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The latest version of the Gateway Code is now out — and it is still wrong and filled with errors. This version is supposed to be approved and recommended to the City Council at the Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday, May 14th. Among the more glaring errors: Inclusionary Zoning (low-income and moderate-income housing) requirements are wrong. No planning for the L Street corridor Woonerf and linear parks. Lets one person — the Community Development Director — approve 4-story buildings. See more here.

The Gateway Code — the form-based code — sets the rules for the “look and feel” of everything that is built Gateway area. Building height, sidewalk width, parks and parklets, bicycle parking, bus stops (there are none planned), greenways, creek daylighting, woonerfs, and more. There’s controversy over whether the consultant-created Gateway Code will actually be a good blueprint for what the City Council has said that we want. For more on this, click/tap here.

The General Plan draft Environmental Impact Report is out, and the newest version of the Gateway Code (the Form-Based Code) is available also. View the EIR, the General Plan update, the Gateway documents and more.

The General Plan draft Environmental Impact Report and the Gateway Code are both inadequate and sub-standard. You can see my formal submitted comments on the draft EIR in this article here.

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If the Gateway Plan is not going to provide truly affordable housing for the people who need it, then what’s the point? If working people can’t afford the rent and can’t buy a home, then we need to think this through more.

Arcata needs an infill and redevelopment plan, and needs to provide more housing — no question there. The draft Gateway plan is a start. But it’s filled with aspirations and empty promises, and we need more of what’s real.

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Arcata, we can do better.

Arcata needs an infill and redevelopment plan, and needs to provide more housing — no question there. The draft Gateway plan is a start. But it’s filled with aspirations and empty promises, and we need more of what’s real.

As is said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” And that’s what good planning is all about:
Creating our future.

The promises of affordable housing — of home-ownership —
of an equitable, environmental, walkable, bikeable, vibrant and alive community.

Let’s make those promises real. Let’s be bold. Let’s be creative and innovative and courageous. That is what we want.
Let’s put Arcata on the map as a shining star in America.

Click here:   Articles on Violations of the Brown Act in Arcata, and other Brown Act information

The people of this State do not yield their sovereignty to the agencies which serve them. The people, in delegating authority, do not give their public servants the right to decide what is good for the people to know and what is not good for them to know. The people insist on remaining informed so that they may retain control over the instruments they have created.
      — from the opening paragraph of the Brown Act

In the State of California, the Brown Act is the law. It is my observation that members of City Staff have been withholding information that the People require in order to make an informed decision. Not just the letters from the public, although that is an obvious example. Real and meaningful information is being withheld, misrepresented, disguised, and dismissed.

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• More on the L Street Linear Park
  Lots and lots of reasons why the Linear Park is crucial for Arcata.
• Transportation Safety Committee Chair Dave Ryan says: Abandon the L-K Street Couplet & Embrace the Linear Park
• To Dr. Tom Jackson, Cal Poly Humboldt President:  You can do more — Please.
• Arcata speaks — Home Ownership is of supreme importance
• Sea Level Rise articles

• Is Fire Safety possible in the Gateway tall buildings?

• The Brown Act and transparency laws — and how Arcata has numerous violations

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•  Maps, Aerial Views, and 3D overall views  
• Look & Feel and Planning in the Gateway Area
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• Arcata and Community
• Gateway Density & Feasibility Study
• Parks, Open Space, and Solar Shading
• The L Street Pathway and Linear Park
• Form-Based Code Overview
• Affordability and Home Ownership
• Parking in the Gateway Area
• Sea Level Rise and Groundwater issues
• The Creamery District
• Cal Poly Humboldt
• Infrastructure: Fire Protection, Police, Wastewater Treatment
• Gateway and City documents
• Opinions and Viewpoints (coming)
• Selected Letters and Articles from the Community

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