Comments on: Lawsuit seeks access to Petaluma’s Lafferty Ranch

By: MOCKINGBIRD

MOCKINGBIRD — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:30:14 +0000

BART REGAN-you bought into Rabbitt’s late date hatchet job on Pam Torliatt. If you had voted for her the status quo would have changed and people would have access. We should have access to public lands as long as we treat them with respect. I’m all for locking people out if they are destructive, but I don’t believe rich people who want privacy should be able to deny public access to public lands by being a nuisance and cost taxpayers’ by suing. If they wanted privacy they should have bought more land or move to the moon where there aren’t any humans. Judges should just throw the lawsuits out.

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By: Bart Regan

Bart Regan — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:02:28 +0000

Another example of why Supervisor Rabbitt needs to be replaced. It seems he would rather cost us taxpayers a huge amount of money rather than doing his job and allowing us public access to land we paid for. Rabbitt has been a huge disappointment to this voter and I can’t wait until the next election.

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By: farmer west

farmer west — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:22:45 +0000

Elephant- Stupidvisors, you must be speaking of the recalled Supervisor Bill Kortum, now a plaintiff.

The EIR which is the guiding document to open the park, will be what stops this property from being open to the public.

The public has lost every fight to open this property. It is time to sell, and use the money elsewhere for the public good.

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By: Elephant

Elephant — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:15:29 +0000

GAJ – If the County cared about the people, long ago they would have simply said “the roadway is from fence to fence and this corner is not private property” and there would not have been an issue.

No. The County and Rabbit all follow the twisted path set by former stupidvisors Harberson and Kerns to comply with the desires of one pugnacious (and now deceased) individual rather than doing what’s right for the people. It’s a shame that a lawsuit had to be filed to do what the County could do with a simple memo.

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By: GAJ

GAJ — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:56:46 +0000

I’m generally against the overly litigious state of affairs in California and the US overall but this seems reasonable considering our money was used to buy the property.

Allow foot access like they do in the UK and the costs would be minimal.

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