wednesday Chevron just down the street from Colvin's Shell dropped regular to 89.9 cents Cameron Park Texaco was charging 93 cents for regular but a spokeman said the prices would be changed later that charging for and for super TEN BUCKS will buy 11 gallons of regular gas Ezy Way and Chevron were for Ezy super unleaded price was and Chevron's was end of Main Hersey's Union which does not sell leaded listed unleaded at Wednesday and super unleaded at Union 76's unleaded is a higher rated at 89, and has the same price for cash or credit card Mersey was waiting for his plier to drop Colvin's supplier dropped prices 2 but Colvin went ahead and dropped his pump price 5 Colvin's price for unleaded was exactly the average price of his three grades of gas The last time gas was this low was sometime in the last three months of 1979. The average price of all grades of including sales in the fourth quarter of 1979 was according to the state Board of The average price of all three grades of gas at Ezy Way Exxon see page Rafting insurance requirements doubled By KURT DAVIS y- will have to get million worth in- surance by May 15 or their 1986 river use permits will Rafters are afraid re- some ters off this The Dorado of river use had keeping the Tuesday rates from Di doing The two commercial of the county rafters in the Nate risk Tim But Rangel and Monte was Community Development who later ment Director Richard who said he was angered by remarks by the left the room to avoid bringing more heat to the just totally agree with gef said Supervisor Pat who made the motion to hike the see page BAY AREA RESIDENT PAUL DORNELL fills up his tank Wednesday at Col- vin's Shell Station after the station dropped the price of regular gas to 89.9 Visman announces candidacy for District 4 seat By CLARE WOOD Staff writer Camino resident Mike Visman has announced he is running for the District 4 on the El Dorado County Board of Super- visors to be vacated year by retiring Supervisor Joe 38, said he is running because he has beliefs about how I think this county should be He said he does not want to sit around on the sidelines and but want to get in The name of the game is to do what you can Flynn announced last year that he did not plan to run again for the District 4 District 4 passes the northern half of the Western Slope of the in- Col- Pollock Pines and parts of In a recent Visman said his involvement with a number of area agencies has given him practical experience on how some aspects of government are has served eight years on the Sierra Economic Development District board of a county commission that dinates grants to small and local And he is currently serving as president of the Sierra Business Development an agency responsible for helping small businesses apply for and ad- minister Small Business Ad- ministration A county Visman graduated from the University of California at Davis V MIKE VISMAN District 4 candidate with a bachelor's degree in agricultural He then played basketball in ing a small apple ranch in Camino when he He now farms the ranch and works as a is the heart of what I've been doing all my Visman He said he was involved in developing the area a master plan outlining land-use in the Camino Visman refused to go into detail about or to state what he thinks the issues He said he prefers to wait until the campaign is further But he did say he thinks good long-range planning is very are certain areas that are conducive to business and certain areas conducive to Visman And he added that he is happy to see the success SOFAR has pointing out that when the project is a lot of things are going to change in the Opponents criticize environmental report for 33-acre development By BRIAN ROKOS Staff writer The residents who live near a proposed housing development dismissed the environmental im- pact report on the project as ed and and tried to protect rural neighborhood Planning The commission held a public hearing to receive com- ment on the prepared by Planning Answers of Oaks on -a proposed 33.3-acre Development located northwest of the tion of Highways 49 and 193. The land belongs to James Should developer Jim Liles receive the requested zone as many as 390 homes could be but Liles has said he doesn't plan to build to the imum density He said portions of the land will have 6-8 units per others 7-12 units per with the rest at 10-20 units per acre if the zone changes come lowest density area will be located next to existing single-family i Also proposed is a 3-acre shopping which could include a coin apparel restaurant and other businesses to serve the im- mediate J. To do 5 acres must be rezoned from medium density residential to neighborhood com- a classification the city has yet to The rest of the property would have to be rezoned from residential estate to limited Residents repeated many of the same arguments brought out at the July 23, 1985 City Council when the council asked Liles to commission an having read the voiced criticisms of the One Ellis told the is plete and biased in favor of the He said it doesn't ad- dress the socio-economic impact and impact on recreation and sewer It also affects the rural aspects of the McClure not It doesn't The report in address the impact on the sewer It says the development would not significantly affect the system's David Baker said the ment will be home to students who will jam forcing school districts to purchase table Like he said the report is biased and will hurt the rural flavor of the think the expansion and the Sullivan property is a threat to what we came here May McClure said the people who purchased land in the area did so believing it would remain While landowners like Sullivan have the right to develop their land how they see she ad- do not have the right to develop the property so it violates the rights of the residents who live in the The report says the ment would alter the area's rural but that because of rounding including the Placerville a transformation will occur Fred the shopping center would take business away from and that this was not in the The issues the report does he are not covered in enough The report recommends that the city limit retailers to those whose businesses would serve the but not the city as a Marjorie Comer said the report does not consider the vehicle and foot traffic to and from El Dorado High and Markham The report says the new residents and see page BATTERY While supply lasts SERVICE FREE COFFEE CASINO BONUS ONLY All buses non-smoking RESERVATIONS TO MB P M Henningsen Sons Inc. 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