Scrap the RV Park

I think Dorothy Ramirez and her so-called Citizens to Protect Port Hueneme’s Future are doing a great disservice to our community by disseminating false and misleading information concerning the proposed RV park at Hueneme Beach.

Her letter, which coincidentally made its way from Hueneme Road north, states, “The resort will bring in more than $400,000 per year.” Apparently, Ms. Ramirez failed to consult the most recent edition of the city’s new “Final Subsequent EIR,” which projects $204,751 in its first year, not $400,000. That’s half.

I attended a City Council meeting about one year ago where the former president of the California Travel Parks Assn., John Imler, whose group is a pro-RV advocacy organization, told our City Council that this project will lose nearly $200,000 in its first two years of operation.

I believe Ms. Ramirez and her cohorts attended this same meeting, along with me and my husband. Apparently, Dorothy has selective recall. Two weeks after Mr. Imler spoke to the City Council, city staff prepared a new report based upon Mr. Imler’s analysis. Presumably, the Citizens to Protect Port Hueneme’s Future were not privy to this important information that the project would make around $30,000 instead of $400,000.

The sad irony is that our city thinks that it has the skills to create and manage a profitable RV park. If we stopped the RV park, $2.6 million would be freed up right now to save our Police Department without raising our taxes. Now that makes dollars and sense.

KATY GREENSTREET

Port Hueneme