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County May 18, 2003
Concerns about Sonoma proposal trigger town hall Novato meeting. Concerned that a tribal casino proposed in southern Sonoma County could instead come to Marin, a Marin County supervisor has organized a town hall meeting in Novato Tuesday to rally opposition.
Supervisor Cynthia Murray said her concern stems in part from a resolution the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors passed last week opposing the Las Vegas-style casino. The resolution directed county staff to enter into good-faith discussions with the Federated Indians of Graton Ranch-eria, with the hope county officials and the tribe can agree on an alternative site.
Murray fears the alternative could be Marin. Tribal chairman Greg Sarris said last week that the tribe, commonly known as the Coast Miwoks, would consider alternative sites because "all of southern Sonoma and Marin County is our aboriginal territory. That includes Sausalito, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol and all sites in between."
On April 23, the Coast Miwoks announced they were seeking to build a casino on a 2,000-acre site at the intersection of Highway 37 and Lakeville Road, a few miles east of Novato. Indian gaming legislation allows federally recognized tribes to build and operate casinos on their ancestral land.
Murray will be joined Tuesday by a six-member panel in a televised forum similar to a May 6 gathering in Sonoma, when more than 400 people packed a community center for a "stop the casino" meeting hosted by Sonoma County Supervisor Valerie Brown.
"The purpose is to give the public an idea of what's proposed," Murray said. "The purpose is also to discuss what we might be able to do to fight the casino from coming to this area." The panel will feature Cathy Christian, a Sacramento-based lobbyist, Marin County Counsel Patrick Faulkner and Marc Holmes, the Bay Institute's manager of the bay restoration program.
Any development on the proposed southern Sonoma site would have a "devastating impact on wetland restoration," Holmes said. The proposed casino site skirts the northern edge of San Pablo Bay, where environmentalists have tried for years to convert diked hay fields into wetlands.
But Sarris says a significant portion of the tribe's casino proposal would be to restore 573 acres of wetlands. This restoration would allow the tribe ample quantities of purple needle grass and sedge, two important reeds used by Coast Miwoks and Pomo Indians for their world-renowned basket weaving, Sarris said.
Sarris added that the tribe's original plan was to develop homes in this area, but that homes would destroy the wetlands. He said the tribe still plans to build "maybe at the most 20 homes," and that casino revenue could help finance residences for tribe members.
The tribe's restoration plans are not news to the Bay Institute's Holmes, but 573 acres is "nothing," he said. "The goal is to restore thousands of contiguous wetlands, from Sears Point to downtown Petaluma," Holmes said. "To set aside a chunk and have everything else sacrificed around it would not by any stretch of the imagination provide ecological benefits."
Also joining Tuesday night's panel will be Sonoma County Planner Jennifer Barret, attorney Mary McEachron and Novato Mayor Mike Di Giorgio. "I see a huge credibility problem," Di Giorgio said. "The tribe said they wouldn't do this and they lied." When the Graton Rancheria received federal status in 2000, Sarris promised the tribe would not pursue Indian gaming as a source of revenue.
Di Giorgio was also critical of Boxer, of Greenbrae, who recently rescued herself from the tribe's casino proposal because of her disappointment with the tribe's gaming decision and because the firm that employs her son Douglas - San Francisco-based Kenwood Investment - was hired by the tribe as a project consultant. Kenwood was retained after the tribe's legislation passed in 2000.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat has reported that Kenwood Investment played a part in securing the land targeted for the proposed casino. A review of property records showed Kenwood has an option to buy 1,679 acres the tribe is seeking near Lakeville Road and brokered a recent sale of 321 acres to Las Vegas-based Station Casinos - the tribe's development and management partner. The gaming company plans to spend approximately $23 million for the purchase of both parcels.
McEachron, of Sonoma, is a member of the fledgling No Las Vegas in Northbay,
an organization launched the day after the tribe's casino announcement.
"We're hoping to stop gambling facilities in the North Bay through
a combination of legal and political actions," McEach-ron said. "The
impacts of a casino in this area would be too immense and too detrimental
to all of us who live here."
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