From: Charles <noreply-comment@blogger.com>Date: July 25, 2012 9:02:23 AM PDTSubject: [HEAR US] New comment on Bike to Schoolbus.Charles has left a new comment on your post "Bike to Schoolbus":
Charles Sands
charlessands@aol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Greeley, Scott
To: Charles Sands
Sent: Wed, Jul 25, 2012 8:21 am
Subject: RE: 205 Melrose
Charles,
As you said earlier, I need to follow what the Development Code says. The
findings could not be made to make an exception.
Scott Greeley
Planner, County of Marin
(415) 473-704
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From: Charles Sands [mailto:charlessands@aol.com]
Sent: Tue 7/24/2012 9:36 PM
To: Greeley, Scott
Cc: Lai, Thomas; Rice, Katie; Sears, Kathrin; Adams, Susan; Arnold, Judy;
Kinsey, Steven
Subject: 205 Melrose
Scott,
I'm sure that most if not all Hometead Valley and Marin Horizon School folks
appreciate the CDA's recent 205 Melrose Design Review conditions of approval
that the fence at Merose and Montford not exceed 2'-6" as this will ensure good
driver visibilty at this busy intersection.
Thanks,
Charles Sands
charlessands@aol.com
Posted by Charles to HEAR US at July 25, 2012 8:58 AM
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Fwd: [HEAR US] New comment on Bike to Schoolbus.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Fwd: A little boy's question
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From: Charles SandsDate: July 23, 2012 8:09:08 PM PDTTo: hv94941Subject: A little boy's question
4 publcation
Subject: A little boy's question
Bob,i understand that MHS' sidewalk construction cost is said to cost $675,500.Given SR2S funding authorized $900,000 if one deducts DPW's design, engineering and CM costs plus whatever construction extra work costs have been incurred to date out of the $225,000 remaining in the SR2S funds there is more than enough to:1. Resolve the MHS sidewalk damage done to the front entry walks of the folks on Evergreen. (The red home in the first block of Evergreen Ave and 101 Evergreen Ave. for example)There appears to be not more than a few and even it were say 5 the costs to provide sloping ENTRY ramps +/- 8 3/4 % the cost should not be exorbitant. Say less than $50,000 total. And if that expense can't be paid out of SR2S funds surely the County has funds to make good and set right MHS' new sidewalk damages to the front entry walks of these few homes which damages their resale value.2, Have PG&E relocate 2 poles out the way of pedestrians on the new sidewalk. Leaving existing power poles and supports in a $675,000 sidewalk in my opinion simply is not a good design solution.When I'm faced with a design issues like this and seeing the designer's built design I always ask the designer what will be his response to a little boy's question:Mr. Designer, "Why did you not put right the entry walks to existing homes and: Why did you not require PG&E's poles to be relocated our otfour new MHS sidewalk and leave its SR2S design and construction budget nearly totally unspent" ??I'd appreciate a response from you and Supervisor Kinsey.Best regads,Charles Sands
charlessands@aol.com
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From: Homestead : HEAR US
To: Charles
Sent: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 7:01 pm
Subject: Evergreen Evening Update for 07/23/2012
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"My house looks like it is sinking due to the "raised" sidewalk. I was one of the few properties on the street that had a flat sidewalk when the project started and I feel mislead throughout the entire process. This is not an improvement and, in my opinion, the design does not work. I believe that the corner handicap ramp design was a lack of communication between departments and a pipe was installed too high and now the entire grade has been adjusted to reflect this. I am now in the process of trying to patch the plan vs. start with a good plan for the entrance to my house. The sidewalk has been poured 12" above the level of my entrance gate, county is stating 10", plan states 7". My house is located at the lowest point of the valley. I believe the current plan will be detrimental and cause more flooding to my property and has an unsafe entrance step to my house, it is not an improvement. According to the FEMA map, I live on a Special Hazard Flood Area Zone AE, a flood plain with a flood way directly in the middle of my property. The ditch along Ethel leading into Reed Creek is along my property line now has more sources of water flowing into it. This is of tremendous concern for me and for my neighbors along Ethel... We were informed in every meeting that it is against the law to make matters worse, the plan needs to improve or maintain the landscape of what was. I value our community and the amazing surroundings in which we live. I believe that the livability of our community, environment and neighborhood has been greatly disrupted. ACTION PLEASE. Logic and justice needs to prevail - something has to change."
