Ristin Wilson Landscape Design 11-5-23
Hello City Council,
I’m in agreement of retirement condos and golf course renovation.
I would like to share two items with you.
I just graduated with my Landscape Architecture Master’s Degree.
From my experience golf courses are placed to hold water in severe rainstorms.
Because they have the capacity. And our golf course has a huge water shed with the collection form the Newbury Park community into our creek on the mountain and into our golf course. The first item is that the engineering defeat of the new design will be successful. A 100 year flood in January was 2” of rain in little over a day. And a 500 year flood will be 30” of rainfall in a day or two. If New Urban West says they have designed plans and the environmental impact reports says is it sustainable and true, then the design will hold this amount of water for even a 500 year storm. Now, with my experience with dealing with cities is that there are installation inspections by city officials and the construction phase can not be completed until in compliance and approved by officials on a regular basis.
This is how the new drainage system will be built.
And the second thing I would like to mention is the system design of the water structure is based on engineering calculations and also is approved and submitted to the city with staff approving and reviewing all design principles and calculations.
I leave you with how wonderful to build a community golf course and restaurant and event center for all of us Camarillo Springs Residences to visit. And how wonderful to develop medium income retirement homes to sustain the dual design. I am so impressed with the nature of the golf course being preserved to its best possible design solution. I am excited for the future of Camarillo Springs and the community to be built upon.
Sincerely, Ristin Wilson
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Item Number or Subject GPA-2017-2
Position Oppose
Comments My concern is the evacuation problems. I need proof that the entire area of homes in this Camarillo Springs area CAN EVACUATE out of here without anyone getting killed because of too many residents trying to get out of here. Have we not learned anything from the fires that were in Maui some
months ago. Where people were burned to death in their cars! I was a stewardess for a major airline over 35 years and had to prove that we could evacuate 300 passengers in 90
seconds off an aircraft, grant you we had 8 emergency door exits, and 1 exit in the cockpit, and 12 other stewardesses on the aircraft to help. In Camarillo Springs we only have 2 roads to exit on! And LOTS OF RESIDENTS WHO ARE VERY
SENIOR. I need proof that we can evacuate out of Cam
Springs without killing anyone trying to do this. So let's have a practice evacuation to prove we can do this! Like a fireman stated there wouldn't be any problem evacuating out of here.
PROVE IT! Until there is proof, STOP THIS GPA-2017-2! You know this cannot be done. Look at Maui and what happened there! Thank you for allowing me to say this.
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Item Number or Subject Camarillo Golf Course
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Comments This will be a great addition to the area, keep golf alive, a sport enjoyed by all ages and sex. It is particularly good for children as it gets them off their devises and outdoors learning a sport that they can play the rest of their lives.
The housing is needed as well.
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Item Number or Subject Camarillo Springs Golf Course Development Position Support
Comments Dear Mayor and Council Members:
I wrote you recently about the misinformation being spread via numerous flyers by the "Oppose" group. Today I am
writing to urge you NOT to be swayed yourselves by the false claims that abound. Please keep your own minds clear on what is fact and what is fiction; what is wishful thinking and what is reality. Change is difficult for many to accept.
Progress is often painful. I'd love to keep things the way they are, plus needed golf course improvements. But that isn't going to happen - and the best alternative, in my opinion, is the development of the senior community proposed by New Urban West. Please allow the project to move forward and, when the time finally arrives, approve it for the betterment of Camarillo Springs and for the City of Camarillo.
Thank you!
JoAnne Oram
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Item Number or Subject Camarillo Springs Redevelopment Project Position Support
Comments Please, please please save golf at Camarillo Springs and allow the New Urban West project to proceed. Ron Richards will close the golf course if this project fails and all of the residents with have lost a valuable community asset. Please read the following fact sheet as, it says it much better than I.
We have been pleading for your vote for, I believe almost 5 years. Please vote Yes!!!
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Item Number or Subject Development of Camarillo Springs Golf Course Position Oppose
Comments I completely oppose this reckless. dangerous venture that directly affects my against, frail mother. During past
evacuations they shut off her access to highway 101 so she couldn’t escape or get out that way and so they direct the 101 traffic down through her narrow one escape route and so the 101 traffic is competing with residents for the ONLY way out creating an extreme fire risk. It's unconscionable. It is so bad already that there is no way you should allow more people in.
It is a death trap. This area is already known as severe fire risk.
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Item Number or Subject development of camarillo springs golf course Position Oppose
Comments Unethical, unfair, completely strongly oppose.
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Item Number or Subject GPA 2017-2 NUWI
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Comments Mayor and Council Members
My name is John Gardner and I live on the golf course at Camarillo Springs. I have spoken on several occasions in favor of this project so I will not speak further on the needs and benefits of the project which should be obvious to all.
I find it difficult to comment on our proceedings tonight in advance of hearing your thoughts both pro and con. I can only imagine how difficult it must be to decide on complex matters realizing that there are lots of loud voices, and colored shirts which represent opinions, but you should be guided by facts rather than opinions.
As I understand, the new homes, refurbished golf course, new clubhouse, new pro shop and new event center create no
unmitigatable impact as confirmed by your own EIR report.
The point of controversy seems to rest on the effectiveness of the flood mitigation design for 154 CCV homes which, also per your own EIR, will function as designed in a 100 year flood scenario which is the historical standard required by the city and FEMA for most prior projects. The EIR also confirms that the designs will also be effective in a 500 year flood, and multiple days of continuous rain.
