THE NEW COUNTY COURTHOUSE is proceeding whether the rest of us want it or not, and few people apart from our cossetted cadre of judges, do want it. A new County Courthouse is not needed. The present Courthouse is old but serviceable. Worse, the new Courthouse will not include the many ancillary offices the old Courthouse now houses, which means the new Courthouse will contain only the judges, which further means huge inconvenience for everyone else. And the new Courthouse will be a major eyesore for Ukiah, a town already struggling with visual squalor in most of its public areas. The public, as usual, is barely aware that this abomination is underway. The Ukiah City Council, predictably, signed off on a cleanup of the area adjacent to the old train depot on Perkins where the Courthouse will rise, a hideous counterpoint to the prison-like complex across the street at the Ukiah Medical Center. Our eight Superior Court judges are shoving this project forward as a few well-placed lawyers and Ukiah developers buy up adjoining parcels on which they will erect office space to lease back to the County at the usual inflated rents.
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