County supervisors Tuesday OK’d a resolution setting up procedures for potential exemptions in Measure J if the initiative passes next month.
Supervisors voted 4-1 to approve administrative procedures laid out in a resolution in the event the measure is approved. Supervisor Margie Barrios, who is against Measure J, had the lone dissenting vote.
The measure aims to ban fracking, cyclic steaming and well acidizing throughout the county while barring all petroleum activities in rural residential zones near the two cities.
Those general exemptions stated in the measure include instances where it would violate the U.S. Constitution, cause an unconstitutional taking of property or when people who have vested rights granted by the state for low-intensity operations. Those affected by the measure would have a year to comply with the possibility of two additional years.
Some of the administrative procedures established in the resolution include such provisions as: applications are directed to the planning department; the planning director has authority to determine whether there’s sufficient information for an exemption; the board has oversight of review on claims of unconstitutional takings of property; the planning commission has oversight of review on the extension period, with appeals going to the board; and the planning director has oversight of review on vested rights claims, with appeals going to the planning commission and then possibly to the board.
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