Got an Idea to Improve Redwood Drive in Garberville? You’re Invited to a Workshop
Hey, Southern Humboldt, the Humboldt County Department of Public Works is interested in your input. They are offering a workshop on May 29 at the Playhouse from 6-8 p.m. Tony Seghetti, Deputy Public Works Director said, “The purpose of the workshop is to get public input for the development of a master plan for Redwood Drive in the downtown area of Garberville. The master plan will be developed with a complete streets approach which means to include the needs of all users not just the automobile.”
Public Workshop Postcard - Garberville Redwood Drive
Join the discussion! For rules visit: https://kymkemp.com/commenting-rules
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🕯🌳Good morning Kym be safe this weekend and thanks for the info.
Yea need a bike lane a tweaker Lane ,a heroin lane,and a bypass for all the regular people doing normal things 😂😂😂😂
elevate the magic my ass… garberville is a lost cause. A bunch of Audi’s parked next to bums shitting in the street .
80 percent of the people you see in the town are homeless crazies . Have fun with that huge project in the middle of town josh.
Hope you enjoy blowing millions of dollars
My plan includes erecting the orange plastic fence, that’s left over from 2016, and forcing the weed-cowboys to park their diesel pickups, with the “idiot tires” (wheels and tires that stick out of the wheel-wells), somewhere outside town…
Actually, EVERYBODY should park out of town, including the motor homes and vans that house half the citizens… Vans that aren’t being used as grow-boxes that is…
Then turn “downtown” Garberville into a mall, where you have to walk. You know, like in Zermott or Zurich…
Since Garberville is truly the “Switzerland” of California, (or is it Amsterdam?) might as well do it the same…
Oh, you might try sprucing up your nasty town, or painting it or something… Hmmm, maybe some “camo-curtains” over the worst sections…
Mmmmmm how about… nahhh… Well, a D-11 bulldozer could improve Garberville SO much! Start at the “hospital-like structure”!
Hell, just put up the orange fence, and around the whole damn place, with a sign that says:
“Town closed until 2022″… That will improve it a LOT!
I predict Garberville will never change, and that it will be abandoned…
Honestly, those pickups make you look SO Mendocino…
~that’s like Divine! Bravo!
Sidewalks in redway… befor street lights
Kids need safe egress
Done:
Kym, where did you get the photo on the left (above), the one you can zoom on, can you email me the whole photo? And do you have more like that? This one is before the Bowling Alley, Thanks…
Ed, it’s a pdf of a post card sent by Public Works. Yes, I’ll forward the whole thing to you.
Thank you
So this “workshop” and proposed improvement project on Redwood Driver has nothing to do with getting a new 8″ inch waterline and 6″ inch sewer line from the Garberville Sanitary District (GSD) to the newly approved “SoHum Inn”, that will be located between the Bear Canyon Bridge and 101 overpass on Redwood Drive, what people called “Hippy Hill” (APN 032-141-010 Sanders)?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Lo8JycUVD4CSAcvoV7JBXGh7mZLxDTNR
This “SoHum Inn” project has already been approved and permitted by the County and GSD. It only needs to get the new water, sewer lines and infrastructure to it; you think Sanders is going to pay for that? Its the only reason GSD wants to put new water and sewer lines all the way down Redwood Drive to Alderpoint Road, to serve the new “SoHum Inn”!
This is on top of a means to have public funding used for new improvements, e.g. development for expanded new water and sewer use and lines to another project (APN 032-044-008 Sweet/Sanders) that got approved by the County and GSD on Redwood Drive; remodeling and converting the old “North Valley Bank” building into retail shops, offices, restaurant space, restrooms, apartments and parking.
Where is all the water coming from for all this new development? GSD is already at 90% of full allocation of its water diversion license/permit for current ratepayers in Garberville. What happens when the Community Park or the new Hospital are connected and using even more water? God forbid, how do you put out a fire with no water?
Developers don’t use their own money to develop, they use as much public funding and resources as possible; in other words they internalize the profits and externalize the cost to you, the public! Which in turn degrades the South Fork Eel. And since Garberville is using most all the surface water from the South Fork Eel, what do all the other water districts do down stream, let alone threatened & endangered aquatic species, i.e. coho, chinook & steelhead? Just something to think about…
Wow, good catch Ed.
I’m saddened to see a campground turned into another run down in no time hotel being planned. Why not turn it into a legitimate campground, complete with yearly dues for the snowbird caravans and others who need to rest up for a few days or weeks. Rain water cachement tanks, paved level parking spaces, privacy-security fence, garbage and recycling bins, and a decent welcome booth complete with a guard and brochures.
