Paoli, Diana
From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2026 8:28 AM
To: Monica Lynne
Cc: Littlecup; Sabine Brunner; Albin-Smith, Tess; Whippy, Isaac; Rafanan, Marcia; City Clerk; Hockett, Scott; Peters, Lindy; Godeke, Jason
Subject: Food Truck 8B
Major, Vice Major and City Council Members:
I am writing here today to express my concern and the effect the food truck has on me and my business.
For one year now, I have done everything possible to be heard by city council and employees by the city.
As a business owner in the CBD, I always thought that it would matter what a small business has to say and that the city would be willing to help all parties involved. That is NOT the case here! Nobody came by my business to see how a generator running all day effects my business. I can only operate my print shop with headphones on. My students have to listen to music to tolerate the noise.
You established no rules on the limits and noise of a generator running all day. The parking has been getting out of control because the food truck is getting very busy and most of their customers arrive by car and take up most of the parking.
Which empty store front would want to invest on Redwood with a huge food truck right in front of their business? I hope that you can consider both sides and not only the food truck tonight! Thank you,
Sabine Hahnbueck
Littlecup
Paoli, Diana
From: Monica Lynne < [email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2026 7:51 AM
To: Littlecup; Sabine Brunner; Albin-Smith, Tess; Whippy, Isaac; Rafanan, Marcia; City Clerk; Hockett, Scott
Subject: Tonight's meeting 8B
Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilmembers, and City Manager Whippy, Before tonight's vote, I ask you to remember that this is no longer simply about a food truck. It is about fairness, enforcement, equal treatment, and public trust for women's rights.
For more than a year, women-owned brick-and-mortar businesses on Redwood Avenue have absorbed the impacts of a nearly 40-foot commercial vehicle (with attached generator) and external generator:
noise, exhaust, loss of public parking, reduced visibility, safety concerns, and interference with neighboring businesses and properties.
The City has effectively allowed public parking to become a long-term operating location for a private business, potentially for up to 20 hours in a day. This affects existing businesses and even vacant buildings attempting to attract tenants. Had I known when I purchased my building in 2015 that the City could allow a tiny-home-sized commercial operation to effectively occupy the public parking directly outside downtown properties, it would have affected my decision to invest here.
The generator has also generated repeated citizen complaints and serious compliance questions. Even after the City added code-enforcement resources, these concerns have not been meaningfully resolved.
Ignoring complaints is not the same thing as establishing compliance.
I also have serious concerns regarding Sarah McCormick's role as a point person. Public records I obtained contain text communications with community members involved in this controversy. My neighbor and I were also provided information regarding the food-truck survey and its timeline that, based upon records I subsequently obtained, was not accurate. I have the records, text messages, timeline, and inconsistencies. Citizens should not have to use public-records requests to determine whether information provided by their City was accurate. 1 am equally concerned about the conduct and impartiality of Vice Mayor Marcia Rafanan and Councilmember Lindy Peters, including public advocacy surrounding this controversy. Any familial or employment relationships involving elected officials and City Hall that could present an actual or perceived conflict should be transparently disclosed and appropriately evaluated as well as personal friendships Vice Mayor has shared publicly on Facebook, also documented.
Fort Bragg is a small community. Our elected officials should have listened personally to the businesses most affected and worked to reduce hostility-not increase it.
Women raising legitimate concerns about noise, fumes, parking, safety, harassment, and enforcement should not become the problem because they refuse to remain silent. 1 Before voting tonight, ask yourselves: Would you consider this fair if this nearly 40-foot commercial operation and generator were permanently situated in the public parking directly in front of your own property and livelihood? The size of a tiny home.
Public parking belongs to the public. Laws should be enforced consistently. City staff should provide accurate information. Elected officials should maintain impartiality. And every citizen and business deserves equal treatment. Especially having responsibilities to safety for women when speaking on livestreamed meetings. *Vice Mayor and Lindy Peters.
Changing the rules tonight does not erase what happened under yesterday's rules legally/illegally.
Everything is documented.
Respectfully,
Monica Lynne
Owner, Interior
Fort Bragg, California
2 Paoli, Diana
From: Anne Maureen McKeating < [email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 14, 2026 2:52 PM
To: City Clerk
Subject: Re food truck position on Redwood Ave
I support a designated food truck spot at the empty lot at the corner of Franklin and Redwood.
It brings many people to our neighborhood, locals who would otherwise never come to downtown.
Moving that permitted spot up to the corner of McPherson and Redwood is not the most ideal for several reasons.
McPherson and Redwood is a dangerous intersection to begin with. There are no stop signs and people fly through there between 30 to 35 miles an hour. There is probably almost one accident there a week.
That intersection already serves 2 MTA stops, several organizations, including the parents and friends, a dojo the hospitality house, and an apartment complex amongst all the other activity that goes on near that intersection.
If there were a food truck close to that intersection, you would be unable to see people crossing from north to south if you were driving east up Redwood. It would be a visual hazard.
There would need to be a stop sign installed at that intersection for that food truck to be safely placed.
On a busy weekend, there could be up to a dozen people waiting for their food outside of the food truck and the narrow sidewalk doesn't really give a lot of space to that.
In the meantime, you have a big empty lot at a four-way stop where everyone can see that there is a food truck there is plenty of space for people to wait for their food. And moving the food truck closer to a residential zone may cause further issues when long-term residents have an issue with it.
The Larry Spring Museum supports the food truck entirely, and if there were no other place for it to go, we would be happy to have it out front of our event space. However, the Museum is quite active 8 months out of the year, hosting workshops, concerts markets, events. Having a food truck right out front would not be ideal for them or us.
But if it REALLY is the only place on Redwood we would make it work Anne Maureen McKeating
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Anne Maureen McKeating
Executive Director
707 962 3131
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