e mail us if we can we will cover the story heavy body welcome back grant thirty of auburn was in a critical condition sunday afternoon after sustaining serious injuries and a single vehicle accident on highway twenty and that a city on saturday twenty three years old was driving his nine hundred ninety one toy to pick up eastbound on highway twenty early sunday early saturday morning when he drove off the road near sacramento street according to the california highway patrol his truck went up a thirty foot embankment rolled over and came to rest on the roof across the freeway fuji was trapped inside with his seatbelt fastened in manage growth initiative would harm grass valley economic base demolish the general plan put several projects in limbo encourage sprawl and make it almost impossible for the city to meet affordable housing proponents say the ballot measure will simply give residents the right to vote when changes are proposed to the land use element of the two thousand and twenty general plan which was approved in one thousand nine hundred nine it also extends the life the land use element of t plan by thirty years to two thousand and thirty eight the report paints a different picture saying passage of the measure will have a far reaching and harmful financial and planning consequences for grass valley and the region they say they want to hold the general plan in place in reality it's more complicated than that according to joe heckle the city's community development director city officials say the measure would infiltrate every nuance of the planning process potentially requiring special elections on zoning changes subdivision maps conditional use permits building permits or any change not spelled out in the land use element approved in one thousand and nine it would also undermine joint planning efforts and agreements with the county and possibly kill in fill projects and grass valley according to the report the biggest issue with this is that you will eliminate flexibility what they want to put in place will make the whole process more difficult according to city administrator dan holer one major concern would be losing special development area projects such as the loma rica ranch project that are now in the city's fear of influence where they could be annexed by this would lead to sprawl around grass valley and the loss of future revenue according to the report what happens of all this stuff goes to the county and we have no control over that polar says north auburn comes to mind unquote if the initiative is approved the stas would have to be approved by a majority of voters since certain land use changes would be required rather than submit to that process the project's developers could take their  county for approval on the potential loss of revenue from the stas and other projects that the city believes it needs to sustain grass valley status as the economic hub of western nevada county the report states impacts will be felt in a drop of fees and charges impact fees and utility connections all of which will impact the city's financial health a number of mixed use projects and a planning pipeline might be affected as well according to the state allows the city council to make up to five changes a year in its general plan which in grass valley includes ten elements that address everything from parks to public safety to historic preservation the two thousand and twenty general plan is designed to project what the land use and other needs will be for the next twenty years as the city moves forward the report on potential issues and impacts of proposed land use initiative says changing the timeline to two thousand and thirty eight for the land use element well fact every aspect of the general plan including the city's ability to meet californias affordable housing mandates the city will be challenged with how to update the elements of the two thousand and twenty general plan to match the two thousand and thirty eight timeframe of particular concern is the city's ability to comply with future state housing mandates and how our housing element can be updated in leads to land use element the penalty for not meeting housing mandates the report says can include fines other penalties and eligibility for certain state and federal grants and addition the report says the initiative could create more opportunities for litigation from either developers or project opponents the report says having a different timeline for the land use element would make it difficult to move ahead with other projects and the general plan as a result the goals objectives and implementation strategies contain and the nine other elements will not in all likelihood be implemented by two thousand and twenty the ability to create parks trail systems circulation improvements open space and further our public safety standards are tied to the levels of growth and development identified in use element according to the report holder said having one fixed piece of the general plan makes it more difficult to integrate it with the other elements that's complicating the entire planning process main street according to the agenda the city describes this as a preliminary report and will ask the council for additional time to prepare a more detailed report in other news here is a list of candidates answers to questions posed at last week's candidate forum for the six candidates for the fourth congressional district fiscal priorities and taxes charlie brown democrat says fiscal priorities should up government overseas governments overseas tax cuts are needed for the middle class so that the burden is evenly distributed doug o c the republican candidate said the top republican candidate his fiscal party is the defense of our