By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – April 26, 2022 One often wonders who is running the shop in the Harbor, the Commission or everyone who has a fantasy to peddle. Its not as though the Harbor doesn't have plenty of balls in the air already, they now take time out to get "involved" with stream restoration that quite frankly is expensively ambitious, yet doesn't seem to measure up as one of those "vital" concerns for the community. Replacing "failing" culverts likely costing millions, with bridges in the Elk Creek Watershed is first and foremost on everyone's mind in Del Norte County without question. Got to watch out for that major Tsunami impacting the wet lands East of Highway 101 and the resulting deluge of sediment that will descend into the harbor. Under the auspices of the Smith River Alliance, manufacturers of all sorts of environmental disasters, they are heading up a collage of government agencies, including the Crescent City Harbor to "address" the Elk Creek "nightmare". They, the Harbor, have time to draft meaningless letters about sediment disasters in the future, but seem to have little time to address the more pressing problem of what will Alex Lemus do with the 50 to 80 tenant relocations necessary in order to begin converting the recent property leases he negotiated with the harbor into income producing projects. Seems that after two years of negotiations, Mr. Lemus has realized, belatedly, that this may not be as simple as he envisioned. A distinct lack of affordable options for relocating the current occupants of Redwood Harbor Village and Bayside RV Parks have joined the party. Stalling Mr. Lemus' visions of a fast buck, the developer will likely have to go back to a drawing board where he has few options for relocation of the aforementioned residents. One thing is certain, Mr. Lemus is quick on his feet to swiftly change direction on the fly, in order to begin generating income by putting together a plan for a twenty four space fenced, high end RV park where only overflow spaces have previously existed. Mr' Lemus hopes to have cleared the ground, fenced, electrified and watered the park for summer traffic. Likely an astounding feat of legerdemain, yet it still leaves his current relocation problem without a solution. Something to further hone his skills of magic on over the next year. In the meantime he will likely get a taste of what it is like to expect the haute couture of the RV crowd to occupy his current endevour in Del Norte County in the Winter. And this is considered a feasible direction for the Harbor Commission to be taking? While not much of what the current board does in the harbor equates to "common sense", financial solvency just might be upper most on the Commission's mind. If Mr. Lemus finds his problems insurmountable and scurries back to San Diego, or Florida, where ever he calls home, how will the Harbor either pay to clean up the mess left behind, and repair the damage in trust with their current occupants, or simply find the same lesson with ideas of grandeur coming back to haunt them? Keeping in mind that commissioners Brian Stone, and Wes White, with the addition of Harbormaster Tim Petrick, are the driving force behind this train wreck. Mr. Stone fancy's himself capable of becoming a member of the County's Board of Supervisors in June. His stumbles as Harbor Commissioner should be a lesson for all of District Four's voters who not to vote for… In the mean time it would behoove the Harbor Commission to begin planning for the "what if" if Renewable Energy follows Lemus' previous endevour into bankruptcy before his grand vision is off the ground. Maybe set aside a bit of that bed tax money if possible to fore stall likely catastrophe. Clearly some one needs to hold some hands, as the Commission seems incapable of conducting business that makes sense for the continued financial health at Harbor. It has been suggested, that the harbor jettison the ideas formulated by previous president Brian Stone and concentrate on a path forward that might actually work. Monterey Bay relocation is definitely not a good look.