To: East Bay Regional Park District Directors
End the operation of an outdoor gun range in a Regional Park near Oakland, California
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PARK DISTRICT DIRECTORS: End operation of the outdoor Gun Range in Anthony Chabot Regional Park, which is polluting the soil and runoff water with lead, and invading the space of nature-seekers and park neighbors, with sometimes-constant gunshots destroying their peace and quiet.
Eliminate any possibility of subsidizing the Gun Club with taxpayer dollars by ending its operation when its most recent lease extension expires, on March 31, 2016. You’ve already given them fifteen extra months to come up with a workable plan, so it’s time to stop kicking the can down the road--NOW!
Eliminate any possibility of subsidizing the Gun Club with taxpayer dollars by ending its operation when its most recent lease extension expires, on March 31, 2016. You’ve already given them fifteen extra months to come up with a workable plan, so it’s time to stop kicking the can down the road--NOW!
Why is this important?
Do not allow yourselves to be bullied by the NRA's potential support for continuing the Gun Range.
The Park District has allowed operation for over fifty years of an outdoor Gun Range in Anthony Chabot Regional Park—which is otherwise made up of over five square miles of hills and streams, open space and wildlife habitat, trails and campsites.
The park provides an experience of nature to the masses of people living near San Francisco Bay—except for the thousands of gunshots each week which shatter the peace and quiet. And the park is prime watershed for drinking water from Lake Chabot, except for lead pollution in the runoff water from the gun range, which far exceeds current standards.
Dramatic population growth in the San Francisco area in the last fifty years and the central location of this regional park have led thousands of people to it, seeking an experience of nature. They are often cheated out of that experience by the explosive sound of constant gunfire.
The Gun Club has known for several years that the tolerance for their lead pollution in the stormwater runoff has been reduced, yet they only attempted to come up with a plan a few weeks ago, after Park District Directors made it perfectly clear that they weren’t going to get a secret, sweetheart deal from their cronies on Park District staff.
The Gun Club has refused to come to grips with their noise pollution’s effect on other would-be users of the park, many of whom can’t use the park’s trails and campground because the gunshots remind them of war and killing, and the effect on the park’s neighbors, who can’t use their yards because they sound like a war zone, especially on weekends.
Live up to the Park District’s Mission Statement, which says you will provide open space, parks, trails, safe and healthful recreation and environmental education. Let the 15-plus other gun ranges in the San Francisco area meet the need for gun training and practice.
Restore this park to the thousands of hikers, horse and bicycle riders, campers and other nature lovers, who need it as a place to experience nature, to maintain their quality of life and their sanity–end the Gun Range operation.
Park lovers, come to the hearing before the Park District’s Board of Directors starting at 2:00 pm sharp on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in the meeting room at Redwood Canyon Golf Course (formerly Willow Park Golf Course), 17007 Redwood Road, Castro Valley, 2.6 miles north of Castro Valley BART station and the I-580 freeway. Speak up, or not -– just showing up makes a statement. Come early–-we know there are more of you than there are gun lovers (who will be there by the dozen), but it’s showdown time–we’ve got to show up, so the Directors know we’ve got their backs if the NRA comes after them.
The Park District has allowed operation for over fifty years of an outdoor Gun Range in Anthony Chabot Regional Park—which is otherwise made up of over five square miles of hills and streams, open space and wildlife habitat, trails and campsites.
The park provides an experience of nature to the masses of people living near San Francisco Bay—except for the thousands of gunshots each week which shatter the peace and quiet. And the park is prime watershed for drinking water from Lake Chabot, except for lead pollution in the runoff water from the gun range, which far exceeds current standards.
Dramatic population growth in the San Francisco area in the last fifty years and the central location of this regional park have led thousands of people to it, seeking an experience of nature. They are often cheated out of that experience by the explosive sound of constant gunfire.
The Gun Club has known for several years that the tolerance for their lead pollution in the stormwater runoff has been reduced, yet they only attempted to come up with a plan a few weeks ago, after Park District Directors made it perfectly clear that they weren’t going to get a secret, sweetheart deal from their cronies on Park District staff.
The Gun Club has refused to come to grips with their noise pollution’s effect on other would-be users of the park, many of whom can’t use the park’s trails and campground because the gunshots remind them of war and killing, and the effect on the park’s neighbors, who can’t use their yards because they sound like a war zone, especially on weekends.
Live up to the Park District’s Mission Statement, which says you will provide open space, parks, trails, safe and healthful recreation and environmental education. Let the 15-plus other gun ranges in the San Francisco area meet the need for gun training and practice.
Restore this park to the thousands of hikers, horse and bicycle riders, campers and other nature lovers, who need it as a place to experience nature, to maintain their quality of life and their sanity–end the Gun Range operation.
Park lovers, come to the hearing before the Park District’s Board of Directors starting at 2:00 pm sharp on Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in the meeting room at Redwood Canyon Golf Course (formerly Willow Park Golf Course), 17007 Redwood Road, Castro Valley, 2.6 miles north of Castro Valley BART station and the I-580 freeway. Speak up, or not -– just showing up makes a statement. Come early–-we know there are more of you than there are gun lovers (who will be there by the dozen), but it’s showdown time–we’ve got to show up, so the Directors know we’ve got their backs if the NRA comes after them.