Friends of Mill Valley

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From the Marin IJ - Thursday August 12, 2010

The Marin Muncipal Water District's plan to build a $400 million desalination plant is based on the flawed premise that a drought could occur any time, replicating the 1976 drought that Marin suffered in 1976.

The following evidence-based facts indicate otherwise:

- Scientific tree ring studies show that droughts similar to the 1976 drought occur about once every 400 years.

- Climate change scientists agree that the ocean front and coast mountain range will be receiving more rain and that will fill MMWD reservoirs more frequently.

- There has been a 35 percent increase in the MMWD reservoir water capacity since 1976.

- With current conservation measures, MMWD consumers have recently reduced their water consumption by 25 percent.

June 25, 2010
To: Wallace, Roberts & Todd
1328 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-2642

Dear WRT Design Team:

Having attended the Streetscape Workshop meeting on June 8th, I wanted to take this opportunity to offer some comments and provide some perspective in the hope that it might better inform what you’re about to do.

General Comments:

I think that if you want to achieve broad-based support from community members who have put in more than 10 years and countless hours working toward the best possible outcome for the planning of Miller Avenue, it’s important that you’re circumspect about the facts and the history of the public process.

Marin IJ: Thursday Readers' Forum 6/24/2010

In regard to Sunday's article on construction of affordable housing in Novato, the Association of Bay Area Governments needs to be reined in on its draconion estimates of low-cost housing needs in Marin and elsewhere.

In the past, this group has designated parkland, open space and community centers as possible spots for low-cost, high-density housing.

If Marin communities do not step forward and stop ABAG, the county will be inundated with mostly empty apartment buildings.

A perfect example is the Fireside housing in Tamalpais Valley. This complex is located a few feet off Highway 101, next to a freeway onramp. The cost to build on this undesirable site was astronomical , averaging about $500,000 for every 500-square- foot unit. The low-cost housing developer went bankrupt on the project, and it has taken well over a year to fill the units.

Please read our brief newsletter on Miller Avenue Planning, and get involved in upcoming City meetings.

The next meeting is Thursday, June 24th, 2010, from 6-8PM at the Mill Valley Library Creekside Room.

A fun party for all Friends of Mill Valley members, friends, and their guests.  

Taste wonderful wines, greet your friends, and meet new ones.

Buy wine for the summer, for presents, and for corporate gifts (all purchases benefit Friends of Mill Valley).

Dear Members of the Mill Valley City Council,

On February 22, I wrote to add my name to the list of well informed citizens of Mill Valley including eleven of its former mayors calling for you to opt Mill Valley out of the Marin Clean Energy (MCE) project and to withdraw Mill Valley from the Marin Energy Agency (MEA) as soon as possible. Since then, much additional information has become available and has been disclosed, significantly including the Shell contract, the identity of the sources of renewable power incorporated in that contract, and information concerning MCE’s funding. Based on this additional information, the case for opting Mill Valley out of MCE and withdrawing from MEA has become even more compelling, if not indeed, an imperative.

Background

Just like many Mill Valley and Marin residents, I have long believed in the need to take personal action to counter environmental degradation, climate change, and greenhouse gas emissions. Just to provide a few examples, as a grad student in 1970, I initiated and led the first campus-wide recycling program at UC Berkeley. In 1980, as a Presidential Exchange Executive inWashington D.C., I led the implementation of a Department of Energy’s program which provided $240 million in grants to the nation’s schools and hospitals to install energy conservation measures for which I received the Secretary of Energy’s Exceptional Service Medal. And many years ago after we moved to Marin, our family installed solar panels on our roof. We produce 100% of our electric power from this renewable source. When it comes to “green” we have long put our actions and our money where our mouth is.

Planning Commission and City Council,

There is a major logistical construction issue at 575 E. Blithedale; this SPECIFIC location. Numerous LARGE Semi trucks will need to pull up right next to the site to unload cranes, excavators, dozens of material loads, and whatever other large machinery is needed. That’s a fact.

1. How does a large semi BACK OUT of this location into the Camino Alto intersection?
2. Or do the Semi’s go through downtown Mill Valley? THEY WON’T FIT THROUGH DOWNTOWN TURNS!!

This is a MAJOR, FATAL FLAW in constructing anything at 575 E. Blithedale.

Thank you,
Aaron Schneider
527 E. Blithedale Ave.
Mill Valley, CA 94941