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Friday, February 6, 2014
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IN SPORTS, S1
ADAM FIRESTONE
SHARES LESSONS
SHOOTINGWOES
DOOMCALPOLY
Mustangs miss 26 of 30 2-pointers
in 59-56 home loss to Hawaii
Brewery co-founder spoke at Tribune luncheon
Ted Lilly takes a plea deal in fraud case
Attorney
James
Murphy
reads a
statement
of apology
from his
client,
former
baseball
pitcher Ted
Lilly, on
Thursday.
By Matt Fountain
Former Major League Baseball pitcher will
pay a fine and perform community service
[email protected]
A former Major League
Baseball player and Edna Valley resident charged with
felony insurance fraud accepted a plea deal Thursday
that will keep him out of jail.
Ted Lilly, 39, a left-handed
pitcher who played with several teams including the Los
Angeles Dodgers, did not ap-
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BY DAVID
MIDDLECAMP
pear in San Luis Obispo Superior Court on Thursday,
but his attorney entered a
plea of no contest to a misdemeanor count of insurance
fraud.
As a result of his plea, Lilly
will pay a $2,500 fine, serve
two years of informal probation and perform 250 hours
of local community service,
which he must complete
within 12 months.
Lilly had faced three felony
charges of filing a false insurance claim, filing a false state- See FRAUD, Back Page
SA N TA M A R GA R I TA D E V E LO P M E N T
County planners reject
proposal for gravel quarry
Divided commissioners
cite safety concerns in
voting down Hwy. 58
project by 3-2 margin
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Housing
proposed for
scenic area
Plan calls for between 1,000 and
1,500 homes near Avila Beach
on Wild Cherry Canyon property
By David Sneed
[email protected]
C
iting traf fic and safety
concerns, a divided county Planning Commission on
Thursday rejected plans to
build a controversial new aggregate mine near Santa Margarita.
In a 3-2 vote, the commission denied a plan by Las Pilitas Resources to mine as
much as 500,000 tons a year
of granite gravel from a ridgeline near Highway 58.
Much of the concern about
the project centered on the
estimated average 273 truck
trips per day the quarr y
would generate with most of
the trucks passing through
the town of Santa Margarita.
The truck trips would vary
seasonally, increasing in summer months when construction activity peaks and dropping to about 80 trips a day
during the winter.
The three commissioners
who voted to deny the project
also said they had concerns
about the safety of those
trucks passing through a railroad crossing and near an elementary school.
“The impacts to the town
are quite evident to me,” said
Chairman Ken Topping, who
cast one of the votes against
the project.
ment in connection with an
insurance claim, and concealing a material fact in connection with an insurance
claim.
In exchange for his plea to
a reduced charge of misdemeanor insurance fraud,
Deputy District Attorney Linda Dunn motioned the court
By David Sneed
[email protected]
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Opponents to a proposed gravel quarry in Santa Margarita hold signs in silent support
of a speaker Thursday at a San Luis Obispo Planning Commission hearing.
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Topping also said he was
concerned the quarry would
industrialize Santa Margarita
and damage its growing
tourist economy.
The hearing was the third
on the issue, and the chambers were nearly full Thursday with many in the audience waving orange signs
reading, “Please don’t override our community!” a reference to a county planning
staff recommendation to deny the project.
Commissioners Jim Irving
and Eric Meyer joined Topping in voting against approving the project. Commissioners Don Campbell and Jim
Harrison voted in favor.
The decision is appealable
to the Board of Supervisors.
The applicants said they have
not decided whether they will
file an appeal, said project
manager Ken Johnston.
Campbell said he supported the project out of respect
for the owners’ proper ty
rights and because there is a
need for the kind of aggregate the quarr y would produce in building roads and
other infrastructure projects.
“I see the need for this
See QUARRY, Back Page
The community of Avila Beach would
nearly triple in size under a proposal to
build as many as 1,500 homes in Wild Cherry Canyon.
In a meeting with the Avila Valley Advisory Council on Thursday, developer Tom
Blessent and planner Andres Duany said
they are planning to build between
1,000 and 1,500 homes on 240 acres of the
2,400-acre Wild Cherry Canyon property,
which extends from Avila Beach and into
the Irish Hills between Avila Beach and San
Luis Obispo.
The 240 acres would be on the southern
end of the property near the main entrance
See HOUSING, Back Page
Powerful storm
sets sights on
Central Coast
As much as 1.5 to 4 inches of
rain may fall around the county
By Nick Wilson
Nearly 80 million people affected by Anthem breach
Hackers stole
personal info
such as
Social Security
numbers
WEATHER AND
TODAY’S INDEX
By Chad Terhune
Los Angeles Times
Insurance giant Anthem Inc.
suffered a massive data breach
exposing the personal information of up to 80 million Americans
— and it could have been even
The first clouds of a
weekend storm make their
appearance. More on S8
worse for consumers.
The hackers didn’t take sensitive medical information on patients or their credit card data, according to the company, even
though it was stored alongside Social Security numbers and other
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personal information that had
been stolen.
For several weeks last month,
hackers infiltrated the key database of customer and employee
See ANTHEM, Back Page
[email protected]
A storm expected to drop a heavy dose of
rain will hit San Luis Obispo County this
evening and continue through the weekend,
PG&E meteorologist John Lindsey says.
A series of low-pressure systems and their
fronts will mix with a huge plume of subtropical moisture stretching from Hawaii to
produce southerly winds and showers.
Rain will start this evening and continue
through Monday morning, Lindsey
forecasts.
See STORM, Back Page
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