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GolfCommission | 2012-11-13 | 4 | EXHIBIT "A" ATTACHMENT TO GOLF COMMISSION MINUTES NOVEMBER 13, 2012 To the City of Alameda Golf Commission 13 November 2012 I must tell you that I am extremely disappointed at the new Waste Water Pump (or Sewage Lift) Station at the Clubhouse Memorial Road entrance. It drives another ugly stake into any chance to have a decent "front door" to the Municipal Golf Complex. I understand that a drawing was previously shown to the Golf Commission, showing how flowering ivy and some other plant material, adjacent to the new 6 ft. high fence, would shield views of the new extensive piping and utility equipment from the vehicle/pedestrian entrance to the Golf Complex. I'm concerned that the ivy will not fill in between the new fence vertical pickets (open spaces between pickets are 4" wide) of a sufficient density that will yield the desired effect of completely screening off views into the Pump Station. There are two 20 ft. wide sliding gates, one onto Island Drive and the other directly onto Clubhouse Memorial Road. In time, if ivy grows effectively on a significant portion of the stationary portion of that fence, that ivy may interfere with the passage of the gates as they slide open past the adjacent 20-ft. of stationary fencing. What then? A new solid, cement plaster coated, concrete block 8-ft. high wall, surrounding a smaller enclosed Pump Station area, with a single access gate, would have been visually preferable to what is out there now. I thought that this pump station was going to be a relatively passive use, as it has been for decades in the past. Now it has now taken over much more land than it ever occupied before and I fear that Public Works will eventually park vehicles and equipment in there on a regular basis otherwise why the need for such an elaborate drive-thru arrangement? Recently, a large area has been paved, supporting that suspicion. Have you seen it at pre-dawn or at night? They must plan on performing outdoor open-heart surgery there! There are two high intensity discharge (HID), high pressure sodium (HPS) vapor, lights illuminating the station at a total candle power level greatly exceeding anything in the main Golf Complex parking lot it may rival the Driving Range illumination level. One of the lights is what the lighting industry refers to as a "shoe box" pole-mounted fixture, that directs light generally downward and is normally considered not too intrusive to neighboring properties if the lamp wattage is not too high. But in this case, the installed brightness seems higher than necessary for even some other ultra-high security government situations. The second fixture is a "barn light" mounted high on a new antenna pole. That fixture directs un-shielded, very bright, industrial-type, light out toward Clubhouse Memorial Road. | GolfCommission/2012-11-13.pdf |