Raising the 101 thereabouts is not a bad idea but it is not as good as trenching the tracks. If these two concepts were combined it could produce the holy grail of grade separation. With this the local businesses and the roadside park might find themselves in a low spot but some ramps could save the roadside park and nearby businesses. I don't know the solution to drainage but given some money this could be solved.
One speaker accused Blakespear of personally gaining with her family property upzoning their land in the next cycle (2020). Instead of correcting the speaker, she chose to go off on how she was being attacked.
Why didn't she just say "that's not true?" That's a rhetorical question, by the way. Her defensiveness was over the top.
Body language communicates a lot about a person's honesty. Blakespear is not a stupid person, so on some level, she knows what she is and what she has done and was unable to look speakers in the eye.
The moniker of "Developer's Wh---" is something that she has earned from her actions. People will not forget this association and will be reminded of this every time that they see her from now on.
Mayor Blakespear's behavior during Oral Communications and Agenda Item 10A was very strange. The two parts of the agenda ran back to back, as there were no Consent Agenda items. She spent more than 90% of her time looking down doing something, not idling looking around as she claimed later. Doing her children's homework? Playing games on her smart phone? Texting Joe Mosca, who also had his head down a lot? Writing a romance novel? Her next Sunday newsletter? She kept glancing down to her left and appeared to be doing something with her right hand.
Everyone in the room noticed it. Two public speakers commented on it. One mentioned the rumors about her family's property in Rossini Canyon, which is on the list for upzoning in the next cycle. When she finally came out of her distraction, she went on the offensive. Why didn't she quell the rumors about the family property? Instead she attacked the speakers, thus raising more suspicion that the rumors may be true. A very bad night for her.
I am not political. I'm just a long-time (over 20 years) resident of Encinitas who loves our town and voted for Prop A. I just watched the City Council meeting held yesterday (March 27). I simply have been completely unaware of what our elected council is doing. This is completely unbelievable and illegal! Everyone in Encinitas needs to be made aware. We need to take action immediately. We need to sue the Encinitas City Council for all thay have! How can they act against the legal will of the people? I am not rich, but I will happliy contribute several hundred dollars to the suit that has to be filed. Who should I send the check to?
"This is completely unbelievable and illegal!" I guess you have been out to lunch. Not only is it legal but the city is acting from a court order to adopt a HCD certified Housing Element in 120 days. The judge preempted Prop A from applying to this action only.
Normally, the appearance of conflict of interest is something that elected officials try to avoid. Blakespear made a time donation, and this was captured in the record, the last time that her mom tried to develop one of their properties in Cardiff. Her family are themselves developers or would be developers. Her actions make it look like she has sold out the entire city to multiply the value of her family's property,
Donna Westbrook put it best when she told them that none of them were worth recall but that maybe there was a way to get rid of them through the State Constitution.
People are ashamed of this council who are so ready to throw away all that residents have worked for. The plan that they have approved will do almost nothing to provide for affordable housing but will make a lot of money for developers like Blakespear's family have tried to be.
Now that Mayor Blakespear and Council have ruined our city and given away the General Plan and municipal code to the BIA and developers, the Mayor had turned her attention to the international scene. From KPBS: "A delegation of almost 100 community and business leaders from San Diego and Baja California will sojourn to Mexico City this weekend for the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce's 14th annual Binational Delegation, the chamber announced Thursday." "Notable delegates include San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Tijuana Interim Mayor Eduardo Torres, Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina, Chula Vista Mayor Mary Salas, National City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo Solis, Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear,"
Why would it be a bad thing to require dissemination of relevant information to officials when a communicable disease outbreak occurs? Asking for my anti-vax friend.
Horvath is a loud-mouthed know-it-all. She hit the Peter Principle slide zone and got into higher office without the capabilities to do the job. She is a shill, doing the bidding of her donors. This was PG&E, developers and other large concerns. Don't expect anything rational coming from her office.
Maybe you didn't read the part where it says "the bill would authorize the local public health officer to issue orders to other governmental entities within the local health officer’s jurisdiction to take any action the local health officer deems necessary to control the spread of the communicable disease."
There appears to be no limit to this authority. School closures, park closures, beach closures, port of entry closures? Crazy. And for what, because its flue season.
Also, do you want your medical records shared. I could probably start looking up your health conditions if it becomes public record and shared with cities.
This all started because of a small outbreak of measles at Disneyland a few years back. Measles isn't even listed as a quarantined virus on the CDC website. Why such a Nazi policy when the same people argue for open borders? So weird. I don't think any of them know what they are talking about.
