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• Templeton home to the fiercely loyal

  Templeton home to the fiercely loyal

  Don’t mess with Templeton. That popped into my head recently as county officials tried to draw new district boundaries for our five county supervisors.

  I doubt many of us care or even know which supervisor’s district we’re in. If we end up in District 5 instead of District 1, it’s a non-event for us.

  But it’s important to a considerable number of Templetonians. (I wonder if they actually call themselves Templetonians. I think I’d prefer Eagles: the mascot of Templeton High School’s athletic teams.)

• SLO County Board of Supervisors protests storm water runoff proposal

  SLO County Board of Supervisors protests storm water runoff proposal

  Alarmed at what they consider government overreaching, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors is joining a coalition and formally protesting proposed state rules for storm water runoff that would force local governments to do far more regulating without providing the money to carry it out.

  The proposed rules should be “enshrined in the regulators’ hall of fame,” Supervisor Bruce Gibson said. The proposal is “a huge regulatory burden in a very bad economy,” according to Mike Brown of the Coalition of Labor, Agriculture, and Business, a citizens’ group.

  Among the many new requirements that would be forced upon local governments: multiple local ordinance revisions; highly detailed annual analyses; and an annual monitoring of “every commercial and industrial business.”

• Arab, Turkish officials urge dialogue with Iran

  Arab, Turkish officials urge dialogue with Iran

  Arab and Turkish officials slammed talk of a military strike against Iran, saying Sunday it would be a disaster for the region and calling for renewed negotiations, while also urging the international community to keep pressure on Syria to end the bloodshed there.

• County district lines approved

  County district lines approved

  An exasperated Board of Supervisors majority approved its final redistricting plan Tuesday over the objections of two its members, who insisted again that the compromise proposal does not meet the wishes of the citizens of Templeton.

  “I can’t for the life of me see how Templeton is going to be damaged by this plan,” Supervisor Bruce Gibson said. “I don’t see how the voice of Templeton is somehow suppressed.”

  He joined Adam Hill and Jim Patterson in approving the plan.

• De Vaul told to prove his claims of benefits

  De Vaul told to prove his claims of benefits

  If San Luis Obispo rancher Dan De Vaul wants fees waived on his proposals for expanding his sober-living facility, he must prove to county supervisors that he is indeed providing the service he claims to be providing.

  Supervisors, who over the years have expressed irritation, anger and weariness in their interactions with the irascible — and, some say, intractable — De Vaul, on Tuesday demonstrated outright mistrust.

  At a hearing during which De Vaul was seeking fee waivers on improvements he wants to make at his 72-acre ranch and sober-living facility at 10660 Los Osos Valley Road, supervisors questioned him closely about the services he gives.