All change is not bad - but there is no excuse for irresponsible and illegal development.
FACT : Homestead residents were denied our rights to a fair and democratic process.
WHY? Well, for one, MHS and HVCA corrupted the DPW process. Whether or not you think it was intentional deception depends upon who you ask. Anyway - that is beside the point FOR NOW.
So, what is the point I'm trying to make?
I dare anyone to take a walk down Evergreen in Homestead, and look at the mess that is being inflicted upon what used to be a beautiful, GREEN street. Evergreen has worked for the majority of the people who live here, 24/7 - with few complaints (the main complaint being the occasional speeding car.) The majority of homeowners who are dealing with all this inconvenience asked that THIS raised concrete sidewalk, with curbs and gutters, NOT be built all along Evergreen Avenue.
This is not just about a "sidewalk," or Homestead vs. MHS - it is about taking a stand for fairness and honesty and what is right.
What is right?
Well, first of all, Marin County should not take one dime from the state Safe Routes to Schools fund for this project. That funding should go back to Safe Routes to Schools - for driver and pedestrian education, crossing guards, whatever - ANYTHING but this slab.
Why?
1) Because the money was awarded to an application that contained FALSE claims of need and community support - and the slab is environmentally irresponsible.
2) When you EDUCATE someone, they take that education with them for the rest of their lives. So, giving the $900,000 - which has been set aside for this project - BACK to Safe Routes education programs - will save more lives than this horrible IMPERVIOUS concrete slab that is being forced upon Evergreen Avenue (a street in a semi rural neighborhood that runs along a blue line creek - which contains federally protected, endangered Steel head!)
To admit mistakes were made in this process and "we'll do better next time" is not enough - County has an obligation to do what is right by these property owners - NOW.
Additionally - Why risk the reputation of a County employee (Mr. Tackaberry) who signed off on that SR2S application, when he probably had no idea what was true and what was false in it ?
Why not FREE the Marin County DPW engineering department from forcing something we do not need or want all along Evergreen - i.e., a concrete sidewalk with curbs and gutters - and empower them to be more creative in what should be a "shoulder repair/drainage improvement" project?
That funding was intended to provide a "safer route to schools" - not to raise property values or provide a "more convenient walk to the Whole Foods" for a few well connected people in Mill Valley.
If you don't have a problem with covering up mistakes and lies just to grab onto funding that could and should go where it was intended to go - there is something seriously wrong with your sense of what is right and what is wrong - and you need to take an ethics class.
- MT
Petition : http://www.change.org/petitions/no-million-dollar-slab-for-evergreen-ave
Related Post : Loss of Safe Routes Funding - What Does It Mean? (LINK)
Jul 23, 2012 09:00 am | hv94941There was no public hearing for the Evergreen sidewalk project. There were no signs posted along the street announcing the proposed construction. Since 2005, how much square footage has been developed upstream from Miller ? from Evergreen? What does that translate to in gallons of runoff? Does this look like a "SAFER ROUTE" to you?
