BACK ON MONDAY the 14th of December, the Board of Supervisors, as expected, voted 5-0 to allow a quarry operation on Poonkinney Road, an area lying between Highway 101 and Covelo, a very rural area not suited to industrial enterprise. The quarry is situated just off a one-lane rural road so narrowly serpentine that CalFire, whenever it’s in the neighborhood, declares it one-way only. Neighbors of the proposed quarry, a smallish operation if finally permitted, are divided on it; some are in favor, some aren’t, and name a place in this country at this time where there’s a consensus opinion on anything. Last time the quarry was proposed, the project went all the way to the state appellate court where the quarry lost because Mendocino County’s environmental impact report was found to be spectacularly defective. Needless to say, it was largely the intellectual work product of now-supervisor John McCowen, then sitting as planning commissioner.
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