Apr
13
2012
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lee Ulansey
Phone: 707.442.8263
Email: humcpr@gmail.com
April 12, 2012
(Eureka, CA) The Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights (HumCPR) announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the County of Humboldt to compel them to stop the practice of arbitrarily and unjustifiably declaring over a thousand parcels of privately-owned land effectively “illegal.” The County refers to this land as “shaded parcels.” The act of “shading a parcel” puts a cloud on the legal status of the parcel, with no legal notification of this act to the landowner. This “shading of parcels” has been practiced by the County for over 20 years and is not authorized by any law.
“This practice requires a landowner, once they become aware of their status, to pay money to the County and prove their land entitlements are in order,” HumCPR President Lee Ulansey explained. “In other words, Humboldt families have been declared ‘guilty’ by the County in many cases, without the County having performed any research or analysis to justify the ‘shading.’ By doing so, the County has declared you guilty and you must pay the County to prove yourself innocent. Anyplace else this might be called extortion, but in Humboldt our County Counsel has blessed the process.”
Mar
23
2012
NEWS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lee Ulansey
Home (707) 444-8263
Office: (707) 268-8773
E-Mail: humcpr@gmail.com
(Eureka, CA) –The Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights (HumCPR) announced today that it had filed a lawsuit against the County of Humboldt to compel them to produce documents sought under the California Public Records Act (CPRA) (Government Code 6250-6277).
The Records Act request by HumCPR to the County was made on December 5th of last year and to date, the information sought has not been provided. “The law provides the documents to be produced within ten (10) days of the written request and we have been waiting for over three months” stated Lee Ulansey, HumCPR Chair. The information sought by this CPRA was to ask the County to provide the amount of taxpayers’ money that has been spent on attorney’s fees to defend itself or pursue lawsuits filed on land use and private property issues. Ulansey added, “Our County Counsel has had the audacity to tell us that they do not even know how much they have spent on these lawsuits. If it was a Humboldt family or business that had spend tens of millions of dollars on lawyers I guarantee we would know exactly who we paid it to”.
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Mar
23
2012
The State Water Board is having a series of workshops to answer questions & take comments on the new on-site wastewater treatment systems (septic systems). The attached is their public notice and it has a link to the new policy document that will be voted on in June. Now is the time to submit comments.
Here is the link to the pdf file:
Oct
15
2011
Follow-up public information request aims to clarify “shaded parcel” classifications
Eureka, CA. ..As a follow-up to HumCPR’s August public information request letter -(pdf file) for the Humboldt County Planning Department to release a list of land parcels considered to have questionable legal status (shaded parcels); HumCPR is now asking the County to release additional information regarding how the State of California views many of these parcels.
HumCPR is aware of communication, going back at least 7 years, between the California Department of Transportation (Cal-Trans) and County officials over the County’s position of classifying remnant parcels created by State acquisition in the furtherance of road improvements projects, as “shaded parcels.” In a 2011 letter the State asserts that “a continuation of this practice might create certain implications for the State, and can also expose the County to claims by property owners …”
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