Comment on the DEIR

Although the comment period for the Draft Environmental Impact Report has closed, you can still bicycles in Richardson Grove express your views.

Please contact CalTrans and your representatives. Inform them of the many problems with the proposed project, and the deficiencies of the DEIR. These include:

Does not evaluate risk to old growth trees from deeply cutting their roots

Relies upon an economic analysis which is inadequate, insufficient and misleading

Inadequate analysis of the impacts on listed species, the redwood grove and growth induction

Does not evaluate all the alternatives

Does not address safety issues

Does not include plans for bike or pedestrian lane

Does not consider impacts from trucks traveling through Humboldt County

Read comments others have made

Read CalTrans Policy for accommodating non-motorized travel

Photo from CalTrans website

Contact your Representatives

Consider asking your representatives to slow down, and require a better analyses before embarking on a project that relies on yesterday's technology. To step into the future, they must encourage development of innovative modes of transport.


Senator Patricia Wiggins
State Capitol
Room 4081
Sacramento, CA 94248-0001
(916) 651-4002

senator.wiggins@senate.ca.gov

District Office
50 D Street Suite 120-A
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
(707) 576-2771

Wesley Chesbro
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0001
Tel: (916) 319-2001
Fax: (916) 319-2101

assemblymember.chesbro@assembly.ca.gov

Humboldt District Office:
710 E Street, Suite 150
Eureka, CA 95501
Tel: (707) 445-7014
Fax: (707) 445-6607

Supervisors:
jrsmith@co.humboldt.ca.us - Jimmy Smith
clif.clendenen@co.humboldt.ca.us - Clif Clendenen
mlovelace@co.humboldt.ca.us - Mark Lovelace
bonnie.neely@co.humboldt.ca.us - Bonnie Neely
jduffy@co.humboldt.ca.us - Jill Duffy 		 

 

"This DEIR appears instead to offer a hastily assembled series of justifications for a decision already made. Such a process makes a mockery of the commitments that the people of California made in CEQA, and the people of the United States in NEPA, to ensuring that public agencies take a 'hard look' at decisions with potentially significant environmental impacts." from EPIC's comments on DEIR.