Previously:

• Developer Promises to Deliver Redevelopment Project Scope to Concerned RV Park Residents

• Crescent City Harbor Commissioners Refute Claims That Bayside RV Park Residents Will Be Evicted During Potential Revitalization Project

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The developer behind a revitalization project at the Crescent City Harbor District’s two RV parks is promising not to take possession or break ground until both parties formalize a plan for the parks’ residents.

Harbor commissioners on Tuesday will consider a transition plan for the long-term residents of Bayside RV Park and Redwood Harbor Village RV Park.

A proposal from Alex Lemus, CEO of Renewable Energy Capital (REC), who is spearheading a redevelopment project at the port, the transition plan would consist of 86 individual plans tailored to each resident. Currently 44 “long-term residents” live at Bayside RV Park, while 42 call Redwood Harbor Village home.

“REC and CCHD agree that the development work on the two RV parks cannot begin without a written agreed upon transition plan for how the long-term residents of the RV parks will be transitioned into suitable housing,” the staff report states.

Lemus proposes integrating the long-term residents transition plans for Bayside and Redwood Harbor Village into one master RV Park development plan, according to Tuesday’s staff report. Lemus noted that redevelopment of the RV parks can’t continue without a transition plan for its current residents.

Instrumental in getting the port’s solar panel system up and running, Lemus answered a request for proposals from the Harbor District in December 2020, promising to provide development services for short-term and long-term capital at the port. That RFP didn’t address the RV parks’ current residents, however.

In August 2021, Lemus came back with a plan to increase tourism at the harbor by beautifying Bayside RV Park, including upgrading its landscaping and infrastructure, and purchasing Airstream trailers as well as park cabins for overnight short-term stays.

Lemus’s plan also included marketing Crescent City’s local seafood and fishing opportunities both on the ocean and on the Smith River. He said REC is budgeting “somewhere between $2 million and $2.5 million when everything’s said and done for Bayside.”

Lemus’s proposed project for Bayside RV Park alarmed its existing residents, who accused the developer and the Harbor District of planning to evict them. In September, Harbormaster Tim Petrick said the Harbor District and Lemus would be responsible for a relocation plan, but said that the project at that point didn’t include relocating the park’s residents.

According to Tuesday’s staff report, REC will meet with each of the park’s long-term residents and to provide development services and financing required for the transition plan at both parks.

The Crescent City Harbor District will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday at 101 Citizens Dock Road in Crescent City or via Zoom — enter passcode 182536.

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