Chris Clark
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 9 Jun
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It can't be that complicated.
But the main thing I want to go back to is the whole reason why we're using this alternate method for calculating parkland, which is a Supreme Court ruling about Sheets versus County of El Dorado.
This is a case where a retiring individual in El Dorado County wanted to build a little prefab home for him and his wife to retire in, in a rural part of the county.
And the county
When he applied for the building permit, they wanted a $23,000 or $26,000 traffic impact fee.
And he objected to that, of course, because there was actually no way that he was going to benefit from this fee.
And that's what the Supreme Court ruled.
They said, you just can't extort fees from anybody just because, you know, they happen to be applying for a permit and you want to cover some other costs.
But the way I see it, our parkland or dedication orange is quite a bit different than that.
This park is going to service the people that we're extracting the fees from.
It's to provide residents of Mountain View with parks.
It's not just sort of a general park maintenance fee or whatever that the residents won't really see.
This is supposed to be for a park for those people.
And between this project and the previous one, we have a thousand people coming in.
and we have only about the equivalent of half an acre of parkland.
So how's the city going to make that up?
um it's kind of ironic you know the strategic parks and recreation plan is coming before you i think fairly soon it's almost done you know huge document hundreds of pages and yet now you know when i look at what's happening you know it looks like a toothless document of exercising futility because we're never going to have the funds you know tens of hundreds of millions of dollars
to buy this park land from private developers.
It has to come from developers.
They're the ones that hold all the cards.
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