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HomeMy WebLinkAboutitem 3 - Attachment 3 - Public Comment Reponse 676 MOSS STREET PROJECT State Clearinghouse No. 2020049053 FinalInitial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration ACERRO Page 1 of 4 From: THERESA ACERRO \[mailto:thacerro@yahoo.com\] Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2020 6:11 PM To: Oscar Romero Subject: comments on MND for Moss project Warning: External Comments on the MND for: 1. Project Name: 676 Moss Street Email Project 2. Project Location: 676 Moss Street, Chula Vista, California 3. Assessor’s Parcel No.: 618-010-2601, 618-010-2602, 618- 010-3100, and 618-010-3200 4. Project Applicant: Shopoff Land Fund- Moss Street, LLC 2 Park Plaza, Suite 700, Irvine, California 92614 Contact: James O’Malley 949.417.1396 5. Date of Draft Document: April 27, 2020 6.Case No: IS18-0004 7. Date of Final Document: TBD ACERRO Page 2 of 4 This document is totally inadequate since it totally ignores the impact of the proposed project on the current users of the property. It is a classic confirmation of exactly how unfriendly the city of Chula Vista is to businesses. As well as how it ignores the economic consequences of proposed changes to the General Plan and historic zoning. This is not vacant property. There are 5 important thriving businesses most of whom have been here for over 20 years in some case more than 30 years providing high quality jobs and services to developers, the Navy, public agencies and individuals in our community and nationally. One of themHawthornhas bought a piece of property on Hollister and is preparing to move by August after almost 30 years in CV they will now enrich the city of San Diego. From their website:https://www.hawthornecat.com/why-hawthorne Cat Connect Delivers Results. Our goal at Hawthorne Cat is to help you keep your fleet running like new. We partner with you to deliver the on-going service and support you want, when you want it. 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The other businesses here are still here even in the face of eviction because there are no other lots in Chula Vista like these lots on Moss.. All the businesses here have many workers who are considered highly skilled like diesel mechanics, electricians, hydraulic techs, fiberglass technicians, fine wood workers, painters, upholstery, heavy equipment repair and all businesses here are extremely unique and all private family owned. Hawthorne is wealthy so they quickly bought the landon Hollister. The storage business hereSouthwest Mobile Storagewho rent and build to order steel containers is in a unique situation here because the containers are unsightly and can’t be seen stored way back on this lot. From their web page:https://swmobilestorage.com/:“Established in 1995, Southwest Mobile Storage is the industry leader in mobile storage containers, portable offices, and custom storage solutions. Our experienced, licensed, and certified fabricators, engineers, and designers can customize your shipping container to meet your exact specifications. Rapid Prepneeds this very unique power distribution and they rent all the equipment to keep the air cleanfor navy and road constructionwww.rapidprep.com/equipment::Rapid Prep is your total solutions provider, with the most highly trained service personnel in the abrasive equipment market. High productivity can only come with aggressive preventive maintenance and on-site rapid response to service calls. Our experienced and professional customer service and sales staff are ready to help you. Contact one of our Chula Vista, CA representatives today for more information on our abrasive equipment. Rapid Prep’s sales and service team are knowledgeable and prepared to assist you for all your equipment and service needs. From large scale projects to small requests for sandblasting abrasives or dust collector filters, Rapid Prep can deliver.The Rapid Prep advantage Highly trained staff with over 100 years of experience 24-hour service from start up to demobilization Tel:800-553-3625 Info@kleenblast.com Kleen Blast Abrasiveshas provided customers with quality abrasives, as well as sandblasting equipment and supplies, since 1962. Our Kleen Blast brand grit is dust and silica free, economical, fast cutting, and environmentally safe. Here on our website,https://kleenblast.com/we hope you find all the information you need to plan your resurfacing project and the materials and equipment necessary to get the job done right. If you can’t find it, please call us today and we’ll be glad to answer your questions. San Diego Boat Yard and San Diego Boat Electric:Most critically the boatyard is working on and needs up to nine months more to finish a $100,000 custom yacht that can’t be moved until finished.http://www.boatyardsandiego.com boatbuilding,repower,repaint http://www.sandiegoboatelectric.com est1983 Drawings,repairstopropulsion controlsand switchboards. ElectronicsandElectricalEngineeringforNavy, Pleasure, Commercial, Industrial.Since 1983 Yachts commercial, pleasure, sail power repair. Helms, engine rooms, below decks, panels, electronics and propulsion controls and engineering. Greg Moore is Top Talent direct to your vessel.We finished helping to install two new Cat. 1700HP engines on a navy ship. Wetransformedthe ship from analog to digital. .These are all important businesses providing services to public agencies, individuals, and the Navy.One