Wednesday, November 11, 2009

What's goin' on at Millwood Ranch?


Millwood.pdf

5 city stop work orders. Fish and Game citation. Assorted fines, etc.
Now the Army has been called in. I wonder if it'll be paratroopers?

Lance

Update:

Below is an email sent to Julia Scott of the Bay Area News Group, asking her to look into this matter.

good morning julia,

attached is a letter that was sent to me. i live back in park pacifica and have very concerned with the amount of work going on back at millwood ranch (formally Picardo Ranch). it used to be a beautiful canyon with some rustic homes scattered about. it has now been cut and filled, without permits, there has been a large steel structure erected, on fill, without engineering, or permits! the city has issued 5 stop work orders, they have been cited by fish and game and now the army corp. our enforcement officer, jason lo, has been ignored for months. the city says they are handcuffed.

i lived back here in 82 when the hills came down. i live very near the location where the children were killed by a mudslide. all due to faulty hillside engineering. when i see millwood ranch, it gives me nightmares. they have people living and working below un-engineered cuts. they have filled creeks. when this floods, which it will, it will inflict major damage on terra nova's new football field. a disaster waiting to happen.

councilwoman nihart has been up there and observed for herself the major changes to that valley. before and after satellite pictures would be revealing. old topo maps are useless. the environmental damage may be irreversible.

and the work continues

1 comment:

Jeffrey W Simons said...

funny thing here, Lance. When Arno Rohloff was busy trying to negotiate the maintenance of the pedestrian path to Shelter Cove, the City Attorney hired outside litigators to sue him. When Coastside Scavenger was busy trying to negotiate a new franchise agreement, the City Attorney hired outside litigators to sue them.

I see 16 lawsuits involving Millard Tong on the Superior Court of San Mateo County database, for most of which he is labeled as the Plaintiff, but no action by the City of Pacifica.