The mayor's newsletter on the Saxony homeless parking lot:
The Safe Parking program here will be closely regulated, will include 24-hour security, and will be monitored to prevent negative consequences for the adjacent neighborhood. Based on my tour of one of the other Safe Parking lots run by JFS in San Diego, and the profiles of the people who park there overnight, I'm confident that very few people will even know that they are there.
The 277-unit mega-project at Encinitas Boulevard and Rancho Santa Fe Road:
[...] we've received a large number of emails from those concerned and upset about the project.
There are still a lot of serious issues to work out. The city's priority is to make sure that the project provides a high degree of quality in the design, materials, function and aesthetic.
SANDAG's next round of upzoning:
Encinitas was assigned 1,554 housing units, after the previous housing cycle assigned us 2,353. The methodology of distribution was entirely based on the number of jobs and the amount of transit, without any carve-outs or exceptions. Solana Beach was assigned 875 housing units, up from 340 in the previous cycle, and was particularly unhappy, along with several other cities.
As the mayor of a city that spent years in a losing legal and regulatory battle with the state over our housing plan, I’m relieved that the SANDAG board didn’t go down the path of proposing a methodology that the state was sure to reject.
Blakespear has to go - along with the majority of this City Council. They do not represent the interests of the constituents of this city.
ReplyDeleteNo they won't. Not unless a lot more people get involved and the people who put this council in place figure out that they made a huge mistake
DeleteHow these enemy of the people could consider turning RR Zoning (rural residential) into this monstrosity is criminal.
ReplyDeleteNo values no morals. The traffic will be horrendous.
You rats will be looking for a new job next election.
No they won't. Not unless a lot more people get involved and the people who put this council in place figure out that they made a huge mistake.
DeleteAnd that is happening, now.
DeleteWhen residents were opposing Walmart, Teresa Barth brought up that Walmart parking lots can serve as long-term parking.
ReplyDeleteThis has occurred in various parts of the country. Not sure if Walmart encourages it tho. I don't think it has gone well. There was a law back east that forced land owners to chase vagrants/squatters off; otherwise, after a certain period of time, an ordinance occurs that requires the property owner to actually accomodate the interlopers!
DeleteThis would be sanitary facilities, at a minimum. Presumably, the owners would have civil liabilities imposed upon them too. Taking care of the down and out is the government's role - stop pumping trillions into the war machine and do more social welfare.
This is all based on the left in control of the State of California. You voted in the America hating leftists now live with it, you fools. Everything they do fails
ReplyDelete2:09: You are as dumb as a stump. Stop posting.
Delete2:09,
DeleteWhat do you think Republicans would do if they were in power, give the finger to developers like Papa Doug?
Yeah, right.
the far right and well meaning but poorly grounded left have joined forces
DeleteMayor Blakespear's fantasy account of the SANDAG vote and the Voice of San Diego report:
ReplyDeleteThis Week’s SANDAG Squabble
Not long ago, the San Diego Association of Governments was a boring place.
It still is, if you live anything close to a normal life.
But for us, SANDAG meetings have become must-see displays of tension, where the fundamental political changes taking place in San Diego play out in real time.
OK, maybe that’s overwrought. But board members disagree now, which is new. And the changes to voting procedure brought by AB 805 have created the drama around parliamentary procedure we crave.
This week’s fight: Who’s ready for an old-fashioned slobberknocker over the methodological approach to complying with the state’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment law?
You’re in the right place.
SANDAG’s board approved the agency’s approach to complying with a complicated – and failed – state housing law. Every eight years, the state tells every region in California how many new homes it needs to accommodate in order to keep up with population growth.
Last year, SANDAG’s board took the unusual step of accepting the state’s initial offer, rather than lobbying for a lower one. Now the agency needs to divvy up all those new homes among all the jurisdictions in the county. Then each city is expected to draw up its own plan demonstrating that its planning documents would theoretically let developers build all the units for which they’re responsible.
And if developers don’t build all those units? Nothing happens. And they almost certainly won’t. The law is a failure.
SANDAG decided to do so by emphasizing cities near transit and job opportunities, pissing off leaders of small cities in the process.
