Fwd: False SR2S statement " The Traffic Management Plan developed by the County

Director Mansourian,

Your Nov. 6th public statement at DPW’s Evergreen Ave. sidewalk review meeting that there are no false statements in the MHS/DPW application for SR2S funding is uniformed.

DPW's application for SR2S funds contains the following false statement on
Page 7 fourth bullet which states:

"The Traffic Management Plan developed by the County and proposed improvements for traffic calming (narrowing of travel lanes and sidewalk improvements"

That this is a false statement is confirmed by Mr. C. Tackabery's below email response to my below Nov. 11 email asking if the County had developed MHS'
Traffic Management Plan as claimed by the MHS and DPW applicants.

Your personnel acknowledgement of receipt of this email is respectfully requested as well as the action you will tale to correct DPW's false statement.
Charles Sands, Architect and Urban Designer
12 Madrone Park Circle
Mill Valley, CA 94941


-----Original Message-----
From: Tackabery, Craig
To: charlessands
Cc: Beaumont, Bob
Sent: Wed, Nov 17, 2010 5:06 pm
Subject: RE: "Marin Horizon School Trafic Management Plan developed by the County"

I checked with our staff and the only traffic plans we are aware of are the ones
by Harrison and Dowling, which you mention.

-----Original Message-----
From: Beaumont, Bob
Sent: Thu 11/11/2010 5:52 PM
To: Tackabery, Craig
Cc: 'charlessands@aol.com'
Subject: FW: "Marin Horizon School Trafic Management Plan developed by the
County"

Craig,

Please check with staff and get back to Mr. Sands.

Thanks,

Bob

From: Charlessands [mailto:charlessands@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 5:29 PM
To: Beaumont, Bob
Subject: "Marin Horizon School Trafic Management Plan developed by the County"

Bob.

Marin Horizon School has publicly referred to a "Marin Horizon School Traffic
Management Plan developed by the County".

I've been involved with a locsal resident's group overseeing Marin Horizon
School since 2003 and have never heard that the County developed a Trafic
Management Plan for MHS. Is this true or an uniformed mis-statement ?

I do know that Marin Horizon School's traffic consultant R. Harrison developed a
Trafic Management Plan in 2003 and Dowling & Associates revised it in 2010.
I presume DPW Land Management and Water Resources reviewed it each time.

Thanks,
Charles

Here are pictures of what Evergreen, Melrose, Montford looked like over the course of a few school day mornings in April of 2004.

From: Charlessands
Date: October 5, 2010 8:55:14 PM PDT
To: dstratton@co.marin.ca.us
Cc: fmansourian@co.marin.ca.us, BCrawford@co.marin.ca.us, sadams@co.marin.ca.us, jarnold@co.marin.ca.us, hbrown@co.marin.ca.us, skinsey@co.marin.ca.us, cmcglashan@co.marin.ca.us
Subject: Here are pictures of what Evergreen, Melrose, Montford looked like over the course of a few school day mornings in April of 2004.

Bcc: HVCC, Madrone Park Circle, SaveEvergreen and Hearus groups.

In 2005 Supervisors Kinsey voted to impose Marin Horizon School on Homestead Valley as it would not have a significant negative environmental impact according to the County's Marin Horizon School Environmental Impact Study traffic findings prepared by Marin Horizon School's own traffic consultants. Neither the Couny or Kinsey saw no conflict of interest in having Marin Horizon School Environmental Impact Study traffic findings prepared by Marin Horizon School own traffic consultants.

Here are pictures of what Evergreen, Melrose, Montford looked like over the course of a few school day mornings in April of 2004.
Click on the following web page.

http://www.fencing.franklurz.com/Pages/traffic.html


SEEMS MARIN HALIBURTON SCHOOL IS ABOUT TO STRIKE AGAIN WITH THE AID OF THE COUNTY.

MHS on-street parking is not consistent with county parking ordinances

From: charlessands@aol.com
Date: July 14, 2010 9:06:59 AM PDT
To: sschneider@co.marin.ca.us
Cc: bbeaumont@co.marin.ca.us, BCrawford@co.marin.ca.us, jtejirian@co.marin.ca.us, skinsey@co.marin.ca.us, mmoheb@co.marin.ca.us
Subject: MHS on-street parking is not consistent with county parking ordinances

Last year Mr. Jeremy Tejirian informed me that MHS was in compliance with Resolution 2005-105 Condition of Approval # 50 and only required to provide Special Event temporary parking after normal school hours.

I found this to be inexplicable as MHS’ E.I.S. Section 6. Traffic/Circulation Special Events Parking page 28 specially states “Special Events that occur during the school day would have 55 spaces available for parent parking etc.

