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Yahoo!After several weeks of going over applications with staff members, the office of 3rd District County Supervisor Doreen Farr has announced the names of the 11 brave souls who will be charged with helping craft the planning future of the globally significant Gaviota region. The nominees still have to be vetted by Farr’s fellow board members at the County Board of Supervisor’s meeting next week. However, the hope is that the environmentalist-heavy hodgepodge of land owners, business operators, ranchers, and land-use experts can, working in concert with County staffers, draft a Gaviota-specific general plan for the Supes to vote into reality by 2012.
Originally designed to be a five to seven member group (a number picked in hopes of streamlining the blood, sweat, tears, and name calling of previous groups such as the Gaviota Study Group and the infamous Common Ground), the final set of nominees doubled in order to accommodate the plethora of applications and divergent interests in the ever tumultuous sea of Gaviota stakeholders. It includes several people involved in the aforementioned groups. Specifically, the nominees are: landowner Jose Baer, Hollister Ranch resident Beverly Bosie-Cossart, El Capitan Canyon General Manger Terri Bowman, Michael Feeney from the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County; landowner, lawyer and Study Group veteran Charles Kimbell (Kimbell has also been appointed the Advisory Committee’s Chair); prolific land-use consultant Mark Lloyd; environmental consultant Christina McGinnis; Naples Coalition President Phil McKenna; landowner Jenifer McNabb; Orella Ranch owner/operator Guner Tautrim; and current County Agricultural Advisory Committee member and long time area rancher Paul VanLeer.
The Supervisors are scheduled to approve the nominees October 20.
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1. landowner, 2. landowner, 3. ranch owner, 4, area rancher, 5. Hollister Ranch resident. Balanced? Hmmm . . . . That is 5 out of 11 with vested interests. Fox in the henhouse?
How about someone from Solvang or Santa Maria? What about Amtrak or CaTrans? How about somebody on section 8? Why not somebody from the District Supervisor's office? How about the Cities of Goleta and Santa Barbaa since they will be impacted?
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Bird (anonymous profile)
October 19, 2009 at 1:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
The Gaviota Coast is the "jewel in the crown" of California. Let's leave this treasure untouched for future generations to enjoy.
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CalGalSB (anonymous profile)
October 19, 2009 at 7:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bird, I believe this is what we refer to as "stakeholders" in the grand scheme of development and land ownership. I think we would be remiss if we told people what to do with their land without their input. That sort of unilateral thinking and government spawned the declaration of independence (taxation without representation, etc.).
It is one thing to preserve public lands for future generations to enjoy (at a significant cost to a state that has increasing difficulty in maintaining park land), it is another to require a private landowner provide public access and enjoyment at their cost (not to mention the added liability that entails). We might as well let the goverment tell us what to paint our houses.
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sbdude (anonymous profile)
October 19, 2009 at 11 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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