So I just got back from a brief trip and found the COYOTE ALERT message (below), but no follow-up.  Is this something that no one is worried about or has it been dealt with off-line?  Or did I somehow miss the flurry of messages that this real threat has generated?  A rule of thumb that I'm familiar with states that an object's wind shadow is quite significant for a distance three times the object's width or height, whichever is smaller.  This would imply that big buildings at the old drive-in would make the slog at Coyote worse; possibly much worse.


Stunned by the silence-

-df


At 06:37 PM 10/20/98 -0700, you wrote:


>Subject: COYOTE ALERT

>Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 11:30:58 PDT

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>Hello Randy and Jay,

>Yesterday (OCT 19), I spoke to John Miller at ASD. He told me about the 

>lawsuit from 8-10 years ago which he thought limited future buildings at 

>the Burlingame Drive-In site (directly upwind from Coyote Point) to 2 or 

>3 stories.

>Today (Oct 20), I spoke to Maureen at the Burlingame Planning Dept (650) 

>696-7250, who told me that 5 buildings (A SEVEN STORY and THREE FIVE 

>STORY buildings) are planned for the site to be developed ASAP. The EIR 

>has been out for a while, and only 5 business days (!!) remain to submit 

>public comments. 

>--> Is this something to post info about on the local windsurfing e-mail 

>group? (I don't even know how that works. Karina O'Conner suggested 

>that. Also she suggested that she would include info about this in the 

>newsletter that she's working on now AND an ALERT on the webpage, if 

>this situation is not resolved.)

>--> Do you guys already know about this? Or is it D-Day? I will submit 

>public comments if necessary. I want to help. This development would 

>destroy Coyote Point on 90% of the days at least. 3rd Avenue would be 

>absolutely impacted (200 more sailors at 3rd Ave? Hmm.)

>--> PUBLIC HEARINGS would be in November, December, maybe January.

>

>Peter Liu did not know anything about this.

>

>With only 5 days left, I'll submit my own public comments, but I think 

>info on the easement and info from the lawsuit, and comments from many 

>other windsurfers would help.

>

>Thanks guys,

>-George Haye

>(650) 577-1834

>



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