Based on recent amendments to SB 249 in the Assembly, Friends of Tesla Park determined that on balance we could not longer support of the bill. Our work to Save Tesla Park continues undeterred through our litigation challenging the the EIR and General Plan and continued advocacy with policy makers, including through the purchase opportunity presented by the Altamont Landfill…
SB 249 (Allen) which will extend the OHMVR program and reform some governance and resource conservation elements of the program passed the Senate in early June and its first Assembly hurdle at the Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife Committee on July 11, 2017. SB 249, which has been amended several times, still faces fierce opposition from the OHV lobby which…
As documented by the State’s own fuel tax studies, the OHMVR program and OHV expansion is supported by excessive fuel tax transfers that have nothing to do with OHV recreation. The State conducted a study of fuel taxes transferred to the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation (OHMVR) Division in 2007 and 2006 and again in a just released updated study. 2006 State…
Senator Glazer and Assembly Member Baker recently wrote to the State Parks Director encouraging State Parks to act on the Altamont Landfill Open Space Committee buy-back opportunity to purchase Tesla Park. We strongly support this proposal as a way to permanently preserve Tesla Park. Please contact these local Legislators to thank them for taking this important step, and to continue to work to protect Tesla…
At a time when science and facts are disregarded, it is disturbing to see our own California state government, and specifically the State Parks Off Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Division be purveyors of “alternative facts.” The OHMVR Division concluded that there would be no significant impacts from opening Tesla to OHV recreation use (except for air quality). Really? Read the Scientist Consensus Statement on the Ecological…
We aren’t the first in the East Bay to recognize that Tesla Park should be preserved as a legacy. In 1956 open space and park planners identified the “Tesla Geological and Historical Park”. Now its time for us complete the work started over 60 years ago and Save Tesla Park!