I think it's time for people to start paying attention to our so called "elected".
People that are pro-vaccines are starting to get pretty weird. They get heated when they start talking about it. But so are anti-vaxers. To be fair.
I don't have kids, so hard to relate. But I tend to agree that you shouldn't need 50 shots by the time your 5 years old. Probably explains a lot of the ADHD stuff. So many kids these days have it....
Wow....This bill has to get watered down me thinks. I doubt that she actually wrote this. If she did, I feel like she has to have the wrong support staff with her.
To 9:04 - "Why would it be a bad thing to require dissemination of relevant information to officials when a communicable disease outbreak occurs? Asking for my anti-vax friend."
They already provide relevant information to agencies. That is their job. This allows health officials (anyone working for HHSA in the county or CDC) to access any information (like your medical records) and then issue order they feel like it to control outbreak. Maybe they will show up to your door. Maybe they ban you from work or public places. I agree with the above. Law proposed needs to be deleted or watered down. I wouldn't call it Nazism. But I see the posters point. Kinda "Fahrenheit 451 ish."
1:23, don't excuse her actions by the company she keeps. Parents do this with their kids - blame their kids' friends, not their kid, for getting into trouble.
Like Blakespear, Shaffer, Barth, B-T has no ability to discriminate between good advice and bad.
Horvath is padding her resume by coauthoring all these BS bills. Exactly as we expected her to. Meanwhile, what has she done for "her" community of Encinitas? Nothing.
She examined her belly button, consulted her attorney string-puller, and came to the conclusion that it's better to screw residents than piss off the BIA?
Don't forget the other four votes that included "One of the good guys" (straight off his fb page) Kranz. He went along with the screw after first doing a very bad job of pretending he had a conscience.
In plain English it means the chickens are coming home to roost in a very drastic way as far as out existence is concerned. A huge exaggeration. Maybe she talking about her own position as mayor.
The 1986 ballot for incorporation stated that the new city would have approximately 45,000 people. Encinitas now has over 60,000. I’m sure most of the additional residents moved into new homes built by developers. I’m also sure many of the homes built before that were built by developers like Village Park. So were these developers the “scum of the earth” like today or did they only recently attain that distinction? I mean why would anyone buy a home built by people so despicable.
Developers then didn't write and exploit laws that force high density on cities while pretending it was for affordable housing. Big diff, 12:45. But you know that.
Land was cheap in Encinitas decades ago. When Encinitas Estates (south of Encinitas Blvd at Cerro) was built, a four-bedroom, 2-bath, 2-story house with den sold for $45,000. That was affordable. Now land is too expensive to build affordable housing without subsidy. Builders don't want to subsidize it.
Pretty sure if you made every home owner occupant in the San Diego area, there wouldn't be a housing problem. San Diego is not a local market and many houses sit vacant, used as vacation rentals, investments etc.
None of the above comments address the huge upzoning that the Developer's Whore ushered in. We live in a desert with little water and I don't want twice as many people cramped into Encinitas. 60,000 is to much. I definitely do not want 100,000 in the next 10 years. Geeze.
So SoCal had plenty of natural water when you arrived and didn't need importing it from a number of sources. It's only the people who came afterward that caused us to import it.
It's the impending thousands coming thanks to blakespear that will be the issue. We are stretched now with many years declared to be droughts where we can't water our yards or wash our cars.
Are you personally prepared to let your garden die and let the dust build up on your car and take showers every other day to line developer pockets, 7:49? You'd better be, because you can bet your bottom dollar there is everything in the upzone for developers and nothing in it for you.
Unless, of course, you are a developer. Or a city worker with a pension to support. Or perhaps you received a mountain bike for your troubles. Then your remarks make sense.
Even though Encinitas doesn't allow gated developments anymore, maybe we just make the city itself a gated community. Of course we'd have to set up a procedure so that the workers who can't afford to live here can buzz themselves in.
Also, I guess people can't have any more kids as that is the main reason California needs more housing not immigrants. Not only housing but I imagine they'll want water as well.
Isn't your yard drought tolerant? Shame on you.
And can't people do better than to claim anyone who disagrees, however minor, has to be a developer or city worker. Frankly, it's getting a bit tired. Time to think of something new.
Why should my yard have to be drought tolerant because the BIA made a deal with our council? if you don't have a financial interest of some sort, 3:04 - answer that question.