nation he wants tax credits for individuals for health care because the u s constitution does not give government the right to run health care ted turbo lizard republican priority is for government to use taxes responsibly to balance the budget we need to develop a simpler tax code to stimulate the economy john wolfram the democratic candidates his fiscal priority is to turn around the country's international trade deficit he wants to shift half of income taxes to corporate and sales taxes sponsors and on national security brown said politics have no business and military intelligence because having the biggest military in the world does no good if we don't know how to use it the vietnam veteran served in the u s air force it was he said the u s has wide interests around the globe and we must be engaged with those interests o c said his travels to the middle east and south america proved to him how important u s security is mcclintock said national security starts at the borders against illegal immigrants because if the military can't defend our borders what's going on there terrible lizard said the candidate is completely opposed to other governments using the united states military as a world police force we need to make peace through business transactions unquote jones said we're not a police force we're there for our own interests she said her family's military background and her own work for the army overseas showed her the need for national defense wolf graham said the vietnam war veteran war is institutionalized insanity and wants congress to take back the right to wage a war from the president and that is it everybody and world news headlines today burma is on the brink of a massive public health catastrophe blocks and delays it's wise to burma burma held national referendum saturday threatens the lives of as many as one point five million people who are suffering from disease and famine an emergency coordinator john holmes has urged for music at the words to allow humanitarian agencies to send in technical and health experts to prevent outbreak disease john holmes said excellencies let me conclude and repeating that the extent of this human catastrophe is enormous and that the number as numbers of people will need to well increase further as we come to an stand better the situation on the ground and i repeat that the sooner you manage ariens are allowed in and the less procedural and other obstacles we encounter the more lives we can help save the speed with which we deliver systems to those in need is becoming more and more critical and the danger of the outbreak of epidemics rises by the hour burma's military junta has repeatedly delayed aid shipments and rejected for he says for foreign aid workers on sunday relief efforts suffered another setback when a red cross boat sank after it had a submerged tree trunk the boat was carrying one of the first international aid shipments earlier today the first u s flight carrying aid was allowed to land in burma the c one thirty was carrying twenty thousand pounds of supplies including the ski donuts blankets and water samson what kamar of world vision said burma's government must allow more aid to enter the country san as it is very obvious for thousands of people that we help there are tens of thousands of people who have not yet been reached and that is what we are trying to do for this moment excuse that pronunciation of his name here on saturday military junta went ahead with a national referendum on drafting a new constitution critics say the vote will perpetuate and legitimize military rule the wall street journal reports the military junta has also increased its surveillance in the air and gone and is closely watching the movements of opposition politicians monks activists and foreigners truckloads of soldiers were seen throughout the city on sunday patrolling public areas in monasteries that were at forefront of pro democracy protests that erupted across the city in september meanwhile a top indian group that monitors climate change and south asia has warned that the cyclon argues is a sign of things to come sunita narain of the center for science environment warned that destructive cyclons were likely to occur more often and less nations sped up their efforts to curtail curtail their mission of greenhouse gases millions said the victims of these cycles are climate change victims and their plight should remind the rich world that it is doing too little to contain its greenhouse gas emissions and their reign said the big polluters in the world including the united states should not be able to escape responsibility what is happening in burma the sorry clone has also impacted the us presidential race good year has resigned as the core of nader at the two thousand and eight republican national convention after it was disclosed that his lobbying firm used to represent the military regime in burma goodyear have the picked have been picked to run the convention by sen john mccain good here is the chief executive of the lobbying firm d c our group newsweek reported on saturday that burma's military had paid d c i three hundred forty eight thousand dollars in two thousand to two thousand and three other clients the d c i group included exxon mobil and general motors and other campaign news senator barack obama has gained the support of twenty one superdelegates since last tuesday's primaries in north carolina and indiana for the first time in the campaign obama now has more superdelegates than senator hillary clinton during a campaign fundraiser in new york clinton vowed to stay in the race senator hillary clinton what i he said what i hear and what i see is all about how we're going to finish this nominating contest which we will do