Amended CEQA Suit Filed
HB NEIGHBORS FILED AN AMENDED CEQA SUIT
The HB Neighbors CEQA suit (petition) was amended to include new items documented when the downtown specific plan was re-opened. These new items support our allegations that the EIR is insufficient and should not be used to allow the creation of the new downtown specific plan. HB Neighbors is in favor of balanced well planned growth downtown that takes into account concerns of the residents, property & business owners.
HB Neighbors expects a court-ordered mandatory settlement meeting to be rescheduled in the next month. All indicators lead us to believe the city council will NOT be persuaded to settle. We will be taking this take this suit all the way!
VOLENTEERS NEEDED! to help transcribe the planning commission and city council hearings from tape. If you can help with this job please contact me.
See our NEW CEQA Petition page for the summary of the new items added.
YOU CAN SEE THE UPDATED SUIT HERE
I have skimmed the updated petition. I see where the January reconsideration action has been added to the timeline, but I’m not seeing any other direct references to the January action. Can you be more specific on which sections of the petition were updated?
Hi Mark, Great idea! We’ve preceded additional points with “NEW!” on the CEQA page.
Why aren’t you guys addressing this permit parking program that the city is putting in downtown? I live South of the numbered streets. I asked around and my neighbors do not want the drunks pushed into our neighborhoods. If the drunks don’t park in the city lot now, they will not after the numbered streets drive them out. These drunken 909 partiers are parking on the streets to avoid the 4 cops standing outside the city structure. They will not park in the lot. They will park in my neighborhood. I bought my home outside of the numbered streets to avoid these problems. Now this City program will push the problem into my neighborhood. THAT IS WRONG!
We agree with most of your comments and think that removing parking for the bar patrons will force them to park in the city structure.
The city has a permit parking program in place. Residents need to work with the city to implement it.
We think that the new downtown plan will make the problems you speak of much much worse with added bars, added restaurants with alcohol and a parking plan that doesn’t create the needed parking spots to support the expansion. We have limited resources and are focusing our attention on the larger issue of fighting the new expanded downtown plan that the city has already approved. We would encourage you to read the suit which talks to and represents some of your points. http://hbneighbors.com/the-ceqa-suit/