"Why should my yard have to be drought tolerant ..." maybe because we live in a semi-arid climate that experiences periods of drought. According to the SD County Water Authority in the years 2013-2017 we supplied only 15% of our water locally. So I guess you're right that the fault is with the BIA who built most of the houses we now live in who need all that water.
No I don't have a financial interest, unfortunately.
The "housing crisis" is BIA driven, period. I for one refuse to rip out decades of garden tending to accommodate developer profits. Most of Encinitas' homes have lush yards that homeowners have a right to retain. The BIA should not get away without addressing the water issue, but then again there's too much money to be made at city hall by supporting their version of reality.
I think you need to go on a one-person crusade to force us to plant succulents so developers can go sky high and continue to make those boat payments. Let's see how far you get.
You're not very precise, 12:32. The explanation is "Water is not in unlimited supply, let's build responsibly." This explanation goes on to say "Just because the BIA cries doesn't mean we have to trash our towns to line their pockets."
Is there never a point for you at which growth should be controlled? Sincere question.
There are limits but what they are I don't know and I don't think anyone really knows. We've been short on water supplies before but we found new sources to make up the difference and ways to conserve. Should they have said back then that the limit has been reached? If so maybe neither of us would be here. Maybe desalination will become more economical in the not to distant future.
And I wouldn't put the onus for all the talk of a housing crisis in the BIA's lap. There is a housing crisis mostly in the low to moderate range in California. We haven't been building the needed units in all of California. Will builders benefit from the added construction? Sure but the demand is there mostly from natural increase. A builder probably made money on your house.
Of the 5,500 housing-unit building permits issued by the city between 2015 and 2017, only 98 were for apartments or houses that people with salaries in the minimum wage range or a little higher could afford, according to a city review. And none of those 98 got any city help.
And there you have it. Statewide scam perpetrated by developers, enacted by greasing the palms of politicians, helped along by the "I'll gratefully take the few crumbs you toss me" affordable housing advocates.
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262 is a legislative bill aimed to attack minority religions. I saw the comment above - and think I should clarify its origins. Many religions, like Judaism and JW, don't believe in injections. Further religions from India don't believe with injecting bovine fetal serum into the human body. Others don't believe in abortions and some vaccines have human fetus cells. So, it is white people attacking these minority groups and getting them to move. NY county recently banned jews and others, from public areas until end of April (coinciding with Passover, weird timing right?). CA next.
Cont'd: I don't think it matter where you land on vaccines, but banning people, meddling into their records, giving free clearance for health officials to do whatever they want, is too far of an intervention.
11 deaths over 19 years, in ALL of the united states.
•2000 – 86 cases – 1 measles death (infant) – endemic spread of measles eliminated in U.S. •2001 – 116 cases – 1 measles death •2002 – 44 cases •2003 – 55 cases – 1 measles death (1 year old) •2004 – 37 cases – record low number of measles cases •2005 – 66 cases – 1 measles death (1 year old) •2006 – 55 cases •2007 – 43 cases •2008 – 140 cases •2009 – 71 cases – 2 measles deaths •2010 – 63 cases – 2 measles deaths •2011 – 220 cases •2012 – 55 cases – 2 measles deaths •2013 – 187 cases (large outbreak in New York City – 58 cases) •2014 – 667 cases (the worst year for measles since 1994, including the largest single outbreak since the endemic spread of measles was eliminated – 377 cases in Ohio) •2015 – 188 cases – got off to a strong start with a big outbreak in California – 1 measles death •2016 – 86 cases •2017 – 120 cases •2018 – 372 cases
Back to the thread topic, the latest Encinitas Guerrilla captures perfectly the theme of the March 27 council meeting. What was remarkable was that the speakers were not all the "usual suspects." Instead, many were first-time speakers who had had it with Blakespear & Co.
The piece has a banner image of Blakespear behind her desk with a plaque "We the people" on her desk. It's calculated, as is everything else she says and does.
As Mayor of Encinitas, I Pledge to Keep Ignoring Residents
Anybody who has followed my career in Encinitas politics knows I go my own way. I put on a show of following the public’s will, but it’s just that — a show. I don’t listen to public speakers at council meetings because I don’t care what they say. I follow my own agenda and dismiss any member of the public who disagrees with me. It’s my way or the highway.
The city manager, the city attorney and staff pick up on explicit and implicit signals about what I want and follow accordingly because I’m the mayor, and they know what’s good for them. Sure, I get some pushback from the other council members. But now I have the dais stacked, so I’ll almost always have my way.
