COUNCILWOMAN WILL PASS ON VOTE.Byline: Gloria Gonzales Daily News Staff Writer When the Moorpark City Council meets Wednesday to vote on the Hidden Creek Ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. project's environmental impact report, one member won't weigh in on the issue. ``The city attorney has told me that given my current circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or , I have nothing to worry about, there is no conflict of interest,'' said Debbie Rodgers-Teasley, a council member and district manager for Coldwell Banker, a realty realty n. a short form of "real estate." (See: real estate) REALTY. An abstract of real, as distinguished from personalty. Realty relates to lands and tenements, rents or other hereditaments. Vide Real Property. company. ``But I'm cautious, and until I get clarification from the Fair Political Practices Commission, I won't vote.'' Teasley said she first became concerned about the conflict-of-interest issue after a few vocal citizens questioned whether a council member who sold real estate in the city could vote objectively on a new housing development. The Hidden Creek Ranch project, if passed, would bring 3,200 new homes to about 4,500 hilly hill·y adj. hill·i·er, hill·i·est 1. Having many hills. 2. Similar to a hill; steep. hill acres north of the city. Teasley noted that her company only sells used homes and has never represented builders or large, newly built developments. ``As the city attorney noted, our company does not sell new homes, I have no relationship with the builder . . . but I feel I can't be too cautious,'' she said. Teasley then wrote the Fair Political Practices Commission, asking for its opinion on the matter, and she received an initial response from it earlier this week. However, since Teasley posed a number of hypothetical questions A mixture of assumed or established facts and circumstances, developed in the form of a coherent and specific situation, which is presented to an expert witness at a trial to elicit his or her opinion. , she said the response only served to confuse con·fuse v. con·fused, con·fus·ing, con·fus·es v.tr. 1. a. To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; throw off. b. , rather than clarify, the issue. She has now written the commission a second letter describing her current status, and hopes to have a response within a few weeks. ``But obviously, the vote on the EIR EIR n. popular acronym for environmental impact report, required by many states as part of the application to a county or city for approval of a land development or project. (See: environmental impact report) is on Wednesday, and I can't hope to hear back from them before that time. . . . However, I expect to participate in later votes on the project.'' Wednesday night's vote on the environmental impact report merely certifies that report, which outlines the project's effects on the surrounding environment. Before any work could begin on the large project, the council also has to vote on a specific plan, and a development agreement, a project that will likely take several months. |
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