PAM BOUSQUET's WPH PROJECT TEAM NOTES
MEETING OF WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012, 6:00PM
Dan Hughes, Project Manager - DVC Group
Ted Rose, WPH
Scott Hochstrasser, WPH
Bob Hayes, architect-Gates Co-op
Laurel Polarek, A Dock
Bob Engman, A Dock
Pam Bousquet, Issaquah
Ric Miller, Issaquah
Tony Williams, Main
Suki Sennett, Main
David West, Liberty
Stan Barbarich, Liberty
Flo Hoylman, So. 40
Craig Merrilies, So. 40
Michael Sheats, So.40
Michael Labate, Gates Co-op
Lynn Berard, EAH
Affordability
Agreement: The last remaining
item of the conditions of approval now has all the required signatures: Waldo Point Harbor (WPH), Gates Co-op, and
Ecumenical Association for Housing (EAH), which controls the funding for the
Gates Coop part of the project. County
Counsel is reviewing it and it is expected to be approved and recorded with the
county very soon.
Project Permitting
Status:
Landscaping: Marin Municipal Water District (MMWD)
wants every parcel to have an assessed parcel number but the assessor’s office
is not going to assign these numbers now.
Dan will meet with MMWD next week to try to work this out. WPH is resubmitting this information next
week and is trying to get the county to issue the sea wall/sheet pile and
grading permits in the meantime.
MMWD is now requiring irrigation plans to be included before
the permit is issued. The County now
wants all of this done before the permit is issued. (Per Dan:
this is different from the county’s position 1&1/2 yrs. ago.)
The debris removal plan should be done soon.
General
Contractor: 1 bid has come in,
2 applicants wanted more time, so those bids were due by 4/6. The 1st bid was for So. 40 and the
Railroad Property only. Communication with Residents: WPH
will send out a notice to all owners and residents informing them where
to find updated information. In
addition, the information will be posted in plastic boxes on each dock. Residents present said WPH should send a
monthly update and schedule of the next phases of the project to every home
owner and resident, so they know what to expect. Dan said he is authorized only to hire a
webmaster and to give him information to be posted, and to maintain a Facebook
page and nothing more. We were told at the last meeting that the webmaster
would be present this time but he was not.
Dock Houses: Bob Hayes. The Co-op’s architect, said it
won’t take long to finish the dock house plans; they will be built after the
site work is finished. So. Forty Design
Review comments are incorporated in the final plan. Bob Hayes will email the
plans to So. Forty and Liberty. So.
Forty and Liberty will need permits by Aug.
Temporary Mailbox
Locations: All mailboxes will
have to be relocated during construction of the dock houses. Dock reps will be consulted and Ted will
coordinate with them and the post office about the temporary locations.
Dumpsters for
arks: These will be placed
across from the arks; Ted has no idea
yet where temporary dumpsters will be placed.
Impact of Tree
Removal on Residents: In
response to residents’ questions as to why all the trees had been cut down from
the north end of the harbor if the work was going to start on the south end,
Dan said that the original plan had been to start work on the north end,
because that area was easier to do and the access was better. The sheet wall contractor then decided it
would be better to start on the south end because the removed soil could be used
for fill on the north end. Nevertheless, the trees on the north end were cut
down anyway, as the hope was that the entire seawall could be completed in one
season.
The A Dock representative reported that residents there are
very angry because of the reduced quality of their lives, due to increased
freeway noise and the fact that the area has the devastated appearance of a war
zone for at least an extra year before work is to begin. They feel their berth fees should be reduced
accordingly.
Parking: 3030 and 4000 Bridgeway will be investigated
by WPH as alternate nighttime parking during construction.
Residents requested that parking restrictions be enforced as
some spaces are being used
to store extra or non-working vehicles.
Adjourned 7:15
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