Monday, July 16, 2012

Special Favors #s 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35 0f 58 special favors

From: Charles Sands <charlessands@aol.com>
Date: July 8, 2012 2:06:50 PM PDT
Subject: Special Favors #s 31, 32, 33, 34, and 35 0f 58 special favors

Bcc: 246 Homestead Valley neighbors
 
The following special favors #s 31, 32, 33. 34 and 35   of  fifty-eight (58) special favor examples (see Attachment A and 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 in the following special favor examples to credibly believe them to be inadvertent.
 
 
31. CDA and DPW staff reviewing MHS proposed expansion plan omitted to comment on MHS proposed construction of 7 new parking spaces in the SCA. New or expansion of existing parking spaces is not permitted in the SCA. See County Wide Plan EQ-2.5.
 
32. CDA and DPW staff reviewing MHS proposed expansion plan omitted to include MHS' Biological consultant comment that the County Wide Plan policy EQ-2.25 calls for MHS to enhance the appearance of Reed Creek's streamside environment and protect native vegetation and recommended that MHs be required to furnish a riparian enhancement program in the undeveloped portion of Reed Creek to mitigate the significant negative impact of MHS' proposed expansion plan. Biological Resource Assessment page 7 and 9.
 
a)      MHS' E.I.S does not include the above MHS' Biological consultant's assessment of MHS significant negative impact on Reed Creek or the riparian enhancement program necessary to mitigate the significant negative impact of MHS' proposed expansion plan
b)      Again CDA staff omitted to require MHS to provide recommend significant negative impact mitigating measures that may be expensive for MHS to implement.
 
33. CDA and DPW staff reviewing MHS proposed expansion plan omitted to state that MHS' proposed expansion plan does not comply with Marin County Title 24 Development Standards Parking requirement Sections. 24.04.330 (a); 24.04.330 (b); 24.04.335 (a); 24.04.340 (p); 24.04.370; 24.04.380; 24.04.390 and; 24.04.490 (b) as schools are mandated to provide on-site parking for all it serves and comply with minimum parking design standards.
     
34. DPW's  Land Use, Water Resources and Traffic staff (s) responsible for preparing and reviewing MHS' E.I.S. Section 6, paraphrased 24.04.340 (p) in order  to omit Title 24 24.04.340 (p) mandatory on-site passenger drop off loading and requirement that MHS' parking demand be determined by calculation of actual MHS' parking requirements. MHS' E.I.S.  6. Transportation and Circulation Parking, page 27.
      a) This omission relieved MHS of the county mandatory requirement to provide on-parking for all vehicles related to MHS required by Title 24, Section 24.04.335 a).
 
35. DPW's Land Use, Water Resources and Traffic staff (s) omitted to require MHS to provide on-site parking for MHS' estimation of 54 staff, 100 special event attendees and 32 parent visitors and vendors in compliance with Title24 Section 24.04.335 (a). MHS' E.I.S. 6. Transportation and Circulation Parking, page 27.
     
      a) DPW staff omitted to require MHS to furnish projected related parking spaces to supply MHS' demand for 84 school day on site parking spaces mandatorily required by Section 24.04. 335 (a) and 24.04.340(p).
      b) This DPW's Land Use, Water Resources and Traffic staff's omission benefited MHS by relieving MHS of having to construct an expensive on-site covered parking structure for 84 vehicles.
 1. The writer furnished Supervisor Kinsey and CDA and DPW County staff with an alternate MHS Concept Plan Design dated 23 August 2003 that demonstrated it was physically feasible to provide 81 on-site parking spaces, 2 on-site passenger loading zones and a facility design conforming to all Tamalpais Area Community Plan policies and all Title 24 mandatory parking ordinances.
2. The writer received no response from any of the above recipients'.
       
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.
 
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 County has its own version of Bush era Fiends in High Places only in Marin County 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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