RIPTIDE

HUMPTY DUMPTY: PACIFICA PLANNING COMMISSION DENIES QUARRY INFILL 5-0

Quarry appeal

PACIFICA'S PERFECT PARCEL

Pacifica City Council meetings start with this acknowledgment of the sacredness of the land:

"The City of Pacifica acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. We honor the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples for their enduring commitment to Mother Earth. As the Indigenous protectors of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. We affirm their sovereign rights as First Peoples and wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone peoples."

This means that as caretakers we will not truck in waste dirt, dump it in the quarry, where it washes into the soil, the creek, and the ocean -- and call it RECLAMATION. Right?

(Science Grrl)

PACIFICA'S ROCKAWAY QUARRY IN JEOPARDY (VIDEOS)

Pacifica Planning Commission is considering a reclamation plan to dump imported soil in Rockaway Quarry, 146 truck trips a day for four years. The videos below explain the plan, which is huge in scope and would negatively affect the quarry recreation area, Highway 1 traffic, and Vallemar School. If you live in or visit Pacifica, you need to make your voice heard to the Planning Commission and City Council.

MITCH REID'S ROCKAWAY BLUE/GREEN PARK PROPOSAL (REVISED)

Mitch Reid drew up this plan back in 1997. Now that Pacifica is once again battling the latest assault on Rockaway Quarry might be a good time to revisit Mitch's dream.

COUNTY SUPERVISORS TO MOSS BEACH: DROP DEAD

The San Mateo County Board of Supervisors has voted 5-0 to approve Midpen's 71-unit housing development in Moss Beach, ironically known as Cypress Point in "honor" of the cypress trees to be sacrificed in constructing the 16-building project.

You can thank the state for passing a new law allowing such developments to bypass normal CEQA planning requirements, and the county for turning a blind eye to Moss Beach residents' concerns about traffic/pedestrian congestion and safety, water use and resources, lack of transportation and employment and services.

Have the Supervisors ever walked the property? Have they ever visited Moss Beach on foot? Have they considered what chaos they would bring down on this peaceful seaside community?

This is an egregious example of YIMBY politicians dumping their problems (failure to act on the county's housing and transportation crises) on a remote hillside open space. So middle class and working class people who enjoy living here in scenic tranquility will now have to endure years of construction traffic, noise, and dust, then confront the new reality:

An already-jammed Highway 1 struggling to absorb hundreds of new cars (multiply 71 units by X number of vehicles per family); a small-town post office, gas station, convenience store, pizzeria, and taqueria struggling to absorb hundreds of new customers (multiply 71 units by X number of family members); a transportation grid with one crosswalk, few sidewalks, no stop signs or traffic lights, no bike lanes, cross-street traffic battling highway-speed traffic, all struggling to absorb hundreds of new drivers and pedestrians (multiply 71 units by X number of newcomers). Not a pretty picture.

https://www.hmbreview.com/news/supervisors-approve-moss-beach-housing-development/article_c318d72a-ebaf-11ee-9efc-d7cb9687b251.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share

CYPRESS POINTLESS: BUILD IT AND WE ALL WILL SUFFER

opposition

 

HIDDEN IMPACT OF MIDPEN'S CYPRESS POINT HOUSING PROJECT

Coastside Buzz op-ed

MIDPEN HOUSING PLAN HARMS MOSS BEACH ENVIRONMENT, TRAFFIC, SAFETY

news story

HISTORY OF MYSTERY @ OLD DEVIL'S SLIDE BUNKER

news story

NO ON ROCKAWAY QUARRY RECLAMATION PLAN

COASTAL HOMEOWNERS VS. MANAGED RETREAT

news story

THE REAL DIRT ON ROCKAWAY QUARRY

The Rockaway Quarry reclamation plan calls for 161 truckloads of waste soil A DAY for four YEARS — almost a million tons of dirt deposited in the quarry. Pacifica Planning Commission hearing on Monday, March 6 addresses this matter. Watch the video at the links below to understand the plan and the issues.

 

https://www.screencast.com/t/IZ3Lm3oXX

 

alternative link

 

Peter Loeb

PACIFICA CITY COUNCIL MULLS PARK MALL & LINDA MAR DEVELOPMENTS

Council discusses massive new Linda Mar developments, Monday evening, January 23, including a mobile home park in SamTrans' park-and-ride lot (see all below).

 

QUARRY QUAGMIRE @ PLANNING COMMISSION

Pacifica Planning Commission met Tuesday, January 17. The agenda item for certification and adoption of a Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) for the Rockaway Quarry Reclamation project was rescheduled for a March meeting. I am strongly against this project and have penned an open letter (link below) expressing my objections. (Owen Brizgys)

open letter

MIDCOAST COMMUNITY COUNCIL

Updates on Cypress Point housing project proposal in Moss Beach, Highway 1 traffic, etc.

newsletter

KIMCO PLANS 6-STORY MIXED-USE BUILDING @ WESTLAKE SHOPPING CENTER

news story

Opponent says project will kill small local businesses while helping big national businesses.

PACIFICA'S NEW GENERAL PLAN

press release

LANDSLIDE MAPS MISSING FROM GENERAL PLAN

Boles op-ed

MANAGED RETREAT, SEA-LEVEL RISE, CLIMATE CHANGE

Slate op-ed

Chronicle feature

The S.F. Chronicle story above mentions Pacifica in several places. You may need to be a subscriber to access the story or you might be able to find the story on SFGate.com by travel section writer Lindsey J. Smith.

ROCKAWAY QUARRY RECLAMATION PLAN

Press Release