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Residents urge Imperial County supervisors not to ratify Sen. Padilla letter, demand full CEQA review
Summary
At a Feb. 17 special meeting, multiple residents urged Imperial County supervisors to pull a Feb. 11 letter to Sen. Alex Padilla from the consent calendar and require a full CEQA review of the proposed Imperial Data Center, citing water, air and transparency concerns.
Several residents told the Imperial County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 17 that a Feb. 11 county letter to U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla concerning communications about the proposed Imperial Data Center should not be ratified from the consent calendar and should instead trigger fuller public review.
"You're trusting the word of a developer with a precarious legal history," said Christopher Skure during public comment, urging supervisors to move the item from consent to action so the community can scrutinize correspondence and the project's environmental review. Skure and others criticized errors and omissions in the county letter and said those flaws undercut confidence in the county’s handling of the project.
Why it matters: Residents said the county's catalog of communications with the senator's office cannot substitute for independent…
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