Monday, July 16, 2012

Special Favors # 10, #11, #12, #13 and # 14 of 58

From: Charles Sands <charlessands@aol.com>
Date: July 3, 2012 5:05:13 PM PDT
Subject: Special Favors # 10, #11, #12, #13 and # 14 of 58

Erratta: Add # Special Favor # 10

Bcc: 246 Homestead Valley neighbors
 
The following #11, #12, #13, #14  of  fifty-eight 58 examples describe in detail at attachment A, backed up by source references, furnish examples of a few Marin County staff, with the presumed knowledge of their reviewing and approving supervisors, Directors and related and interested District #4 Supervisor, deliberately furnishing special favors and treatment in the form of deletion or omissions of any adverse fact or finding that may adversely impact review and approval of Marin Horizon School's Design Review and Use Permit application in order to ensure County Board of Supervisor approval of  resolution Marin Horizon School Design Review and Use Permit 2005-105.
                     
There are too many deletions and omissions of adverse findings and requirements to credibly believe them to be inadvertent.
 
The above Marin County staff actions avoided constraining Marin Horizon School in any physical or financial way by deleting or omitting any Environmental Initial Study finding, mitigating negative impact measure or  County requirement that required Marin Horizon School to conform to and comply with mandatory County Wide Plan. Tamalpais Area Community Plan, Title 19, Title 22, Title 24 including  Board of Supervisor resolution 2005-1005 Condition of Approval # 18, #47 and #50 and Marin Horizon's 2010 Traffic Management Plan.
 
# 10. MHS' 2010 Traffic Management Plan reviewed and approved by CDA principal planner J. Tejirian, and recommended for the CDA's Director's approval, does not conform to BOS 2005-105 Condition of Approval #18 in that: it omitted to include MHS' Existing Traffic Management Plan's requirement that Neighbors are notified in advance of special events by mail, both at the beginning of the school year and shortly before each event.
 
# 11.  MHS' 2010 Traffic Management Plan reviewed and approved by CDA principal planner J. Tejirian does not conform to BOS 2005-105 Condition of Approval #18 in that it omitted to include MHS' Existing Traffic Management Plan's requirement that: "All families with children from kindergarten age to 8th grade, will be required, as part of their contract for enrollment, to participate in Mandatory Traffic Reduction. Mandatory Traffic Reduction Includes walking, bicycling, carpools, and "rendezvous" carpools. Participation in Mandatory Traffic Reduction requires ""rendezvous" carpool for 6 or more trips in a week."
  
# 12  MHS' 2010 Traffic Management Plan reviewed and approved by CDA principal planner J. Tejirian, and recommended for the CDA's Director's approval, does not conform to BOS 2005-105 Condition of Approval #18 in that it omitted to include MHS' Existing Traffic Management Plan's requirement that: "The school has appointed two parents to function as Carpool Chairs, to assign and enforce carpool groupings by geography and age of child. The Chairs will work with families with both older and younger to facilitate compliance with Regulations"
 
# 13. MHS' 2010 Traffic Management Plan reviewed and approved by CDA principal planner J. Tejirian, and recommended for the CDA's Director's approval,  does not conform to BOS 2005-105 Condition of Approval #18 in that it omitted to include MHS' Existing Traffic Management Plan's car pool description and requirement: "Rendezvous" carpools," especially appropriate for families with older children, differ from traditional carpools because children are brought to a convenient point outside the neighborhood for driving to school in the morning, and delivered to a convenient point outside the neighborhood for afternoon pick-up. Examples of rendezvous sites are a store or mall, a convenient parking lot, a lesson or tutoring site, a sport venue.
 
-     Whole Foods, at Miller and Evergreen Avenue, allows MHS parents to park in the morning
-    Parents of pre-school age children using the "back" lot, north of Evergreen Avenue, near the Buddhist temple, in order to escort children to school on foot, will be encouraged but not required to carpool, because the children require car seats, which are not easily transferred.
-     Parents with children who remain at school for after-school enrichment or daycare or Homework Club are asked to observe traffic reduction principles, as well.
-     The grid below is a sample of the written commitment parents are required to make before
 
Sample
Traffic Reduction Plan Minimum commitment: trips / week
Kids' last name(s) Smith
 
 
 
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
 Friday
Morning
Carpool
Bicycle or
   Meet at Whole
Carpool
Carpool
drop-off
carpool
Foods and walk       kids to school.
Afternoon
Rendezvous
o
Rendezvous to
No carpool (music
Carpool
Rendezvous
Pick-up
To Safeway
Hauke Park
lesson at school
M.V. Plaza
4:00 pm
by: Jane Smith Date: 08/06/03
 
# 14. MHS' 2010 Traffic Management Plan reviewed and approved by CDA principal planner J. Tejirian, and recommended for the CDA's Director's approval, does not conform to BOS 2005-105 Condition of Approval #18 in that it omitted to include MHS' Existing Traffic Management Plan's description that: The neighborhood "Zone" is defined as anywhere west of Miller Avenue, bounded on the north by Montford Avenue and on the south by Laverne and Reed Avenues.
 
 The County's participants in the above examples of documented and source referenced deletions and omissions solely benefiting Marin Horizon School should be, but most likely will not be, censured, relieved from County office or County Employment for unethically granting special favors to Marin Horizon School.
 
Seems that Marin Horizon School has its own version of Bush era Fiends in High Places only in Marin it's Marin Horizon School  aka Marin Halliburton School.
 
 
Charles D. Sands
Architect and Urban Designer
12 Madrone Park Circle
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Tel: 415 381 6804
 


Charles Sands
charlessands@aol.com
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