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Bay Trail Mitigation Needed for POINT MOLATE Mixed Use Tribal Destination Resort and Casino

Please send the City of Richmond an email supporting TRAC's comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for Point Molate Mixed-Use Tribal Destination Resort and Casino.

In summary, TRAC finds that the DEIS/DEIR should be revised to:

1. Provide Bay Trail connections between the project site and the community in order to comply with the City of Richmond General Plan and implement mitigation measures needed to reduce significant transportation and air quality impacts and

2. Recognize, evaluate and mitigate the severe aesthetic impacts on users of the Bay Trail and shoreline parks.

For more background, see http://www.pointrichmond.com/pointsanpablo/pointmolate.htm

Be sure to paste in message below with your personal edits plus your name and address!
NOTE: If the email button above does not work properly, just send your message to TRAC and we'll gladly forward it. Thank you!

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Subject: Point Molate DEIS/DEIR

Dear Ms. Velasco,

We would like to comment on the DEIS/DEIR for Point Molate Mixed-Use Tribal Destination Resort and Casino. A central issue is that it currently is impossible to walk between City of Richmond residential areas and the site of the Point Molate mixed use development. Moreover, bicycling on the freeway is very hazardous as demonstrated when a motorist veered out of the vehicle lane on I-580 killing one bicyclist and severely paralyzing another. The project with mitigation clearly should provide a Bay Trail connection with the community for compliance with the General Plan and also to reduce the project’s motor vehicle traffic and emissions of air pollutants.

In addition, the EIR/EIS should be revised to recognize, evaluate and mitigate aesthetic impacts on users of the Bay Trail and shoreline parks. It simply is not credible to claim that landscaping and design could eliminate aesthetic impacts upon views of Winehaven Historic District buildings caused by adding:

• a 160 feet high new Casino Hotel structure adjacent to the historic Winehaven building containing a casino, 800-room hotel, and 2,500-seat entertainment complex,

• a 275-room Point Hotel 105 feet high with associated parking near Point Molate,

• a “Retail Village" of 300,000 square feet -- only slightly smaller than Corte Madera Town Center -- parallel to the shoreline, etc. - all visible from the shoreline park and Bay Trail.

Sincerely,

Name and address

Additional Contact Information for Richmond, California's Elected Officials
Name	Address	Phone
Gayle McLaughlin, Mayor Gayle_McLaughlin@officeofthemayor.net	P.O. Box 5284 Richmond, CA 94805	237-1256 (H/W) 237-1456 (Fax)
Jim Rogers, Councilmember, Vice Mayor elirapty@aol.com	162 Lakeshore Court Richmond, CA 94804	867-5725 (Ofc) 444-4460 (Fax)
Nathaniel Bates, Councilmember natbates@comcast.net	300 Seaview Drive Richmond, CA 94801	620-6743 (Ofc) 620-6542 (Fax)
Ludmyrna Lopez, Councilmember ludmyrna@aol.com	674 Wilson Ave. Richmond, CA 94805	234-4499 (H)
Jeff Ritterman, Councilmember jeffritterman@yahoo.com	P.O. Box 4046 Richmond, CA 94801	384-1315
Thomas K. Butt, Councilmember tom.butt@intres.com	235 East Scenic Avenue Richmond, CA 94801	236-7435 (W) 237-2084 (H) 232-5325 (Fax)
Maria Viramontes, Councilmember maria_viramontes@ci.richmond.ca.us	P.O. Box 266, Station A Richmond, CA 94808	236-5977 (H) 236-9260 (Fax)
Council Meetings Tuesdays, 7:00 p.m., Council Chambers, 3rd Floor, City Hall. Televised on KCRT, Channel 28
Individual Email Addresses of Planning Commissioners and City Staff
Planning Commissioners Virginia Finlay: v.finlay@sbcglobal.net Nagaraja Rao: ranii@aol.com Jeff Lee: jefflee3@sbcglobal.net Jovanka Beckles: jovankabeckles@yahoo.com Charles Duncan: charlesgduncan@gmail.com Sheryl Lane: sherylelane@yahoo.com Carol Teltschick-Fall: carol@wordspark.net
City Staff City Manager Bill Lindsay: bill_lindsay@ci.richmond.ca.us Planning Director Richard Mitchell: richard_mitchell@ci.richmond.ca.us
TRAC: tracbaytrail@earthlink.net

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