February 25, 2025
Dear Fort Bragg City Council,
The Board of Directors of Coast Youth Soccer League is very interested in a public sports complex at the former mill site. CYSL is the largest recreational youth league on the coast with 350 kids playing each Fall. The lack of sports fields and facilities on the coast is unacceptable. The field conditions for all of our schools are substandard. If we had proper fields on the coast it would benefit the entire community.
Local schools would see improved athletics across the board.
It is a very wholesome idea to become a sports destination in Northern California. It would grow the tax base, job market and improve community health. The ideal climate in Fort Bragg would be attractive to people from all over Northern California. The hotels, restaurants and gas stations could see major profits in the off-season from teams coming from all over the state.
Please consider a sports complex for indoor and outdoor teams in your mill site plans.
Thank you,
Coast Youth Soccer League Board of Directors
Jamie Campione
Roxeanne Perkins
Wyatt Wells
Kylie Felicich
Melissa Renteria
Rio MacGregor
Matt Richter
To the Mill Site Decision Makers:
The Fort Bragg Girls Softball Association (FBGSA) fully supports the vision of including a Multi-Sport Sports Complex on a portion of the Mill Site as part of its development plan. This facility would not only benefit the Fort Bragg Community but would provide a centralized sporting location for the entire Mendocino Coast.
The number of participants playing softball in FBGSA has grown tremendously over the past several years. In the years since the COVID lockdown, the Association has grown from 50 players to 138 players:
2021 – 50 players
2022 – 96 players
2023 – 120 players
2024 – 124 players
2025 – 138 players
For 2025, FBGSA is fielding 14 teams across 4 Divisions. We have access to only 3 fields on the Middle School campus, one of which we must share with the Middle School softball team, and another which we must share with the Middle School soccer team. This makes scheduling practices and games very challenging and limits the amount of practice time we can provide for each team (especially before Daylight Savings Time starts). With the expected continued growth in the number of participants, this problem will only be exasperated in the future.
A multi-sport Sports Complex, which would include several lighted softball/baseball fields, on a portion of the Mill Site would allow the players in FBGSA to get the practice time that they deserve. In addition, this would allow FBGSA to host softball tournaments, bringing business to our local hospitality providers.
While FBGSA would certainly benefit from this Sports Complex, every youth and adult sports organization, as well as the public at large, would benefit.
We hope that you will actively consider including a multi-sport Sports Complex in the vision for the Mill Site reuse plan.
Sincerely,
FBGSA Board of Directors
Tati Arguelles – President Trinity Roach – Vice President Kelly Fairall – Secretary Mark Fiduccia – Treasurer Kristy Rasmussen – Parliamentarian Carly Wells – Board Member Christina Morrill Tony Arguelles Derrick Maxey
Grant Downie Morgan Chacon
From: Whippy, Isaac
To: Weaver, Amber; Munoz, Cristal
Subject: FW: Millsite
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2025 2:46:17 PM
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From: Paul Clark <[email protected]>
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Subject: Millsite
Think the city council gave direction no not disturb the airstrip. Safety concerns. Meeting tonight Please forward to Council Paul Clark
Century 21 Fort Bragg Realty
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Fort Bragg, CA 95437
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From: John
To: Munoz, Cristal; Whippy, Isaac; Weaver, Amber
Subject: Special City Council meeting 2/25/2025 - post-meeting public comment Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2025 1:37:35 PM
1. I support the effort by Coast Youth Soccer for improved sports fields, on the millsite or elsewhere. When the Skunk Classic youth soccer tournaments were in full swing twenty-odd years ago, Fort Bragg businesses benefited from a surge of visitors – minivans full of familes all over town.
2. When water was maintained in Pond 9 at the north end of the millsite, it provided habitat for deer, raptors, geese, and ducks, and received significant use by these wildlife. Even though Georgia Pacific stopped pumping water into the pond, when rainwater collects in it, wildlife does return to the pond, and even when dry the plant life on the pond edges is still used by some wildlife, particularly deer.
If water was restored to the pond, it would provide important habitat for wildlife.
3.I also support the daylighting of Maple Creek, as well as Alder Creek, as described by the Noyo Headlands Unified Design Group Alternative Plan. Besides the aesthetic improvement to the property by daylighting the creeks, there would be significant environmental benefit from cleaner water flowing to the ocean, and added wildlife habitat.