of them has found another lot, but the others have specialized needs that the current location provides. This applicant is being sued by some of its investors and investigated by the government for a possible Ponzi scheme. Businesses provide jobs- in these cases highly trained and well paid jobs-and sales taxes to the city. More housing demands more services from the city, which the city can’t afford to provide and more commuter traffic to jobs outside of the city. The noise from the nightly freight train and the trolley is quite loud. I live off of Hilltop and occasionally the freight train wakes me up. There is also a lot of traffic congestion now on this street now because this is the preferred way to enter I-5, and this has not been analyzed by the MND. The entrance/exit from the south to the north is actually on Industrial closer to Moss than L street. Sincerely, Theresa Acerro President, Southwest Chula Vista Civic Association COLCLASURE Page 1 of 1 From: Kenn Colclasure \[mailto:kcolclas@sdccd.edu\] Sent: Monday, May 25, 2020 7:18 AM To: Stan Donn; Steve Power; Oscar Romero Subject: 676 Moss Street Project 2 Warning: External Comments on the MND for: 1. Project Name: 676 Moss Street Project 2. Email Project Location: 676 Moss Street, Chula Vista, California 3. Assessor’s Parcel No.: 618-010-2601, 618-010-2602, 618-010-3100, and 618-010-3200 4. Project Applicant: Shopoff Land Fund-Moss Street, LLC 2 Park Plaza, Suite 700, Irvine, California 92614 Contact: James O’Malley 949.417.1396 5. Date of Draft Document: April 27, 2020 6. Case No: IS18-0004 7. Message: Mayor and Council members, This document is totally inadequate since it totally ignores the impact of the proposed project on the current users of the property. It is a classic confirmation of exactly how unfriendly the city of Chula Vista is to businesses. As well as how it ignores the economic consequences of proposed changes to the General Plan and historic zoning. This is not vacant property. There are 6 important thriving businesses most of whom have been here for over 20 years in some cases more than 30 years providing high quality jobs and services to developers, the Navy, public agencies and individuals in our community and nationally. In addition, will this project resolve our shortage of police coverage, traffic congestion on I-5, and worse, impending water shortage in our region? For sure, we will see more traffic with residents driving north to jobs that don't exist in Chula Vista. Can we do better and consider the people who live here rather than the builders and developers from other places? Kenn Colclasure Chula Vista 2 MOORE Page 1 of 3 Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2020 9:39 PM To: Mary Salas <MSalas@chulavistaca.gov>; John McCann <jmccann@chulavistaca.gov>; Jill Galvez <jmgalvez@chulavistaca.gov>; Steve C. Padilla <spadilla@chulavistaca.gov>; Mike Diaz <mdiaz@chulavistaca.gov>; Stan Donn <Sdonn@chulavistaca.gov>; Steve Power <SPower@chulavistaca.gov>; Oscar Romero <oromero@chulavistaca.gov>; ecrockett@chulavista.ca.gov; Gary Halbert <GHalbert@chulavistaca.gov>; John Downing <johnd@rapidprep.com>; Southwest Mobile Storage <daniel.a@swmobilestorage.com>; Jim Garcia <jgarcia@hawthornecat.com>; John Herbert <jherbert@kleenblast.com>; debbie@kleenblast.com; THERESA ACERRO <thacerro@yahoo.com> Subject: Tennant objection and comments for 676 moss street large commercial to residential development Warning: External Email Dear City representatives: Attached are my May 27th deadline objections and comments to this super large development as a current lot tennant who repairs the two yachts seen on page 170 in the large L shaped parcelshown on photo. If I have to move these two yachts and tear down this yard I built just to do these two yacht projects before these two boats are done, I am ruined for life. Please pass my objections along to all parties who can help postpone or cancel 1 this development. Moving before I finish and liquidating all assets under this time deadline might be the death ofme. I'm not in notice loop and just now hearing about getting kicked out this soon. see attached file. . Thank you, please have a wonderful day. Greg Moore Boat Yard San Diego ph- (619) 218-1018 Address: 676 Moss St. Lot A Chula Vista Ca. 91911 Services: http://www.boatyardsandiego.comboat building, repower, repaint http://www.sandiegoboatelectric.com<http://www.sandiegoboatelectric.com/> est 1983 Drawings, repairs to propulsion controls and switchboards. Electronics and Electrical Engineering for Navy, Pleasure, Commercial, Industrial. MOORE Page 2 of 3 TO: msalas@chulavistaca.gov, jmccann@chulavistaca.gov, jmgalvez@chulavistaca.gov, spadilla@c hulavistaca.gov, mdiaz@chulavistaca.gov, Stan Donn sdonn@chulavistaca.gov, Steve Power spower@chulavistaca.gov, Oscar Romero oromero@chulavistaca.gov, Eric Crockett ecrockett@chulavista.ca.gov Gary Halbert ghalbert@chulavistaca.gov Comments on the MND for: 1.Project Name: 676 Moss Street Project 2.Project Location: 676 Moss Street, Chula Vista, California 3.Assessor’s Parcel No.: 618-010-2601, 618-010-2602, 618-010-3100, and 618-010-3200 4.Project Applicant: Shopoff Land Fund-Moss Street, LLC 2 Park Plaza, Suite 700, Irvine, California 92614 Contact: James O’Malley 949.417.1396 5. Date of Draft Document: April 27, 2020 6. Case No: IS18-0004 7. Date of Final Document: TBD See page 170 and you will see two yachts inside an L shaped large parcel on said 676 