I straddled the fence on Prop A to make it seem I was for it, but, like the other council members, I was against it and still am. I developed and supported Measure T even though I knew it was a ridiculous plan that would most likely be turned down by the voters.
My strategy to get the developers’ HEU submitted to and approved by HCD had matured by the time we put Measure U together. Long before it was on the ballot, I knew voters would reject it. Its defeat ensured we would wind up in court, and its and Prop A’s fate were pretty much guaranteed there. My long-term thinking and strategy paid off. I got what the developers and I wanted.
I don’t bend to the public will. I’ve ignored the majority opinion and votes on Prop A, Measure T, Measure U, the HEU and Leucadia Streetscape. I get away with that because I’m an inoffensive woman who seems to have the community’s interests in mind. I follow the procedures correctly and put on a happy public face, but behind the scenes and out of public view, I’m scheming to impose my will.
I recognize that residents demonstrated how a compliant HEU could be achieved within the Prop A specifications. It could actually have provided a lot of truly affordable units to real people who need them. But that route didn’t meet my or the developers’ agenda. I had to come up with a way to ignore that input while deflecting the blame to HCD and state law. I succeeded at that.
With the commission, council and mayoral experience I’ve accumulated, I’m better equipped to flummox the residents at every turn. Anybody who disagrees with me should just give up. Don’t waste your time.
Incidentally, the “We the People” plaque on my desk is part of the show. I don’t believe in that at all.
Several residents speaking truth to power:
ReplyDelete"You're not listening to us."
What the Baker guy just said about superelevation of 101 at the Leucadia Blvd intersection is completely wrong.
ReplyDeleteSANDAG called for raising 101, not L Blvd, to eliminate the hill between 101 and the tracks.
As usual, the council members do not know what they're talking about regarding Leucadia Streetscape.
Raising the 101 thereabouts is not a bad idea but it is not as good as trenching the tracks. If these two concepts were combined it could produce the holy grail of grade separation. With this the local businesses and the roadside park might find themselves in a low spot but some ramps could save the roadside park and nearby businesses. I don't know the solution to drainage but given some money this could be solved.
ReplyDeleteOne speaker accused Blakespear of personally gaining with her family property upzoning their land in the next cycle (2020). Instead of correcting the speaker, she chose to go off on how she was being attacked.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't she just say "that's not true?" That's a rhetorical question, by the way. Her defensiveness was over the top.
Who are the candidates to run for the Hinze, Kranz and Blakespear seats?
ReplyDeleteThose three are disgraceful. They're dumb as rocks and intent on ruining Encinitas.
That's not to say Mosca and Hubbard are any better.
Blakespear has already filed her intent to run in 2020 - http://encinitasca.gov/Government/Public-Records/Public-Records-Archive.
DeleteThat woman's on another planet. No doubt she thinks she's saving us from ourselves.
Body language communicates a lot about a person's honesty. Blakespear is not a stupid person, so on some level, she knows what she is and what she has done and was unable to look speakers in the eye.
DeleteThe moniker of "Developer's Wh---" is something that she has earned from her actions. People will not forget this association and will be reminded of this every time that they see her from now on.
Mayor Blakespear's behavior during Oral Communications and Agenda Item 10A was very strange. The two parts of the agenda ran back to back, as there were no Consent Agenda items. She spent more than 90% of her time looking down doing something, not idling looking around as she claimed later. Doing her children's homework? Playing games on her smart phone? Texting Joe Mosca, who also had his head down a lot? Writing a romance novel? Her next Sunday newsletter? She kept glancing down to her left and appeared to be doing something with her right hand.
ReplyDeleteEveryone in the room noticed it. Two public speakers commented on it. One mentioned the rumors about her family's property in Rossini Canyon, which is on the list for upzoning in the next cycle. When she finally came out of her distraction, she went on the offensive. Why didn't she quell the rumors about the family property? Instead she attacked the speakers, thus raising more suspicion that the rumors may be true. A very bad night for her.
LOL, Blakespear isn't looking where I want her to look while others are speaking! We get it! She can no right. Geez.
DeleteI am not political. I'm just a long-time (over 20 years) resident of Encinitas who loves our town and voted for Prop A. I just watched the City Council meeting held yesterday (March 27). I simply have been completely unaware of what our elected council is doing. This is completely unbelievable and illegal! Everyone in Encinitas needs to be made aware. We need to take action immediately. We need to sue the Encinitas City Council for all thay have! How can they act against the legal will of the people? I am not rich, but I will happliy contribute several hundred dollars to the suit that has to be filed. Who should I send the check to?
