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asserted jurisdiction (wrongly) and used the DPW to oversee Docktown.
<br />Since 2016, when the Docktown Plan was adopted, they never let any new
<br />commercial or recreational usages in. Since 2013, they never let in new
<br />residential, and since 2013 they really didn't allow in almost any new
<br />recreational or commercial either.
<br />So this about 8 years where they could have been making money for the
<br />trust and for the City (Port revenues) but they have elected not to make
<br />money off this asset, not to put that profit back into the trust (and this is
<br />all for trust purposes, commercial, recreational etc.) and they have indeed
<br />let it go to waste (literally in the legal sense of waste of an asset not being
<br />used for productive purposes).
<br />The entire while, beginning in 2017 and 2018, they spent upward of $15
<br />million to buy out the large, residential homeowners, but only after much
<br />pusing. BTW, some of this wasn't even residential. As you KNOW, the Cal.
<br />rules (CCR and statutes) "allow" HOTELS and TIMESHARES, as well as club
<br />houses, and the like, on public trust land. This was all briefed and
<br />established at Pete's Harbor and other cases that you routinely handle
<br />(SLC), allowing hotels on uplands, whether filled or not. Many people
<br />didn't live in their homes, and they could have remained as Airbnb, and
<br />other, hotel/timeshare and commercial use.
<br />In addition to the $15 Million payouts, they likely have paid an additional
<br />$5 million in contracts and legal fees (OPC "relocation firm", auction firm,
<br />towing and dismantling many usable homes, maintenance, etc.). One of
<br />those contracts and fee, to OPC, was to use them for terribly insufficient
<br />"relocation" services. These relocation services tracked the CRAL, but fell
<br />woefully short in both execution and compensation. The assistance was
<br />supposed to be hands on (under CRAL, to help people find equal -sufficient
<br />housing) but they just gave a list of apartments, most full.
<br />The homes that were bought out under the $15 million in payouts, really,
<br />under the CRAL, would have been 3x that, if they used local comp housing
<br />price. But like I said, people who both did and didn't live here (i.e. one
<br />lady was in Rome renting out 2 barge homes, one it was their 3rd home
<br />and also rented out), they took that money and left, leaving more at -risk
<br />boat dwellers for whom this is a primary residence, and that do not have
<br />options for housing, and would be homeless if not compensated properly
<br />under CRAL.
<br />In any event, what is salient here now, for the Commission to understand,
<br />is that the Council and City Manager and Attorney are using the Vogel
<br />Letter to support NOT PAYING relocation under CRAL to the remaining
<br />dozen households still at Docktown. These are people without the large,
<br />barge homes, which were under -compensated anyway under CRAL, but for
<br />the vessels it it devastating.
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