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Residents urge Plumas County to enforce rules after large-scale disturbance at Genesee Valley property
Summary
Multiple public commenters told the Plumas County Planning Commission they have seen escalating earth-moving and root-wall removal at a property in Genesee Valley and asked what the county will do; planning staff said key plans and EIR 52 are posted online and a code amendment remains in process.
Several residents pressed the Plumas County Planning Commission at its April 16 meeting to act after reports of ongoing soil disturbance at a privately owned property in Genesee Valley.
An extended public comment period opened with a county resident (identified on the transcript as Speaker 7) who said she had not received legally required notices about the Genesee Valley Special Management Area plan and alleged that earlier public statements about the property were "actual lies" and "a violation of state law." The resident asked commissioners for dates of prior hearings and environmental reviews and requested county enforcement.
"What you've just heard from Miss Adler is actual lies because what she said is a violation of state law," the resident said during public comment, attributing the statement to material read earlier in the meeting.
Planning staff responded that the Genesee Valley special management area plan, associated map and EIR 52 have been posted to the Plumas County General Plan 2035 website and that a code amendment application is currently in process with staff and county counsel. Staff told commissioners that no code-amendment hearings had been noticed yet and offered a one-on-one meeting with the resident to review state agritourism statutes she had provided.
"Its resolutions for adoption in 1992 and amendment in 1993 are posted on the Plumas County General Plans 2035 website along with the Genesee Valley special management area plan and map," planning staff said, noting a link to EIR 52 and promising to follow up after a scheduled meeting to review the resident's citations.
Other community members, including ranchers and longtime valley residents, described seeing expanding excavation and removal of root structures and said the work had grown "bigger and bigger" and alarmed neighbors. Feather River Action representative Josh Hart told the commission the group supports the county "in enforcing the law and holding people accountable who are destroying the ecology," and urged increased oversight of the property.
The commission has not taken formal enforcement action at the meeting; staff committed to follow up with the resident individually and to present any code-amendment materials for public workshops and Brown Act‑noticed hearings when ready.
The commission moved on to its agenda after public comment closed. The next procedural step on the Genesee Valley questions is staff follow-up with the resident and, when the county has drafted any code amendments, publicly noticed workshops or hearings where the public can comment further.
