Mountain Views News, Combined Edition Saturday, April 22, 2023

BEARS 

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the wilderness to increase beyond what 
CDFW can manage and what the wilderness 
can sustain. As a result, wild 
bears were forced to populate, and eventually 
habituate, in established urban 
residential neighborhoods. These multi-
generational urbanized bears, according 
CDFW, are now unable to survive 
in natural habitats which is why the 
CDFW refuses to relocate these bears 
into the wilderness landscape. Instead of 
attempting to regain control and striving 
for a healthy and ideal bear population, 
in both numbers and location, 
the CDFW now tries to sell their “coexistence” 
strategies to vulnerable cities 
throughout the state, including Sierra 
Madre. 

“Coexistence” is reckless, irresponsible, 
and a glaring admission by the CDFW 
that they have failed to manage healthy 
bear populations in the natural habitats. 
“Coexistence” is not in the bear’s best interest 
and is a dangerous threat to public 
safety. “Coexistence” only illustrates 
how the CDFW has completely lost control 
of the bear populations. For just a 
moment, try to rationalize the absurdity 
of convincing residential neighborhoods 
within existing well established urban 
neighborhoods that they need to now 
learn how to coexist with wild bears. 
Instead of making any efforts to correct 
their loss of control, mismanagement, 
and failed policies, CDFW now expects 
residential neighborhoods to host the 
very same wild bears CDFW has failed 
to manage and maintain in a healthy 
wilderness environment. 

For bears, their best case scenario is to 
live in a natural wilderness habitat that 
can sustain a healthy bear population, 
the way their bodies were designed, and 
not in urban cities being reduced to garbage 
scavengers that roam city streets. 
Bears that can only scavenge on human 
garbage live an unhealthy life often ingesting 
plastics and other harmful materials 
that their bodies are incapable of 
processing. For the CDFW to facilitate 
and support an urban bear population 
is, simply, animal cruelty. 

The best case scenario for both public 
safety and the bear population would 
be to remove the entire urbanized bear 
population and reduce the bear population 
in the wilderness to a healthy level 
that the natural habitat can sustain. 

 

Tuesday night, the Sierra Madre City 
Council are being asked to adopt RESOLUTION 
23-12 DECLARING THE 
MISMANAGEMENT OF LOCAL 
BEAR POPULATIONS A THREAT TO 
PUBLIC SAFETY. In my 27 years of being 
involved in local politics, I believe 
this is the single most courageous Resolution 
ever adopted in Sierra Madre. Sierra 
Madre will be the David against the 
Goliath State in a fight that is only just 
getting started. Congratulations and 
gratitude to our City Council and City 
Manager for your efforts to keep Sierra 
Madre safe. 

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Mountain View News Saturday, April 22, 2023 

City of Sierra Madre

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

From: The City of Sierra Madre

Subject: HISTORIC CULTURAL LANDMARK DESIGNATION

Applicant: Sarah and Jeff DeFlorio 

Project Location: 617 and 619 W. Montecito Avenue, City of Sierra Madre, County of Los Angeles, State of California

The City of Sierra Madre gives notice, pursuant to State of California law, that the Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing 
to consider, as recommendation for approval by the City Council, the nomination for local historic cultural landmark status 
to designate the property located at 617 and 619 West Montecito Avenue as the “Osgood House” in the City’s Register of Historic 
Resources. The Osgood House is a Craftsman home with design and workmanship retained since its original construction. The 
property is also associated with the productive life of the Osgood family; Captain J.A. Osgood contributed as land surveyor and 
Mrs. Caroline L. Osgood contributed as founder and first president of the Sierra Madre Woman’s Club. Pursuant to Sierra Madre 
Municipal Code Section 17.82.050, a property may be designated a historic landmark if it meets prescribed historic or architectural 
criteria. 

DATE AND TIME OF HEARING PLACE OF HEARING

City of Sierra Madre City of Sierra Madre

Planning Commission City Council Chambers

Thursday, May 4, 2023 232 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.

(Hearing begins at 7:00 p.m.) Sierra Madre, CA 

All interested persons may attend this meeting and the Planning Commission will hear them with respect thereto.

ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The request for designation qualifies for a Categorical Exemption, pursuant to Sections 
15301 and 15331 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) as it involves no expansion of an existing structure and 
pertains to preservation of a historic resource. 

APPEAL: The decision of the Planning Commission is subject to a 10-business-day appeal period to the City Council. If in the 
future anyone wishes to challenge the decision of the Planning Commission in court, one may be limited to raising the issues that 
were raised or presented in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or before, the scheduled public hearing. 
For further information on this subject, please contact the Planning & Community Preservation at (626) 355-7138.


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