Thank you Dewey - Love how you detail the issues and how they are being addressed. Between the lines is that continuing saga about how change agents bring new visions, and locals prefer things the way they are. It's the shapeshifting, role switching debates about micro vs. macro, preservation vs. adaptation, comfort vs. fear, and underlying everything -- trust and distrust in process. It's the Tragedy of the Commons personified. We all want everything out of our shared bit of land, when of course it is only sustainable if we are all only partially satisfied.
Thanks for your report, Dewey. Looks like you've given a pretty complete overview of the Two Crows project in Graton. Lots of details yet to work out, but it sounds like there might be enough willingness on everyone's part to make something good happen for local working families. I only know what you just reported, but the Two Crows team sounds like they want to do the right thing, versus so many other developers business model and values. I think if I were a next door neighbor, I'd want to see the parking and other potential impacts from 33 new homes more fully addressed and put down on paper. More good information from the Sebastopol Times will help make this the best expected outcome. Our young families need housing and a good place to start a career and family.
Unlike the anonymous neighbors, I’ll go on record with my support of this project. I am in favor of affordable housing being built in every community, including my home town of Graton. I hear a lot of privilege in the arguments against it from comfortably housed people. I liked the project better when it was an RV/tiny house park but Two Crows has had to keep adapting to community and regulatory concerns. I appreciate their efforts and the neighbors should too. Graton is blessed with an abundant water table and a capacious sewer system. The proposed housing is at a bus stop and within walking distance of downtown. It is at an intersection with a traffic signal. It’s a great location.
Dewey, commendations for your article outlining the pros and cons of the proposed community build. It is a very difficult situation, and change is always difficult.
As a neighbor who has watched this fiasco for several years, I can say this is NOT a fair a balanced story. Sorry, Dewey.
"Builder's Remedy" is a heavy-handed legislative blackmail to force high-density development on local jurisdictions WITHOUT consideration for traffic and other infrastructure. The locals are simply overruled. This site has no water, no sewer , no offsite parking and no traffic planning. The beauty, for the developer, is that NONE OF THESE THINGS MATTER under Builders Remedy rules. That's why, after the county was ruled "out of compliance" with the state rules that triggered Builder's Remedy, the Supervisors fell all over themselves to make sure it didn't happen again. It's a disaster! Just one example: 33 spaces for 33 living units is not enough for the building code. . .and where are guests supposed to park? There aren't even any sidewalks! Bad story!
Thank you Dewey - Love how you detail the issues and how they are being addressed. Between the lines is that continuing saga about how change agents bring new visions, and locals prefer things the way they are. It's the shapeshifting, role switching debates about micro vs. macro, preservation vs. adaptation, comfort vs. fear, and underlying everything -- trust and distrust in process. It's the Tragedy of the Commons personified. We all want everything out of our shared bit of land, when of course it is only sustainable if we are all only partially satisfied.
Thanks for your report, Dewey. Looks like you've given a pretty complete overview of the Two Crows project in Graton. Lots of details yet to work out, but it sounds like there might be enough willingness on everyone's part to make something good happen for local working families. I only know what you just reported, but the Two Crows team sounds like they want to do the right thing, versus so many other developers business model and values. I think if I were a next door neighbor, I'd want to see the parking and other potential impacts from 33 new homes more fully addressed and put down on paper. More good information from the Sebastopol Times will help make this the best expected outcome. Our young families need housing and a good place to start a career and family.
Unlike the anonymous neighbors, I’ll go on record with my support of this project. I am in favor of affordable housing being built in every community, including my home town of Graton. I hear a lot of privilege in the arguments against it from comfortably housed people. I liked the project better when it was an RV/tiny house park but Two Crows has had to keep adapting to community and regulatory concerns. I appreciate their efforts and the neighbors should too. Graton is blessed with an abundant water table and a capacious sewer system. The proposed housing is at a bus stop and within walking distance of downtown. It is at an intersection with a traffic signal. It’s a great location.
Dewey, commendations for your article outlining the pros and cons of the proposed community build. It is a very difficult situation, and change is always difficult.
As a neighbor who has watched this fiasco for several years, I can say this is NOT a fair a balanced story. Sorry, Dewey.
"Builder's Remedy" is a heavy-handed legislative blackmail to force high-density development on local jurisdictions WITHOUT consideration for traffic and other infrastructure. The locals are simply overruled. This site has no water, no sewer , no offsite parking and no traffic planning. The beauty, for the developer, is that NONE OF THESE THINGS MATTER under Builders Remedy rules. That's why, after the county was ruled "out of compliance" with the state rules that triggered Builder's Remedy, the Supervisors fell all over themselves to make sure it didn't happen again. It's a disaster! Just one example: 33 spaces for 33 living units is not enough for the building code. . .and where are guests supposed to park? There aren't even any sidewalks! Bad story!