Solana Beach Mayor David Zito proposed a replacement measure that would carve out the coastal area, pushing some of the homes eyed for those jurisdictions to be built farther east instead.
“We have absolutely no more room,” said Imperial Beach Mayor Serge Dedina. “I’m really unimpressed and concerned when progressives are talking about GHG reductions … this plan will absolutely increase GHG.”
SANDAG Director Hasan Ikhrata, noting that the agency’s plan had already been praised by the state, emphasized that whatever new proposal they come up with would still need state approval.
“Let’s try it,” said Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey. “Let’s send it back.”
Escondido Mayor Paul McNamara was even more eager to square up the state.
“I’d rather fight the state, than just knuckle under,” he said. “We can overbuild. And we shouldn’t have someone outside the region telling us to overbuild.”
The new rules: But in what’s quickly becoming a common occurrence, opposition on the board lost out thanks to AB 805. That law allowed board members to call for a weighted vote, where each city’s vote had value proportional to its population. It puts the city of San Diego in the driver’s seat for any decision.
Zito’s proposal passed on the standard tally vote, where every board member gets one vote.
San Diego Council President Georgette Gómez then called for a weighted vote. The 10 cities voting with Zito only represented 28 percent of county residents, so they lost.
Bailey then offered his own substitute motion. That too passed on the tally vote and failed on the weighted vote.
San Diego Councilman Chris Cate then called for a vote on the agency’s initial proposal. It failed on the tally vote, and passed on the weighted vote.
Done deal.
Not one person from Olivenhain spoke up for Leucadia getting screwed in the Measure U debate.
ReplyDeleteFuck ‘em.
Build it to the max.
You don't know that. In fact, you have no clue who tried to stop this insanity. Did you learn to use bad words from your mother? Have some manners.
Delete8:36,
DeleteStop clutching your pearls and show me a single comment here on EU, on Encinitas Votes, on local news stories, on Nextdoor, on Patch, or in front of city council during public comments.
Show me one person from Olivenhain who showed any concern for Leucadia taking an unfair share of the burden.
They didn’t, because they were more than happy to screw Leucadia if it meant fewer units for them.
Again, fuck ‘em. Build that project as tall and wide, with as much density bonus and choking traffic as possible.
helloooo 12:13, the name Julie Graboi mean anything to you? She's worked harder than most from any other corner of the city to stand up for every corner of the city.
Deletewe're all in this together so start acting like it. be the change you want to see, ya know?
Let us examine the possibility of someone that pays $2500.00 a month rent, living next door to someone on Section 8, tax payer funded renters. Who in their right mind would pay that much money to live there? Long after this leftist mayor and the other leftist hacks are voted out of office, this horrible idea of building the nasty apartment complex will have been constructed on horse property. That's right, RR zoning is two horses per half acre. But not now Their goal is to ruin it for what?. This is nothing more than force multiculturalism and nothing to do with low income. Beware the left, the enemy within.
ReplyDelete8:34, you really are very very dumb. The “leftist” occupy so much time in your head you should be charging them low intelligence rent.
Delete8:34 I like your initial examination, So let's examine the idea of spending $512,000 / 12 months / 25 cars = $1,706 / month per car family. That money could be spent actually providing people housing, and dignity, and even have money left over for social service. So my question to your 8:34 is how big is your political following? Do you have the thousands of residents aligned with your good, fiscally sound ideas? If not, the please tone down the labeling, name calling rhetoric, make some friends and allies. If you want to succeed with your good ideas, your going to need to let go of some of your bad ones. (balanced books and all).
Delete8:34 — Let us tell you to stop posting because you don't know what you're talking about, and you mind is poisoned with hate.
ReplyDeleteNAIL ON HEAD - the Guerrilla hits it again:
ReplyDeleteBlakesmear Über Alles!
I will decide! I will command! You will obey!
Do not question my judgment. Do not challenge my positions. I am in charge here. You have no voice. Residents don’t matter.
I let site L7 fall out HEU consideration. It would have provided affordable housing, but that’s not what I want. I want market-rate housing to satisfy the BIA, developers and my favorite local attorney. I also want to protect my family’s real estate interests.
