Concord’s Bicentennial Calendar Pictures
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On Saturday, August 29, 2009, The Cowell Homeowners Association Board of Directors hosted a ceremony to dedicate the Smokestack Memorial, with Concord’s Mayor Hoffmeister on hand to cut the ceremonial ribbon. The Official Cowell Smokestack Project blog is posting smokestack stories this week. The demolition is complete for all intents and purposes. What remains will become the monument. You can see that the floor has been filled in and tamped down. A floor of bricks will be laid and a pedestal with a plaque will be included. The gravel roadbed will be removed and the landscaping will be [...] Today’s Contra Costa Times has a slide show of the Smokestack’s demolition. Has anyone else heard about the Cowell slide show? The smokestack is very vulnerable to overturning Well, I posted once during the break, and then deleted the entire post later, while trying to update. Blogging is much easier on a computer than on a cell phone. So here goes, again. The crowd was overwhelmingly in support of the transfer, but quite a few people were there to speak against it. I [...] Cowell Smokestack Certificate of Appropriateness approved Glenn Granada met with representatives from the City of Concord, who passed on these Conditions of Approval City leaders decided Monday night that the Cowell Homeowners Association does not have to commission a $100,000 environmental report on the impacts of knocking the stack down versus fixing it. Concord City Council unanimously approved Cowell Homeowners appeal and exempted them from the requirement to provide an EIR Adopt Resolution 08-53 making a finding of CEQA Emergency Exemption from the preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the Cowell Smokestack, and referring the Certificate of Appropriateness application to the Planning Commission For the council, the issue is technical: Must the Cowell Homeowners Association commission a costly environmental impact report before demolishing the stack? the City’s Engineering Study confirms what the CHA has said all along, and the smokestack is indeed a hazard According to The Signal, the County Board of Education has set a date of September 10, 2008 to consider the petition to move schools from the Mt. Diablo Unified School District to Walnut Creek and Acalanes School Districts. Time and venue will be determined later. Go to sos94521.org for more information. If the Engineering Report determines that the smokestack presents a hazard, they can require removal of the stack. Swinerton Management and Consulting COST ESTIMATE FOR THE DEMOLITION AND REHABILITATION OF THE COWELL SMOKESTACK On February 6, 2008 you will hear an appeal from the Cowell Homeowners Association (CHOA), regarding the city’s requirement for an EIR to be completed prior to the issuance of a demolition permit to remove the smokestack on the CHOA greenbelt. the Concord Planning Commission denied the CHOA appeal of an earlier decision of the Zoning Administrator that required an Environmental Impact Statement before demolishing the Smokestack |
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