ABSTRACT: A Special Meeting of the Planning Commission will be held today in Chambers at City Hall at 4:30 P.M. for the purpose of making recommendations to the City Council “regarding the adequacy of the Final Environmental Impact Report for the sale of the Flanders Mansion.” A COMMENT is made regarding the proposed Sale of the Flanders Mansion Property and the creation of a type of “inholding.”
SPECIAL PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING APRIL 23 2009
Planning Commission April 23, 2009 @ 4:30 P.M.
Special Meeting: Special Meeting of the Planning Commission to make recommendations to the City Council regarding the adequacy of the Final Environmental Impact Report for the sale of the Flanders Mansion. The meeting will be held in the Council Chambers at City Hall, located on the east side of Monte Verde Street between Ocean and Seventh Avenues at 4:30 p.m.
COMMENT:
• The Sale of the Flanders Mansion Property, as proposed by the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea, involves the creation of a 1.252 acre island of private property within a sea of public parkland, namely Mission Trail Nature Preserve. This island of private property within public property is similar to an inholding. An inholding is defined, as follows:
inholdings Private lands within public parks, forests, or wildlife refuges.
The creation of this proposed private island within a public park, similar to an inholding, would result in the fragmentation of the Mission Trail Nature Preserve ecosystem, the degradation of the preserve/park experience by park users due to the cordoning off of an area geographically central to the park and potential conflicts between the private property owner and users of the Mission Trail Nature Preserve.
In short, the Sale of the Flanders Mansion Property to a single family private property owner would be antithetical to the principles of land conservation, particularly with regard to the creation of a type of inholding within Mission Trail Nature Preserve, the City’s largest public park.
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At every opportunity Sue McCloud likes to tout her experience being a former carmel planning commissioner. But it looks like she did not learn her planning lessions well when she was a planning commissioner. One of the most important planning issues is acquire inholdings at every opportunity and prevent the creation of inholdings.
Advocating the selling of Flanders Mansion creates an inholding and does what every inholding does destoys the wholeness of the park.
Whether planning or other issues, Sue McCloud does not or cannot learn. The voters of Carmel should vote down this attempt to sell Flanders by a mayor who has no qualms about ruining the park because she does not use it. She is only in office for herself, not for us and not for the preservation of open space.
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