I want a 69-foot apartment tower near the corner of Rancho Santa Fe Road and Encinitas Boulevard. I don’t care about worse traffic jams. I just want to make sure the tower is well-built and looks good from a distance. I want it to set a precedent that all the HEU sites can follow.
You will ride bikes or walk. You will get out of your cars, even if they’re electric. Don’t ask how I got to Long Beach to accept the ADU award. Assume I took the train and bus.
I got the quiet zone for trains in Cardiff. I live in Cardiff. Downtown and Leucadia don’t count.
But I’m all for Leucadia 101 Streetscape and will commit whatever tens of millions it takes to get it built. I will brook no opposition.
And I want The Ray hotel built near Keno’s regardless of its code violations and its negative impact on the neighborhood.
Who will speak for the trees? Certainly not me. I want to destroy all the big old ones and replace them with little ones. I want them all to be the same height.
I want to kill Prop A. I developed a long-think strategy and tactics to do that. It culminated in a lawsuit against Prop A supporters. I caught them out to lunch. I will cripple them.
Homeless parking in the Leichtag lot across from the Y and sports fields on Saxony is not a public issue. I don’t need input from residents.
I packed the council with acolytes. I gave them power. They owe me and won’t risk incurring my wrath. Same with the staff. They won’t chance losing their cushy jobs, big paychecks, benefits and pensions. They know which side of the bread I butter.
Blakespear needs to be removed from office. 9:54 AM nailed it. Developers will be donating big to her campaign to keep her at the helm for their intere$t$.
DeleteMayor Blakespear chaired the committee that decided how to divide up the RHNA allocations. Why doesn't she admit it?
ReplyDeleteBlakespear is the worst Council Member in the City history. Developer's whore.
DeleteWhy isn't low income housing being built on the school property the City bought for 10 million dollars and is still paying for?
ReplyDeleteHmmmm?
Amended Nov 20th meeting. Closed meeting with head of Park and Rec to discuss sales and terms for DeWald to buy Pacific View property. Item #1. Read it and weep.
Deletewhat are you talking about?? no parks & rec held on nov 20 and no closed session on the 19th or 20th. link, please. until then I remain dry eyed.
Delete6:52 city council meeting. Look it up yourself.
Delete10:10, seriously - I did look at the city council meeting on Nov 20 under "agendas and webcasts." NO closed meeting with Parks/Rec is on the Nov 20 agenda. Help me out here, would you? This is what I see, with the closed session report (if held) link not going anywhere when clicked:
Delete1.CALL TO ORDER
2.ROLL CALL
3.PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
4.SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS
4A.Presentation by the Information Technology Department regarding the updated City Projects Application
5.ORAL COMMUNICATIONS / POSSIBLE DIRECTION TO STAFF
6.REPORT FROM CLOSED SESSION (IF HELD)
Help us out here, would you? DeWald along with other civic notables I believe was involved with Pacific Station.
Go to Encinitas Votes-scroll down
Deletehttps://archive.encinitasca.gov/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=811736&dbid=0
DeleteThank you, 3:16.
DeleteYes thank you from me, (10:10 AM) as well. So, any comments on what the hell is going on here between Park and Rec and Mr. DeWald?
Deletewhy isn't low income and the homeless put into the bottom floor of the Lifeguard McMansion?
ReplyDeleteits so sad they have to sleep in the cold when there is that nice $6million dollar building rotting in our surfzone.
5:03 - PV school isn't zoned for residential so would have to go to a Prop A vote. Unless of course our mayor decides to plug it into the next plan and block us from voting on it.
ReplyDeleteProp A is DEAD, a judge saw to that. The school property is surrounded by residential so a simple stroke of the pen would take care of that. There is something very odd about these numbskulls doing nothing with the school property, very odd. Yet, they are trying to ruin historic Olivenhain. These rats know no bounds
ReplyDeleteProp A. is only dead for one cycle of the HEU. The city is suing the Prop. A folks to kill it permanently for all futures HEU updates.
Deleteprop a is still alive!!!! and you need another vote this time too. Until youre sued. city troll!
