Switzer, Donna
From: Fikes, Cathy
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 12:26 PM
To: Agenda Alerts
Subject: FW: Trails to the Sea Little Things
From: Becky Weinthal <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2022 11:14 AM
To: CITY COUNCIL <[email protected]>
Subject: Trails to the Sea Little Things
Most of life is a series of little things. Today I was putting our cats in the backyard for their breakfast and a white service truck went by on the canal road. They were frightened and immediately they hid. The truck was about 15 from their dish as it rumbled past. I could clearly see the driver and he could certainly see me. Now I need to find them, put away their food from the ants... and hope they eat later.
Trails to the Sea would be a dreadful series of big and little things. Be honest, you wouldn't want it 15' from your back door. Stop this project.
Regards, Becky Weinthal
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Switzer, Donna
From: Fikes, Cathy
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 1:29 PM
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Subiect: Proposed "Trail" Project on the County of Orange Owned Talbert Flood Control Channel
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From: [email protected]
Date: January 27, 2022 at 8:55:57 PM PST
To: "Bolton, Rhonda" <Rhonda. [email protected]>
Subject: Proposed "Trail" Project on the County of Orange Owned Talbert Flood Control Channel
Reply-To: [email protected]
Dear Councilmember Bolton,
I have received information about a proposed project under consideration by the City of Huntington Beach. It's name l am not certain, but is something like Trails to the Sea...
I am writing to you, our elected City Councilmember, to tell you of my extreme opposition to this proposed project and requesting that you vote to STOP this proposed project from moving forward in any way.
I have been a Huntington Beach resident for approx. 45 years, and have lived in a location adjacent to the Talbert Flood Control Channel for the same number of years.
To hear that someone has proposed opening up this County of Orange owned property to the public is absurd.
There are too many reasons why this is an absurd idea to indicate here, so | will just identify a few:
1. Negative impact and harm to the Flood Control Channel ecosystems and the Huntington Beach Wetlands ecosystems if a "Trail' is created along the Flood Control Channel. The "Public" would introduce trash and harmful runoff to these ecosystems if they were opened for access.
2. Negative impact to local neighborhoods and local schools due to "open" access to the Flood Control Channel. Transient, "unhoused" persons, as well as others, would travel and "populate" these trails, bringing unsafe conditions to schools (Eader Elementary, Edison High School and Sowers Middle School to name a few) and very likely an increase in crime to local neighborhoods adjacent to the Flood Control
3. Safety and Liability. If a "Trail" were created along the Flood Control Channel there would be great risk to the "Public" (i.e. someone (a child?) falling into the Channel - as dumb as that sounds....), and extreme liability to some entity (or entities) (for example: The County of Orange Flood Control District? The City of Huntington Beach? Others?) Any and all with "deep pockets" would be named in lawsuits.
Councilmember Bolton I ask that you use your brain's powerful reasoning skills and also your common sense to STOP this proposed project from moving forward. 1 The money that would be spent on this proposed project should be directed to better causes and needs within the City.
Sincerely,
Todd Powley
Switzer, Donna
From: Fikes, Cathy
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 1:53 PM
To: Agenda Alerts
Subject: FW: Talbert Bike Trail proposal
From: Mike Stovall <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 10:22 AM
To: Crumby, Sean <[email protected]>; Stachelski, Bob <[email protected]>; Nguyen, John <[email protected]>; CITY COUNCIL < [email protected]> Subject: Re: Talbert Bike Trail proposal
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On Jan 3, 2022, at 2:42 PM, Mike Stovall <[email protected]> wrote:
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Concern,
I have lived at my current residence for over 40 years, I backup to the Talbert channel at Indianapolis. I picked this location for many reasons, 1s* Privacy, beautiful sunsets and seeing all the wildlife that uses the channel has a flyway to the Huntington Beach wetlands. With that said two of our bedrooms are just 14' from the channel wall and Family room 5' from channel wall. We with our children and grandchildren enjoy hours of privacy in our pool. I'm not alone as at less 85 other homeowners on this channel have pools with private backyards. So, by even considering this proposal you have taken the most important reason for buying at this location away (PRIVACY)!!!! I received the information of this proposal from my neighbor (not from the city where it should have come from about your plan to turn this service road into a bike path / who knows what it will become, only 5' from the back of our homes. When I went through the proper channels to do our remodel, we had many hoops to jump through. We had informed all neighbors within 300' around us about our project and on the other side of this channel, we paid additional fees, as well as giving a date and time for all public hearing so if anyone was opposed to this, they had their opportunity to be heard. None of this has been done, which bring this up, why?? Big S$ Has ANYONE thought of how this will impact our neighborhoods? I think not.
Given our homeless problem here in our city this will just encourage more homeless encampments, more criminal activity and will allow anyone to stand and peer into our private backyards Penal Code 647. We were robbed and lost thousands of dollars in valuables before this channel was widened and the service road was put in. This idea 8 now will make the access and getaway much easier. My guess is there isn't one person that are kicking this hair brain idea around that actually lives on the channel? Again, I think not! I have many concerns:
The cost of this project?
The environmental impact, on over 90 species of waterfowl. Pollution flowing into the wetlands and our ocean.
The Fiscal impact, to keep paths safe, clean. The adding of stop lights at ever crossing.
The liability, which will fall on our city.
How will this impact out Police and Fire departments when called for the homeless, Penal Code 647 People staring into our backyards Peeping Toms etc.
I think our tax moneys would be better used by fixing our roads. It is embarrassing that you have let them get this bad. Example Adams between Lake and Main, and there are many more as you know.
Mike
Stovall 203
81 Mooncrest
Cr. Huntington
Beach, Ca 92646
9 Switzer, Donna
From: Fikes, Cathy
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 2:05 PM
To: Agenda Alerts
Subject: FW: Trail to the sea project
From: Lee Anderson <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 2:32 PM
To: CITY COUNCIL <[email protected]>
Subject: Trail to the sea project
Hi,
I would like to voice my opposition to the conversion of the access road behind my home for the reasons that l am sure you have heard from others.
There should be some other good uses for the money.
Thank you for your attention,
Lee Anderson
20391 Mooncrest Cir
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
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From: Fikes, Cathy
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 1:43 PM
To: Agenda Alerts
Subject: The Path Proposal
From: Gary Tarkington <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 8:56 AM
To: CITY COUNCIL < [email protected]>
Subject: The Path Proposal
Importance: High
Rather than focusing on the downsides to the residents in the area, which is a rather small finite group, I encourage you and everyone to focus on the paths already in existence, and the huge costs of this proposed project in terms of environmental feasibility, creating a path and then all the maintenance and security costs. If the city council members see what a liability it would actually be, they'll gladly ditch it. If it's about trying to secure their favoritism for the residents of the area, they may cling to the concept. Tell them some (much more worthy) uses of the money they'll save by not moving forward with the project. (Bad enough they already wasted money on it at all.)
Huntington Beach City Council,
This is in regards to the proposed "path" you have proposed. This is an awful idea on many levels. For right now I will concentrate on a very specific one. This is the outlandish cost of such an undertaking. There is environmental feasibility, the creation of a path and it's cost, AND the upkeep/patrolling. This could be a huge LIBALITY for Huntington Beach!
This is a horrible idea on so many levels and should be discarded now! Thank you.
Ann Tarkington
Huntington Beach
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