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July-August 2022
Kunz Trash is being forced to close!
Kunz Trash has been denied its county contract beginning August 1, 2022. Kunz Trash is a valuable service to our mountain communities. Greenwaste is the county trash service but Kunz Trash is the alternative to residents who live on private roads. Historically Greenwaste will not travel on private roads, a representative told the Bulletin. Instead they have cluster setups which still could be miles away from the residents’ homes. Matt Machado County Chief Administrative Officer says this is not correct. He says that Greenwate is trying to find a way to service all residents. In an interview with Kunz owner Jack Kunz, he said his contract payments got behind but the county is not providing assistance to the small business owner or an extension to give him time to pay the $100,000 bill the county presented to him. Instead they are denying a way out for this vital small business. The
CZU Lightening Complex Fire took its toll on Kunz, as did COVID. In addition Jack and his wife have had health issues which has not helped the situation. Many residents of the Santa Cruz Mountains live on private roads. The road is not maintained by the county, instead small road associations maintain the roads themselves. It is
Court Issues Ruling on CEQA Challenge on Highway 1 Tier I EIR
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Volume 11: Issue: 7
By Wendy Sigmund
SLV History
On July 13, 2022, the Superior Court of California issued a ruling on the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) challenge by the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation against Caltrans for the Highway 1 Tier I/Tier II Environmental Impact Report/ Environmental Assessment (EIR/ EA). The EIR/EA was certified in January of 2019 and included a programmatic-level “Tier I” analysis for High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes project and a project-level “Tier II” analysis for auxiliary lanes and the bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing at Chanticleer Avenue project along Highway 1 in Santa Cruz County. The CEQA challenge was denied in part and successful in part. The court rejected the majority of the Campaign for Sustainable
well known that these roads can be steep and narrow making it impossible for the large Greenwaste trucks to traverse. As an alternative to the large Greenwaste company, Jack Kunz’s trucks are able to traverse the mountain roads and provide the vital trash pick up service. In addition to the politics of the county’s trash pick up company,
closing this small business down will cause a loss of jobs. 350 to 400 residents rely on Kunz to collect their trash. If this service is not provided the options become small and difficult. The residents will have to take their trash to the dump. That is not always easy to do. Some are elderly, disabled or
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“The CZU Fire In Their Own Words” “The CZU Fire In Their Own Words - Fighting Fires, Losing Homes, and Rebuilding Community” is a new powerful and moving 90-minute film produced by Mountain Community Theater, created and directed by Peter Gelblum. In the spring of 2021, in response to the August 2020 CZU Fires, we interviewed people who fought the fires and people who lost their homes about their experiences, which many of us shared - evacuating, losing homes and possessions, struggling with insurance companies, and getting support from the community. Using only the words from those interviews, we created a script, cast actors to play the interviewees, and used
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