A Sonora-based nonprofit animal rescue has been forced to scrap plans for a new kennel on Yosemite Road in the Tuolumne area due to legal action initiated by three neighbors who live near the proposed project’s location. A public hearing on the revocation of the conditional use permit for the 5,000-square-foot Friends of the Animal Community rescue kennel project south of Tuolumne Road that was originally scheduled this Tuesday before the Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors will happen on a later date, county counsel said Thursday. “This was an inadvertent error and will be addressed at a future board meeting,” County Counsel Sarah Carrillo told The Union Democrat.
“The public hearing will not occur on Tuesday.” The public hearing was approved by the board Sept. 17 in response to a legal action challenging the county’s approval of the conditional use permit for the FOAC project, filed in June by property owners Michelle Holtzinger, Andrew Aldrich and Nathanial Minick.
The FOAC project was going to be a kennel and dog and cat boarding facility on about 5 acres in a rural residential neighborhood at 17790 Yosemite Road, about 200 feet southwest of Yosemite and Isom roads. The legal action has already cost FOAC more than $20,000, including $6,000 in legal fees, funds provided by donors that would have saved more than 125 animals from euthanization, Darlene Mathews, founder of the primarily volunteer-run rescue, said in a phone interview Friday. The nonprofit has alr.
