Rallying local support in efforts to reverse federal annexation of a 1,400-acre parcel called Camp 4 to the Chumash reservation, the Santa Ynez Valley Coalition convened a town hall meeting at Solvang Veterans Memorial Hall on Thursday evening. (Click here to read full article)
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Santa Maria Times – SYV Coalition meeting on Camp 4 draws crowd
About 100 people turned out Thursday night at a Santa Ynez Valley Coalition community information meeting addressing the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ effort to have the tribe’s Camp 4 property taken into federal trust. (Click here to read full article)
Santa Ynez Valley News: SYV Coalition sets community meeting on transfer of Chumash land
The Santa Ynez Valley Coalition will host a community meeting Thursday, April 27, to update area residents on recent federal and local developments regarding the fee-to-trust transfer of the Camp 4 property from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians to the federal government. (Click here to read full article)
Media Release: Santa Ynez Valley Coalition Community Meeting – April 27, 7:00 PM
Community Meeting on Camp 4 To Be Hosted by the Santa Ynez Valley Coalition
April 27 Event Will Update Community on Efforts to Reverse Camp 4’s “Fee-to-Trust” Transfer
(Santa Ynez, Calif.) The Santa Ynez Valley Coalition, a broad-based community organization of concerned citizens will host a community meeting on Thursday, April 27th to update area residents on several recent federal and local developments regarding the “Fee to Trust” transfer of the Camp 4 property. The public will also be afforded an opportunity to ask questions at this meeting.
The Santa Ynez Valley Coalition opposes the “Fee to Trust” transfer of Camp 4 property and works to ensure that all residents of the Santa Ynez Valley have a voice in all land use decisions.
Federal action to take the 1,400-acre agriculturally-zoned Camp 4 property into Trust on behalf of the Chumash Tribe would give the Tribe the ability to commercially develop this land in any manner it sees fit irrespective of local land-use plans. That federal action is under challenge in federal court. [Read more…] about Media Release: Santa Ynez Valley Coalition Community Meeting – April 27, 7:00 PM