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MeadowsGuy

We are all desperately in need of good leadership at City Hall. Perhaps the "wake up" call has started. Please keep us informed of anything else going on. I was told by Tom Orlando (Our First Mayor) that there is an election every two years and the founders knew that the people need good r...

MeadowsGuy

Well.. very predictable and sad. The Facts: The General Plan calls for American Canyon to be a "small rural community"... asta la vista to that. The Truth: This should have gone to a vote of the people. I think we still live in a democracy... something as "important" as this (if ...

MeadowsGuy

Well, this is some vindication that Cindy and Paul were RIGHT ON on the WalMart problem. Actually it wasn't about WalMart... the City Council (Colcleaser and his voting block) did an extremely pitiable slam-dunk on California's Laws and brought us to this dysfunctional (and embarassing) moment in Ur...

MeadowsGuy

What you don't know is that I worked on the incorporating committee and Amcan was NOTHING until we incorporated. Cecil Shaver was AGAINST incorporation... so was Colcleaser... We shot up growth 10 years ago because we had the LAST available land for developers... basically they had nowhere else to g...

MeadowsGuy

Amcanative I'm afraid your history is off. The High School was on the radar as far back as 1994 when the first council was seated. AMCAN was stuck in the doldrums of a slack economy. Thats when redevelopment came about. Nothing happened during his tenure. Now his gang has to do the cleanup and they ...

MeadowsGuy

Garcia goofed up once more.... the word EARMARKED is the problem. The word should be "ASSIGNED" to the creation of Am Can High School. Once the revenue starts flowing (for those of you in the 800K homes, you will get quite a shock at tax time), I suspect the lead agency (NVUSD) will begin ...

MeadowsGuy

Paul, It looks like they've been violating the Brown Act since they took over after the Redevelopment Wars. It is an obvious ploy.... use up all available land AND THEN update the General Plan.. that is... when there's nothing left to update. Seems the Update should be the FIRST order of business......

MeadowsGuy

I usually don't agree with Paulette but that is as accurate a recount of that episode as we will get. Thanks Paulette. When we needed Joan, she wasn't there. On McGuire... blaming the first CC on the RUL is inappropriate. He wasn't there when it was set and you do not waltz up to LAFCO and set it. I...

MeadowsGuy

Hey Paulette, For whatever reason, the Colcleaser/Luporini era you helped elect has placed American Canyon in a VERY PRECARIOUS situation... CALTRANS is ready to put 6 lanes down the center of town. Water availability is in question. Traffic congestion is the worst it has ever been. Revenue from Gre...

MeadowsGuy

Paulette has things backwards as usual. The First Council and General Plan spoke to vision and hope. The GP uses terms like "village" and "community" in all manners of development efforts. Open space was NEVER to be "separated" from any development. The word was to go s...

MeadowsGuy

We put the Neighborhood Preservation Ord on the books some time ago but and "the gang" you mentioned killed off all the strong parts about it... particularly "staff oversight and review". I have several posts on this in this site about this and you should read around. I see many ...

MeadowsGuy

This is almost a verbatim copy of what Don Colcleaser ran his campaign on. You can see the results. We need a Councilmember who really wants to change things. Some outreach my help but you should go to the people who built this City and bring them into the process. Oat Hill was identified in the &qu...

MeadowsGuy

These are very good comments... I just don't agree with them but it shows out-of-the-box thinking. Districting only creates more gridlock because one or two or three districts end up forming a "gang" that disenfranchises everyone else and you are back to where you started. Checkout what's ...

MeadowsGuy

Just saw the Eagle today.

Looks like more pain is coming before any healing can begin.

I just hope everything works out. Was WalMart worth the price of all this?

MeadowsGuy

The last RAA group was simply an attempt to gain control of the Council, fire planning commisioners and impose their OWN VERSION of the General Plan on the public under the "guise" of anti-redevelopment (anti-city manager) sentiment. This is where you have taken us... Walmart and overcrowd...

MeadowsGuy

When you see the scale of the park, "amphitheater" and "other" amenities, you will be VERY disappointed. They are tiny by comparison. It will also block the view or what SHOULD BE the town center and the Basalt Plant. This project was simply a way for a developer to buy his way i...

MeadowsGuy

Hang in there Paul.

Many, many people are behind you.

Keep up the good work. This Council is in need of major change.

MeadowsGuy

Victor, you have also damaged some reputations of Council members and planning commisioners in the past. When you live by the sword.... You were responsible in your columns as supporting the current regime. Cindy just did what you and the others did last time to get control of the Council. Now that ...

MeadowsGuy

As someone who was involved in the incorporation of this City, you should know that we understood that the "mobile" homes are anything but "mobile". If you don't believe that .... just try moving one!! The City in those early days paid special concern to the parks for one very im...

MeadowsGuy

Shaver and Colcleaser represented (and still do) folks who were AGAINST American Canyon becoming a City. He and Colcleaser used Redevelopment to get control of a City Council which (admittedly) could not control the City Manager (I think his name was Freidman or something like that). They let the de...

MeadowsGuy

Paul M. is right on! If you folks want to know why AmCan resisdents are litigious, you need look no further that DON COLCLEASER and CECIL SHAVER. During Redevelopment (which they came in LATE into - much like they accuse the citizenship on Wal-Mart), they made a template (model) for getting elected ...

