Ray Catalano and other representatives of Friends of Moraga Canyon met recently with Geoff Grote, the Piedmont City Administrator, to discuss the status of the planning process and EIR (Environmental Impact Report) for the proposed Blair Park/Coaches Field project. Here’s his report from the meeting.

Barbara and Al Peters, Lynn Dee, Randy Wedding, and I met with
Mr. Grote at 4:00 PM on March 26th in City Hall. I began the
conversation by asking where the City was in the EIR process. I
prefaced the question with the observation that roughly 3 months had
passed since the Council committed to the combined Coaches Field/Blair
Park assessment but that no Notice of Preparation had yet been issued.
I asserted that the lack of a Notice of Preparation not only raised
questions about whether the City process to date had complied with the
State law, but had also left those of us living in Canyon
neighborhoods wondering whether the City had adopted the plan devised
by sports complex advocates, and shown on the City’s website, as the
project.

Here’s the rest of the report: (more…)