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Ripon parents rallying against planned AT&T cell tower near school Eric Escalante
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A public comment session at San Joaquin County board meeting was dominated by hundreds of parents, calling for a stop to plans that would place a cellphone tower near a school.
About 200 public comments were lodged with the county Board of Supervisors on April 20, many from parents and community members in Ripon. Each one echoed a similar message, specifically that they did not want a cell tower anywhere near Colony Oak Elementary School.
“We are going to fight this to the end, and our hope is that we stop this before it goes in,” said Kellie Prime, mother of a sixth-grade student at Colony Oak Elementary School.
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The clear and present threat to Ripon’s sense of community: The City of Manteca PERSPECTIVE City of Manteca growth will be a major factor in shaping the future of Ripon High and the rest of the Ripon school system.
Ripon, more than a decade ago, repelled the barbarians at the gate.
Walmart wanted to build a store a tad larger than Manteca’s in an almond orchard just north of the Flying J Travel Center.
Many Ripon residents saw it as an assault on their sense of community and lifestyle. If Walmart established a beachhead for big box retailers, the reasoning was downtown was doomed, growth would surge, traffic would explode, and crime would go up.
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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. MANTECA GROWTH MAY ADD 2,000 STUDENTS TO RIPON USD SE Manteca development: Big impacts on Ripon are likely This map shows the zoning for 1,049 acres in southeast Manteca that will have significant impacts on the Ripon community.
Manteca’s plans for much of 1,049 acres in the extreme southeast area of the city will have big impacts on Ripon.
That’s because zoning designations have the ability to generate 1,150 students from housing that would be built within the Ripon Unified School District. To put that in perspective, that is just over a third of the current 3,144 Ripon Unified students.