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EDITOR: I would like to tell you know why I love Shingle Springs. Our family moved to Shingle Springs from the Bay Area in 2005. At the time, our children were 7 and 9. We used to live on the outskirts of Fairfield, which is a city of more than 100,000 residents. I have experienced [...]
Lori Parlin and Frank Verdin are feeling somewhat besieged these days what with the number of new developments being proposed for Shingle Springs. Devoted to the peaceful rural nature of the area where they live, they are looking for others like themselves who don’t want the community to change. “We’re going to get hit hard [...]
EDITOR: This project is slotted for the Intersection of Ponderosa Road and Wild Chaparral in Shingle Springs and is currently being reviewed by the El Dorado County Planning Dept. It will include: an 80-room hotel, two-story office building, 20,000 square foot food market, over 200 parking spots and 14 residences on a total of 12 [...]
Rather than hold a hearing on the Tilden Park Planned Development, the El Dorado County Planning Commission granted a request from the developer for a continuance. The developer said they needed time to address questions raised about the project, to redo the plan in light of the recent court decision regarding the county’s Oak Woodland [...]
A new planned development in the Tilden Park area of Shingle Springs is up for approval by the County Planning Commission on Feb. 9. County staff are recommending approval of the project. Located approximately 500 feet from the northwest corner of the intersection of Crosswood Drive and Wild Chaparral Drive, the 12-acre development would rezone the [...]
EDITOR: Have your heard of Tilden Park? In the name of “smart growth” El Dorado County is in the process of giving a green light to the worst, ill-planned development ever done in Shingle Springs. They want to take 12 acres full of oak trees, an open grass field, rare endangered plants, wetlands and the natural [...]
EDITOR: Tilden Park is a subdivision planned for Shingle Springs on 12 acres of wetlands in the middle of our residential 1-acre neighborhood. This subdivision consists of an hotel, restaurant, food market, multi-story office complex and 14 homes crammed on 12 acres. The land and neighborhood has existed for over 30 years and has natural springs [...]
EDITOR: Open letter to the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission: Once again my neighborhood is under attack. There was a Planning Commission meeting on Oct. 27 regarding a proposed subdivision along Wild Chaparral. We do not want that type of subdivision in our neighborhood. Those 12 acres are currently zoned R1A, which [...]
EDITOR: Has anyone heard of Tilden Park? We just heard about it less than a month ago. Here in Shingle Springs we have an open field (12 acres) in our neighborhood and an enterprising developer has plans for this 12 acres. He has planned on building a hotel, restaurant, food market, two story building for businesses [...]
Visit horses, a camel and bear in Placerville on Main Street. A group of charming and historical carousel horses and menagerie animals just returned to Placerville from their 10 month extended exhibition at the Auburn Courthouse Museum. They date from 1885 to 1912 and are fine examples of the golden age of carousels. “It is [...]
SAN FRANCISCO — The de Young Museum announces a major exhibition by the seminal artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso. The exhibition “Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris,” runs through Oct. 9, in the Herbst Special Exhibition Galleries. This exhibition of 150 important paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings created by Pablo Picasso [...]