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human beings, it seems sometimes have a terrible time deciding on what to do about nature. We often conclude that she does not fit into our scheme of things very well without alteration. And when we disagree among ourselves as to the size and extent of that alteration,

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then we have a real problem. Such is the case with those 1400 wet acres down there, the Bolinas Lagoon tucked into the southern marin County coast between stinson beach and Ballerinas. The problem is that we are the local control. It now is the

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Harbor District. The Harbor District committed to build a harbor committed there. We have to build a harbor with an airport and aviation facility. And if they don't do it by July 1971, we lose all vestige of control and the land reverts to the state. Well, what

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solution is there in dissolving the Harbor District? The Harbor District has the power only to control what happens in the lagoon and they must build a harbor. Their tax base is too small to do it effectively. Their jurisdiction is too limited and they are a single

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purpose district. Their only solution is a harbor. Who would control the lagoon If your measure? If this solution succeeds, the county will control the lagoon and be able to plan not only for the lagoon proper, but take care of the problems that start

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in the watershed and plan for all of stinson and bellinis basically, we do want the lagoon left as it is. It's a precious natural asset. one of the few places That you see such natural beauty as this, we're only half an hour 45 minutes from San

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Francisco. We want to do what's necessary to preserve it the way it is and keep it this way. Well, I would like to see a very modest development of the lagoon to have the channel mouth open, to renew the flow of water through the lagoon and

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to restore the ecological life of the lagoon. Certainly we don't want to see a coney island built over here. So it would be nothing on a grand scale at all. Can these things be done if control of the lagoon is passed on to the county? Well,

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I guess they could be done, but we feel the district is much better able to do them and and would do them much more according to our own wants and in the area. You see the state deeded that land to the residents of holiness and stinson

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beach. And that's what the issues over whether we should maintain control and develop it according to our own lights or turn it over the county with no controls at all and just be at their mercy as to what they did with the lagoon afterwards. What happens

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in your opinion, sir? If control of the lagoon does pass on to the county well before the county could take it, the state would have to pass legislation dealing the lands to them. I don't know that they would do it. There's some $2 million island over

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the to the settlers were just giving away a very valuable resource. And I don't think we're going to do it either.