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June 14, 2007
Mis-Paraphrased (not misquoted)
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| Unfortunately I was mis-paraphrased in today's E-R story
on the Bidwell Park Master Management Plan environmental impact (EIR)
story. Laura Urseny wrote, "If the disc golf course is erased, which is a possibility, the same treatment should be ordered for the bike and hiking trails in the area, said disc golf representative Lon Glazner. That would also trigger changes in the trails manual, he said. " Which was not what I said. I can't blame Laura, she's attended so many disc golf meetings that she'd probably rather eat a bowl of broken glass than hear one more diatribe on the joy or destruction of disc golf. And speaking in public certainly allows for all sorts of interpretations of your comments. But since I have the opportunity to clarify my comments I will. They were specific to the EIR and not any kind of policy recommendation. The meeting was only about the EIR's characteristics. There are four project EIR's addressing specific areas of the park. 1. Cedar Grove 2. Horseshoe Lake 3. Disc Golf / Trailhead 4. Trails Plan The Trails Plan project EIR actually extends over all of the other project EIRs. For example the Trails Plan addresses mountain bike and hiking trails at the disc golf site. Here were the main points of my argument. Only the disc golf/trailhead project EIR has a “restoration alternative”. If the restoration alternative is selected all recreations except disc golf that currently exist at the site would continue. Trailheads and parking would be built, but instead of building a disc golf course, the city would probably pay environmental consultants to restore the area to some previous unknown state. That’s on top of the $300,000 already spent on consultants. The disc golf/trailhead project EIR never distinguishes between impacts from disc golf and other recreation at the site. There are mountain bike and hiking trails there. So there's no way to quantify which impacts from which recreation are to be “restored”. Neither trails nor a disc golf course in the “new addition” or BLM property (added to the park in 1994) have been officially approved. Proposing a restoration alternative for a specific recreation while ignoring others is discriminatory. The city has not separated the impacts by recreation type. They've never identified which trails belong to which recreation, or which impacts are shared. The city should remove the restoration alternative from the disc golf/trailhead project EIR. This is especially true since the trails plan project EIR, which has no restoration alternative, includes the same area as the disc golf/trailhead EIR. Additionally, the EIR states that the "restoration alternative" does not meet the disc golf/trailhead project objective. |
| Summary: My comments had nothing to do with removing hiking or mountain biking. They were directed to specific CEQA options within the EIR, and a lack of delineation of impacts by recreation. They spoke to the lack of information available to apply the restoration alternative to the disc golf / trail head project. They also attempted to point out to the city that all recreation activities existing in the 1400 acres added to the park in 1994 should have similar EIR alternatives. Speaking publicly provides an opportunity to get your point across as well as be misinterpreted. I'm lucky that I have this avenue to clarify comments I made in public. |
Posted by Lon at June 14, 2007 09:08 AM
Comments
Blaah.....Blaah....Blaah...join the mis-quoted family. How about some pics of the baby.
Posted by: Jason Bougie at June 14, 2007 01:52 PM
Jason wrote:
Blaah.....Blaah....Blaah...join the mis-quoted family. I like to steal candy from babies.
Jason, while I support the need for the under-employed to augment their nutrition through creative means, I really can't support stealing candy from babies.
In fact, if you're going to steal candy from babies I think you should just go ahead and steal the babies as well.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at June 14, 2007 02:01 PM
Please don't quote me on that.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at June 14, 2007 04:15 PM
Hey, I like hiking and biking in the park! Who's this Long Lazer guy that's trying to get me kicked out? Let's go rough him up!
I think it was just paraphrasing that probably didn't get too misunderstood. I'm really glad that Laura shows up, stays up late and helps get out better information. There seem to be some efforts to polarize and confuse this issue and she should get an award for hanging in there and giving it better clarity.
Speaking of great press, I also have to thank the editors at the CN&R for this weeks editorial:
http://www.newsreview.com/chico/Content?oid=335980
Thank you all,
Gregg
Posted by: Gregg Payne at June 15, 2007 11:47 AM
Gregg was paraphrased as saying:
"I'm a big art lovin', wheat germ munchin', golf disc throwin', viking lookin', dork. And I bow down to the glory of Lon's eternal light and greatness!"
Gregg,
Once again I can find no errors in your philosophy or opinion. Let's take Evan disc golfing sometime.
Lon
Posted by: Lon at June 16, 2007 08:52 AM