[Occupymendocino] Anyone know about 'Mendovito"?

[Richard Karch]

From the Announce List Serve:


> Has anyone heard of "Mendovito", the new proposed "settlement - not
> development" of 4,000 homes in Mendocino County?  The website (see link
> below) is engaging and certainly has all the right buzz words and
> sustainability theory to entice progressives, but 4,000 homes?  Where does
> Mendocino County have enough water to sustain that sort of use?
> 
> If anyone has info I'd love to learn more.
> Thanks,
> Laurie 
> 
> Website link:ann
> <http://mendovito.com>
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As all the primaries are Kiwis, 
it appears to be a Technology Transfer
from New Zealand . . .
IF they can raise the capital
Millions/Billions (?) necessary to do this
(and thatza big IF)
they’ve chosen a good site,
-EZ access to fiber optic cable for hitech needs
-south end of county=no impact on “local” watersheds
-private, yet accessible to highway, etc.

altho their estimate
of carrying capacity
for 435 acres, (with 200 set aside for agriculture)
= 10,000 residents
(20 “villages” of 500 people)
is a bit unrealistic, IMO.

That said,
their design concepts are good,
re: “Village/Town”design,
rooftop greenhouses and rainwater cacheing with
4-tier water re-use/recycling
systems built-in to each structure. . . 
+ hard-wired fiber optic cable to all homes and businesses...
and it would be interesting to see
if they can pull off, say, 5 “villages”
of 500 people each within that schema.

I’d support a smaller-scale project proposal, 
as Proof of Concept,
for more walkable, healthy community infrastructure, etc
(note plans call for 1,000 sq ft, smaller-scale, high-density apts.
no vehicular traffic within town, no wireless internet
and more public places to gather, learn, garden and celebrate
as fellow-humans, rather than smartphone/facebook slaves?)

And I like that it is designed to support clean industry. . .
(after all, their "clean industry”
could well include designing/building the very components
necessary to implement more such 
appropriate technology elsewhere in the county?)

a population goal of 2,000-3,000 
might be more appropriate?
(by comparison, Ft. Bragg has ~7,500 residents,
village of Mendocino, less than 1,500,
all of Willits, less than 4,000.)

But, this technology, if proven
could help transform those areas 
into
far more sustainable communities
in the future?

Hope springs eternal,
~C.



On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:44 AM, Laurie York <laurieyork123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone heard of "Mendovito", the new proposed "settlement - not
> development" of 4,000 homes in Mendocino County?  The website (see link
> below) is engaging and certainly has all the right buzz words and
> sustainability theory to entice progressives, but 4,000 homes?  Where does
> Mendocino County have enough water to sustain that sort of use?
> 
> If anyone has info I'd love to learn more.
> Thanks,
> Laurie
> 
> Website link:ann
> <http://mendovito.com>
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