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Save Lefty Gomez Field

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SAVE LEFTY GOMEZ FIELD

We are fundraising to cover costs for a ballot initiative to provide Fairfax voters the right to decide whether their local recreational fields can be replaced with stormwater detention basin facilities. 

The initiative is necessary as otherwise the county of Marin is planning to build a flood detention basin where Lefty Gomez/White Hill School field is located, in spite of community opposition.

There is a very long list of reasons why this basin is not in the best interest of the community. Here are a few:

·      A detention basin would introduce safety hazards to 1,000+ students and residents who regularly use the field. Click this link to read about detention basin fatalities in Las Vegas and Hawaii.

·      Any detention basin will result in years-long, massive excavation, and significant shrinkage of field size. This well-used field will be torn up and altered forever.  Furthermore, ongoing maintenance of basins is costly and there is no clear plan for funding repairs and maintenance into perpetuity.

·      San Anselmo, which has historically been the most impacted by flooding, rationally rejected the creation of a detention basin at Memorial field. We urge the citizens of Fairfax to do the same.

There are safer, greener, better solutions than digging detention basins. A flood basin at a school would introduce unacceptable new safety hazards there.

Read a co-signed letter from over 70 residents of the Ross Valley here .

Read more about this issue at www.saveleftygomez.com.

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  • Richard Alpert
    • $200 
    • 7 yrs
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Michael Van Metre
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Fairfax, CA
Diane DeMarlie
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