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SaveFairfax - Notice of Town Council Meeting this Wednesday
7:00 PM PT
FAIRFAX TOWN COUNCIL MEETING
WED, AUG 2, 2017
FAIRFAX WOMEN'S CLUB-7 PM
3 Important Issues to be discusssed:
AT 7 p.m. ITEM # 5, PUBLIC HEARING-DETENTION BASIN INITIATIVE
ITEM #6, CONSIDER DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR REDUCING DRIVING LANES FROM 2 TO 1 ON BROADWAY, REDESIGN OF THE PARKADE AND REROUTING DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC.
SPECIAL CLOSED MEETING: PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION-Town attorney. The ability of the town council to meet in a private meeting with their consultant town attorney is questionable at best. The town attorney is not a Fairfax employee, does not have an office in Fairfax, does not have any set hours to work in Fairfax, works out an office in Walnut Creek and probably does not spend more than 8 hours in Fairfax per month. The attorney does not fit the definition of an employee.
The leading case on the definition of employee is Rowen v. Santa Clara Unified School District. It is definitely a stretch to call the consultant town attorney an employee. This consultant's evaluation should take place in public.
Item #5. Over 1000 signatures of Fairfax voters were turned in for the Lefty Gomez Field Initiative requiring a vote of Fairfax residents before the sports field at White hill School can be excavated for a detention basin. The County Flood Zone 9 attorneys are saying Fairfax may not have the authority to stop any County flood project in Fairfax. In 2007 the Fairfax town council gave up that right by approving a resolution on a 4-1 vote. Only then mayor Larry Bragman wanted the Fairfax town council to have the right to veto a project with adverse impacts on Fairfax. Fairfax has also had their expert attorneys researching the initiative issues.
The town council cannot give up the right of its citizens to qualify and pass a zoning initiative and they have qualified one. General Law cities/towns have the legal right to zone properties to control land-use.
PLEASE ATTEND AND TELL THE TOWN COUNCIL TO LET FAIRFAX VOTE ON NOV 7TH.
Item #6. As part of the Downtown Redevelopment scheme, consultants have come up with 3 alternatives to remake downtown Fairfax, all reduce driving lanes on Broadway from 2 west bound to 1. Two of the alternatives direct Bolinas Road traffic to Bank St for residents and visitors traveling towards Deer Park, the Cascades and Frustuck neighborhoods. One alternative puts Bank Street thru to SF Drake and closes the Claus/SF Drake intersection and in effect takes traffic off of the first two blocks off Bolinas Rd.
The remaining two lanes on Broadway, one in each direction, are narrowed and leave no-where for delivery trucks to park while serving downtown businesses. One alternative raises the intersection at Bolinas and Broadway. Those who want to close the first two blocks on Bolinas Road to thru traffic see this as the first step.
There are no cost estimates for any of the three proposals. Fairfax can't take care of sidewalks, potholes and maintain their wooden structures but they can spend a hundreds of thousands on "plans" to redevelop downtown Fairfax and reroute traffic that will create a traffic nightmare for residents in the Dominga neighborhood. Half of Fairfax's residents live West of Park Road.
Can Fairfax, the last of the old Marin towns last?
Organization: SaveFairfax