It is inexplicable why the person (s) that drafted Resolution 2005-105 Condition of Approval (COA) # 50 omitted to include the following (5) MHS’ E.I.S. Special Event parking recommended mitigating actions. The mitigating MHS’ parking actins described in E.I.S. Section 6. Traffic/Circulation actions on page 28: omitted to be included in COA # 50 include.
· Temporary parking for day time events;
· Day and evening shuttle bus;
· Satellite lot parking space for day and evening events and;
· Require all Special MHS vehicles that can not be parked on site to park elsewhere. .

It is inexplicable that MHS’ E.I.S finding that “adequate parking is proposed for the project”. See MHS’ E.I.S. d) page 28. MHS’ proposed parking for visiting parents, day special events, other visitors and vendors is proposed to be on-street in total non-conformance with the mandatory requirements of Title 24 Sections 24.04.330 , 24.04.35 and 24.04.340 (p) and 24.04.340 (p) mandatory requirements that requires that all MHS’ project’s parking be on-site.

It is inexplicable why DAI and DPW Land Use, Water Resources and Traffic person (s) responsible for preparing and reviewing MHS’ E.I.S. Section 6. Traffic/Circulation failed: To include the following Title 24 mandatory requirements in MHS’ E.I.S. Section 6.; Paraphrased 24.04.340 (p) to eliminate mandatory on-site passenger drop off loading and requirement that MHS’ parking demand be determined actual MHS’ parking requirements; To evaluate MHS’ proposed expansion program and plans for conformance to the following Title 24 mandated parking requirements and; To include in MHS’ E.I.S. Section 6. Traffic/Circulation MHS’ non-conformance to the following Title 24 mandatory requirements and recommend mitigating actions. All in violation of C.E.Q.A requirements.

24.04.330 General intent.
(a) Every main building or use hereafter created or established shall be provided with minimum off-street parking and loading spaces as specified in this chapter.
(b) If particular circumstances justify an exception, the amount and dimensions of required parking and loading spaces may be increased or decreased by the agency through design review or other appropriate process of the community development agency. Such approvals shall include a finding citing the particular circumstances and reasons why the exception was made and may also include provisions for periodic review to establish actual parking needs and to allow for revision of the parking requirements.

24.04.335 General conditions.
(a) All parking and loading spaces shall be provided on the same site as the use to which they relate.

24.04.340 Minimum required parking spaces.
Minimum off-street parking spaces shall be provided for buildings or uses according to the following schedule. Where a parcel includes two or more uses, the parking requirements shall be the aggregate of the requirement for each individual use. Parking studies may be required for unique uses or where the following guidelines may not be appropriate to the specific project proposed.

(p) Schools. As general guidelines, nursery schools should provide four spaces per classroom and elementary schools (K-8) should provide three spaces per classroom. Parking studies may be required for these and other schools as necessary to determine actual parking requirements. In addition to required parking, schools shall have an off-street passenger loading area of an appropriate size as determined by the agency. (MHS actual parking space requirements for approximately 132 spaces were pojected but not required)

One wonders why the county consistently fails to require Marin Horizon School to comply with the same parking ordinances that Homestead Valley residents are required to conform to.

Maybe it’s because Marin Horizon School’s landlord and owner of the land is Marin County

Marin Horizon School's approved Revised Traffic Management Plan requests special event atendees not to park in the neighborhood but to park at designated satelite parking areas and to use MHS provided shuttle buses. Has anyone seen a "MHS "special event shuttle bus in service during special events?

Regards,

Charles D. Sands, Architect an Urban Designer
Sandsconsult Architects
12 Madrone Park Circle
Mill Valley, CA 94941

Staff deleted MHS EIS Traffic Plan Carpool requirement from Resolution 2005-105

From: charlessands@aol.com
Date: February 15, 2010 8:16:26 PM PST
To: skinsey@co.marin.ca.us
Cc: eberberian@co.marin.ca.us, cmcglashan@co.marin.ca.us, hbrown@co.marin.ca.us, cmurray@co.marin.ca.us, sadams@co.marin.ca.us, fmansourian@co.marin.ca.us, BCrawford@co.marin.ca.us
Subject: Staff deleted MHS EIS Traffic Plan Carpool requirement from Resolution 2005-105

Dear Supervisor Kinsey,

On 16 August 2006 you wrote a letter to the members of the Board of Supervisors in "preparation for the upcoming Marin Horizon School appeal hearing scheduled for Tuesday, August 16."

You provide a copy of this letter to Christina Oldenberg, Chairperson of the Homestead Valley Concerned Citizens (HVCC) prior to Tuesday August 16. At her home on or about September 15, 2005, Ms. Oldenberg shared the contents of your above referenced letter to the Board of Supervisors with myself and other HVCC members.

