Crespi Pond restoration and enhancement

Strongly supported the restoration recommendations and suggested the city skip repairing turf around the pond in favor of the Native Plant Society's recommended ecological buffer zone.

A wetland ecologist who wrote the restoration document urged a complete draining and sediment removal, shoreline regrading, bioswales to trap golf course nitrates, native replanting, an elevated wildlife viewing ramp, grant funding, and hiring an aquatic restoration consulting firm.

Reiterated ecotourism's value (372 bird species in the Point Pinos area alone), offered Audubon support letters for grants, and suggested starting now with volunteer invasive-species removal and native plantings while permits are sorted out.