San Mateo County Supervisor Gordon and other representatives from the County will be at the Guild Board Meeting on June 20th at 7PM in the Guild Clubhouse to discuss the landslide issue. All members of the community are invited to ask questions and participate.
A recent Inside Bay Area article on the La Honda slide, entitled "Slide creates quagmire for rural village, county," is at http://insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_3872210. Excerpts from article: "A crater roughly the size of seven football fields is slowly overtaking this tiny village, gobbling up roads, fences and anything in its path. Worse, San Mateo County geologists haven't figured out how to stop the prehistoric-era landslide, and even if they come up with a fix, county officials say it could be too costly…But what's really frightening to residents is the two-story cliff looming above the closed section of road. Its edge keeps falling away, to the point that it's within 15 feet of engulfing another section of Scenic Drive. If that happens, up to 30 families could lose road access to their homes, said Jim Adams, who chairs a slide committee on the Cuesta La Honda Guild, the local homeowners' association…Frustrated residents are beginning to lose their patience with county officials and delivered a petition to the Board of Supervisors asking for help. The county has taken some stopgap measures, to little avail…Ultimately, it will be up to the Board of Supervisors to decide what to do after all the experts weigh in…Supervisor Rich Gordon is meeting with residents, but warns there's a chance that science won't be able to trump Mother Nature on this one."
And from the San Francisco Examiner [http://www.examiner.com/a-117277~La_Honda_landslide_continues_creep.html]: " 'Like a slow-motion train wreck' is how one La Honda resident described watching the latest movements of a landslide still threatening two homes in the area…To reignite attention to their plight, a half-dozen residents showed up to pressure the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to move forward with securing funds to repair the slide…At a tentatively scheduled meeting in June, residents hope the county will lay out what it has done to secure state and federal funds to fix the slide, resident Tom Dodd said…The June meeting of local residents, along with Supervisor Rich Gordon, who represents the area, will be the first step to a more in-depth discussion on what kind of money should be spent on the slide, and where and how, Gordon said…Because of the size of the slide, which geologists believe is prehistoric, county officials aren’t sure anything can be done to stop the inevitable, Gordon said. “Whether the county has any responsibility for fixing the slide, I don’t think is necessarily true. Perhaps more to the point, if anything can be done, it could be prohibitively expensive, Gordon said."
See Karen Shaff's photos of Scenic Slide at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LHElementary/message/2825?l=1
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