Thursday, December 27, 2012

90-foot stadium lights coming to Cardiff sunsets

U-T letter to the editor:
Lights will cause air pollution

I’m sure readers are aware of the development of the Hall Property Park off Interstate 5 in the middle of an Encinitas residential neighborhood. But they may not know about the 90-foot-tall lights the city of Encinitas is planning to install in the park.

The plan calls for the use of four 90-foot-tall lights and 10 80-foot-tall lights, which will be installed by the end of 2013. The standard height for lights in a residential neighborhood is 30 feet, 60 feet lower than the proposed Hall Property’s lights.

These lights will be a nuisance to citizens living around the area. Property values will plummet and the lights will pollute the air. Would you like it if your house, that you paid $1 million for, decreased in value?

Readers can help by writing to all five Encinitas City Council members today, and urging them not to install these lights. If enough people protest, we may be able to scale back the lights in time and save our community.

Jake Smith

student, Pacific Ridge School Cardiff

13 comments:

  1. Jake is right.
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    Www. Cardiffians.blogspot.com

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  2. Let there be light!

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  3. Let there be community character maintained for all five areas of our city.

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  4. This regional sports park with stadium light was never what the majority of the community wanted.
    It was what the majority city council that held a stranglehold on our city for 12 years wanted.
    Citizen surveys, poles and the planning commission indicated the desire of the community was for a community park.
    Two out of three, then three out of four of the recently voted out council majority were members of the group that sponsored the largest tourneyments in the city and made tens of thousands of dollars a year.
    They were the ones that changed the direction of focus of the park. They, behind closed doors, directed the plans to "maximize sports fields", not the public.

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  5. Your rights as a community had been trampled by the lighting contractors and their big money donations to local politicians. Fight back!!! Figure out how to fight back. Am I supposed to believe that you old hippies from the 60-70's have lost your mojo?? Is this the best you can do, moan and groan on a pitiful little blog?? Fight back!!! Bunch a lazy fuckers....

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  6. Organized sport leagues wanted to put 90 foot lights on Leo Mullens Sports fields. Residents did not want
    them there, either. The 90 foot lights plan was rejected. Why should it be different in Cardiff.
    Leo Mullens is surrounded by prodimimtly commercial property. Almost all of the Hall Property is surrounded by residential. A entire hillside of homes would lose their ocean views. Not so at Leo Mullens.
    NO LIGHTS.

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    1. Actually, there are a number of homes neighboring Leo Mullens Sports park though it does seem that the majority of Encinitas residents chose to ignore this fact, and race 50 mph in a "residential" 25 mph zone on their way to Target/Home Depot whatever. We homeowners complain to no avail. I was almost mowed down by a MomV sporting a "my child is an honor student" bumper sticker, just trying to cross the MARKED cross-walk that leads to the trails. As my mom always says, "life isn't fair."

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  7. Turn Pacific View School into a park.

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  8. Are these lights taller than the ones installed at similarly sized parks?

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  9. I wrote to all the council members and the only one that responded to me was Gaspar. What does that say about the others?

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  10. A whole bunch of assumptions in this article. Will property values really "plummet"? The author also assumes everybody paid a "million dollars" for their home and makes the unsubstantiated claim of "nuisance". Can we get a definition of nuisance? When I (we) voted for this years ago, it was to be a sports park, nothing has changed. I would like to know what the neighbors of the fields on Lake Drive have to say about the lights?

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