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Sunday, July 22, 2012
Check it out :ROBBING THE POOR TO SAVE THE RICH
From: Charles SandsDate: July 22, 2012 10:11:24 AM PDTTo: krice@co.marin.ca.us, ksears@co.marin.ca.us, sadams@co.marin.ca.us, jarnold@co.marin.ca.us, skinsey@co.marin.ca.usCc: bbeaumont@marincounty.org, BCrawford@co.marin.ca.us, jtejirian@co.marin.ca.us, Tlai@co.marin.ca.usSubject: Check it out : ROBBING THE POOR TO SAVE THE RICHBcc: Homestead Valley neighbors and MHS well heeled carpetbaggers
Today, Sunday, 22 July 2012 Mill Valley Patch reports that Ryan Loften, Director of his six (6) year old Mt. Tam Bikes Camp bought a nine (9) passenger, six (6) door, Cadillac limo for his young clients.In contrast Marin Horizon School Corporation Inc.'s nineteen (19) year old well heeled, commercial, educational, tax exempt, dollar wise, enterprise, which was corruptly imposed by the County on Melrose Ave. Homestead Valley (See Exhibit A), signed a Safe Routes to School (SR2S) application scammig SR2S)out of $900,000 (See Exhibit B).DPW then designed MHS' SR2S' funded sidewalk to meet MHS' specific design requirements for an environmentally destructive raised, impervious ADA compliant concrete sidewalk along Evergreen Ave. for fewer than 20 of commuting MHS' young clients's who take turns parking and walking to school from MHS park and walk staging area at Whole Foods..Would that Marin Horizon School Corporation Inc. Board of Director's members, like Ted Bayer and Head of School Rosalind Hammr and now Louis Ottley, were as environmentally sensitive as Ryan Loften and Marin Horizon School Corporation Inc had purchased a new, or heavens forbid, 9 passenger Cadillac Escalade for less than $66,000 educational enterprise tax deductible dollars.MHS could have deducted the Escalade chauffeuring,, maintenance and operation costs in lieu of imposing an environmentally destructive raised, concrete sidewalk along Evergreen Ave. for fewer than 20 of commuting MHS' young clients's who take turns parking and walking to school from MHS park and walk staging area at Whole Foods that was and is unjustified, unwanted and unwelcome by Marin Horizon School Corporation Inc.'s Evergreen Ave. neighbors.But no, tax exempt Marin Horizon School Corporation Inc saved these tax deductible expenses by requesting the SR2S program to expend $900,000 tax payer dollars for an environmentally destructive raised, concrete sidewalk along Evergreen Ave. for fewer than 20 of commuting MHS' young clients's who take turns in the morning only to park and walk to school from MHS' park and walk staging area at Whole Foods.MHS' young clients's are required to take turns parking and walking to school in the morning only by Marin Horizon School Corporation Inc's mandatory traffic reduction plan dated 2003 and in compliance with Marin Horizon School Corporation Inc's Use Permit 2005-105 Condition of Approval # 18 limit on the maximum number of MHS vehicle trips between 08:00 and 9:00 AM.The County "graciously" deleted limiting MHS maximum number of MHS vehicle trips after 09:00 AM allowing unlimited pedestrian safety endangering MHS vehicle trips into and of Homestead Valley. See Exhibit A example # 4 page 2 of 15.IS THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF MS. MONTESSORI'S EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OR IS IT AN EXAMPLE OF THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS OF ROBING THE POOR TO SAVE THE RICH FROM BEING GRACIOUS AND NEIGHBORLY ?