1 All of these standards are far in excess of any reasonable or prior criteria used by the city but, allowing for an abundance of caution I am delighted to know that these standards can be met.
However, what I cannot understand is what flawed rationale is in play to expect the proposed design to withstand a 1,000 year flood, and a last minute requirement for a spillway. There seems to be no legitimate rational to hold this project to these never before standards, unless …
Unless there is now, and perhaps been all along, a search to find some one or several things that could be used to justify a vote against this project. Perhaps the very subjective and unsubstantiated phrase that has been published by the city that the project will result in “significant and unavoidable impact” is enough to do the trick. If I believed the summary conclusion, I wouldn’t vote for it either.
That statement, except for the specious 1,000 flood
requirement and latest idea for a spillway bears no
resemblance to the finding in your own EIR and related
financial and golf studies.
New Urban West has in good faith invested millions over the past 6 years to go many extra miles to accommodate and
meet the ever changing and ever-increasing demands of city staff.
I think it would be a terrible example of bad faith on the part of the city to deny this project on based on exaggerated and escalating mitigation requirements given that in all less onerous scenarios, all residents of the Camarillo Springs community would be better protected from flooding with the completion of the project than they are today which is the “do no harm” gold standard for any development project.
I am hopeful you will make a fair and a well-informed decision in favor of this project that has enormous benefits for our entire community.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:16 AMPUBLIC COMMENTS
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Comments Ron Richards bought a golf course and not a housing development.
He hired a developer to design a housing project.
The developer failed to deliver a housing plan that was safe, practical, and suitable to the city of Camarillo nor its residents.
The City of Camarillo need not continue to enable Mr.
Richard's quest for profit.
Ron Richards owns a golf course and nothing else in
Camarillo.
It's his to do with what he prefers assuming it's legal.
Sometimes investors loose.
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Item Number or Subject proposed development of the Camarillo Springs golf course Position Oppose
Comments I live on the 7th fairway of the Camarillo Springs golf course and I can see the first tee box out my back door. every day the golfers tee off from sun up to sunset. Is that not how a golf course makes money and provides recreation and open space for the citizens who play the game? The developer is selling there plan on the promise of a new 12 hole course. I'm a golfer and I only want to play an 18 hole course like the one we have. Please rescind the proposed zoning change and let's all be done with this madness once and for all. Thanks, Max Fowler
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Item Number or Subject S.2. Camarillo Springs Development Position Not Applicable
Comments NUMI's proposed development is simply not appropriate for this setting, given the property's encombrances (flooding likelihood, abandoned wells, traffic chokes). In fact,
consideration of the above makes one better appreciate why a golf course and low density housing was selected for this parcel in the first place. End this project, please.
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Item Number or Subject S.2. Camarillo Springs Development Position Not Applicable
Comments NUMI's proposed development is simply not appropriate for this setting, given the property's encombrances (flooding likelihood, abandoned wells, traffic chokes). In fact,
consideration of the above makes one better appreciate why a golf course and low density housing was selected for this parcel in the first place. End this project, please.
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Item Number or Subject S: Triennial Review of Referral for NUWI Camarillo, LLC Position Not Applicable
Comments Local machine tool manufacturer Haas Automation is struggling every day to find a viable, local workforce to fill its needs in Ventura County but the lack of local housing is a exacerbating the problem. Haas is already looking out-of- County for its next expansion and other businesses, including some in Camarillo, are doing the same. I urge the City of Camarillo to take seriously the need to develop all reasonable housing alternatives to help fill the demand. The attached letter adds to our comments provided at the previous City Council meeting.
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To: The Honorable Susan Santangelo and Members of the City Council
Re: AGENDA ITEM S - Triennial Review of Referral for NUWI Camarillo, LLC
Please accept this comment letter in addition to the input I provided at the previous City Council meeting. Continuation of the previous meeting allows for more expert testimony and comment to be provided today, which strengthens the case for the Camarillo Springs senior citizen housing project, and only increasing our support for the project.
Haas Automation has employed hundreds of Camarillo residents over nearly three decades in the Ventura County community and has active operations and investments within the city limits. The housing crisis in Ventura County has gotten worse year-by-year, with the situations becoming dire for employers like Haas Automation and others. Increasingly, we find ourselves unable to maintain a local workforce or recruit new employees to the area due to the lack of available housing.
The community’s welcoming business environment that first brought Haas and many of our other large local employers to the county since the 1990s seems to be a thing of the past, with local governments uninterested in the needs of local business. Those same businesses that employ a local workforce and pay critical local taxes.
Please work cooperatively with builders to figure out a way to make existing proposed projects work, rather than rejecting them in the hope that some other perfect project will come along, allowing you to fix our community’s problems without upsetting the perennial naysayers.
Sincerely,
Peter Zierhut
Vice President, Outside Operations
Haas Automation
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Wednesday, November 8, 2023 12:58 PMPUBLIC COMMENTS
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Item Number or Subject Camarillo Springs Golf Course
Position Oppose
Comments The NUWI project has some unavoidable significant impacts, but it has many more avoidable significant impacts, which would pass the threshold of significance if all mitigating measures are not fully implemented. The mitigating measures described on your website are complex, burdensome, and
onerous. Is the City responsible and liable if all the mitigating measures are not fully implemented?
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