Politics & Government
Public or Private? Citizens Get Another Chance to Debate Status of Road
Board of Supervisors will weigh testimony about Permanente Road at public hearing on Tuesday.
A dispute over whether a foothills roadway critical to Lehigh Southwest Cement is public or private will get another airing at the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
The status of Permanente Road is part of a , formerly known as No Toxic Air. If a court finds the road to be public, it could call into question a to grant Lehigh vested rights on large portions of its property just outside Cupertino.
The activist group also at a protest in June.
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In the meantime, the February vote cleared the way for Lehigh officials to file official paperwork asking the road to be formally relinquished by the county. The public gets a chance to testify about the proposal at the Tuesday meeting in the board chambers at 70 W. Hedding St., in San Jose.
Permanente Road was declared public in 1893 but has been impassable since 1935, when former quarry owners blocked it off to general traffic.
