Tainted Mayo?
Editor:
I enjoyed Ryan Burns’ article on the Humboldt County Planning Commission’s review of the General Plan Update (“Deliberate,” July 15). However, Commissioner Mayo’s statement that he is there to represent private property interests concerns me a great deal, because it does not represent an accurate perspective on the job of a planning commissioner. County and state law charges all planning commissioners with safeguarding public health, safety and welfare while placing the fewest restrictions possible on property rights. County zoning regulations specifically outline the duties of the Planning Commission, which are to make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors on plans and development with these overarching goals:
1) to promote and protect the public health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare;
2) to promote sound and orderly development;
3) assure social and economic stability;
4) and to accomplish these objectives with the fewest possible restrictions on freedom of citizen’s use of their property.
The Commission and Board of Supervisors indeed have a difficult challenge. I am very appreciative of the hard work and public service put in by all of our Planning Commissioners. I hope each of them will keep these guidelines in mind as they continue their deliberations on the General Plan Update. All of the interests in our community must be considered as we develop the plan that will preserve our quality of life today, and for future generations of County residents.
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FOUR Comments
Comment / By Rose / July 22, 10:35 a.m.
So Jennifer is offended by balance on the Planning Commission, offended that it is not stacked with her kind.
The opposite of the live and let live crowd, Jennifer Kalt represents the manipulative, petty, vindictive, intolerant “progressive” BS orgs - the kind of people who loves to impose rules and restrictions on others, but do not follow them themselves.
The little tiny group of people, pretending to be so many different groups - the “Humboldt Watershed Council/Healthy Humboldt/DUHC/NEC/the predatory litigious Baykeeper cabal. It’s the same old same old 5 or 6 people. Kinda like the old joke about the Sheriff of the small town who is also the judge, the Mayor, the City Clerk and the Planning Director. Can we just come up with one name for them all?
Ever the master of self promotion: Jennifer Kalt represents Healthy Humboldt, a coalition of public interest groups working for a County General Plan that provides healthy housing and transportation choices while protecting resource lands and watersheds by focusing future growth in existing communities. She is also a director of the Northcoast Environmental Center. (In other words, she wants “infill” ie: apartment buildings, wall to wall houses and skyscrapers, no room for a garden, for horses, or other livestock, no room to live off the land, why that would be “s-p-r-a-w-l.”)
She’s also Water quality coordinator Jen Kalt…Humboldt Baykeeper representative Jennifer Kalt…Jennifer Kalt, EPIC/Resource Protection Associate,/California Indian Basketweavers Association/Native Plant Society/TPZ “expert” Jennifer Kalt. So many nice titles.
Pretty funny to see Jennifer Kalt pretending to care about avoiding bias. She represents the “balls to the wall” cabal trying to force their will on the people of Humboldt County by attempting to steer the planning process. They are a very, very small group, despite their efforts to look big.
She’s offended - and her letter makes no sense at all.
Comment / By Joel Mielke / July 22, 7:34 p.m.
“She’s offended - and her letter makes no sense at all.”
Gee, that’s “pretty funny” coming from Rose.
Comment / By Reader / July 23, 9:28 p.m.
Kalt never said she was offended. You’re making sh*t up again, Rose. But hey, way to use Google. You are a regular detective.
Comment / By Ester / July 24, 7:20 a.m.
Now for some really great reading, check out Roses’s blog
http://thecoffeeshopblog.blogspot.com/
Talk about someone with too much time on their hands…