DeleteWhy would you think Olivenhain is more "historic" than other areas of Encinitas. Although I am not a fan of large development, like is planned for Encinitas Blvd and Rancho Santa Fe road, you can take your lumps, others have.
ReplyDeleteIf you are concerned enough take it to court.
I did not write Olivenhain is more historical than other parts of Encinitas, you wrote that. It's ruining property that is zoned RR.
ReplyDeleteOne dwelling per .05 acre. That is where the problem stands. Ruining horse property and large parcels to "not" have more traffic and more people. It will be fatal to the traffic issue, the worst intersection in all of Encinitas. But, it doesn't matter to people that don't live in the area. I get it.
Ruining your neighborhood is no more sad than ruining mine. Your horses are not more important than the people who live on the coast.
DeleteOlivenhain needs to share the burden along with the rest of us.
I’m sick of this bullshit of Olivenhain thinking their part of town should be exempt. Get over yourself, and join in the burden sharing with the rest of the community, or the rest of the community will turn on you and make you the dumping ground.
Divide and conquer is the blakespear 2020 campaign slogan.
ReplyDeleteGenerally speaking, the most intelligent people in Encinitas live in Olivenhain. Many are snobs who think they're better than the rest of us. Yet, they were stupid and gullible enough to elect Joe Mosca.
ReplyDeleteSo now a 69-foot, 277-unit apartment house is proposed for their community. Let's see them put their brains and money to work to stop the project and prevent it from setting a precedent for the other HEU sites to follow.
Olivenhain is angry that they didn’t get zero units, and think that ALL of the units should be in YOUR neighborhood.
DeleteThey are not fighting for all Encinitas. If the city offered to stop this project, swap parcels, and put those units in Leucadia or Old Encinitas, they would accept that offer so fast it would make your head spin.
Olivenhain cares more about horses than they do human beings along the coast.
It's the traffic. The worst intersection in Encinitas. Pre schools, schools, narrow roads, children crossing the streets. What is it you don't comprehend?
DeleteYou don't get it because you don't want to get it.
The point of referring to RR zoning was an example of the radical thoughts of these leftists taking issues to the extreme. So, instead of you being so angry, try and think of how to beat these clowns at their own game. Let us all work together.
The traffic is a BS issue. The traffic could be fixed. Widen the roads. But no one in Olivenhain wants that do they? They’d rather have shitty roads as an excuse to not share the housing burden.
DeleteOlivenhain folks want to make ZERO sacrifices. Unfortunately, housing units are a zero sum game. By making ZERO sacrifices, you are actually insisting that people along the coast make even more sacrifices.
Joe’s district has about 25% of the population of Encinitas. And yet you are being asked to host about 9% of the new units. That means you are doing about 1/3 of your fair share, and yet you are complaining, and want to push even more of those units toward my neighborhood.
I call bullshit.
Fix your damned roads and do your share.
Stop being selfish.
Fix the roads, with what? A Jeannie blink?. And how do you plan on doing that? Buying all the houses on Santa Fe Rd and Manchester Rd to widen the road? Hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase those properties is coming from where? Nice plan you have. Try not being so angry all the time.
Delete6:42 you'll get nowhere with you blanket condemnation of "leftists". It's wrong and prejudicial. You blame everything not going as you'd like on "leftists." The problem is more with you.
DeleteOh, what a surprise—you think the roads are an unsolvable problem.
DeleteFollow up question: are there any alternate locations you propose in Olivenhain that would be suitable for as many units where you think the traffic would be better?
Because if your answer is anything but a “yes,” followed by a specific parcel or parcels, then what you are literally saying is that 1/3 of your fair share is just too much, and you want to push those units into my already overburdened neighborhood.
If that’s the case, I think I speak for many neighborhoods when I say:
You can fuck right off.
Stop being so selfish. Demand that the city expand your roads, so that you can accept your fair share of the burden.
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA! And they said our divide and conquer strategy would never work! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Delete- Blakespear, twirling mustache.
Translation of 12:34:
DeleteWe should all stick together and support Olivenhain in their effort the screw everyone else.
To all who live near Encinitas Blvd./Westlake/Quail Gardens Dr. and don't know about the new zoning for homeless emergency shelters in your area.