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Fwd: Erratta: It's wiser not to whistle Dixie
From: Charles Sands <charlessands@aol.com>Date: July 21, 2012 9:51:32 PM PDTSubject: Fwd: Erratta: It's wiser not to whistle Dixie
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Sands <charlessands@aol.com>
To: krice <krice@co.marin.ca.us>; ksears <ksears@co.marin.ca.us>; sadams <sadams@co.marin.ca.us>; jarnold <jarnold@co.marin.ca.us>; skinsey <skinsey@co.marin.ca.us>
Cc: bbeaumont <bbeaumont@co.marin.ca.us>; eklock <eklock@marincounty.org>; sschneider <sschneider@marincounty.org>; BCrawford <BCrawford@co.marin.ca.us>; Tlai <Tlai@co.marin.ca.us>; jtejirian <jtejirian@co.marin.ca.us>
Sent: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 9:40 pm
Subject: Erratta: It's wiser not to whistle Dixie
ERRATTA IN BOLD
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Sands <charlessands@aol.com>
To: krice <krice@co.marin.ca.us>; ksears <ksears@co.marin.ca.us>; sadams <sadams@co.marin.ca.us>; jarnold <jarnold@co.marin.ca.us>; skinsey <skinsey@co.marin.ca.us>
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Sent: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 6:52 pm
Subject: it's wiser not to whistle Dixie
Mari,I hear you, many but not all of the folks who have lived, here for many years hear you, many of the folks who have lived here for not very many years hear you and if Steel Head trout could hear they would hear you.Sadly your voice, mine and the voices of Frank, Keith, Laura, Diane, Louise, Lynn, Gail, Dan, Pierre, Bob, Kathy, Michael and many, many other Evergreen Ave. and HV folks have been drowned out by the clink of a commercial educational corporation's tuition in its coffers and the whir of its clients luxury SUV's whizzing up and down Evergreen Ave. causing the 20 or less morning only park and walk commuting children of its well heeled clients to feel uncomfortable walking to school along semi-rural 100 year old accident free Evergreen Ave.I have no sympathy for bureaucrats who are only employed by DPW as "engineers" because they seek the security, benefits and pensions of the County which they could not find in the private sector.
Given the number of professional professional planning, programing, conceptual, preliminary and final design errors they have committed these bureaucrats would have been terminated within one month of their employment by most professional design and engineering firms.Their most glaring unprofessional errors were to: Not meet with the folks from the Evergreen Ave., MHS and HV communities to develope together a safe route for all; Not to Design with the manmade and natural elements of Evergreen Ave. and HV and; Not to select construction design methods and materials compatible with the historic character and quality of Evergreen Ave. and HV.As a retired architect urban designer I don't feel for these County bureaucrats who appear by their actions, designs and product to be totally ignorant of community and urban design methods, means and practices for working with communities which have been developed over the past 60 years.I'm saddened that HV and Evergreen Ave. folks and MHS' few park and walk clients won't have a tree lined, ADA compliant 4'-0" wide impervious earth toned asphalt pathway to walk on similar to those ADA asphalt pathways at Muir Woods National Park. They could of had an at grade pathway without curbs, ADA ramps, driveway curb cuts and ramps that was coordinated with each properties front walkways and driveways and a design that reduced storm water runoff and pollution of our endangered Steel Head trout's Reed Creek habitat.I'm heartened by new DPW's Director Bob Beaumont listening and directing that two Melrose Ave crosswalks be redesigned to eliminate one.Would that Bob were on-board in July 2010 in lieu of old-school bureaucrat Mansourin.I'm unhappy as I'm sure many Evergreen Ave., HV folks and maybe some MHS folks are over the unconscious destruction of: Evergreen Ave.s historic semi-rural quality and character; Many mature flowering wild plum trees; The curb appeal of Evergreen Ave. homes and especially; the habitat of endangered Steel Head trout.I wonder if Chuck Oldenberg is up to documenting the Evergreen Ave. that was and how it was lost to the demands of the automobile?Demands which were perceived to endanger pedestrians so historic Evergreen Ave. had to go the way of the buggy whip.Sadly perhaps it's wiser not to whistle Dixie as the County doesn't have $500,000 or more to demolish what it has wrought nor another $500,000 or more to construct a pathway.