Moss St. development land. That is my business. I will be ruined and put completely out of business if I must move before finishing these two yachts. I spent everything I had and a punishing amount 2 of effort to first find a zoned for boat repair and large yachts large lot you can get to waterfront from. This parcel is extremely rare and it will be next to impossible to finish these two yachts and move out by November. I built a very capable yacht yard that took 1.5 years and cost 200 grand just so I can restore these two boats. This is first notice I got about this development. Plus, Covid is stalling me big time. I am extremely worried I might not be able to get both yachts finished and have time to liquidate all the assets I built here. When I moved into 676 Moss Stree I was told I could restore these yachts with no plans except to make this yacht a master piece on the only spot I could find suitable and legal to do this on. Maybe if I was lucky it would become sustainable and last 3 until I die. I was already told once to move out of previous location I had on industrial land in front of nassco shipyard and it almost bankrupted me to move. It took 7 months of lost production and cost over one hundred grand to find this spot and just get here, not counting setup and facilities we built from scratch on an empty piece of gravel. I cannot do it again. I was incredibly careful to select and get a properly zoned and approved business license so I could finish and with luck last as Boat Yard instead of dockworker. When will these boats be done? Right about that time but we can’t be rushed. Now that we have come to an almost complete stage of a five year project, moving yacht now, will damage it.. MOORE Page 3 of 3 Talent and very limited space on a boat with all new surfaces prevent loading it up with talent that doesn’t exist and pushing project faster if we want to hit our extremely yacht quality target 4 mark needed to be competitive, sell and pray to at least break even. We may only need a few extra months, weeks, impossible to say and depending on this COVID 19 and the Boats needs which new ones pop up every day. It’s a prototype, one of a king project. I do not have a lease, I’m a verbal agreement sublease with Rapid prep. When they were 5 blindsided by sale of property, they mentioned something to me but I have not received one notice from the city of the developer as required. Please I beg of the city, if you have to kick out, disrupt or in my case crush 5 major businesses 6 on a working industrial lot off industrial blvd and a lot that’s as rare as lakefront front property along highway 5 with 5, not 3 major businesses here and a bunch of good jobs and services as rare and as unique as the lot itself. I’m a marine business on a lot zoned for marine repair, near the water in an industrial area with extremely high noise from trains and huge traffic back ups due to trolly out in front of this 7 development. Trolleys, freight trains, cars lined up half the block with stereos blazing, extremely high theft area and crime due to freeway and trolly less than a pitching wedge away. I’m all for a guy who wants to make money. I build yachts, wealthy men have fed my dreams my entire life and I can assume this seller, investor and developer are wealthy. I don’t want to impede their dreams to make big money or the city’s future dreams. But I beg you to consider how valuable the jobs and working land is and how much a big lot near the waterfront is needed for boaters everywhere not just Chula Vista (you have a huge marina nearby). 50,000 visitors a month see our website and study our services in Chula Vista after spending 22 years on Shelter 8 Island we bring yachtsmen and jobs to your city now. I am in my 42nd year working on yachts or navy in SD. Just a Navy Electronics tech who somehow worked his way up to building an entire yacht and having a boat yard. This yard and tools are all I have. everyone should think carefully about cramming all those units on this already crammed and jammed street off Industrial BLVD, the buffer zone between freeway and rail track noises. Any more cars trying to turn in here between 3pm to 6pm are in for a rude awakening. Please consider the economic impact of us being forced out early. Please consider how rare Kleen blast and rapid preop and boat yard san Diego and Hawthorne are? The hawthorns have big yachts, I’m sure they will be fine but the other 4 businesses here are extremely suited for 9 just this property. You would be surprised about how clean and quiet boat restoration is. It’s a very cool and specialized talent for everyone who loves the sea. I’d stay here forever and give business to next generation if I could. If I have to move before boat is done, I would be forced to sue the city if I was forced to waste 7 months and another 100 grand I didn’t count on. Finding a route, location, boat mover big enough to move 2, 70 ft long 55,000 and 75,000 pound yachts down the street and under 10 bridges and trolly lines. Its hard to get a spot reserved and cost a fortune. The timing of all this is so close to our completion. If you cant spare my head and must crush this dream industrial spot, at least give me extra time. Are supply and talent line are completely disrupted and hurting us further. Law Offices Of Robert A. Stack 4445 Eastgate Mall, Suite 200 San Diego, CA 92121 Bus:(858) 812-8479 Fax:(858) 812-2001 Stacklawfirm.com rstack@emindom.com 1