Friday, April 26, 2013

Planning Commission applicant consideration, here's the notice again with application


Notice from the City/Kathy O'Connell, City Clerk, posted in the Pacifica Tribune, 4/24/13. If you're interested, please submit your completed application. 

City of Pacifica Notice of Recruitment

The City of Pacifica is recruiting citizens to serve on the Planning Commission.  The deadline for applications is Wednesday, May  15, 2013 AT 5:00 p.m.  Applications are available on the City's website at  www.cityofpacifica.org, the City Clerk's Office (650) 738-7307, or the City Manager's Office (650) 738-7301.

Kathy O'Connell, City Clerk
Dated: April 12, 2013


Reference -  Online City Commissions and Committees application.

Posted by Kathy Meeh

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

haha Oust the NIMBY's!

Is this a paying gig?

Anonymous said...

You want to get people off the Planning Commission and you don't even know that it's a volunteer position. Learn something before shooting your mouth off.

Anonymous said...

Oust the Nimbys? Really? Did they bounce all seven? IMHO politics will make this more about balance and inclusion than any bold statement of a new direction. Baby steps.

todd bray said...

Hopefully after his 7 year temper tantrum council will re appoint Jim Wagner and put an end to his vendetta.

Anonymous said...

zip it drama-con!

Leave the drama where it belongs, on daytime TV!!

Anonymous said...

I pray Campbell is on the chopping block.

Who else is a nimby or extreme enviro?

Kathy Meeh said...

Keep our sensible and honorable friend Tom Clifford, if he should wish to stay on the planning commission rather than move on.

On thing Tom, I know you are concerned about the sewer overflow basin which may be developed under the site 1 parking lot. Viewing Chris Fogel's Pacifica Index photo/graphic, that site seems to be the least problematic of the identified locations. Any other comments about this?

Anonymous said...

Kathy

The wet lands next to the skate park or the land over to the side of San Pedro Creek seem better to me.

Anonymous said...

Surely this party didn't start without the right people in the wings. A balanced commission more representative of the community and certainly of this council, sort of a fresh start. Probably cost nothing to do this other than a little attorney time. New commission in place, very clear on what the job is, but they still have nothing to do. What's being done about that?

Tom Clifford said...

Kathy, thank you for the kind words.

I will be applying for a new term on the Planning Commission and hope that the City Council reappoints me.

I have three concerns about placing the Sewer Equalization Basin at the corner of Linda Mar and De Soto.
1. the impact of having an 2 million gallon partially buried sewer tank on both the homes and business in they area. [The top of the tank must be above the flood plane.]
2. The impact on future economic development in area.

3. The lack of further analyses on any of the other sites. If you only look at one site in detail you present the public with no real choice {I have been told by a reliable source that the City will now be looking at two sites I hope this is in fact true]

Anonymous said...

Does placing a huge sewage overflow tank right across from our only decent shopping center smell pro-business to you? Just wait til those on-shore winds carry that stench deep into the Linda Mar Valley and the nooks and crannies of Park Pacifica where it will linger for days. Let me guess... this is another odorless state-of-the-art facility, isn't it? Would there be any other kind in Pathetica?

Anonymous said...

Only in Pacifica, they think of putting the poop tank on a valuable piece of land that could be developed into something revenue producing.

The hippie noobee and nimby manta continues.

Anonymous said...

I don't know why Linda Mar and Park Pac shouldn't enjoy the same stink of civilization that Vallemar etc. endure from time to time. I bet Pedro Point will even enjoy a wiff now and then. Sharp Park still occassionally stinks-- more than a decade after the sewer plant was moved. That move made the quarry subject to heavier regulation and tougher to develop and left the OWWTP a prime oceanfront parcel that defies profitable development. Not everyone in Pacifica is unhappy about these decisions.
Hey, this is Pacifica, where we'd rather crap on it than develop it.

Anonymous said...

Are there any drawings available of what this thing might look like?
Corner of LMBlvd and DeSolo is a very visible corner. How much of this facility is above ground level? Can the neighbors over the fence see it? We know they'll be able to smell it!

Anonymous said...

Does anyone else but me remember all the times that the front of Linda Mar flooded and people were boating around the Linda Mar Center? I know that the San Pedro Creek project was supposed to fix all that, but do we really know that there won't be future flooding? Before my time, but supposedly the front of Linda Mar was originally marshland and prone to rising groundwater. Is it really a good idea to risk future problems by building a two million gallon sewage overflow basin in that area?

Anonymous said...

Lake Matilda is under the front end of Linda Mar. Just to add to the generally wet feeling. Ask the real old-timers. I've been told that the land in that entire area is so boggy that PacBell gave up on their facility here because their equipment didn't perform well in a swamp and then sold the bldg. to the city for $1 and it is now our community center. Of course I'm sure the city is going state-of-the-art again and everything will be fine. Snort.

Anonymous said...

Putting a sewage storage tank at LM pretty much cancels any prospects for visitor serving development down the perhaps more prosperous road--other than more fast food and gas stations and even those may be impossible with the added health and environmental regulations that come with anything to do with sewage. Just like the quarry. I'm not saying it can be avoided or that it's an enviro plot...just saying. Hey, I bet some people think it's a great idea.

Anonymous said...

Yes, Pac Bell did have major problems with groundwater damaging their equipment to the point that they gave up on that location. Prior to the Comunity Center, prior to Pac Bell, that property was known as the Duck Farm, probably for good reason.

Anonymous said...

San Pedro Creek used to turn right in Linda Mar Shopping Center and it went into the ocean down by Where Crespi and Highway 1 is now. The farmers changed the creek channel to go straight into the ocean.

When Linda Mar used to flood bad pre 1982-1983 when it really flooded bad the city put in bigger stronger pumps to push out the water even during high tides.

San Pedro Creek has overflowed its banks a couple times after but no where as bad as pre 1982-1983. In order to have a huge flood you need days of rain on saturated ground plus you need the monthly or highest tides of the year. With all that perfect storm you probably need a huge storm to drop 4 or 5 inches of rain in 24 hours.

Normally these happen in very strong warm El Nino Winters, and we haven't had a very strong El Nino currents to bring us these storms in quite a while.

Anonymous said...

Anon@ 6:59a.m.: while we haven't had those heavy rains in a number of years, the scenario that you described has happened in the past and there's always the possibility that it could happen again. Not to start a dialogue on global warming vs non-global warming, I have read that possible global warming will likely bring warmer winters with heavier rainfall. So whether the perfect storm does happen por does not happen, do we Pacificans want to run the risk of building a huge,huge capacity sewer overflow project at Linda Mar ? I would ask the feasibility of such a sewer project being built adjacent to the existing Calera Creek facility. After all, they've already got the smell, why not take the rest of it as well?

Anonymous said...

Pacifica badly needs revenue producting projects around town. This would be a great site for a mixed use project. Retail and or office and housing above. There is an empty space next to San Pedro Creek behind the assisted senior center and the property next to the skate park. Also putting it on the sewage plant site makes sense.

To forever waste this revenue producing site, for a sewage tank is assine.