On Wednesday November 8, 2006
Development Services staff including Director Tim
Snellings, Assistant Director Pete Calarco, Planning
Manager Chuck Thistlethwaite, Principal Planner Dan
Breedon, and Senior Planner Noel Carvalho along with
staff from the General Plan consultant Design,
Community & Environment completed a ground tour of
Butte County. The tour included visiting many of the
unincorporated communities of Butte County as well
as the outlying areas in the vicinity Biggs, Chico,
Gridley, Oroville, and Paradise. The tour also
traveled through the major geographic landforms of
Butte County including the valley, foothills, and
mountains and important landmarks such as Oroville
Dam, Lake Oroville, the Sacramento and Feather
Rivers and Butte College. Other important planning
areas such as the Durham-Dayton-Nelson Planning Area
and the North Chico Specific Planning area were also
toured.
On Thursday, November 9, 2006 Development Services
staff including Director Tim Snellings, Principal
Planner Dan Breedon, and Senior Planner Noel
Carvalho along with Design, Community & Environment
Principal David Early and Associate Project Manager
Michael Brilliot completed an air tour compliments
of Airport Land Use Commissioner Chairman and pilot
Bob Hennigan. This tour included flying between the
boundaries of Butte County and provided additional
context to the many areas visited on the ground
tour. Valley highlights included the Gray Lodge
State Wildlife Area, and viewing field crops such as
rice, and fruit and nut crops such as almonds,
walnuts, plums, and olives from the air. Mountain
and foothill highlights included views of North and
South Table Mountain, Bald Rock, the Upper Ridge,
Butte Meadows, portions of the Feather River, Lake
Oroville, the coniferous forests of the upper
mountains, and the blue oak woodlands of the
foothills. The tour also included excellent
viewing of each of the four cities and the Town of
Paradise and surrounding unincorporated areas.
If you have any questions, comments or
suggestions,
feel free to reply to Dan Breedon, our Principle
Planner at
dbreedon@buttecounty.net or to
tsnellings@buttecounty.net
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