01-27-2010, 12:47 AM
Kathy I'm with you. When you find these meetings back in the last sentence on the last page of an advertiser that is bad enough. But to sit for hours on a bench I'd be part of the dazed over crowd. The lack of county personnel and the timing of meetings is always a wonder. Just a pony show to meet a quota of public meetings, I don't know one wonders?
Dory
The real reason the banyan was on the chopping block was because it is non-native, since a native tree of this size and importance would never be cut down. Current County policy devalues non-native species. Other non-native trees in the park will be cut down, according the County News, “replacing some existing trees with shoreline-appropriate native tree species”, evidence of the native species supremacism that led to the proposed destruction of the banyan.
Having been to a bunch of local meetings here in NO CA in the past year I have come away with the same feeling. The invasive species group at times approach the fundamentalism of Peta on their particular area of interest and subject matter. It seems the extremists of all sides and on all subjects are in the news and spot light these day.
What was almost put over on the public here was a mental/criminal drug rehab (level III) facility. Not a bad idea and an unfortunate necessity for society here and nationally andcurrently. Oh we of the two casinos and a third on the way could even throw in a few gambling addictions to round out the numbers. Well it wasn't the facility, but the backroom finagling and set up and then the location (county person's family owns the land???), putting it right in the middle of a residential area. Yep meetings are listed on the second to last page of the paper, or the last page of the advertiser here, hoping no one will blink an eye about it all.
Somewhere in the past 10 years perhaps, we have lost the ability to come to a consensus, wonder about that a lot. From the playground ground zero to the powers that be. Shame shame on us all.
mella l
Paris London New York PUNA
Dory
The real reason the banyan was on the chopping block was because it is non-native, since a native tree of this size and importance would never be cut down. Current County policy devalues non-native species. Other non-native trees in the park will be cut down, according the County News, “replacing some existing trees with shoreline-appropriate native tree species”, evidence of the native species supremacism that led to the proposed destruction of the banyan.
Having been to a bunch of local meetings here in NO CA in the past year I have come away with the same feeling. The invasive species group at times approach the fundamentalism of Peta on their particular area of interest and subject matter. It seems the extremists of all sides and on all subjects are in the news and spot light these day.
What was almost put over on the public here was a mental/criminal drug rehab (level III) facility. Not a bad idea and an unfortunate necessity for society here and nationally andcurrently. Oh we of the two casinos and a third on the way could even throw in a few gambling addictions to round out the numbers. Well it wasn't the facility, but the backroom finagling and set up and then the location (county person's family owns the land???), putting it right in the middle of a residential area. Yep meetings are listed on the second to last page of the paper, or the last page of the advertiser here, hoping no one will blink an eye about it all.
Somewhere in the past 10 years perhaps, we have lost the ability to come to a consensus, wonder about that a lot. From the playground ground zero to the powers that be. Shame shame on us all.
mella l
Paris London New York PUNA
mella l
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