Loewe's in Tuolumne County

With all this hub-bub about Loewe’s, the proposed County Law Enforcement/Administration center, it leaves one to wonder who is sleeping with who in the Administrative, Judicial and Property Ownership arena.

I mean, after all. It was just about 4 months after the closing of TGH, that the county thought up the idea of the new Law Enforcement Complex. (What, we can’t provide health care, but can provide incarceration?) TGH had a negative $900 M / year deficit. The new law enforcement center will only cost upwards of $266 M. Hmmm.

And now we find the care from our sole provider is mediocre, at best. I guess when you’re the only game in town you can be the best you want to be.

And Loewe’s…anyone checked out the corporate profile lately. I wonder how they can manage to keep their doors open another day. And we are really to believe they are actively pursuing new stores.

I would suggest the wool is being pulled over the people of this county’s eyes. Already the epithet “Come here on Vacation, leave here on Probation” is being thrown around. And we are to think the state (Bankrupt, by the way) is going to provide the necessary funding for our new “lock down”.

So who is sleeping with whom? Who stands to gain the most? The people of Tuolumne County that thought they moved to
God’s Country or the unknown individuals that seem to keep things under control, at best.

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Now being such a backwoods little county, I’m sure the developer’s, contractor’s, architect’s, workmen, well, you get the idea, are from outside the county so the new job factor for locals is relatively nil.  And to think, was it just a year or so ago, our illustrious supervisor’s couldn’t figure a way of providing healthcare and had to just give up on the county’s loser of a hospital only to now rely on the Patron Saints of Tuolumne County!   Who have made Prompt Care a joke, made a blood test a day’s worth of travel to the oddest location imaginable (other than the Hospital) and now want to spend $200 million of this county’s money, much of it coming from I assume Revenue Recovery with the new jail and all needing to have a vacancy factor similar to the privately funded hospital.

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Talk about Economic Stimulus!   Which Supervisor is related to the company who has been contracted to turn out an overpriced EIR?   And by the way, if you do an EIR in this county, why is it necessary to photocopy it and pump up another one for an adjacent property?  Ever read one.  For all intents and purposes, they all say the same thing.  Verbatim.  The variance is maybe $20,000 - $40,000, that’s it.  (In cost to the county, that is).

A New Justice Center

Let’s give a hand to a group of longtime generational, most likely cash poor, land rich property owners, who along with a group of hungry real estate appraisers, brokers and attorney’s came up with the idea of taking some of this county’s most beautiful grazing land, now that the beef industry is on the skids and instead of knocking their heads against a group of “no growth” residents, and “no to more homes” supervisors to figure out a way of selling, that is, turning their dirt into Cash” by way of reclassifying their gorgeous property to a county use.  This land, most likely zoned farming or under the Williamson Act, with unbelievably low tax revenues for the county, would be unsuitable, by the way for residential because of the marginal neighborhood it is adjacent to (Walmart), to turn this land into an extremely high priced piece of property which now has the highest and best use being a new county jail, still with no tax revenue for the county…and additionally, uh hum, well, fabulous new sheriff’s offices.