Fwd: it's wiser not to whistle Dixie
From: Charles Sands <charlessands@aol.com>Date: July 21, 2012 6:52:43 PM PDTTo: krice@co.marin.ca.us, ksears@co.marin.ca.us, sadams@co.marin.ca.us, jarnold@co.marin.ca.us, skinsey@co.marin.ca.usCc: bbeaumont@co.marin.ca.us, eklock@marincounty.org, sschneider@co.marin.ca.us, BCrawford@co.marin.ca.us, Tlai@co.marin.ca.us, jtejirian@co.marin.ca.usSubject: it's wiser not to whistle Dixie
Mari,I hear you, many but not all of the folks who have lived, here for many years you, man of the folks who have lived here for not very many years hear you and if Steel Head trout could hear they would hear you.Sadly your voice, mine and the voices of Frank, Keith, Laura, Diane, Louise, Gail, Dan, Pierre, Bob, Kathy, Michael and many, many other Evergreen and HV folks has been drowned out by the clink of a commercial educational corporation's tuition in its coffers and the whir of its clients luxury SUV's whizzing up and down Evergreen Ave. causing the 20 or less morning only park and walk commuting children of its well heeled clients to feel uncomfortable walking to school along semi-rural 100 year old accident free Evergreen Ave.I have no sympathy for bureaucrats who are only employed by DPW as "engineers" because they seek the security, benefits and pensions of the County which they could not find in the private sector.
Given the number professional professional planning, programing, conceptual, preliminary and final design and aerrors they have committed these bureaucrats would have been terminated within one month of their employment by most professional design and engineering firm.Their most glaring unprofessional errors were to: Not meet with the folks from Evergreen Ave., MHS and HV community to develope together a safe route for all; Design with the manmade and natural elements of Evergreen Ave. and HV; and to select construction design methods and materials compatible with the historic character and quality of Evergreen Ave. and HV.As a retired architect urban designer I don't feel for these County bureaucrats who appear by their actions, designs and product to be totally ignorant of community and urban design methods, means and practices for working with communities developed over the past 60 years.I'm saddened that HV and Evergreen Ave. folks and MHS' few park and walk clients won't have a tree lined, ADA compliant 4'-0" wide impervious earth toned asphalt pathway to walk on similar to those ADA asphalt pathways at Muir Woods National Park.I'm heartened by new DPW's Bob Beaumont listening and directing that two Melrose Ave crosswalks be redesigned to eliminate one.Would that Bob were on-board in July 2010 in lieu of old-school bureaucrat Mansourin.I'm unhappy as I'm sure many Evergreen Ave., HV folks and maybe some MHS folks are over the unconscious destruction of: Evergreen Ave.s historic semi-rural quality and character; Many mature flowering wild plum trees; The curb appeal of Evergreen Ave. homes and especially; the habitat of endangered Steel Head trout.I wonder if Chuck Oldenberg is up to documenting the Evergreen Ave. that was and how it was lost to the demands of the automobile?Demands which were perceived to endanger pedestrians so historic Evergreen Ave. had to go the way of the buggy whip.Sadly perhaps it's wiser not to whistle Dixie as the County doesn't have $500,000 or more to demolish what it has wrought nor another $500,000 or more to construct a pathway.Charles Sands
charlessands@aol.com
Fwd: Melrose Ave to be narrowed and MHS' sidewalk's crosswalk ends in a driveway. How's that for safety :(
From: Charles SandsDate: July 21, 2012 1:52:33 PM PDTSubject: Fwd: Melrose Ave to be narrowed and MHS' sidewalk's crosswalk ends in a driveway. How's that for safety :(for publication