then we will have a nominee and we will have an emmy unified democratic party and we will stand together and we will you want something new we want to turn the page you want to write a new chapter in american history and now oregon it is your turn it is your turn go ahead and stand up and say it is time for a change that is moving at least eighty one people have died in levanon since wednesday in clashes between has been all led opposition groups and u s backed pro government forces opposition forces overpowered pro government militias and took over the large parts of the capital city of beirut late last week before handing over control to the lebanese army the fighting shifted to the north and east of the country over the weekend and fresh clashes were reported in beirut this morning major attack on the school the largest sue nice city in iraq patrick cockburn of the london independent reports has been turned into a ghost town he reports that soldiers are shooting at any civilian vehicle on the streets that defies the cit strict curfew on sunday u s troops shot dead two men a woman and child after they failed to follow orders to stop the iraqi government claims the offensive and must rule is needed to crush the al qaeda in iraq and other news other iraq news the associated press reports the private military contractor blackwater is not expected to face criminal charges for the shooting deaths of seventeen civilians in baghdad and the final decision on any charges will not be made until late summer at the earliest the seven month old justice department investigation is reportedly focused on as few as three or four blackwater guards who could be indicted in the september sixteenth shooting the united nations is demanding an investigation into how the israeli military killed one of its palestinian school teachers by blasting open the front door of her gaza home with explosives in the presence of three of her children thirty four year old way for shaker al doc maher was killed last week as she stood prepared to open the door for home to the israeli troops she was a teacher at a local un relief and works agency elementary school meanwhile hundreds of thousands of gazans were without power today after gaza officials were forced to shut down the region's only power plant because israel hadn't provided enough diesel to run the plant and news from africa sudan has cut off ties with the neighboring country of chad but a sudanese government accused chart of backing a rebel attack on could courtyard on saturday i sit down set around sixty five people were killed in fighting outside the capital there are says there are some factors that could be that could cause a hundred fifty dollars barrel number one is we haven't even talked about hurricane season which is going to hit us in another month and we've been lucky for two years and one hasn't hit the mainland if one happens to get into the gulf and starts hitting these oil producing facilities they don't like that we could easily see a hundred fifty dollars a barrel in news on guantanamo and military judge has disqualified the pentagon general who has been centrally involved in overseeing the war crimes tribunals of prisoners held at the u s military base the judge said that brig general thomas hartmann was too closely aligned with the prosecution the judge also raised questions about whether hartmann would could carry out his role with the required neutrality and objectivity and california a thirty year old environmental activist has been sentenced to nearly twenty years in prison after being convicted of planning to disrupt government and accused the f b i of entrapment a key figure in the alleged plot was a florida college student who was recruited by the f b i to penetrate the protest movement david's lawyers said the conspiracy would have never developed if not for the actions of the informant who helped bring the other activists gather and new york a white city police officer has been disciplined after acting in a discourteous manner after he confronted a black motorists on the borough of queens on may s officers approached and began questioning a motorist who was sitting in his car one of the officers tried to wrest open the car door it turned out the motorist was douglas siegler the head of the police department's community affairs bureau and the highest uniformed black officer the force the incident comes at a time when the new york police are coming under increasing scrutiny for racial profiling during the first three months of the year the police stopped in first of record one hundred forty five thousand people most were black or latino that's a wrap today on world news no blotter unfortunately today but a great ending story to someone you know in calumet michigan police in this upper town have forgotten about the one dollar parking ticket written on september first one nine hundred seventy six the woman who had found it on her windshield the ticket a twenty dollar bill and a no arrived at the police headquarters last month in a plain whit no return address the note read i always had good intentions of paying it i put it aside and every once in a while i would come across it and say someday i'm going to pay it now it's  unpaid ticket after so much time the woman apparently hopes her payment closes the matter please don't try and track me down she said i'm respectfully and now for our weather report it looks like it is going to be sunny weather with a few clouds on the run but otherwise only visual local news for nevada county then please underwriters and get mentioned every day to over thirty thousand possible households in your county plus the internet just give us a call or email us at part three zero four seven seventy three three zero