City of Mill Valley aids Homestead Valley and Marin Horizon School Children

Sent: Sun, Dec 13, 2009 1:31 pm

City of Mill Valley aids Homestead Valley and Marin Horizon School Children

By Charles Sands

Mill Valley City Councilperson Stephanie Moulton-Peters said “It’s taken a long time to get all the “ducks in order” to fill this request, but we finally did it, and I thank you for your patience! Finally our (City of Mill Valley) children will have a safer commute to school (Marin Horizon School) that’s better for the kids and better for the environment”.
I hope that Marin County Supervisors and Marin Horizon School formally thank the City of Mill Valley for its philanthropic provision of a crossing guard for mostly Marin Horizon School children.
I use Evergreen Ave, in the mornings when Mill Valley children are walking to school and in the evenings when they are walking back to Mill Valley. I rarely, if ever, see Homestead Valley children walking to Park or Mill Valley Middle School along Evergreen Ave.
In as much as the Board of Supervisors imposed a private middle school on a public elementary school site based on the County staff’s massive recorded and documented E.I.S. errors and omissions in favor of Marin Horizon School (MHS) including omitting E.I.S required actions to mitigate the negative environmental impact of traffic (50% of the traffic on our street is MHS traffic) and MHS on street parking on Homestead Valley streets usurps our on street parking.
I have personally have asked Supervisor Kinsey many times to rectify this injustice.
As yet no one at the County appears concerned about the safety of our roads and the Homestead Valley and Marin Horizon School children who walk along them.
I wonder why Marin Horizon School itself, which pays no property taxes, doesn’t provide this pathway as a community good will gesture. It’s a multi million non-profit corporation and should be concerned with ensuring the safety of its school children at its own expense.
A simple 5 feet wide crushed decomposed granite path edged with metal bands on the North side of Evergreen with a cross walk at Melrose Ave. lot safer for Homestead Valley and Marin Horizon School children than walking on heavily trafficked Evergreen Ave.
Evergreen Ave. is wide enough for a pathway and on street parking and the cost to the County to provide this pathway is minimal in the face of the safety hazard to public and private school children. All concerned can express their concern by sending emails to:
fmansourian@co.marin.ca.us, bbeaumont@co.marin.ca.us, cmcglashan@co.marin.ca.us, hbrown@co.marin.ca.us,cmurray@co.marin.ca.us , skinsey@co.marin.ca.us, sadams@co.marin.ca.