Bcc: Homestead Valley neighbors and MHS carpet baggers.Bob,Further to my below email dated 16 July 2010 which still goes un -responded to:Thanks for evidently you or someone at DPW directing that a Design and Construction Change Order be issued to eliminate the cross walk at the end of MHS' Evergreen Ave's raised concrete sidewalk which was originally designed to have a crosswalk terminating in Al Wuthnows driveway which was brought to attention of the County by my below 16 July 2012 email.HV drivers will appreciate the deletion of one Melrose Ave, crosswalk reduces the necessity to stop twice less than 50 feet apart on Melrose Ave.Given the new cross walk at the end of MHS' Evergreen Ave's raised concrete sidewalk which now crosses at the intersection of Melrose and Evergreen Ave. which joins the new proposed crosswalk from Volunteer Park then crosses Melrose Ave. on MHS side of Melrose Ave.You are respectfully requested for the safety of MHS's private school parents and children to:1. Direct DPW Traffic and Safety to place on Melrose Ave. and Evereen Ave new no parking signs reading "NO PARKING DURING SCHOOL HOURS FROM HERE TO THE CORNER" at least 35 feet from the corner of Melrose and Evergreen Ave. to ensure that MHS's private school parents and children crossing the street are not obscured by parked SUVs and other vehicles and;2. In accord with MHS' USE Permit 2005-105 Condition of Approval 18, reguire MHS inc. to comply with and enforce MHS Strategy I-B.2 Crossing Guard, page 8, MHS Resvised Traffic Management Plan for Marin Horizon School dated March 2010 by assiging one crossing guard to MHS' SR2S Evergreen Ave.'s crosswalk and one crossing guard to MHS' SR2S Melrose Ave.'s crosswalk "during the drop-off and pick-up times" shown in MHS Strategy I-B.3 and I-B.4.Thanks,
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To: skinsey <skinsey@marincounty.org>
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Sent: Mon, Jul 16, 2012 8:52 pm
Subject: Melrose Ave to be narrowed and MHS' sidewalk's crosswalk ends in a driveway. How's that for safety :(
Bcc: Homestead Valley neighbors and MHS carpet baggers.Supervisor Kinsey,AS CONSTRUCTION PROCEEDS DPW'S PLANS FOR MELROSE AVE. CONCEALED BY DPW & MHS FROM HOMESTEAD VALLEY RESIDENTS AND DRIVERS ARE REVEALED.
MELROSE AVE.'S EXISTING MINIMUM COUNTY AND CALTRANS TWO LANE 22 FEET WIDTH WILL BE NARROWED TO 20' OR LESS. TAKE A DRIVE ON MELROSE TO EXPERIENCE WHAT MHS IS IMPOSING ON DRIVERS ON A STREET THAT IN MORE THAN 100 YEARS NEVER HAD CAR/PEDESTRIAN INCIDENT.
AS USUAL TO PLACATE MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL CORPORATION INC. AND AVOID INFORMING ANYONE LIVING IN HOMESTEAD VALLEY THE SUPERVISOR KINSEY AND CREW ARE NARROWING MELROSE AVE. WITHOUT- INFORMING THE PUBLIC;- AN AVERAGE DAILY TRAFFIC COUNTS OF LOCAL TRAFFIC AND MHS TRAFFIC;- A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS SHOWING THE COST & BENEFIT OF A NARROWED MELROSE AVE. VERSUS MELROSE AVE. AS IT EXISTS.IN LIEU OF A DESIGN BASED ON THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF PROFESSIONAL TRAFFIC ENGINEERS HOMESTEAD VALLEY DRIVERS WILL BE PERMANENTLY INCONVENIENCED AND ENDANGERED BY THE PAST HEAD OF SCHOOL ROSALIND HAMMAR DESIRE TO SLOW TRAFFIC ON MELROSE AVE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MHS PARENTS USING MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL'S PASSENGER LOADING AREA, MELROSE AND EVERGREEN AVE ON-STREET PARKING AND LESS THAN TWO DOZEN PARH AND WALK MORNING ONLY WALKERS.AND MHS' EVERGREEN AVE'S SIDEWALK'S MELROSE AVE CROSSWALK ENDS IN AL WUNTHNOW'S DRIVEWAY. HOW'S THAT FOR A SAFE ROUTE TO SCHOOL ? WAY TO GO MHS'