ReplyDeleteThe Council approved a an ordinance in the beginning of 2019 that identified the business park and industrial park zones that became a by right zone for homeless emergency shelters. That neighborhood across from the business park will have new neighbors.
Can we make the Mayor's and entire City Council personal residences homeless shelters just until Spring? That way they can experience their own cognitive dissonance in real time.
ReplyDeleteDo it for the children~!
9:57am
ReplyDeleteThanks for the continuous comedy.
We've reached peak stupid and you're the poster child.
Congratulations.
Now go back to watching your favorite Collusion News Network program...
"Reliable Sources" hosted by the Pillsbury Dough Boy
ROTFLMAO!
11:45 LIke most right-wing reactionaries, you're misinformed and underinformed. You post garbage off the top of your empty head. Your points are ignorant and prejudicial. You're what pollsters call "a low-information voter."
ReplyDelete^^^I bet you are a lot of fun at the Thanksgiving table.
DeleteYour family must be proud.
3:42 you are a typical democrat. If you can't win the point attack the messenger. Move back to San Francisco.
DeleteSo, 6:40. you didn't attack the messenger in your 11:45 post above?
DeleteYou don't have the brains that God gave a squirrel.
so new rhna numbers plus the rollover penalty from last time!!!!!! no thanks. Good luck getting my vote.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it would be easier to un-incorporate.
ReplyDeleteRSF was much smarter to never incorporate to begin with and will never have to deal with this BS.
Turn the former Chargers Stadium into one large homeless center. It'd have better attendance numbers than when the Chargers were in town!
ReplyDeleteGood idea but that will never happen as San Diego State and the California stolen tax payer dollars will take it over. Just a matter of time. Tic Tac
Delete5:19 is spot on.
ReplyDeleteHow about becoming a charter city?
ReplyDeleteWould that free us from having to accept Sandogs numbers?
Leechtag is going to invite the mentally ill and drug-addicted 'mobile homeless' into your neighborhood because they are morally superior to you stupid goyim and know what's best for you because Tikun Olam means 'changing the world to a anti-Christian Jewish world' and you happen to be living in it. The guy who started Leechtag was a classic swindler, how else did he 'persuade' the FDA to 'give' him the only license to produce generic psychotropic stimulant drug Ritalin to 'treat' your boys hyper-activity and then grotesquely profit from this tax-payer funded business deal? Look at the guy who runs Leechtag today, he used to be the director of a firm that was established to protect a Jewish pedofile murdered Leo Frank (look it up and don't let the Jews suppress your free speech) and the same firm who has been caught red-handed by the FBI for spying on Americans in the Bay Area that criticized racist and sexist Israel (you know that allegedly democratic place where women cannot get divorced without written permission from their husbands. Leechtag under Jewish Supremacist Jim Farley also invited non-Christian 'refugees' to come to Encinitas, just read about how El Cajon is doing after having been taken over by gangster-style Caldeans (look it up before the Jews censor the information you need to guide your family's future).
ReplyDelete12:36 PM You left out the blacks, the Irish, the Japs and the Okies.
ReplyDeleteI hate to say it, but the City Council direction is definitely going to spike Vigilantes. I for one take ownership of MY neighborhood that I worked hard and save daily too afford a safe and comfortable life for my family.
ReplyDeleteI think the neighbors will be putting the hammer down on crime and the freeloader criminal homeless. Encinitas like its town and will not be sold out.
This City is made of up of all Non Working free loaders. They don't know what its like to have to work and save.
* Correction- This City Council is made of up of all Non Working free loaders.
ReplyDelete12:36pm is the same old nauseating Rodger Thomas Ogden from down in a San Diego neighborhood, [I feel for his neighbors] spouting his hate on our local blog.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing missing is his patented cultural marxists label.
Rodger take your vomitous spewing elsewhere.
Mister Roger's Neighborhood On Acid!
ReplyDeleteIf I lived next to where these clowns are going to try and build the 277 units on Rural Residential property I would file suit against the City of Encinitas and the property owner for ruining property values. This city council better start sending out resumes. They are soon going to be out of a job next election.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of fools