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From:Kim Armstrong
To:Clerk of the Board
Cc:Hannah Espinosa; Cynthia Perrine
Subject:RE: Agenda Item 5.1
Date:Monday, September 21, 2026 3:28:51 PM
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BOS Letter_Communication Tower.pdf
Good Afternoon,
Please see attached letter addressing item 5.1 on the Board of Supervisor's meeting agenda for
September 22, 2026, titled Public Hearing - Appeal of Verizon Wireless & Everest Infrastructure
Partners
Telecommunication Facility Conditional Use Permit (UP25-0003).
We will be in attendance.
Best,
Kim Armstrong
Stewardship Manager
Northern California Regional Land Trust
Office: (530)894-7738
Butte County Board of Supervisors
25 Country Center Drive
Oroville, CA 95965
Verizon Wireless & Everest Infrastructure Partners Telecommunication Facility Conditional Use Permit
(UP25-0003)
Dear Butte County Board of Supervisors,
Northern California Regional Land Trust is providing information regarding three Northern California
Regional Land Trust conservation easements on three Butte County properties located near “Wicks
Corner” at the intersection of Highways 70 and 149, Berkeley Olive Grove, Tozier Ranch, and Oroville
Planning Unit, for the purpose of consideration of potential adverse impacts to recorded conservation
values intended to be preserved by establishing the subject easements.
A conservation easement is a legally binding agreement between a landowner and a land trust or
government agency that permanently restricts development and subdivision to protect its natural,
agricultural, or scenic resources, per the terms of the easement.
The State of California funded the purchase of subject conservation easements, with each property’s
conservation value being recorded for permanent protection. NCRLT works with each landowner to
annually monitor conserved properties to ensure compliance with the terms of perpetual protections.
The statements below are copied from the recorded conservation easements for the properties in
proximity to the proposed telecommunications project.
Berkeley Olive Grove
From the Conservation Easement
“The conservation purpose of this Easement is …. the preservation of the open space character
and scenic habitat, natural, and historic values of the Property…”
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Tozier Ranch
From the Conservation Easement
“The Tozier Ranch possesses natural, ecological, wildlife habitat, rangeland, agricultural,
forestland, riparian, and open-space values of great importance to Grantor, Grantee, the people of
Butte County, and the people of the State of California.”
“California Civil Code Section 815 states in relevant part that the Legislature finds and declares
that the preservation of land in its natural, scenic, agricultural, historical, forested, or open-space
condition is among the most important environmental assets of California.”
Oroville Planning Unit
From the Conservation Easement
“The Purpose of the Conservation Easement for the Property is to protect the Beneficial Public
Values of the Property, as summarized below…The scenic viewshed of the Property in keeping
with the surrounding environment, providing a contiguous forested or open grassland landscape
visible to passerby on the nearby roads and highways…”
“The Legislature of the State of California, as set forth in California Civil Code 815 et seq., has
found and declared it to be the public policy and in the public interest of this state to encourage
the preservation of land in its predominantly natural, scenic, agricultural, historical, forested, or
open-space condition,…”
Sincerely,
Cynthia Graves Perrine
Cynthia Graves Perrine
Executive Director, Northern California Regional Land Trust