Have a look at DPW's "final" design for the cross walks locations at Evergreen Ave. and Melrose Ave. and betweeen on Melrose Ave, at Voluteer Park less than 50 feet to the north.Two new cross walks on Merose Ave. less than 50 feet apart on a major Homestead Ave. connector street is not necessary. MHS' Evrgreen Ave's sidewalk's Melrose Ave.'s crosswalk ends in Al Wuunthnow'ds driveway and will have a significant negative impact on the safety of MHS students using the cross walk, Marin Horizon School's arriving and departing traffic and on local neighborhoodtraffic.PROBLEM: Evergreen Ave. and Melrose Ave.'s crosswalk:a) Crosses Melrose Ave. idirectly into Al Wunthnow's and his next door neighbor's driveway.b) MHS will have to post 2 crosswalk guards in order not to have a negative impact on local traffic.b) A new sidewalk on the west side of Melrose Ave. requires the construction of a new retaining wall nearly 20 feet high and 20 feet long costing perhaps more than $50,0000 which does not appear to be included on DPW's contractor's bid sheet.c) Pedestrians must cross a third driveway at Marin Horizon School's driveway.OPPORTUNITY: Evergreen Ave. and Melrose Ave. crosswalk north of Marin Horizon's driveway.a) New "Safe Routes to School" sidewalk on Evergreen Ave,. to a new sidewalk on the East side of Melrose Ave.b) Eliminates the unnecessary cross walk that crosses Melrose Ave. intersecting with Al Wunthnow's and his next door neighbor's driveway.c) Reduces two vehicle stopping cross walks to one on Melrose Ave.d) Eliminates the construction of a new retaining wall nearly 20 feet high and 20 feet long saving of perhaps more than $50,0000 in extra costs.e) Furnishes a new sidewalk on the East side of Melrose Ave. as a "Safe Routes To School" for nursery school and Kindergarten parents who park on the South side of Evergreen Ave.f) Furnishes a new sidewalk on the East side of Melrose Ave.as a "Safe Routes To School" for nursery school and Kindergarten parents who park on the south side of Evergreen Ave.g) Allows the new "Safe Routes to School sidewalk on the East side of Melrose to connect directly to Marin Horizon School north of its staff parking driveway.I feel the opportunity to improve a safer route to school for all N-8 MHS parents and students, reduce the un-necessarynegative double vehicle stops on Melrose Ave. cost savings to the Safe Routes To Schools funding program supports redesigning DPW's current location of MHS' Evergreen Ave. Melrose and Volunteer Park crosswalk locations..AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE COMMUNITY DESTRUCTION AGENCY AND HIS PLANNER INFORMED THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISOR'S IN 2005 THAT MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL'S EXPANSION PLAN WOULD NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT NEGATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT ON HOMESTEAD VALLEY.WELL MHS' SIDEWALK ON EVERGREEN AVE., MHS' CROSS WALKS ON MELROSE AND MELROSE AVE.'S NARROWED WIDTH TO SOLELY BENEFIT MHS PUT THE LIE TO THE COMMUNITY DESTRUCTION AGENCY'S RECOMMENDATIONS.Regards,A THOUROUGHLT DISGUSTED ARCHITECT AND URBAN DESIGNER.
PS: BE UPFRONT ...EMAIL SUPERVISOR KINSEY YOUR OPINION PRO OR CON.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Fwd: My response to your latest attack
Mari,Apologies accepted. Moving on. Drawings now are not helpful. Yard signs are. How can you empathize with MHS' parents ??By MHS' parent's failure to publicly support an environmentally friendly pathway they have demonstrated since 1993 that they care only for themselves and could care less about Evergreen Ave. or its neighborhood.Not one wrote to Kinsey in support of vanning or busing all of MHS' K-8 students. Not one wrote in favor of an at grade ADA complianr pathway. Not one wrote in favor of MHS buying an 8 passenger van so SR2S funds could be used for public school children who walk to school everty day.One should be be very cautious empathizing with those that are out to destroy you. They will be nice, polite etc. as they damn well go about achieveing whatever they want at what ever cost to someone else.After all they are not destroying their street or neighborhood are they?
Charles Sands
charlessands@aol.com
-----Original Message-----
From: HV 94941
To: Charles Sands
Sent: Thu, Jul 19, 2012 3:17 pm
Subject: My response to your latest attack
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