ReplyDeleteWhat part is illegal? You intend to see the council "for all they have". Is that how it works?
DeleteCalm down, 9:29. 7:44 is kicking tires :)
Delete7:44 AM
Delete"This is completely unbelievable and illegal!" I guess you have been out to lunch. Not only is it legal but the city is acting from a court order to adopt a HCD certified Housing Element in 120 days. The judge preempted Prop A from applying to this action only.
and blakespears taking it to the next, NOT REQUIRED level by pushing for the court to invalidate Prop A in perpetuity.
DeleteNormally, the appearance of conflict of interest is something that elected officials try to avoid. Blakespear made a time donation, and this was captured in the record, the last time that her mom tried to develop one of their properties in Cardiff. Her family are themselves developers or would be developers. Her actions make it look like she has sold out the entire city to multiply the value of her family's property,
ReplyDeleteDonna Westbrook put it best when she told them that none of them were worth recall but that maybe there was a way to get rid of them through the State Constitution.
ReplyDeletePeople are ashamed of this council who are so ready to throw away all that residents have worked for. The plan that they have approved will do almost nothing to provide for affordable housing but will make a lot of money for developers like Blakespear's family have tried to be.
To back up your allegations, provide the parcel numbers of the properties you say Blakespear's family is angling to upzone and develop.
ReplyDeleteit's not the whore's fault, she has no free will, blame her masters the developers.
ReplyDeleteThe oh might dollar is strong influencer.....
...especially to developers' whores.
Willing to sell out Encinitas for a few more $$$. Sad.
Now that Mayor Blakespear and Council have ruined our city and given away the General Plan and municipal code to the BIA and developers, the Mayor had turned her attention to the international scene.
ReplyDeleteFrom KPBS:
"A delegation of almost 100 community and business leaders from San Diego and Baja California will sojourn to Mexico City this weekend for the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce's 14th annual Binational Delegation, the chamber announced Thursday."
"Notable delegates include San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer, Tijuana Interim Mayor Eduardo Torres, Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina, Chula Vista Mayor Mary Salas, National City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo Solis, Encinitas Mayor Catherine Blakespear,"
http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262
ReplyDeleteLooks like Horvath has been bust becoming a Nazi. Is this really how she spends her time? CA is becoming dystopia.
Why would it be a bad thing to require dissemination of relevant information to officials when a communicable disease outbreak occurs? Asking for my anti-vax friend.
DeleteHorvath is a loud-mouthed know-it-all. She hit the Peter Principle slide zone and got into higher office without the capabilities to do the job. She is a shill, doing the bidding of her donors. This was PG&E, developers and other large concerns. Don't expect anything rational coming from her office.
Delete9:28 AM, won't argue most of your points. But still is more information during an outbreak a bad thing? You kind of side stepped the question.
DeleteMaybe you didn't read the part where it says "the bill would authorize the local public health officer to issue orders to other governmental entities within the local health officer’s jurisdiction to take any action the local health officer deems necessary to control the spread of the communicable disease."
DeleteThere appears to be no limit to this authority. School closures, park closures, beach closures, port of entry closures? Crazy. And for what, because its flue season.
Also, do you want your medical records shared. I could probably start looking up your health conditions if it becomes public record and shared with cities.
This all started because of a small outbreak of measles at Disneyland a few years back. Measles isn't even listed as a quarantined virus on the CDC website. Why such a Nazi policy when the same people argue for open borders? So weird. I don't think any of them know what they are talking about.
I think it's time for people to start paying attention to our so called "elected".
People that are pro-vaccines are starting to get pretty weird. They get heated when they start talking about it. But so are anti-vaxers. To be fair.
DeleteI don't have kids, so hard to relate. But I tend to agree that you shouldn't need 50 shots by the time your 5 years old. Probably explains a lot of the ADHD stuff. So many kids these days have it....
The flu shots are just stupid. Never even work.
Wow....This bill has to get watered down me thinks. I doubt that she actually wrote this. If she did, I feel like she has to have the wrong support staff with her.
DeleteTo 9:04 - "Why would it be a bad thing to require dissemination of relevant information to officials when a communicable disease outbreak occurs? Asking for my anti-vax friend."
DeleteThey already provide relevant information to agencies. That is their job. This allows health officials (anyone working for HHSA in the county or CDC) to access any information (like your medical records) and then issue order they feel like it to control outbreak. Maybe they will show up to your door. Maybe they ban you from work or public places. I agree with the above. Law proposed needs to be deleted or watered down. I wouldn't call it Nazism. But I see the posters point. Kinda "Fahrenheit 451 ish."
