<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Don't know if anyone has noticed the Iron Rangers on the Mendocino Headlands and at Big River Beach. ( I would guess they are in all the State Parks by now) They are just perched there waiting for signs that ask an $8 fee to park your car while watching a sunset or whatever. I remember vividly helping to purchase extra land for Big River Park. Now I need to pay a fee to sit on the beach watching the waves and the sunset? Bummer. rk<div><br></div><div>From Norman de Vall:</div><div>Calling All Hands…..<div>This is a must read. The Coastal Commission and Mendocino County</div><div>are waiting to see what Sonoma is going to do with this develop.</div><div>Norman</div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1">The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (BOS) will be voting this upcoming Tuesday, August 21st, on a resolution regarding the fees collection system (the "Iron Rangers") proposed by the California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) to be installed at Sonoma County's major beaches. </font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="+2"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1">Your attendance at the BOS chambers this Tuesday is valuable, demonstrating your support of a Sonoma County resolution that the DPR proposed project is inadequate and untimely. Attendees are encouraged to be at BOS chambers, 575 Administration Drive, Room 102A in Santa Rosa for item 12 of the agenda; the meeting will be called to order at 8:30 am. It will be important to have as many people as is possible attend; please pass this information on to fellow citizens.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="+2"><br></font></div><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1">A summary to the BOS can be downloaded at</font></blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><a href="http://sonoma-county.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=20&meta_id=93959"><span></span>http://sonoma-county.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event<span></span>_id=20&meta_id=93959</a></blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1">Copy of the BOS resolution can be downloaded at</font></blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><a href="http://sonoma-county.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=20&meta_id=93961"><span></span>http://sonoma-county.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=2&event<span></span>_id=20&meta_id=93961</a></blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></blockquote><div>In addition, a link to this resolution has been posted on the Surfriders blog. Not only can it be downloaded from this site, but it provides much additional information relevant both to the issue of Iron Rangers, but to other coastal issues.</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><a href="http://www.scsurfrider.blogspot.com/"><font face="Arial" size="-1">http://www.scsurfrider.blogspot.com/</font></a><br></blockquote><div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1">This is especially noteworthy in that it marks the end of Public Comment (as required by CEQA), otherwise here defined as the submission of letters of concern by the public to Sonoma County's Permits Resources Management Department. Please submit your comments on this matter to PRMD, c/o David Hardy (Project Planner), RE File CPH12-0004, 2550 Ventura Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA 95403. You can email David at</font> <a href="mailto:david.hardy@sonoma-county.org"><font face="Arial" size="-1">david.hardy@sonoma-county.org, or you can call him for details at 707-565-1924. Comments must be submitted by August 21, 2012.</font></a></div><div><font face="Arial" size="-1"><br></font></div><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="-1">Copy of DPR's July 31st application to Sonoma County can be downloaded from</font></blockquote><blockquote style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><a href="http://www.surfrider.org/sonomacoast/permitapp.pdf"><font face="Arial" size="+3">http://www.surfrider.org/sonomacoast/permitapp.pdf</font></a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>.</div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div>To unsubscribe from this list send an email to <a href="mailto:opc-leave@lists.mcn.org">opc-leave@lists.mcn.org</a><br>To complete the process you must reply to the email you receive in response.</div></body></html>