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CUSalin
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| puppydog wrote: | | Barges are a private enterprise |
Puppy, What's your point? Are you attempting to draw a like comparison between the barge traffic in The Columbia River to the proposed cable-park development in The Boat Basin?
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isobars
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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| CUSalin wrote: | | This is indeed disturbing to me. Regardless of whether I want a cable-park or not - if The Boat Basin is indeed "public water," as you state - and "the public is to be required to "surrender" for the profit of a private enterprise it is very disturbing. |
Think about that long and hard before voting this November. |
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CUSalin
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| Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| isobars wrote: | | CUSalin wrote: | | This is indeed disturbing to me. Regardless of whether I want a cable-park or not - if The Boat Basin is indeed "public water," as you state - and "the public is to be required to "surrender" for the profit of a private enterprise it is very disturbing. |
Think about that long and hard before voting this November. |
You can count on that!
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scooter_bell
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 10:35 am Post subject: |
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The Hood River Port is punting on the issue until it hears a decision by the Army Corps of Engineers regarding Naitos application to privatize the water in the Nichols basin.
http://www.hoodrivernews.com/ns/news-headlines/9016/port-board-will-prolong-cable-park-decision
Get educated on the process if you want to be heard.
The Port of Hood River board of commissioners meets on the first and third Tuesday of every month, starting at 5 p.m. at 1000 E. Port Marina Drive. Meetings are open to the public, and public testimony is allowed at the beginning of each meeting.
Derek
Friends of the Hood River Waterfront...now on facebook. |
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CUSalin
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| Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 11:02 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the update Derek
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scooter_bell
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| Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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THIS Monday Night, the 16th,
Speak up for keeping Hood River's waterfront public and accessible!
Tell the Hood River Planning Commission to REJECT a Portland
developer's plan for a private "cable park" on Hood River's
waterfront!
This Monday night at 5:30 pm at City Hall (211 Second Street) the
Planning Commission will be deciding whether to approve plans for a
massive wake boarding cable park, hotel, 234 space parking lot, and
commercial building on Hood River's waterfront at the Nichols boat
basin.
Does your vision for the Hood River waterfront include: Converting
publicly owned waters from public use to private for-profit use? 7
large crane-like towers connecting a spider's web of steel cables that
would sit idle like an abandoned amusement park for 6 months a year?
Over 280 concrete anchors which each weighing 300 pounds? Over 11,000
square feet of new private docks
and infrastructure over the water?
And, most importantly, three quarters of the publicly owned boat basin
will be blocked off to all who want to continue to enjoy this area for
other uses.
While Hood River's Mayor is claiming the cable park is really an issue
to be debated at a later time, before the Hood River Port Commission
(see last Saturday's, 4-7-12, HR News Business section), this ignores
the reality that the Planning Commission has FULL LEGAL authority to
stop this project now since the developer has not even prepared basic
reports and impact studies required to justify approval by the City.
In fact, there is not even a revised site plan showing the correct
locations of the hotel and commercial buildings and cable towers.
While the City has tried to claim that the cable park is exempt from
the City's planning rules since it's on the water, there is simply NO
legal support for this claim. Would it be politically more convenient
to approve the cable park while ignoring all of its impacts and the
need to meet city land use rules? Sure. But it would be bad for Hood
River's waterfront and set a bad precedent.
Please join Friends of the Hood River Waterfront in telling the
Planning Commission that it should DENY this application. A full
debate and evaluation of a cable park should be part of a
community-wide process BEFORE the city approves building permits not
after. With so little information, questions regarding jurisdictional
authority, and a continually changing site plan there are just too
many unknowns.
To review our detailed comments to the Commission visit our Facebook
page or email Derek at scooter.bell@facebook.com  |
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puppydog
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:33 am Post subject: |
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| Preserve the rip/wrap and black berry bushes! |
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isobars
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| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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| scooter_bell wrote: | Does your vision for the Hood River waterfront include ... 7 large crane-like towers connecting a spider's web of steel cables that
would sit idle like an abandoned amusement park for 6 months a year?
Over 280 concrete anchors which each weighing 300 pounds? Over 11,000
square feet of new private docks and infrastructure over the water? |
The City of Arlington BUILT AND OWNS the island we windsurf from. They had extensive hopes, plans, and desire to develop THEIR ISLAND into a WSing mecca. One day about 8-10 years ago they brought together all the involved federal and state agencies, the relevant Indian agencies, and any special interest groups in an attempt to get approval -- not money, just approval -- for the first step: improving the launch. We (I was there as the CGWA representative) spent the afternoon on site, discussing many short and long range goals for the island, from a better launch to replacing the silo with an inn and building a landscaped campground. Every idea was met with the same response from the government and tribal agencies: "It's your land, you can do whatever you want with it. But you WILL not put as much as one grain of sand in OUR water. It kills all the fish." That is not an exaggeration; it was the Corps', Fisheries', BIA's, Parks & Rec's, tribal, etc.'s mantra: you may not as much as touch the river or impact it in any way. We were at a total impasse until one brilliant fellow suggested the obvious: cut back the steep rip-rap embankment into a walkable slope and surface it for better walking. That got instant unanimous approval with the usual caveat: "You WILL not put as much as one grain of sand in OUR water. It kills all the fish." Thus it remains the $#!++!3$+ official Columbia River windsurfing launch I can think of.
Now top that off with the Corps' edict a couple of years ago that all existing private docks on the Columbia -- they are common at homes in the TriCities -- be removed, as they provide shelter for predatory fish, or kill spotted owls, or piss off blunt-nosed lizards, or some such crap.
Yet in the heart of the Gorge, the showplace of the Columbia Gorge Scenic Area, that Holy Mecca of Birkenstock, a stretch of river almost every self-respecting upper Columbia or Snake River horny salmon must pass through, all federal, state, local, and tribal agencies are gonna just throw out all the restrictions they levied on remote and starving Arlington and let some Disneyland wannabe build docks and cranes and buildings with footings in the water (just IMAGINE the millions of salmon that will somehow kill!) and lay exclusive claim to the largest piece of calm, sheltered recreational water on the entire river.
I can draw only one logical conclusion: SOMEbody's getting paid a lot of money poor little Arlington couldn't come up with. |
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CUSalin
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Just a reminder that the Department of State Lands (DSL) comment deadline is this week, May 6th. After that, comments will not be allowed. DSL is a key agency in the approval/disapproval of the Naito plan for a cable park in the Nichols Boat Basin. You can post your comments by going to the DSL web site at the link below:
http://www.statelandsonline.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Comments.AppListLF&county=Hood%20River
scroll all the way to the right and click on comments/add. Then check the boxes that apply and add your comments directly in the text box. click "submit" and you're done !
Also, the other key agency to send your comments to is the Army Corps of Engineers. You can email comments directly to Karla Ellis at link below:
karla.g.ellis@usace.army.mil
Thanks for taking the time to make your voices heard
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