MeadowsGuy

PG&E has a much larger "presence" in California than let's say Wal-Mart. To get them to move in your direction, its about building relationships and understanding THEIR problems with energy delivery. They have just emerged from CH11 and are presently looking for right-of-way to build t...

MeadowsGuy

This is a power-grid issue. This site happens to be located within "tolerance" (this is an electrical term) to the overhead power lines. To fix its location, AMCAN needs to redevelop (YES THATS RIGHT CECIL SHAVER AND DON C.) redevelop another site and work out a land swap and a development...

MeadowsGuy

All Church's should be part of a "Town Center Plan". We really only have a few that are borderline non-taxable entites but Holy Family Parish is not one of those (borderline I mean). The Santa Rosa Diocese was part of a financial scandal some years back but this parish has recovered nicely...

MeadowsGuy

I understand we want to be positive and helpful but the first step in solving a problem is recognizing you have a problem in the first place. Let's not blame unions. They have their faults but they do what is contracted in the labor agreement, no more no less. So build better agreements. I don't thi...

MeadowsGuy

There is NO REASON for the existence of ANY POTHOLE in American Canyon. Colcleaser/Shaver and their stacked Planning Commission approved rack-em pack-em housing and the developers paid impact fees for road rehab. The City has monies to fill every pothole... at least thats what they told the people w...

MeadowsGuy

Agree about the Couch property. In my day, it was home to cock-fights, meth labs and other activities that shall be nameless. YES, It was in need of cleanup and the City did the best they could. It is still a problem. It is not a "natural" grove of trees. The owner was trying to corner the...

MeadowsGuy

Well I thought I've heard everything but I guess not... 1) The owner wants us to pay for infrastructure because we benefit from having a location to show the rest of the Valley who we are. The Town Center has been foremost in all the development scenarios from day one. So has HW29!! 2) You claim the...

MeadowsGuy

LOL I'd like to know why you are addressing this now? You've been in office 8 + years and the place is still a dump. Economic Development has failed miserably!! Buy I guess Colcleaser got his 30 pieces of silver. Do we have to wait 4 more years? I question your leadership and your intentions. Opinio...

MeadowsGuy

The developer of White Slough is also lying to the owners of Princess Garden. I eat there from time to time and they are being kept in the dark about what's going in. The landlord is giving them the runaround. One week they tell them its Wal-Mart, the next week its multi-use. These developers are th...

MeadowsGuy

I agree with Pumpkin. Palby's, if the City Council had any sense, should have been given some sort of landmark status. However, I think office buildings are the WRONG USE for this building. Office's are closed at nights and on weekends (another "dead spot" on HW29!), don't generated revenu...

MeadowsGuy

Replying to "Guest". We probably agree more than we disagree. I completely agree with you that comparable salary analysis has been "cherry picked" to give City Staff the benefit of the doubt. Vallejo was actually higher I think but it is a much larger city with, I hope you can ag...

MeadowsGuy

Linda, I forgot to reply to another point. I do not believe our Attorney ever gives a COMPLETE picture of Legal Codification to our Council. I'm familiar with case law and he sites some cases and opinions that have several pending legal challenges... one that comes to mind is a revision to the Brown...

MeadowsGuy

Homeboy, I spoke to Andy and my comments stand. He was setup. He feels he was setup and there were several options on the affordable housing plan that could have been taken at his suggestion but went ignored. Pam was quoted in the paper as not understanding why she was asked to re-apply for the PC a...

MeadowsGuy

I was at the Planning Commission hearings and several Council hearings and it was VERY VERY obvious that the City Council had made up their minds to go with the "big box" idea well in advance of any evidence to the contrary. And to be honest, Target, Home Depot, Kohl's and any other BB goi...

MeadowsGuy

This is the same game he's been playing with the Colcleaser/Luporini Kool-aid folks backing him up... for the last 8 years. 1) Build out the City AT ANY COST... rack-em/pack-em housing... the heck with the General Plan. 2) Site the Prop13 cap as a way we are all going to go broke because there is to...

MeadowsGuy

He's Luporini's bag man !! He's out of here next election. New faces? I completely agree. Some very old faces may be good too... people who originally set American Canyon on the cityhood path. Cecil originally OPPOSED Incorporation !!! What about that? Luporini was NEVER part of the incorporating gr...

MeadowsGuy

If it does get built, get it UNIONIZED. They'll bail in a New York Minute just like they did in Canada. But this isn't about unions... its about poor planning by the crooked politicians who can't read the General Plan properly. I can just see the number of $99 checks WalMart gave to the candidates w...

MeadowsGuy

The WHOLE Southeast plan is a windfall for developers and a FEW landowners nearby. They "landlocked" a group of commercial PADS and call it "Downtown". The placed a park between apartment complexes and what will be a VERY busy traffic "collector" (read dead-end) street ...

MeadowsGuy

This site is a wonderful addition to American Canyon! Thanks Issa.

If I had one suggestion, it would be to organize all posts so that the latest post would be at the TOP of the list and not at the bottom. Tracking the posts is more of a "scrolling" excercise these days.

MeadowsGuy

Paul has hit the nail right on the head. It is not that any of us want to PREVENT kids from playing in our front yards... quite the contrary.... it is a good sign of an active vibrant neighborhood and has an effect of keeping crime away. Kids can play in front of my house anytime. The hoops blocking...

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