Former golf course not right for fire headquarters

I am writing in regard to negotiations involving Marin County officials that could lead to the former San Geronimo Golf Course becoming a large, industrial complex and fire headquarters (“Marin County options former San Geronimo golf course property,” Dec. 14).

This bad idea has been in the works since before the golf course was poorly managed by the county and closed. It was first outlined in the county's 2010 report called “Fire Facilities Visioning Plan.”

There is a much better site with ready access to Sir Francis Drake Boulevard currently owned and unused by the Tamalpais Union High School District.

If the county backed off the idea of tearing down the golf course clubhouse, the sale of the TUHSD property to the county would help relieve the school district's reported stressed financial situation. I think the county should:

• Move forward on developed sewage treatment facility plans supplying recycled irrigation water.

• Stop the politically motivated fiasco that led to this point and put county officials on notice for their secretive and suspect decisions.

• Purchase the property (county or others) as the golf course it is, along with preserving important community social elements on the clubhouse parcel.

• Hold the Trust for Public Land group accountable for negligent destruction over the last four years, thereby obtaining funds for an expensive restoration.

• Move the fire headquarters to the easily accessible TUHSD property, which is discretely set back from this beautiful valley bottomland.