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7.A. - Page 133 Alison Madden is an attorney and tenants at Pete's Harbor, wher�she has remained since January 15tn as a guest on a boat. 5he is appellant on behalf of all co-founding tenants of Sa�e pete's Harbor of the Planning Camrnission decision to the City Council, attorney for over a dozen current and farmer tenants on threatened and filed unlawful detainers, anci advocating against privatization ta the State Lands Commission ancf City, along with many af the to-founding Save Pete's Harbor tenants now alsa working to keep SF Bay Marinas far All. (part 1 of 2 part Op-Ed) Part 1 offers a high le�el picture of the current status, anc! Part 2�ells the story of the boaters still there, who have special circumstances, as well as what has been gaing on `an the ground'. Part 1 Only the `49ers Own the Bay Well rriaybe the Giants, Warriors and 5harks too. But that's the point, only our sports teams own the Bay. I saw a Redwood City `9ers fan wearing his "Own the Bay" shirt, and it hit home and summed up perfectly what the fight o�er the outer harbor at Pete's Harbor in Redwood City has been about. it's about who owns the Bay and what should be done with it. This has been an emotional, dramatic, knotk dawn and drag out fight over simply nat pri�atEZing the 8ay for awners of Iuxury condas along the shoreiine. It could anc! should ha�e been different. Public trust uses include commerce, na�igation,fishing and recreation, and a public and cammercial harbor and marina with liveaboards ad�ances all these public trust uses. During the public hearings in Redwoad City, dozens of supporters af the landowner repeated the mantra that boaters had 10 years to prepare for moving. But it is now clear the City, fancEowner, out-of-state developer and their friends and supporters ha�e had 10 years to in�estigate whether it is right, praper and e�en lawful ta perrr�it pri�ate and exclusive boat slips in ti�e Bay. I#does nat appear t�at e�en one City official addressed the State Lands Commission in the 10 year period from the 20D3 proposecE Marina Shores Planned Community to the present.The de�eloper and landowner met with the State Lands Commission only on September 18, 2012, two days before telling tenants of an impending single hearing to appro�e the deal. In addition, Redwood City's 2010 Ceneral Plan expressly states it will keep liveaboards with the 411 unit conda development, and boaters relied on that during this time period. To be sure,there are pri�ate commercial operations alang the Bay now, but those are open to the pub[ic. All the marinas Baywide lease to the boating public of recreational and commercial boaters. Not all marinas have liveaboards (the Bay Conservation and De�elopment Commission allows 1Q%of permitted slips as livea�oardsj, but many da. To have allawed privatization at Pete's would ha�e set a terrible precedent, not only far Redwood City waters but far the whole Bayshore.That crisis has been a�erted by public advocacy and the developer changing its design to include a commercial harbor and marina at Pete's. However,the lease application to the State states the intent to rip out most of the smaller area "consent" lease nearthe old Harbor House restaurant. Potentially most of the slips along the water in the "transfer" lease (not needing consent) wauld also be rerr�oved. This would lea�e only the farthest slips abutting Redwood Creek (the on4y ones with fire hoses on them, apparently this plan was known to the harbor for years, re5ulting in neglect af most outer harbo r slips and pratecting onfy the ones intended to remainJ. In addition, there is no parking currently slated forthis public and