F. that.
Delete1:23, don't excuse her actions by the company she keeps. Parents do this with their kids - blame their kids' friends, not their kid, for getting into trouble.
DeleteLike Blakespear, Shaffer, Barth, B-T has no ability to discriminate between good advice and bad.
^^ isn't true is it? I see the bill link, but this is a joke, right?
DeleteHorvath is padding her resume by coauthoring all these BS bills. Exactly as we expected her to. Meanwhile, what has she done for "her" community of Encinitas? Nothing.
ReplyDeleteNot true. She left city council. Shortened each meeting by an average of 32 minutes. Unnecessary babble on every topic adds up.
DeleteDidn't care for Horvath but her replacement is dumb as a rock.
ReplyDeleteThere goes the big ecu tree in front of Karina's. Pity.
ReplyDeleteJust read Blakespear's shameless promotion of her anti-resident housing plan in the coast news.
ReplyDeleteSomeone please explain what these words she used to describe housing element updates: "existential reckoning."
Bonus round question: did she think this up herself or did her "intellectual powerhouse" friend Shaffer feed them it her?
Existential reckoning? Maybe the big money always wins and the electorate be damned?
DeleteShe examined her belly button, consulted her attorney string-puller, and came to the conclusion that it's better to screw residents than piss off the BIA?
DeleteDon't forget the other four votes that included "One of the good guys" (straight off his fb page) Kranz. He went along with the screw after first doing a very bad job of pretending he had a conscience.
Someone please explain what these words MEAN....
ReplyDeleteIn plain English it means the chickens are coming home to roost in a very drastic way as far as out existence is concerned. A huge exaggeration. Maybe she talking about her own position as mayor.
ReplyDeleteWeird.
DeleteOnce a whore--Always a whore.
ReplyDeleteDeveloper Whores are the worst.
I hope you enjoyed the sunset tonight.
ReplyDeleteWith our development W>>>as Mayor, more and more people will lose tiheir ocean view and be staring at condos in their shade.
not too mentions more gridlock on streets, more rude people on the beach, and oh so many more dogs.
Thanks for nothing developers whore.
But she can go to the DCM Christmas bash!
DeleteThe Development Whore is on a field trip to see how she can help make Encinitas look more like Mexico City. Now that is using our tax money wisely.
ReplyDeleteThanks Whore!
The 1986 ballot for incorporation stated that the new city would have approximately 45,000 people. Encinitas now has over 60,000. I’m sure most of the additional residents moved into new homes built by developers. I’m also sure many of the homes built before that were built by developers like Village Park. So were these developers the “scum of the earth” like today or did they only recently attain that distinction? I mean why would anyone buy a home built by people so despicable.
ReplyDeleteDevelopers then didn't write and exploit laws that force high density on cities while pretending it was for affordable housing. Big diff, 12:45. But you know that.
DeleteLand was cheap in Encinitas decades ago. When Encinitas Estates (south of Encinitas Blvd at Cerro) was built, a four-bedroom, 2-bath, 2-story house with den sold for $45,000. That was affordable. Now land is too expensive to build affordable housing without subsidy. Builders don't want to subsidize it.
ReplyDeletePretty sure if you made every home owner occupant in the San Diego area, there wouldn't be a housing problem. San Diego is not a local market and many houses sit vacant, used as vacation rentals, investments etc.
DeleteNone of the above comments address the huge upzoning that the Developer's Whore ushered in. We live in a desert with little water and I don't want twice as many people cramped into Encinitas. 60,000 is to much. I definitely do not want 100,000 in the next 10 years. Geeze.
ReplyDeleteSo SoCal had plenty of natural water when you arrived and didn't need importing it from a number of sources. It's only the people who came afterward that caused us to import it.
DeleteIt's the impending thousands coming thanks to blakespear that will be the issue. We are stretched now with many years declared to be droughts where we can't water our yards or wash our cars.
DeleteAre you personally prepared to let your garden die and let the dust build up on your car and take showers every other day to line developer pockets, 7:49? You'd better be, because you can bet your bottom dollar there is everything in the upzone for developers and nothing in it for you.
Unless, of course, you are a developer. Or a city worker with a pension to support. Or perhaps you received a mountain bike for your troubles. Then your remarks make sense.
