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Something to think about concerning the Southern Humboldt Community Park Boards development plans for their Park. For as much as the Park Board claims everything they do is for the community and public benefit, lets talk about that.
First, the Park Board has a lease agreement with Randall Sand & Gravel, allowing Randall in-stream gravel extraction, surface mining and processing on the Park Boards property and river bar from Randall's operation and all the way up-stream to the Park Boards Kimtu parking lot on the river bar (86 acres).
Second, they have a 30 year lease with a private individual to grow wine grapes (vineyard) on 10 acres of the Park Boards property.
What guarantee is there when the Park Board gets their rezone, land use reclassification and conditional use permit approved for camping, concerts, festivals and sports fields, to keep the Park Board from leasing all of the Park Boards property for private use, i.e. camping, concerts, festivals and sports fields, like what is already being done with Randall and the private 10 acre Vineyard?
And the other misconception is that the rezoning and change of land use to Public Facility and Public Recreation will change the property to a Public land designation from private property. This could not be further from the truth. The property will still remain private property, including, they want to keep and retain the development rights to the property. The Park Board has stated many times they do not want a conservation or habitat protection easement placed on the property without ever stating why?
Now the Park Boards 2015 tax return has been made public, some things stand out, 1) they increased salaries and payroll from $79,088 to $95,218 with a raise in compensation paid to Kathryn Lobato (Executive Director) of $55,925. 2) Rezone expenses of $60,304, bringing their total Rezone expenses to $310,000 from 2010 to 2015. 3) Total debt and liabilities from private secured loans $263,884.
So next time the Park Board asks for donations, ask them when they will start having their meetings open to the public and when will they start protecting the wildlife habitat and river eco-system?
Ed Voice
formally from Garberville
The Humboldt County Farm Bureau has been providing comments on the Southern Humboldt Community Park for the past 16 years. Between September of 2000 and today, we have submitted 11 letters to the Planning Department as well as letters to various elected officials, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Service as well as the District Conservationist for the Natural Resource Conservation Service.
After reviewing the Draft EIR for the Southern Humboldt Community Park, we feel the environmental document does not properly address the conversion of Prime Ag Land in the open fields nor does it appropriately mitigate their loss. If the county chooses to convert Prime agricultural soils the “No Net Loss” policy of the county should address the mitigation of this loss.
We believe some of the park project, like the Tooby Memorial Park and the athletic area, should be reclassified as Public Recreation. However, the Prime Agricultural Soils / Prime Farmland which are in the other open fields should remain zoned as Agriculture Exclusive. This is consistent with all of our comments for the past 16 years. Sincerely,
Andy Albin, President Humboldt County Farm Bureau
The vision I have for my grandchildren differs from that of others who would develop the SoHum Community Park.
I envision a place where children can go out to go in, to paraphrase John Muir, and be at one with the children of the many other species who share that space: White-tailed Kites, Spotted Towhees, Wrentits, raccoon, fox, squirrel, lizards and snakes, dragonflies and stink bugs, among many others. Who has spent time with children in nature and not had their own perspective renewed by the delight and fascination expressed by a young one finding a feather, observing an ant trail or splashing in the river?baby sandpiper (2) Southern Humboldt Community Park
During the 13 or so years I have enjoyed this precious space I have watched many species diminish in frequency and numbers with relatively minimal human impacts compared to what is proposed. My grandchildren will not have the privilege of inheriting 40 or more acres on which to spend time in nature. They will need a space like the Community Park to feel the simultaneous smallness and bigness that being a part of nature, not separate from it, fosters.
As a townie and lifelong “straight job” worker, when this space became available I gave what I could and would do so still if the promise of leaving it alone were adopted. However, when development and closed meetings began to waft in the park breezes I lost faith in my neighbors and wondered whether a gift not freely given was truly a gift. The argument that the park needs money is not persuasive when I think of the $250,000 dice rolled on an EIR. It is dangerous thinking that because so much money was gambled there ought to be a return. Didn’t many people originally move up here at least in part to get away from the mentality that money rules all?
In a broader vision those dollars might have gone to enhancing the many run-down athletics facilities already present in the community. It was great seeing kids on the skate ramp, but it is now run down and in apparent disrepair. It is great watching kids playing sports on the fields we have, but sad to see the state many of them are in. Why not leave the park alone and take better care of what we already have? Not all kids play sports and many who do or don’t also need another kind of recreation. Many will be the biologists and park rangers we need to take care of public lands in the future.
Eighty percent of the responders to the request for public comment are against development. I am confident that a similar or greater percentage of park users, myself included, would gladly pay membership dues or a use fee.