On page 2 of your letter to the then Board of Supervisor (BOS) members you state that you will move to "direct staff to return this item incorporate for approval and placement on a future consent agenda after incorporating the following additional or revised conditions"

You are respectfully requested to explain why BOS Resolution August 16, 2005 Condition of Approval # 43 requiring not less than 2 students per carpool was entirely deleted in BOS approve resolution 2005-105 August 30, 2005.

Marin Horizon School's (MHS")Traffic Plan at page 68 of the Negative Declaration approved by BOS Resolution 2005-104 states "A carpool is
defined as 2 or more families sharing driving".

PC Staff Report May 9, 2005 contains the same text as BOS Resolution August 16, 2005 Condition of Approval # 43 requiring not less than 2 students per carpool

Who ever deleted the above MHS carpool and PC Staff Report May 9, 2005 requirements of 2 or more families per car did so in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and presumably without your knowledge.

Shortly after August 16, 2005,Ms. Oldenberg provided me with a copy off "staff's" MS revisions tracking copy showing staff's deletions and additions to BOS Resolution August 16, 2005 to be incorporated in BOS Resolution 2005-105. This copy shows staff deleted BOS Resolution August 16, 2005 Condition of Approval # 43 carpool requirements.

Staff's deletion of MHS' Traffic Plan carpool requirements effectively increased MHS traffic by 100% on Homestead Valley's substandard street widths.


As staff deleted MHS' carpool requirement necessary to reduce MHS generated traffic volume Montford, Melrose and Evergreen Avenues and Laverne-Reed the County should make the following offsetting mitigating street improvements actions,

.A. Montford Ave.;
a) Widen Montford Ave. from Homestead Valley Community Center to the County boundary with the City of Mill Valley to conform to the conform to the County road standard ADT minimum width required to carry current community and MHS’ additional traffic which will also provide for MHS’ 32 +/- on-street parking demand determined by MHS’ E.I.S. ;
b) Paint lane median traffic striping lines;
b) Construct a left hand turning and stack up lane for MHS’ vehicles destined for MHS’ non-conforming on-street passenger drop-off pick-up zone;
c) Construct a turn around in the vicinity of the Homestead Valley Community Center for arriving MHS parent, visitor and vendor parking;
d) Install “Left hand traffic must turn immediately”;
d) Construct a formal accessible Montford Ave. gateway entry to MHS’ campus;
e) Repave Montford Ave. and construct a decomposed granite pathway on along the south side of Montford Ave.

B. Melrose Ave::
a) Widen Melrose Ave. from Montford to Laverne Aves. to comply with County road standard ADT minimum width;
b) Delete MHS’ Traffic Plan requirement that MHS vehicles must exit via Evergreen Ave. which concentrates MHS traffic on Evergreen;
b) Locate pedestrian cross walks at Montford Ave. and Volunteer Park;
c) Require MHS to provide an accessible passenger drop-off loading zone in accordance with CBC 1131B.2 and federal ADA requirements and BOS resolution 2005–105 Condition of Approval # 48.
d) Install “No-Parking except for residents” from Montford to Laverne Aves.
e) Paint lane median traffic striping lines.
f) Repave Melrose Ave. and construct a concrete curb and sidewalk on the West side of Melrose and a decomposed granite pathway with bollards 5’-0” o.c. along the East side of Melrose Ave.

C. Evergreen Ave.:
a) Widen Evergreen as required to comply with County road standard ADT minimum width.
b) Paint lane median traffic striping lines.
c) Repave Evergreen Ave, and construct a decomposed granite on-street parking zone and five feet (5) wide decomposed granite pathway on both sides of Evergreen Ave. separated from traffic by decorative metal bollards 5’0 on center to prohibit parking on Evergreen Ave.’s pathways.

D. Laverne-Reed:
a) Widen Laverne-Reed from Melrose Ave to Miller Ave. as required to comply with County road standard ADT minimum width.
b) Paint lane median traffic striping lines.
c) Repave Laverne-Reed and construct a five feet (5) wide decomposed granite pathway on one side Laverne-Reed from Melrose Ave to Miller Ave.

As the County is responsible for imposing a major traffic generating commercial private educational facility in our community the County should act to mitigate the traffic problem created by staff's deletion of MHS carpooling requirement that benefits only MHS.

The favor of reply is respectfully requested.

Regards,

Charles D. Sands, Architect.

BCC Madrone Park Circle Group and HVCC members

Subj. Copy of MHS' revised traffic plan

From: charlessands@aol.com
Date: January 14, 2010 5:29:16 AM PST
To: BCrawford@co.marin.ca.us
Subject: Subj. Copy of MHS' revised traffic plan.

Brian,

What progress is being made on making a copy of Marin Horizon School's 2 page traffic plan requested earlier this week? Please let me know when it's ready and I'll come up and get it. I want to refer to it this weekend.

Best regards,

Charles