Once again : The Guernewood ( Godzilla ) Lodge…( the attempted return of the Godzilla lodge strikes Again!)

[cleu...@yahoo.com]

Ok folks, this is actually really important to act on. We need to stop this Godzilla mutant of a project in its tracks, NOW . I'm forwarding this to everyone who lives locally as this could actually cause deaths in an emergency wildfire evacuation. We have to kill this project ..... Again.....
I'm sooo grateful our newly elected MAC. Representative is on top of this, otherwise I'd have zero idea they were trying to sneak this immense project past us .
I think they thought they could sneak this past us while we're distracted by cold weather, the holidays, flu and Covid season , etc. I'll be sending copies of the letter I'm going to send to this commissioner . Feel free to borrow whatever you want . They need volume of letters in opposition .... The letters don't have to be perfect, just lots of them saying whatever reasons you find most awful about this proposal ( and there are so many to chose from . )
I suggest READ CYNTHIAS EMAIL BELOW FOR VARIOUS POINTS YOU COULD MENTION)
Let's send an avalanche of them ........lets get busy.....

----- Forwarded Message -----

From: CYNTHIA STRECKER <cystr...@yahoo.com>

To: Cynthia Strecker <cstrecke...@gmail.com>

Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2022, 02:46:23 PM PST

Subject: The Guernewood Lodge…Again!









Dear All,

Well, it has happened.  The Lodge application is back.  They’ll be going to the Board of Zoning Adjustments (BZA) on December 15 so that’s our deadline.  If there’s anything you want to say about it, do it by then.  Actually, sooner is better…this coming week if you can…that way the Commissioners will have time to read your letter and digest the fact that you’ve cared enough to write.  As before, letters go to:

Georgia....@sonoma-county.org

PLP-18-0012

Many of you have written wonderful letters and, of course, that counts, but what counts the most is the volume of letters.  So please, please, please don’t get hung up on saying the perfect thing.  Just say something.

A couple of important points you might use are:

-It’s still too big.  They did get rid of the 4th story but it went from 120 to 108 rooms.  The Commissioners thought it would be 80-something.

-They added 5,000+ sq ft to the footprint.  The Commissioners told them to keep the same footprint.

-Their plans for parking are inadequate.  According to County standards a project of this size should have 225 parking spaces.  They have 175.  They will use “stacked parking.”  That’s parking a car in a space then parking another car behind it, completely hemming the first car in.  Their justification for this is that they will have valets.  That would be completely inadequate during an emergency…especially an evacuation due to wildfire.

-Fully 21 narrow, one-lane, dead end roads empty into Hwy. 116 at that point.  They are tributaries into Old Cazadero Rd., Old Monte Rio Rd., and Lovers Lane.  Hundreds of houses with hundreds of people in them will be trying to escape.  This is already a bad situation.  It is not the job of the Planning Commission to take a bad situation and make it even worse.  (The BZA is a subset of the Planning Commission).

-There are already problems with the Russian River County Sanitation Plant.  This will make them even worse.

-A great deal of traffic will be generated by this project and all the greenhouse gases that go with it.  This will not be just a large hotel.  It’s being built as a convention/conference center with two large meeting rooms that could together hold 500 people. That really ups the traffic concerns.

-A project of this size, complexity and impact really needs an EIR.  Ask for it.

If you have any questions or there’s anything I can help you with, please do not hesitate to be in touch.  I also recommend Monte Rio Central as a good site for getting more information.

My best,

Cynthia Strecker

Sent from my iPad

[Chuck Ramsey]

I did get the deadline (which was last Friday) from Monte Rio Central on Facebook. It begins: "Deadline for written comments on the revised CEQA IS/MDN: Friday Dec 2, 2022 5pm. 

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