Posted on 02/25/2020 7:27:34 AM PST by rey
7-Eleven’s plan to demolish one of its east Santa Rosa stores and several surrounding buildings to build a sleek new convenience store and add gas pumps has sparked opposition from activists who oppose new fossil fuel outlets in Sonoma County.
Texas-based 7-Eleven aims to replace the existing shop at Highway 12 and Middle Rincon Road with a new 24-hour convenience store and at least six gas pumps, according to an application filed with Santa Rosa planning officials.
Designs call for demolishing the store, a martial arts studio and at least one adjacent home, forcing longtime tenants to find another place to live.
To local climate activist Woody Hastings it doesn’t make sense to displace a family to make way for fuel pumps, noting that the Santa Rosa City Council weeks ago formally declared a climate crisis.
“If we’re going to extricate ourselves from the fossil world, we’ve got to start now,” said Hastings, who was leading about two dozen protesters outside the 7-Eleven on Monday. They held signs and chanted their opposition to the proposal.
7-Eleven in 2017 bought a chunk of land surrounding its store including an adjacent house occupied by a family. Company officials did not respond to multiple requests for comment about the redevelopment plans. 7-Eleven has more than 70,000 stores worldwide and 11 in the Santa Rosa area.
The company plans to hold another neighborhood meeting to “address concerns,” said Kim Barnett, director of national programs for Tait & Associates, a Rancho Cordova-based firm working with 7-Eleven on the development of the new store and gas station, in an email. She did not provide a date for the meeting.
Barnett described the Rincon Valley project as “a state of the art 7-Eleven” with “fresh foods,” featuring charging stations for electric vehicles and solar power. Though plans call for a car wash, Barnett said “there will be not be a car wash.”
The project’s timing is unclear. 7-Eleven needs approval to demolish or build anything on the site, according to a review of current city documents.
The Santa Rosa Planning Commission will need to approve the company’s plans before any work on the project can occur and has not put 7-Eleven’s proposal on an agenda, said city planner Adam Ross.
Ridiculous ain’t it?
“If we’re going to extricate ourselves from the fossil world, we’ve got to start now,”
Yep start right now. /s
“forcing longtime tenants to find another place to live.....7-Eleven in 2017 bought a chunk of land surrounding its store including an adjacent house occupied by a family.”
They forced people to find another place to live by buying their property. Do the authors of types of stories even realize what they are writing?
“””””””noting that the Santa Rosa City Council weeks ago formally declared a climate crisis. “””””””””
I told you all that acid would destroy your brain.
No they don’t know what the heck they are writing.
The implication is that the renters in that rented house, would have been allowed to live there forever, except for “mean” 711 having bought the property from some other owner.
It’s the Brown Acid again...
“They forced people to find another place to live by buying their property. Do the authors of types of stories even realize what they are writing?”
PLEASE LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF ‘TENANT’!
What will likely kill this project is not the enviro-Nazis, but rather Oliver’s Market down the street, which wants no nearby “fresh-foods” competition.
Yes it is. And anyone referring to petroleum as a “fossil fuel” is a moron.
Folks can always drive to Bordertown for gas.
Luddites want in-convenience.
Woody:
I invite YOU to be the first in line.
You are not practicing what YOU preach.
Go without power that comes from ANY kind of ‘fossil fuel’.
Go without heat & hot water that is produced with fossil fuel.
Go without clothing made with materials that are planted & harvested with tractors , etc, that use ‘fossil fuels’.
Go without food that is planted, harvested & transported to your local stores with ‘fossil fuels’.
I guarantee you one thing: your MILK doesn’t just come ‘from Safeway’.
Those cows are fed hay that is grown with water pumped from wells * irrigated with ‘donkey engines’ that push the water to the fields-—cut & swathed with tractors-—baled with machinery pulled by tractors-—and transported to the dairy with a large truck & trailer. The production of the food you eat doesn’tt exist without ‘fossil fuels’.
The house you live in used wood that was timbered with chain saws. Owning a chain saw myself, and using it heavily some years ago (I wore out 7 chains)...I can also guarantee you that chain saws do not run without ‘fossil fuels’.
Even electric items need lubricants...and that is called OIL or GREASE.
You ride ONLY a bicycle? That chain needs LUBRICANT—regularly.
How stupid can so many people be?
It is like their own particular virus—and it has rotten their ability to THINK.
One thing I do know-— When YOUR Utopia falls apart-—don’t come near where I live. You won’t make it back out.
YES- I KNOW that there are some chains saws that are electric powered-—but they are NOT very powerful.
That property was 900 feet long. No way to run an extension cord that far. Plus-—I needed the POWER of the Stihl chain saw I have. I cut down dead-dying-& crippled trees for 2 1/2 years to clean up that property. 7 days a week-for 2 1/2 years.
Current property is 389 X 630. Next property will be more like 20 acres.
“They forced people to find another place to live by buying their property. Do the authors of types of stories even realize what they are writing?”
PLEASE LOOK UP THE DEFINITION OF ‘TENANT’!
Alright, I looked right over that. You got me.
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