KIRC Response

Following is a post on this site made by someone identifying themselves as jackie neill...my response is below.

jackie said...
I attended the first neeting of KIRC and there were indeed 70 people there. I am a member of and support the efforts of KIRC.My question for the DSA members would be, "How many of you live close enough to the golf course to have your quiet rural way of life ruined by the traffic and noise the golf course will bring?"We would all like to see the county be rich enough to hire more sheriff and fire personal but those of us now living on the west end of the county do not want the extra tax base to derive from a project that the county has accepted despite warnings from Public Health about water availability. We do not want to sit in long lines of traffic every weekend and we do not want golf balls in our front yards. jackie neill
June 27, 2008 2:22 PM

Respectfully jackie, I understand your concerns. The primary purpose of this blog is to expose the shenanigans of of KIRC and to give the Trinitas issue a fair airing rather than the one-sided perspective we've been hearing for a couple of years. With those goals in mind let me address your posting above.

1) There may have been 70 curious people at the first informational meeting, but how many of them actually joined the group? How many are there now? I have spoken with several people who were at the original meeting who left unimpressed with the Mayhews and their intentions. Subsequently I spoke with others who were concerned about the Mayhews stated intention to seek money to fight the Trinitas project by setting up a non profit but putting the money in their own bank account (publicly acknowledged by the Mayhews) even as they now back away from their original statements.

2) Regarding your statement about traffic and noise impacting our rural way of life, I find that whole argument disingenous at best, and misleading at worst. Everyone who has read even a little bit of the official Trinitas documents on the County website knows that the Nemees could put in a subdivision or a number of other intensive uses BY RIGHT. By continuing his agritourism operations and allowing a golf course, we get the best of both worlds - continuing agricultural operations and tax revenue and jobs w/o the impacts of a housing subdivision.

3) Warnings from Public Health about water availability? With all due respect Jackie, what warnings are you talking about? Every document I have reviewed, including those by the local water agency show no impact, or even a slightly positive impact from the Trinitas project as it is proposed today. Can you imagine if Nemee were building a huge tract housing subdivision? Now that would be a concern. Show me the documents you're talking about or post them here.

4) Jackie, I don't know how close you live to Trinitas, but even if there were a few golf balls in your front yard that would be a small price to pay for the increase in your homes value due to the proximity of the type of golf course Nemee is proposing. As to the traffic, cmon Jackie. The County is going to make Nemee mitigate for any traffic issues and my guess is that probably includes fixing some of the very roads that you and your family already use to get to your house every day.

As to KIRC, I for one would not want to be associated with any "non-profit" organization whose bank account is tied to the president's bank account. Even if they've decided to set up a separate account by now, I would question their initial lapse in judgment. What else have they done that we don't know about?