Date:
June 22, 2005
As previously noticed, a neighborhood
informational meeting was held regarding a proposal to
construct an Indoor Soccer and Baseball
facility and outdoor turf soccer field at the San Rafael Airport.
20 or so neighbors turned out to hear a description of the process, project
proposal and background on represented need for additional recreational facilities in
San Rafael.
Attached are the project plans also see the Files section of the
SV-Community e-group for reference.
For more information on the project and process, please contact
San Rafael City Senior Planner
Raffi Boloyan at 485-3095.
Robert Herbs JHS properties
(Airport)
JHS
Len Nibbi
JHS Properties (Airport)
Tighe O'Sullivan -
Club Marin Soccer
John Manchip Playground and Park Design 415 258 9544.
(Each of the above email addresses, above, include a "Z" to fool webcrawlers.
Remove the "Z")
See a letter written to Marin
County Supervisor Susan Adams, and various drawings and
plans for the
complex.
In another email that will be sent later today you will receive further
background information regarding our shortages, and the needs that have been
laid out in San Rafael’s General Plan 2020.
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Questions
unanswered:
- The space occupied by the building for Indoor
Soccer, Baseball cages and Gymnastics could alternatively be
another outdoor soccer field. There could be 2 outdoor soccer fields
instead of only one. Is it not true that the demand for outdoor soccer is
at least 5 times that for indoor? What figures do we have for outdoor
soccer demand vs indoor?
- What is to stop the developers installing
outdoor lighting at a later date after completion? Is there any kind of
legislation ensuring no lights will be installed?
- How are the Party Rooms to be utilized?
- Is there any guarantee that further development
east of the runway will not take place? Is this just a start of bigger
development?
- Can the fence between the runway and the complex
be 6 feet high (instead of 5) and continue into the north fork of Gallinas
creek so that people cannot wander off along the levee ? And can it
continue south to the hangers so that any access to the levee requires walking
thru the hanger area?
- Can the fill of 2 feet and the necessary pilings
ensure it wont sink? What will stop the parking lots from sinking? Can this cost only $3-4 million?
- When will the Sierra Club, the Marin
Conservation League, County Commissioners and the Audibon Society be asked
for comments?
- Of the 7 sites looked at prior to the Airport
what factors make this the site of choice?
- What is to stop a footbridge being built to
McGinnes park?
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