Support Our Shores Business Neighbors

I wanted to take a moment as we begin this New Year 2012 to recognize the important contributions that our local businesses make to the high quality of life we enjoy here in Redwood Shores. Redwood City has for many years worked hard to create a great business climate, and we are fortunate to have many great business neighbors here in the Shores.

We have large companies like EA and Oracle with their global headquarters here, and satellite offices of several multi-nationals, but we also have many smaller businesses which provide important services to our local community.

Many of these smaller businesses, with their advertising sponsorship, support RSCA’s communications outreach to the Shores. This includes the (significant) cost of printing & mailing these issues of The PILOT every month to every household and most businesses in the Shores at no cost to you.

Please look carefully through this issue and take special note of those local businesses which support RSCA in The PILOT.

Make an effort to patronize these local businesses whenever possible.

If it ain’t one thing…

We were making every effort to begin to disseminate the information we’ve gathered about the Canada goose situation in late January, but, as Rosanne Rosannadanna used to say, “If it ain’t one thing, it’s another.” (If you’re not old enough to understand the reference, google it.)

The Redwood City Attorney’s office, in their review of the information we had compiled so far, discovered that there is an old City ordinance that contradicts the very recommendations of the CA Dept of Fish & Game and US Fish & Wildlife service. The City, though, has already started the process of amending that ordinance to bring it in alignment with state and federal wildlife policies. The first reading of the amendment is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 6, so that’s our next target date.

The information and recommendations we provide will be mostly applicable to the property managers for our local HOAs and commercial business properties and to Redwood City for the park areas, especially those on the waterways. But we’ll also provide information on the national scope of the problem caused by these “no longer migrating” birds.

As I’d said time and again: we have been working closely with federal and state wildlife officials on what we can and can NOT do to help mitigate the problem of the increasing amount of goose feces left in our parks and on our walkways and open lawns. We are following their recommendations closely and working closely with the City on solutions for our parks and other public areas.

… it’s another — now Crows ?

Yes, both RSCA and the City are aware of the flocks of crows that seemed to have recently descended upon several neighborhoods in the Shores. They’ve recently decided to peck away at the skylight in my office when I’m trying to work. I found it interesting that a flock of crows is also called a “murder”, and I don’t think the derivation of that term was in any way meant to be humorous.

We do know that the common American crow is considered by wildlife officials a “species of least concern”, that is, not in any way threatened or in need of protection. You would think that would make finding a solution easy, wouldn’t you?

Lock Up!

Again, we have recent “property crimes” that can’t be called “break-ins” because doors were left unlocked with valuable items in plain sight. Please, please…

• LOCK your cars, even in your driveway.
• LOCK your home (front AND back doors), even if you only step out for a few minutes.
• Don’t leave valuables like cell phones, laptops/iPads, and GPS units in plain sight, either in your car or at home.

Be safe, be smart. Let’s not make it so easy.

Let’s Be Careful Out There

The winter rains are finally here. Our streets are wet and slick, but we are still seeing speeds of 45-50 mph on the main roadways in the residential areas east of Bridge Pky. This is just way too fast in our residential neighborhoods. Take a few extra seconds to get where you’re going and slow down on your way in or out of the Shores.

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