Speech to Planning Commission - June 21, 2006
June 21, 2006
Dear Planning Commissioners
I would like to take this opportunity to
thank you for your recent vote on June 7th to
reject the North Fillmore Specific Plan EIR. You proved that
you did listen to the citizens of Fillmore heard their
comments in opposition to this plan.
Unfortunately, the City Council has not
listened to the citizens. During the many hearings you have
heard hundreds of comments from residents. Not one of those
comments was in favor of this plan. If you heard any comments
in favor of this plan it was from developers only.
Please continue to focus on the
detriments to the community; increased traffic, air pollution,
crime, noise, insufficient schools, parks and police. The only
benefit to this plan at this density is for the developers.
Mr. Rees has presented a beautiful,
thoughtful plan and it didn’t cost the city thousands of
dollars. He created the plan for the benefit of the community.
There are still questions that have not
been answered.
- According
the Mr. Payne’s fiscal analysis and the North Fillmore
Specific Plan Page xxx, the City (with our tax dollars)
will be paying Sun Cal approximately $700,000 per acre to
acquire parkland and $185,000 per acre to develop
parkland. This is a total of $885,000 per acre. How can
the City Council and staff agree to pay the developers
that kind of money?
- Why
is the City accelerating the growth of Fillmore so
quickly? Currently in production are 750 homes at Heritage
Valley Parks, 110 town homes at the Meadows, 50 apartments
at Parkview, 20 units of farm worker housing. The
Groves
? Units at
Santa Clara
and
Saratoga
? This is a total of 930++ units! An additional 63 units
has just been completed at River Oaks. 993++ units! This
doesn’t include anything in North Fillmore. The 2000
census recorded 3,852 units. So just the current housing
in production will increase the size of this town by 25%.
This is not the slow, controlled growth called for in
Vision 2020.
- I
enjoy the bike paths very much. On Monday evening we
walked on the Riverwalk levee and the new path that goes
by the sewer plant. The sewer plant odors were very
strong. At the time I thought it was an anomaly and just
walked faster. Tuesday morning we walked through there and
it was worse. My husband said he will never use that path
again. About one o’clock I walked out of the house to
our garage and it was detectable even from a mile away.
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