Open Letter to Docktown Hearing Officer Korade Part II Post Hearing

HI Ms. Korade,

Please see below the email along with the pdf attachment received from the City of Redwood City regarding invoices for October, November and December of 2016.

Attached also is a photo of the title to my floating home.

In addition, here is a link to the Redwood City Candidates for Office 2015 statement including addresses on the Redwood City website:

http://www.redwoodcity.org/home/showdocument?id=4463

As regards any income qualification, I reserve the right to if necessary submit additional information in February 2018 or later.

I am further horrified by a supposedly independent hearing officer pushing appellants to do everything to get a $10,000 dollar bonus when in fact fighting to stay and winning are a much more beneficial outcome. It puts into question the notion of independence and impartiality.

The reality is that Redwood City’s outside legal team argued that they would be keeping the marina structures (posted for the December 12th City Council meeting response to William Parkin

http://agendas.redwoodcity.org/sirepub/cache/2/p3mz2sjw44uch54grosxmlk2/21498507062017094940137.PDF

page 4 comments - Copy of the letter submitted to you and OPC during the hearing).

The CA State Lands Commission in 1978 approved Berkeley liveaboards for among other reasons security of the marina (http://archives.slc.ca.gov/Meeting_Summaries/1978_Documents/12-20-78/Items/Minutes.pdf

SLC live aboard approval Page 6 of 7 on pdf (Page 2 - 2660) copy of decision submitted at hearing to all parties).

Although the SFBCDC does not have jurisdiction of the Docktown area it does have jurisdiction at Municipal Marina and has a ten percent liveaboard rule that only requires a pro-forma application ( http://www.bcdc.ca.gov/publications/HouseboatsAndLiveAboardBoatsJuly1985.pdf

pdf page 75 - 10 % rule adopted July 1985 Copy submitted at hearing to all parties).

To the extent that since December 12th, 2016 the City of Redwood City and Overland Pacific & Cutler have been able to apply for exemption from CEQA, hire you and execute a myriad of other actions but claim to not have been able to submit the application nor proceed further ahead in a timely manner to get the process of at least 19 live aboards approved they have been unethical if not downright fraudulent. Note that if you include the existing berths at Docktown and Bair Island Aquatic Center the number of berths the Port could apply for is even greater.

An independent hearing officer should also help insure that actions that are outlined in the Docktown Plan are also executed in a timely fashion by the City of Redwood City and Overland Pacific & Cutler. If all that you are doing is checking the appellant’s side, you are not independent nor impartial. Call it the Golden Rule or call it Karma the reality is that one should remember to do unto others as one would have others do unto one.

Sincerely,

Tania Solé
Docktown Resident