Thursday, February 25, 2016

"No" vote gains as absentees counted in Carlsbad Measure A

First update since election night from San Diego Registrar: more than half the outstanding ballots counted and the No lead has grown to more than 800 votes.

Barring some really bizarre distribution of late votes, it's looking pretty safe for the No camp now.

35 comments:

  1. How sad for the developer who already bought the strawberry field.

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  2. That wasn't all he bought. The Carlsbad City Council, the fire dept., the police dept., the Hedionda Lagoon Conservancy.

    I hope the voters remember this come election time.

    I hope the voters remember this when the police need funding for FTE's or anything else in the future.

    I hope the voters remember this when the fire dept. needs funding a a new FTE or a fire truck or anything else.

    I hope the voters remember this when the so called conservancy needs funding for conserving what they wanted to sell out their community over.

    Ain't life grand when money buys out officials who we are supposed to put our trust into. Trust, hmmm. Not much of that going on lately, is there?

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    1. It appears that special elections are the only way the will of the people is expressed. Special interests put their stooges on city councils. Pension reform is needed in Encinitas, and you'll never see this current council address the issue.

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    2. I'm grateful for the voters who voted no, and who voted yes, before, to preserve open space in Carlsbad.

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  3. Considering the reported $10,000,000 that Caruso spent on the campaign, it's an amazing win for the No folks. TV and radio were saturated with the YES ads. Many citizens were recruited by Caruso to support his runaround the citizens to bypass the EIR. Lots of egg on the faces of Mayor Matt Hall and city council members.

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  4. Maybe spotters need to oversee the ballot count - why does it take a week to count ballots in a local election when the system is automated? Shades of Florida's hanging chads!

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  7. Each side can challenge a vote. Both camps are at the count, and they literally have to look at each ballot. Luckily, it's going in the direction of the No vote.

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  8. Plumber, why the removed posts?? They looked ok to me.

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  9. The NO vote on Measure A is now winning by 1145 votes. There are 2250 mail/provisional ballots left to count.

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  10. $10.5 million for nothing! It appears you can't fool all the people all of the time - people would rather have native open space and natural landscapes than another retail outlet, selling Chinese goods. The region is commercially overloaded as it is.

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  11. Encinitas to establish " Quiet Zone " in Cardiff at Chesterfield crossing....Leucadia gets nothing!!! Way to go Leucadia Mainstreet you accomplished nothing...AGAIN!!

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    1. 12:54 Thanks for misjudging Leucadia Mainstreet...AGAIN!! Sounds like Cardiff hit a snag with theirs doesn't it?

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  12. Just heard Blakespear running for Mayor. Wonder if she knows as little about THIS Prop A as she did our Prop A.

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    1. Just what we need, another dumb blonde.

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  13. Running for her own ego gratification.

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  14. And Kranz announced he is running for council, not mayor.

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    1. What else does he have to do? Kan Kranz!

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  15. The Carlsbad Prop A is a lesson for Encinitas. Just as with the Housing Element update and the Parks Master Plan, those hoping to upzone and degrade the quality of life for existing residents use trickery to get citizens to go against their own best interests. Don't believe the city workers, the council and especially not the consultants they bring in.

    Vote No on the Encinitas Housing Element, No to the Parks Master Plan, and No to the endless parade of consultants who are brought in to do the job of paid employees.

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  16. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/28/william-mulholland-gave-water-to-la-and-inspired-chinatown.html?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning

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  17. I question whether we will have the opportunity to provide significant input on the Park and Rec master plan. They already had approved the naming rights for the monuments to be installed on OUR public trails before this past Thursdays Greenplay presentation.

    That, for some reason, was not brought up by Park and Rec. Duh.

    Apparently, they intend to proceed without OUR approval on this practice since they slid a similar action by with no public input regarding the fruitcase dedication in Glen Park. The precedence this sets is worrisome to say the least.

    What is the state of the renaming of OUR library? Are we going to be allowed any say so on this proposal? It doesn't appear that we will. Hope is not springing eternal at this point in time over this newly instigated practice by OUR representatives.

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    1. I don't like the way this council is duped by selfish people who want to have their name on everything, including our very OWN city library.

      This is OUR library and belongs with the city name on it. There are many, many people that gave and still give countless hours of their time to OUR library.

      It should remain ENCINITAS Library.



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  18. The new City Manager certainly has gone low key. Status quo will be her agenda.

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  19. http://www.10news.com/news/developer-concedes-carlsbad-measure-a

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    1. Magnificent news! Money couldn't buy this one.
      Now stop the Quail Gardens mega-development.

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    2. Now say no to the HEU.

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  20. The ill fated and it surely is, HEU, is counting on that site for those miserable looking 3 story and more prison complex looking apt. buildings they are trying to sell us. When will they get it in their heads that we don't want the urbanization they promote for our town. Anyone wonder why we haven't passed a housing element plan in twenty years? It is because of the same old urban designs that this community does not want and never will.

    These plans belong in downtown San Diego. If we wanted to turn into an Irvine, then sure, we would already have passed a plan like what Planning is proposing. The incredible waste of time and money and more time and more money on something that belongs elsewhere should be reason enough to fire the whole bunch but at least start with the top honchos who are most responsible. The assistant planners,for the most part, are only doing what they are told.

    We are not an urban situation here and will resist all efforts in becoming one. How hard is that to understand?

    Quail Gardens is a special ag area and should be protected. Julian Duvall got his non ag pavillion that will certainly degrade that area through increased traffic and pollution and noise from the every weekend of the year events that will be coming. This alone is a shame but with the HEU's plan, that precious area will become something altogether different. Don't let it happen. Vote this turkey down.

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  21. The real kicker is that the HEU's upzoning is being done TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. But it won't, which is why the City has changed it's tune to "we need to provide for all types of residents." Notice the significant change in messaging now that the lie has been exposed.

    So if we're upzoning to produce market-rate housing and killer profits for developers and NO OTHER BENEFIT - then we need to say no. I'm saying no.

    And before Meyer and his grunt workers start posting here "but it's the law," remember what HCD had to say about that:

    1) The State never sues a city for not having an updated housing element and
    2) It'll be the BIA and affordable housing "advocates" suing the city, and IF a judge steps in, all he/she will do is declare a building moratorium.

    So let "the law" do its thing - I'm voting no.

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  22. Let's be smart voters like they are in Carlsbad with the latest NO Vote for Measure A. What a victory that was for the citizens.

    Encinitas folks beware of the double speak you are hearing about the HEU. It is nothing more than the developer's dream to cram more housing into tiny little spaces and jam more traffic on our roads.

    Vote MO on this ill conceived and sneaky plan.

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    1. Excuse the typo. I meant Vote NO

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    2. Almost final tally for Carlsbad Measure A, with 5 mail/provisional ballots left to count:

      NO 20535 votes 52.08%
      YES 18897 votes 47.92%

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    3. Citizens need to take back our cities. Let's get new blood on the Carlsbad and Encinitas city councils.

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