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Staff listening to racism, harassment worries Noel Stack Managing Editor Oak Ridge High School students and staff have turned their sadness regarding the racist taunt uttered by a student into passionate activism with the goal of ensuring that an incident such as the one that occurred March 5 never happens again, ORHS Principal Aaron Palm shared with Village Life. Days after the student made a monkey/ape noise when Black soccer player Ciara Wilson ran toward the ball during her penalty kick at the Division 1 CIF NorCal girls soccer championship “Hearing people’s between Oak Ridge and Buchanan High stories was powerful. School, hundreds of students and staff It is now time for us stood in front of the to put listening into El Dorado Hills campus and declared that action.” racism (intentional or not) has no place at — ORHS Principal Aaron Palm their school. “Our first step was doing everything we could to apologize to Buchanan,” Palm said, adding that he sent apology letters to Buchanan’s principal, the school, the community and the girls soccer team. “I also spoke with the impacted girl’s family. “Second, I had to work to protect our girl’s soccer team,” he continued. “For some reason, there were people who felt our girl’s soccer team was to blame. However, they were not involved and, in fact, were complimented by many at Buchanan.” ■
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Oak Ridge High School sophomores Gillian Miller, Katherine Rodman, Reagan Manning, Lauren Lallana and Connor Carlson, left to right, protest racism in front of the El Dorado Hills school.
CSD board approves new fees for ADUs
OFF TO A GREAT START
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Photo courtesy of Oak Ridge Trojans Athletics
The ORHS varsity women’s lacrosse team boasts a 4-0 record early in the season, winning their latest game 19-3 Saturday when they took on Vista del Lago at home. The Trojans trounced Whitney Friday, 23-1, and also won their first two games by large margins. Up next, the team heads to Folsom Friday for a second match against Vista del Lago.
Residents who have considered building a guest house or granny unit on their property, take note. The El Dorado Hills Community Services District Board of Directors recently voted to collect a park impact fee for accessory dwelling units. An ADU is defined as a secondary house or apartment that shares the building lot of a larger, primary home. The CSD allows ADUs in all zones that permit single-unit residential development and, up until this point, has not charged a park impact fee during the permitting process. Park impact fees pay for new public parks and facilities in El Dorado Hills and are assessed on each new residential unit built within the CSD’s service boundary. The adopted proposal requires an exemption for ADUs smaller
than 750 square feet from paying impact fees and states that fees be proportional to the floor area of the primary dwelling unit. For the last three years, a total of 83 ADUs were permitted in El Dorado County, six of which were approved within the EDHCSD boundary. Two permits were for dwellings just over 1,150 square feet, three around 500 square feet and one was missing data. Only the two permits over the 750 square feet threshold would have been assessed an impact fee. “The proposed ADU fee will help to reduce the district’s general fund impact to meet anticipated goals and projects identified in the district’s master plan,” said Principal Planner Tauni Fessler. “The addition of ADUs will certainly add population to the community, therefore putting a strain on the ■
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