Even though Encinitas doesn't allow gated developments anymore, maybe we just make the city itself a gated community. Of course we'd have to set up a procedure so that the workers who can't afford to live here can buzz themselves in.
DeleteAlso, I guess people can't have any more kids as that is the main reason California needs more housing not immigrants. Not only housing but I imagine they'll want water as well.
Isn't your yard drought tolerant? Shame on you.
And can't people do better than to claim anyone who disagrees, however minor, has to be a developer or city worker. Frankly, it's getting a bit tired. Time to think of something new.
who says no more gated communities?
DeleteWhy should my yard have to be drought tolerant because the BIA made a deal with our council? if you don't have a financial interest of some sort, 3:04 - answer that question.
If the shoe fits, it's never old. It just fits.
7:28 PM
Delete"Why should my yard have to be drought tolerant ..." maybe because we live in a semi-arid climate that experiences periods of drought. According to the SD County Water Authority in the years 2013-2017 we supplied only 15% of our water locally. So I guess you're right that the fault is with the BIA who built most of the houses we now live in who need all that water.
No I don't have a financial interest, unfortunately.
The "housing crisis" is BIA driven, period. I for one refuse to rip out decades of garden tending to accommodate developer profits. Most of Encinitas' homes have lush yards that homeowners have a right to retain. The BIA should not get away without addressing the water issue, but then again there's too much money to be made at city hall by supporting their version of reality.
DeleteI think you need to go on a one-person crusade to force us to plant succulents so developers can go sky high and continue to make those boat payments. Let's see how far you get.
10:21 AM
DeleteOr to put your explanation more precisely: "I've got mine, the hell with everyone else"
You're not very precise, 12:32. The explanation is "Water is not in unlimited supply, let's build responsibly." This explanation goes on to say "Just because the BIA cries doesn't mean we have to trash our towns to line their pockets."
DeleteIs there never a point for you at which growth should be controlled? Sincere question.
There are limits but what they are I don't know and I don't think anyone really knows. We've been short on water supplies before but we found new sources to make up the difference and ways to conserve. Should they have said back then that the limit has been reached? If so maybe neither of us would be here. Maybe desalination will become more economical in the not to distant future.
DeleteAnd I wouldn't put the onus for all the talk of a housing crisis in the BIA's lap. There is a housing crisis mostly in the low to moderate range in California. We haven't been building the needed units in all of California. Will builders benefit from the added construction? Sure but the demand is there mostly from natural increase. A builder probably made money on your house.
From SacBee article July 5, 2018
ReplyDeleteOf the 5,500 housing-unit building permits issued by the city between 2015 and 2017, only 98 were for apartments or houses that people with salaries in the minimum wage range or a little higher could afford, according to a city review. And none of those 98 got any city help.
And there you have it. Statewide scam perpetrated by developers, enacted by greasing the palms of politicians, helped along by the "I'll gratefully take the few crumbs you toss me" affordable housing advocates.
Deletehttp://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB262 is a legislative bill aimed to attack minority religions. I saw the comment above - and think I should clarify its origins. Many religions, like Judaism and JW, don't believe in injections. Further religions from India don't believe with injecting bovine fetal serum into the human body. Others don't believe in abortions and some vaccines have human fetus cells. So, it is white people attacking these minority groups and getting them to move. NY county recently banned jews and others, from public areas until end of April (coinciding with Passover, weird timing right?). CA next.
ReplyDeleteNow you know more about Horvath.
"Bovine fetal serum" or "human fetal serum" in vaccines?
DeleteTime to take out the TRASH, WC! Bigoted 3:18 is spewing the usual fake news and we don't want any.
DeleteNot real?
Deletehttps://www.timesofisrael.com/ny-county-with-large-ultra-orthodox-community-bans-unvaccinated-minors-in-public/
https://www.statnews.com/2019/03/26/rockland-county-ny-declares-emergency-over-measles/
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-york-measles-unvaccinated-children-public-ban-20190327-story.html
I'm not supporting the ban. Also not supporting Horvath anymore!
Cont'd: I don't think it matter where you land on vaccines, but banning people, meddling into their records, giving free clearance for health officials to do whatever they want, is too far of an intervention.
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_vaccine_ingredients
ReplyDeleteHuman diploid tissue in many common required vaccines. Bovine extract or serum in about 15 of this list.
Gross.