I hear you on the water, but with sustainable water tanks added, it might work out.
There’s a huge lack of planning for those who just don’t have the money it takes to rent in Calif… oh wait, the gas prices make Calif caravan life a no go too.
Nevermind. We don’t need no stinkin’ tourists or houses on wheels, anyway, right. We need a bullet train to nowhere. (sarc not aimed at you)
Maybe, just maybe, I’ve gotten too addicted to watching videos like this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-_Bw83SvYI
“legitimate campground”? “Rain water catchment tanks”?
The “SoHum Inn” is an up scale life style hotel, with all the amenities; its own version of a high end Napa Valley Resort & Spa for the cannabis inquisitive tourist visiting SoHum ELEVATE THE MAGIC.
I guess you did not read the link I provided. As far as “rain water catchment tanks” goes, they are not included in the plan (they don’t have space). In fact, they opted for a fire hydrant instead of a 10,000 gallon water storage tank for fire suppression. In the same why they did not include renewable energy sources into their project.
As far as rain water catchment tanks or winter storage tanks go, its not always a sure thing, just like you cannot plan for rain as much as you can plan on a drought. I think the last 10 years have proved my point.
I don’t have a problem with development, as long as you do not substantially impact or degrade the environment, either directly, indirectly or cumulatively with other project in the same watershed. Garberville needs to plan for the long term, that includes the South Fork Eel and its own community of species that cannot speak for themselves. I don’t know of too many salmon species that can thrive in a subterranean stream and that’s what has happened in the not to distant past; not only in the South Fork, but the main Eel too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=eQGKUjiOvng
Sorry (no pun intended), but your theory doesn’t hold water!
“ The sohum inn”
Hahahahahahahahahaha
What a joke! Upscale in garberville ? What type of idiot wants to stay at a so called upscale inn in zombie town?
These guys are smoking crack.
I understand your concerns, and agree with them.
But, hang on there just a minute and reread what I had tried to convey.
A posh hotel today = a run down decrepit building in the future.
A campground stays fresh and easily modified throughout the years, plus caters to all incomes across the scale.
True, that water lines would have to be added, and of electric, but caravans use only a fraction of the water that houses and motels use.
Some of the campers are tricked out sweet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExL9fr_ydIg
Notice the water jugs? Not much water needed at all.
New businesses can spring forth in town, to complement their needs. (mechanical, laundry, food, tires, like in the good old days when seasonal jobs were plentiful due to a steady flow of tourists).
Can you give me an example where this utopia campground has worked and been sustainable? No disrespect, but if your theory was sound, it would have been used across the USA by now.
The only place I have seen your idea work very successfully, is in Hawaii:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/22/hawaii-homeless-camps-puuhonua-safe-zones
https://www.kitv.com/story/37731889/it-was-a-big-relief-waianae-homeless-encampment-sweep-called-off-for-now
“New businesses can spring forth in town, to complement their needs. (mechanical, laundry, food, tires, like in the good old days when seasonal jobs were plentiful due to a steady flow of tourists).”
Again, sounds like a awesome idea, however, you would generate even more water consumption and wastewater with these new businesses. There is no such thing as perpetual motion…
They work everywhere a house is foundationless. These are not homeless people, these campers are landless people. They travel in their homes. Most of them find the parks that allow up to 3 weeks parking, which gives them time to heal the ailments of either vehicle, person or pet.
These are the disabled on a limited budget, the photographers and artists on sporadic budgets, authors, retired school marms, you name it, they’re living their lives instead of letting their lives live them.
As far as the homeless, who also need a place, I would recommend a section somewhere else for a ‘shanty’ town, where they can pay a monthly fee to sleep without harassment from community security.
The businesses created would match the businesses needed. No subsidies. If the business isn’t needed, it naturally fails. Just like in the olden days when the businesses matched the tourist industry. Excess businesses is … imo… a far fetched visualization. Supply and demand. Freed market competition. May the best business win.
Search for yearly dues for campgrounds.
Searching for homeless campgrounds isn’t in line with the concept shared. That’s a different ballgame. These are not homeless people, they are spot-less people.
The trick, of course, is keeping the greedy profiteers at bay, but surely there’s a way to restrict the powers that be from taking advantage of the travelers.
