Saturday, September 11, 2004

The Los Pueblecitos campaign web site is now online; 95% of the city would be public lands

posted by Barry Parr on Sep 11, 2004 at 12:25 am in Government
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RLINC

This is proposed precinct map of Los Pueblecitos. Click on the image above to download a PDF.

The official Web site of the Los Pueblecitos campaign (the Rural Lands Incorporation Now Committee) is now up and running. There’s a ton of information for supporters and opponents on the site, including a summary page with the first decent maps of the proposed new city and the sources of $9.96 million in mitigation revenue from county, state, federal, Peninsula Open Space Trust, and San Francisco watershed lands. There’s a demographics page that doesn’t include any information about people, and a Resources page that is kind of a dump for every conceivable document. The links aren’t organized, dated, or sourced, but at least they’re all in one place. Oh, and there’s a link to Coastsider in the menu as well.

One notable fact is that 95% of the land in LP would be owned by governments or land trusts and less than 5% would be in private hands. Another is that Los Pueblecitos would occupy 35% of San Mateo county.

I’m going to be mining this site for information and I suspect others will as well.

Click on the “Read more” link to see who that $9.96 million is coming from.

Rural Lands Inc. Annual Municipal Revenue Streams

California State Parks 15,811 Acres CRMP, user and mitigation $100 per acre	$1,581,100
San Mateo County Parks 15,369 Acres CMRP, user and mitigation $100 per acre	$1,536,900
San Francisco Watershed 23,000 Acres CMRP, user and mitigation $100 per acre	$2,300,000
Mid-Peninsula Open Space 27,030 Acres CRMP, user and mitigation $100 per acre	$2,703,000
Peninsula Open Space Trust 9,600 Acres CRMP, user and mitigation $100 per acre	$960,000
Golden Gate Nat’l Rec. Area 4,000 Acres CRMP, user and mitigation $100 per acre	$40,000
Total	$9,962,100
NOTE: Property, sales taxes and other revenues not yet available. CRMP is “coordinated resource management and planning”. SOURCE: RLINC

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Comment 1 by Barry Parr on Sep 11 at 10:38am • All my comments •

NOTE: This budget includes $2.7 million from MROSD, and the Los Pueblecitos petition says that MROSD lands in the city would be turned over to the city. I asked Oscar Braun about this in email and he wrote: “The mitigation fee schedule in the Summary is just an example of potential revenue streams that the Towncould legally adopt. Obviously, if MORSD lands are detached and transferred to LP, then MROSD wouldn’t pay fees to the town of LP. “

Comment 2 by md on Sep 13 at 11:39am • All my comments •

a land grab, by any other name, is a land grab.

call me a pessimist but i cannot help but point out that the majority of the voting population of the unincorporated coastside appears to have been strategically excised from the proposed area.

perhaps this is because mr. braun is well aware of the fact that those residents are in turn well aware of who he is and what he represents, and their record of opposing his crackpot schemes is a matter of historical record.

a guy who refers to a historical figure like john muir as the spiritual high leader of a cult, and an ‘enemy within’… oh my, yeah, that’s pretty much exactly whom i do NOT want handling this.

incorporating these areas has a lot of potential benefits and there are many fine points to make in the case for self governance, but oscar braun and his syciphantic cronies are NOT the people i want leading that effort.

our task as coastside residents is now to get out in front of this issue and take charge of it, ensure that it be managed democratically and not by one myopic, spiteful guy with a narrow agenda!

The Los Pueblecitos campaign web site is now online; 95% of the city would be public lands

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