A plan that is not feasible is no plan at all.

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 buy a home and can’t afford the rent, then we need to think this through more.

This page will be updated regularly, based on what is new in the Arcata and Gateway Plan universe.

Fire Protection and Sea Level Rise

• Click here for all the newest articles
• Gateway Sea Level Rise talk – Planning Commission, January 10, 2023
  With transcription. Watch the video: 6 minutes.  Read the trancscript:  4 minutes.
• Fire Danger in Arcata High-Rises:  2-minute 47-second video from Eric Black
• Arcata Fire District presentation to the Planning Commission, January 10, 2023
  Video of Eric Loudenslager’s talk, the Commissioners’ questions, and comment.
  Two hours total.
• Arcata Fire District Board Meeting – December 13th, 2022
• Cal Poly ignores Arcata Fire District response to the Draft EIR
• Arcata Fire District Director: Eric Loudenslager – August 4, 2022
• Planwest’s schedule: We’re completely off-course
  

Westwood Garden Apartments

• Planning Commission approval on October 25,
  and appeal to the City Council on December 7, 2022 January 4, 2023

The L Street Pathway and Linear Park

• 2010 Rail with Trail Feasibility Study by Karen Diemer
  that shows L Street as a linear park
• Learn about the L Street Pathway
  and L Street Pathway Deception here
• Dave Ryan says: Abandon the L-K Street Couplet.
  Embrace the L Street Linear Park and Pathway.
  
• The L Street proposal: There’s no room for an ambulance.
• K Street / L Street Couplet Decision
  Excerpt from a letter from Fred Weis to the Arcata City Council.  August 16th, 2022
• L-K Street Couplet: Does the City have the Rights-of-Way?
• L-K Street Couplet? David Loya says we don’t have the property rights.
• Request for a “Plan B” if the K Street & L Street couplet cannot be constructed
• Gateway Needs Parks!   and   Letter to the Parks & Recreation Committee – July 13, 2022   and   Quimby Act Dreams — How do we get parks in Gateway?

• The full Transportation Safety Committee page

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This website exists to provide information for you. The Gateway Plan — in its implications and consequences — is an extremely complex matter. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Only by being informed can the public and our elected and appointed officials make the needed determinations that will create a new Arcata.

The images, maps, information, viewpoints, and policies provided by the City planners and consultants are simply inadequate. People making decisions need information.

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Overview and Maps

Added Sept 14, 2022:   

• Maps: Building Height Districts
• Overall aerial views of the Gateway Area
• Maps and aerial views of the building height districts
• 3D images and aerial views

Gateway Advisory Committee

• The Gateway Advisory Committee page
• Letters sent to the City Council and the Planning Commission about the Advisory Committee

General 

• The latest articles.  See what’s new and hot.
• Added Sept 8:  The Five Biggest Myths of the Gateway Plan

• Form-Based Code – Learn more here

  
  

• Home Ownership is wanted – But it likely won’t happen
  and Rentals Percentage in Arcata: “Do the math”
• Feasibility:  Letters from Andrea Tuttle, Steve Railsback
• Sea Level Rise – the basics   and   Letter from Steve Salzman – March 30, 2022

• Editorials from Fred Weis

  
  

• Robert Crumb’s “A Short History of America” 
• Humor and Music
• the Home page for lots of articles and links

And more !  Check back regularly.

If there is information that you’d like, or you have questions or observations about the Gateway Plan, please write.