Here’s a sweet van for the adventurous, or college students. HSU and CR should take note for their students who are spot-less.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1N4uI2EsWo
Ok, I see your point, so why aren’t State Parks, BLM, National Parks or even County Parks booked or packed all year round? Around my neck of the woods we have a half dozen BLM campground and recreation area’s, never see them even close to full, and the same goes for Mendocino and Humboldt. Why is that?
The prices skyrocketed, not only for the campgrounds and laundry machines, but for the gasoline and repairs too. I don’t think they’ve ever been ‘packed’ year round, but always were seasonally.
BLM and the other places have free camping for specified durations, which the boondockers take full advantage of. The boondockers can’t always boondock (doctors, repairs, etc), and others are afraid to boondock, and more and more nomads are hitting the road every year which makes a site for them needed more than ever.
A yearly dues campground explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTOJXiIeixE
adding: The state parks aren’t always open, if you’ll remember. Closed due to this or that.
BLM is popular in the desert areas, I don’t know why they’re not popular in your neck of the woods. The roads too rough for the camper vehicles?
A lot of the ‘public’ parks systems don’t allow vehicles.
There’s a lot of answers out there, if you look for them.
The overall consensus is:
Calif is too expensive to live in. Even those with envious salaries can’t afford to live in the cities they work in.
The people want equal rights to live within their own means.
The politics want everyone to cater to the lobbyists who promote govt housing and apt developers.
The politics say that the good news is, with all the people leaving their jobs and fleeing Calif, the job market is opening up and more workers are needed.
A quick scroll highlighting our tax dollars at work in Calif. Homelessness has become quite the industry.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=homeless+in+calif
I don’t think that’s what the tax payer had in mind when they agreed to help alleviate the problem.
~you mean, throwing MORE fiat dollars at it doesn’t aid our ailing society?
haha, not at all, at least not for the constituents society.
But it does seem to keep the ticket writers busy and tickets means more incoming money. Quite the industry.
I wonder how many of the Calif Fire rv refugees got ticketed after they were evicted upon short notice?
Wow, this shows the increase in parking fine costs in SR. (other cities have awful increases too, instead of parking zones).
http://roadwarrior.blogs.pressdemocrat.com/16063/santa-rosa-parking-fines-see-the-list/
Your entire life burnt down around you, and you suddenly find yourself with $100.00 fines because there are no available affordable parking sites to park the fema ‘gifted’ home on wheels.
I always look forward to your sharp and accurate observations Mr. Voice. You are a great watchdog for our neighborhood. Thank you.
Garberville, Gateway to California’s Appalachia. This town is lost.
Garberville = “Northern Willits”…
~you meanies. Lighten up on Garberville.
THIS IS JUST GREAT TO SEE ALL THE LOVE IN THIS WORLD……..
http://assets.evie.com/asset/cc1afc44ee3cdaac9ae2f354f834dd30d7aa343e/video_inline_h540 3 mins.
Start by getting rid of the bums and the meth…It’s a small town and shouldn’t be this hard to make these changes in the public interest and to quit tolerating drug and vagrant BS.
Community members and businesses need to make this a priority.
Put up a fence, make some arrests and buy the bus tickets out of town. Stop the food charity truck in Garberville that feeds the meth camps.
Don’t let people squat on your property in town. Totally irresponsible.
Much of the bum and drug dealing problem lies with “criminals first “ mindset of local judges. There’s a woman in town that I see slinging drugs around Ray’s frequently. She’s arrested frequently and released as quickly. She deals drugs with abandon because she knows there’s no consequence to her actions in this county. She’s been a guest on SoHums most wanted several times for multiple probation violations. Probation? Really?
~well, the Grant funding for the Probation Dept., was eaten up by the salaries and benefits and travel time and going to special meetings in Sacramento to learn how to continue to get Grants to go to Sacramento to learn how to get Grants.
Every decade, or so, there is another ‘What to do with G’ville’ meeting. Last one I remember was circa 1990. It was a Charette put on by the So Hum Economic Development Corp. Yeah, you never heard of it. Only lasted about a year, then pfftt.
Biggest takeaway from that Charette was one fella’s idea to have a big FREE party for everyone somewhere in town. He and his family, of course, would bring their large appetites.
The Chamber of Commerce had a similar meeting somewhere in the foggy regions of the 1980s.
Accurately, before that, the County Planning Commission, Board of Supervisors and different other County agencies conducted a series of workshops, public meetings and sent out surveys to property owners that became the 1987 Garberville, Redway, Benbow, Alderpoint Community Plan, which still exists today and had replaced the 1968 Southern Humboldt County General Plan.
https://humboldtgov.org/DocumentCenter/View/285/Garberville-Redway-Benbow-Alderpoint-Community-Plan-PDF
Not sure what the “So Hum Economic Development Corp” charrette was, doesn’t sound like a County thing, never heard of it.
