Dear Friends,
This morning Jim and I met for 30 minutes with Eric Lucan.
He believes the RVs should have a place to go if they were moved.
He does not like our ideas of where to move the RVs onto county owned properties (Abandoned Honor Farm at 301 Smith Ranch Road (with existing infrastructure), back to the Civic Center where the Supervisors sent them to Binford, or to the former San Geronimo Golf Course that the county paid 8 Million for and has a very large parking lot. These three areas are not on or next to sensitive wetlands.
Lucan said he has no solutions on where they can go.
From my understanding, he wants to Grandfather the existing RVs (which have increased under his leadership) in and to have the RVs moved to the other side of the road (I don’t think there is room).
The berms are going up slowly and approximately 16 abandoned boats and cars have been moved. Eric believes this is good progress. He has ignored my repeated requests over the last three weeks, to have the berms put immediately on the beginning of Binford Rd, on the wetlands side, where an RV has moved (I believe it is because I reported his long sewer pipe going into the wetlands). About 4-5 RVs could easily move in at anytime and fill that spot.
The RV with Nevada Plates with the sewer tube going into the wetlands is still there. Eric said he would contact EPS, however, I am more efficient and effective, and I will contact them before he does and bcc you.
Jim and I had a nice conversation with a person who works at the airport. Their knowledge and history of the situation is vast. They mentioned the good residents who were down on their luck, have or are moving away, because bad people are moving in from other counties and states —-that have driven them out. Hence, the people moving in are not law-abiding people and are living there now.
They said one cat and one dog have been hit and killed by cars.
79 cars of airport patrons have had nails and screws put in them as the residents have thrown them into the roadway.
The RV fires have been sprayed with carcinogenic foam to put out the fire and that foam has been washed into the wetlands.
With the upcoming summer months, it will start smelling like a sewer in the area.
Deputy Thompson is back from a two-week vacation. He is the one deputy who actually does something. The other two in his absence were nice people, but completely useless.
Lucan did say with a smile that he has been getting emails about Binford Rd and he is happy to receive more.
We will have to keep making noise in the community. Noise we have made!
Everywhere we go in Novato, people walk up to us and thank us AND are very unhappy with Lucan and Binford.
All the best,
Toni