YUCCA MESA - December 29, 2008 - The Stop Yucca Mesa Annexation Coalition is organized for one mission: To stop the Town of Yucca Valley from annexing Yucca Mesa.

Over 1500 Mesa residents and supporters have signed pre-emptive strike protest petitions to date. Over 99 percent of the Mesa residents don’t want to be part of the Town of Yucca Valley. The other one percent work for the Town of Yucca Valley or Hi-Desert Water District.

The Town’s reasons for the attempted take-over are simple: money and land. The Town has over-built for their present septic tank waste system, and the State is requiring them to build a Wastewater Treatment Plant. The only problem is that neither the Town of Yucca Valley nor the Hi-Desert Water District have the money to complete the entire job. Yucca Mesa does not have a problem with sewage. The septic tank system works fine in the low-density community.

Yucca Mesa residents are very angry with the Town’s attempted take-over of their land and homes by annexation. Annexation would mean a re-zoning of the entire community which could include commercial and industrial, high density housing, rapid growth, light pollution, and the elimination of the keeping of horses and farm animals. It is obvious the Town wants to annex the Mesa to pay for their Wastewater Treatment Plant and to develop Yucca Mesa’s land to their specifications which will line their coffers with tax money.

"If I wanted to live in the Town, I would have moved there," is a typical comment. "I moved to the Mesa because I wanted to be left alone to raise my animals," is another common quote. "This is clearly a land grab at our expense. Why should the Mesa folks pay for Yucca Valley’s mistakes?" is another common theme.

The Stop Yucca Mesa Annexation Coalition hosts a website for the public at:

The Stop Yucca Mesa Annexation Coalition is committed to stopping the land grab by the Town of Yucca Valley.

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