Comments for Provinsalia public hearing set for Tuesday; developer discusses plans at http://lakeconews.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://lakeconews.com Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:41:02 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6510/919/#comment-9311 yet nothing covered at all. There is nothing to cover but the names of those really involved. As I heard someone, yes I was evesdropping, say,...\"people who move in these homes will not have (enough)children to impact the school district.\" \"If they do, they have enough money to send them to Sonoma as the schools are not good enough here.\" Well, I beg to differ. Our schools have their problems, but then again so does every district in the county. Maybe they should drop say $10m to bring ours up to par with their requirements. Money doesn\'t fix all problems, people do and outside money causes problems of its own, (untraceable)! - OneFamily Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:40:22 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6510/919/#comment-9308 Thank you Elizabeth, for writing this up so well. I\'m sure your findings are accurate, because I dug up pretty much the same information back in 2005, allowing for some corporate shape-shifting between then and now. Armax is involved in a similar development near Bodega Bay, called \"Romancia,\" which met with angry resistance from the townspeople, who felt that the environment and the needs of the locals were being ignored by the developer. Here\'s an excerpt from an article by Jeannine Yeomans (SFGate 10-6-08) that mentions the Bodega development: FISHIER THAN FISH: Seems some folks do want Bodega Bay to ... pull away from county rule by incorporating into a locally run city. The reason: ``the festering `Romancia\' wound,\'\' which is how one Bodega Bay resident describes the new 70-home Romancia subdivision that has caused locals to pursue taking control away from Sonoma County supervisors. ``It\'s a tale of dummy corporations, kickbacks and total disregard for the local people,\'\' says Barbara McElhiney, a Bodega Bay Fire District board member. ``Anyone can see that this development makes for total devastation of the wetlands, and there\'s something very fishy around Bodega Bay.\'\' ``As far as the county is concerned, Bodega Bay is for tourists, not townspeople,\'\' adds Melissa Freeman, a member of the incorporation group. Agustin Rosas-Maxemin, owner of S.F. developer Armax, could not be reached by press time for comment. - Fran Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:46:48 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6510/919/#comment-9306 I wish out of town developers would just go away. Does Lake County need an additional 665 homes? Duplex and Fourplex condos? Who thought of that? The motive is Profit. I read that they reduced the number of units from 735 to 665. Big deal, they downsized it by 70 units. Lastly, they plan to build the project in Phases, but not by them. They will take the profit and run. This is a Lose Lose for everyone except the developers. And what about the \"oak woodland destruction\" that vbrandon mentions? And \"the destruction of cultural resources\". Are they going to mitigate that as well? I wish these out of town developers would just go away. Tell them \"Thanks, but No Thanks\". - tomtodd Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:38:51 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6510/919/#comment-9305 Thank you thank you Elizabeth for this tour de force of investigative journalism. A lot of people have been trying to find out the details about these developers for years, and here it all is laid out for the world to see. Dick Price says \"he doesn\'t believe the additional property that was sold to Starlite Ventures can be developed due to terrain, trees and lack of an entry.\" In that case why has the suggestion that the oak woodland destruction on the project site be mitigated by preserving these lands permanently under a conservation easement been repeatedly and categorically rejected, starting at least four years ago??? If the citizens of Clearlake want to keep the city out of bankruptcy they should raise a number of tough questions at the meeting tomorrow night -- hope there\'s standing room only. - vbrandon Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:20:14 +0100 http://lakeconews.com/content/view/6510/919/#comment-9304 [quote]She points out that five miles of sewer lines cannot be constructed incrementally; “the full costs will be incurred before the first residents can move in, meaning that the expense must be assumed by the taxpayers of Clearlake or the county of Lake.”[/quote] They must assume the costs? No, tThey can\'t be THAT stupid, can they? We\'ll see! - allen Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:17:48 +0100