Would you rather have permanent damage or die from:
DeleteThe WHO lists 26 diseases for which vaccines are available:[2]
Measles
Rubella
Cholera
Meningococcal disease
Influenza
Diphtheria
Mumps
Tetanus
Hepatitis A
Pertussis
Tuberculosis
Hepatitis B
Pneumoccocal disease
Typhoid fever
Hepatitis E
Poliomyelitis
Tick-borne encephalitis
Haemophilus influenzae type b
Rabies
Varicella and herpes zoster (shingles)
Human papilloma-virus
Rotavirus gastroenteritis
Yellow fever
Japanese encephalitis
Malaria[6]
Dengue fever[7]
I didn't die from measles. I doubt you know anyone that has either.
Delete11 deaths over 19 years, in ALL of the united states.
Delete•2000 – 86 cases – 1 measles death (infant) – endemic spread of measles eliminated in U.S.
•2001 – 116 cases – 1 measles death
•2002 – 44 cases
•2003 – 55 cases – 1 measles death (1 year old)
•2004 – 37 cases – record low number of measles cases
•2005 – 66 cases – 1 measles death (1 year old)
•2006 – 55 cases
•2007 – 43 cases
•2008 – 140 cases
•2009 – 71 cases – 2 measles deaths
•2010 – 63 cases – 2 measles deaths
•2011 – 220 cases
•2012 – 55 cases – 2 measles deaths
•2013 – 187 cases (large outbreak in New York City – 58 cases)
•2014 – 667 cases (the worst year for measles since 1994, including the largest single outbreak since the endemic spread of measles was eliminated – 377 cases in Ohio)
•2015 – 188 cases – got off to a strong start with a big outbreak in California – 1 measles death
•2016 – 86 cases
•2017 – 120 cases
•2018 – 372 cases
To be fair, someone did die.
Disneyland was in 2015, right?
DeleteIn 2018, sharks killed 4 people in the united states. Maybe we should ban the beach.
good grief. too much time on your hands. but helpful. won't change anything though. Hovarth has joined the liberal stream.
DeletePeople die from influenza more than anything else.
Deletehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4838234/
Hepatitis B is something that you get from doing adult activities. Don't think your one year old needs that.
ReplyDeleteIf you are not up to date on your vaccines - you have no business being here.
ReplyDeleteBack to the thread topic, the latest Encinitas Guerrilla captures perfectly the theme of the March 27 council meeting. What was remarkable was that the speakers were not all the "usual suspects." Instead, many were first-time speakers who had had it with Blakespear & Co.
ReplyDeleteThe piece has a banner image of Blakespear behind her desk with a plaque "We the people" on her desk. It's calculated, as is everything else she says and does.
As Mayor of Encinitas, I Pledge to Keep Ignoring Residents
Anybody who has followed my career in Encinitas politics knows I go my own way. I put on a show of following the public’s will, but it’s just that — a show. I don’t listen to public speakers at council meetings because I don’t care what they say. I follow my own agenda and dismiss any member of the public who disagrees with me. It’s my way or the highway.
The city manager, the city attorney and staff pick up on explicit and implicit signals about what I want and follow accordingly because I’m the mayor, and they know what’s good for them. Sure, I get some pushback from the other council members. But now I have the dais stacked, so I’ll almost always have my way.
I straddled the fence on Prop A to make it seem I was for it, but, like the other council members, I was against it and still am. I developed and supported Measure T even though I knew it was a ridiculous plan that would most likely be turned down by the voters.
My strategy to get the developers’ HEU submitted to and approved by HCD had matured by the time we put Measure U together. Long before it was on the ballot, I knew voters would reject it. Its defeat ensured we would wind up in court, and its and Prop A’s fate were pretty much guaranteed there. My long-term thinking and strategy paid off. I got what the developers and I wanted.
I don’t bend to the public will. I’ve ignored the majority opinion and votes on Prop A, Measure T, Measure U, the HEU and Leucadia Streetscape. I get away with that because I’m an inoffensive woman who seems to have the community’s interests in mind. I follow the procedures correctly and put on a happy public face, but behind the scenes and out of public view, I’m scheming to impose my will.
I recognize that residents demonstrated how a compliant HEU could be achieved within the Prop A specifications. It could actually have provided a lot of truly affordable units to real people who need them. But that route didn’t meet my or the developers’ agenda. I had to come up with a way to ignore that input while deflecting the blame to HCD and state law. I succeeded at that.
With the commission, council and mayoral experience I’ve accumulated, I’m better equipped to flummox the residents at every turn. Anybody who disagrees with me should just give up. Don’t waste your time.
Incidentally, the “We the People” plaque on my desk is part of the show. I don’t believe in that at all.
The Guerrilla is right on!
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