Should not matter to you Eddie! You don’t live here. Thank god! Go deal with lake county.
So who will defend the South Fork Eel, you? How do we know you live there? And does it matter? However, you are right, you’re very lucky I don’t live there any more…
The idea of an upscale place in so hum is great ! The public helps get water to an upstart business . That would be a good thing ! Then continue with the upscaleing and eventually the homeless problem moves on . They don’t like clean well lit areas. In some cities they put in speakers with classical music playing and the bums moved on . They want a run down shit hole to hide In . Leave Garberville the way it is and you will just have more POS heroin dealers roaming the streets .
Upscale or heroin scales your choice . But by all means get worried about some public assistance for developers who are improving the area they develop !
Can you share where you get your information? Or is it just fear mongering?
Since you like choices, here’s one; either you keep selling water to private development that the river cannot support OR you keep the threatened and endangered salmon that are left who live in the river! Because there is not enough water in the South Fork Eel to support both, its that simple…
Start by strictly enforcing vagrancy, j-walking, littering and all vehicle code violations. Get rid of any free meals. Offer bus rides one way to LA. Then move onto Eureka in the same fashion.
Like Southern Humboldt needs another inn , motel , or hotel . There’s two in redway that aren’t functional and theres six in garberville which are basically running off of drug money.
Well, they need another 24/7/365 drug supermarket in Garberville… Without it, the population might have to get CLEAN for a few minutes…
That would be awful!
Besides, they need a LOT more space for all the POT TOURISTS from, I don’t know, Minnesota and Ohio or, some damn place, so they can score their pounds from the middleman gangs from Oakland in peace…
Garberville, you earned your reputation of “scariest place between Willits and Crescent City”, a town so bereft and deranged that it has no government, no police force, no local laws, no standards, no culture and no citizen un-stoned… A place where all business is IN CASH, with a majority population of derelicts and bums and psychotic drug addicts whose mothers may well be living in the Senior Apartments or down in the SNF – These guys are given unchecked rein over the civic center, them and their un-leashed dogs, all of them staggering around muttering dark epithets and packing little guns, most of them, along with their needles and syringes…
Why does Garberville go on like this? Do the folks who live down by the river and up on Hippie Hill and out in the forest keep the Hospital afloat, with their Medicare Cards and their frequent ER visits? Probably. Do the bums fund the Ray’s and the Shop Smart? Possibly. Do the citizens need these guys so they can sell cigarettes and beer and canned food and $10 sandwiches and cups of coffee? Yes, unequivocally… Garberville LOVES bums!
Pot tourists? You would have to be crazy to spend a night, or even a minute, in Garberville, where you can get any known drug in the pharmacopeia, shot, stabbed, laid, dosed with every known infectious disease, venereal or otherwise, while getting so high that you won’t remember what happened, the next day , and probably won’t care either… And all from the convenience of your, Motel room!
Join the bums, it’s the life of, well, Reilley, there in lovely Garberville, where they will suck the river dry, the hospital will suck the life out of the community, and all the “farmers” will retire to their Casas in Ecuador or Costa Rica, Belize or Hawaii… See you down at Island Naturals, in Kona, next time…
Garberville earned it, the award for “worlds crappiest town”…
First thing is to get Cal Trans to do a redo on the Southern off ramp , a total butt pucker for anyone not familiar with it.
Coming in Hot!
https://imgflip.com/gif/2zg65a
Zombies, dualies parked on the sidewalk, walking thru town inhaling cigarette smoke unavoidably (and the butts! Where do smokers think they GO?)…the “Town Square” boogies rattling my windows…the Dog Shit.
Everything is a party in gville.
So happy to be in a real community now.
Aw yes, the smell and sounds of culture in a scofflaw and black market community. Funny, I did’t grow up with it, it just appeared sometime in the 1980’s and even more all through the 1990’s. If you want to blame anyone, blame the local growers and their underground network of trimmers that invaded the area in hopes of lawless adventure and easy cash, but then it became legal, careful what you wish for???
Now I know what “ELEVATE THE MAGIC” means…
After 40 years of easy money in G’ville, Redway, Eureka, Arcata etc it is disgraceful how ghetto these towns are.
~Duh. Before GovernMental “LEGALIZATION” took over. Plus so many other invisible harmful variables.