Let’s all reread The Lorax.
Ann Constantino
The proposal to rezone the private property called the Southern Humboldt Community Park must be denied as it would have permanent, devastating effects on all living things in our community, including people. Developing land for real estate interests in this time of almost certain permanent drought conditions is the total opposite of what we should be doing. The harmful effects of the proposal if permitted would last forever and make Humboldt County a less attractive place for tourists to visit as well as for residents to live in. The owners want to have 800 people per day visiting the park and would establish parking space for 850 vehicles. All by itself this proposal will create problems along Sprowel Creek Road and Kimtu Road, which are narrow two lane country roads more suited to horses and buggys and already challenged by cement and gravel trucks as well as the daredevil drivers of big pickup trucks. As one who walks this road frequently I would not welcome the invasion of huge numbers of vehicles and neither would the wildlife save for the turkey vultures.
The sports fields proposed might look good on paper but are essentially a disaster. No one likes sports, especially youth sports, more than I do but the scope of what is proposed by park owners is preposterous to say the least. Two baseball fields, a soccer field, and a football field with no restrictions on use will require 2-3 million gallons of water monthly. That will be both insult and injury to the river and to all sentient beings in the area. It's a shaky idea anyway because there are already enough playing fields in southern Humboldt that the same handful of people struggle to maintain. Who will maintain the mostly unused fields? The proposal doesn't say but I'd be willing to bet that they will lay dormant before long as a memorial to wasteful thinking. I suspect that what the park owners really desire is a lot of water at their disposal for other reasons such as overpopulated "events". And how will the water be treated if it is to be available to drink?
The proposal has another ludicrous idea---camping. The owners want two acres rezoned just for this and they want it to be available all year, 24 hours a day, seven days per week. Who will provide security and fire protection? The proposal doesn't say. I wonder how the sheriff's office and the California Highway Patrol will feel about all of this.
The building and paving and lighting along with the requested five music festivals for 2000 people and one festival for 4000 people lasting two days will make for non-beneficial water wasting, hellish traffic that will thwart emergency vehicles when needed, noise pollution day and night, and light pollution that will affect owls, foxes, humans, bears, and many other innocent victims of thoughtlessness.
Worse, even though the rezoning would take place, the park owners have not relinquished their right to develop further in the future.
This property should remain zoned the way it is now. The owners argue that it was purchased in order to be preserved. That is very far away from the proposal as it stands. Another reason for us all to be opposed is that the park has a board of directors appointed by and responsible to only the owners and that the board is not responsive to the public in any way unless they are being offered money. It's not a "community" park at all.
Thank you, Jerry Latsko
Nice try at slandering the reputation of this great community resource. The last two "reviewers" are the same out-of-the area complainer, Ed Voice. Get a life already.
First of all let me say that I am not a PARK DETRACTOR, a derogatory label assigned by the park board to anyone who in anyway disagrees with their vision for their park. And it is "their" park. Remember that. This is not a public park as long as the board remains a private entity not answerable to the public.
I simply do not agree with all of their vision. I have been to some of the scoping sessions and wish to say that these were staged dog and pony shows where the "public" opinion was funneled and directionalized towards the Board's development plan. Any opinion outside of that plan has been marginalized or simply ignored. After all that supposed public input we are left with a plan exactly as the board had it when they started.
In looking at the plans for the park I am stunned by the overdevelopment that is planned for this pristine piece of land. For profit housing. Camping, which, if you have ever been to any campground always leaves the area barren. Parking lots on the river bar. What an environmental nightmare. These types of errors cannot be undone later.
I think that until the board is actually accountable to the public, through open board elections or better yet the creation of a Park district, that the county would be remiss in granting a public recreation designation for land that is held by a private entity. I think that it would be more accurate to zone the whole area as commercial since what is really happening is the creation of a for profit housing development and a for profit concert venue. Hiding behind a non-profit status still does not make the board accountable to the public, whether that public is the county government or the local citizenry.
Thank you for your time.
The problem I have with this non-profit, they want no part of community or public input, only your money to further their own private agenda. This whole deal to take donations from the community was a scam to turn the Community Park into an estate housing development deal. This is not what I would call a non-profit, charity, or public anything. They are about as far from that then calling Wall Street a 501c3. As a neighbor and homeowner(since 1966) to what has now turned into a large for-profit enterprize, I would ask that you don't send them one red cent. Google search "Friends and Neighbors of the So Hum Community Park" you will see where we are coming from and where we are headed. Thank you, A. Neighbor Garberville, Ca
Review from Guidestar