Thursday, June 27, 2013

We're #1!

And it ain't even close!

... in DUIs, that is:



1% of our Friday night 101 drivers are drunk.  Some of our drunk drivers cause fatalities.  So do some of our drunk pedestrians.

Isn't it fun to be "vibrant?"

14 comments:

  1. Nothing says vibrancy and revitalization like idling party buses parked on (what used to be) quiet, residential,streets. Nothing says it like crowds of drunk 20-somethings lining the sidewalks of the 101.

    And really nothing says it like rewarding the Czar of Revitalization himself, Mr. Peder Norby, with more money and a new title (whoops, getting a little ahead of ourselves there, but we all know what's coming, don't we).

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  2. At costing approximately each drunk 10K, that's gotta make a lot of lawyers, judges and traffic school teachers happy. Wonder what Carlsbad's totals are?

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  3. Koontz vs St. John's River. Us Supreme Court rules forKoontz.

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    1. Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but wasn't Koontz about government extortion to take the guy's land, and not about establishing city laws for alcohol hours?

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    2. It is about govt extortion, and it's all about requiring a land owner to pay for a city wide election to rezone their property.

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    3. So you think there's some inherent right to infinite upzoning in the "takings" clause?

      Good luck with that.

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    4. Here's another link about Koontz:

      http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/opinion/a-legal-blow-to-sustainable-development.html?_r=1&

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    5. I think I agree more with this take:

      http://www.cato.org/blog/legal-blow-cities-want-take-property

      WCV

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  4. What happened to the posts about Peter and others WC?

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  5. Peder Norby said something at the June 26 Council Meeting, when he saw the way the public comments were going, and finally got his opportunity to speak, about disclosing his family has an interest in a brewery? He didn't disclose what brewery or where. He also said something about owning a "bakery" that shared a wall with Dominic's previous place, the 101 Diner? I thought that was Marvelous Muffins? But Norby wrote to me, before, and to Council, "I was never the owner or baker of Marvelous Muffins." So, I am curious to know where he was baking, next to 101 Diner? Norby also said, at last Wednesday's Council Meeting, 6/26, that Dominic, former owner of 101 Diner, who had and still is having big problems with unruly imbibers, has since moved and now owns E Street Cafe ( which formerly belonged to Bob Nanninga and his partner).

    Norby seemed sympathetic to all the folks so upset about the "unintended consequences" of excessive development downtown, especially development of drinking establishments. Yet Norby was a key figure in promoting the development and the Specific Plans that allowed excessive development, by going against what the people in the neighborhoods said and are still saying, we want! One thing that we do want is diversity and uniqueness of character. That's why Norby's pushing for rebranding of all the business associations into "101 Mainstreet," a generic, national Mainstreet monstrosity, goes "against the grain."

    Our City needs to "partner" with the neighbors, who are the biggest supporters of the businesses, and the City.

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  6. Norby is sympathetic now that it's PC to be so. The complaints of downtown residents of OVER-vitalization are at least a year old and we've never heard a peep from him before. Opportunistic, if nothing else....

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  7. Lynn-

    Again you have it wrong. One thing for certain is you are consistent.

    Peder is intelligent and has a goal for a vibrant well balanced commercial district without heavy booze joints like PB.

    If you could actually listen in your mind, you might be able to hear the value that Peder brings to downtown 101 associations.

    Obviously I support Peder Norby. He is money well spent in Encinitas.

    You Lynn are clueless and need to learn how to listen and get some common sense.

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    1. He didn't have that "goal" until the voices of residents downtown got too loud to ignore.

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  8. 11:21, you need to learn how to "own" your comments about private community members, and stop hiding behind your cowardly shield of anonymity.

    Call me names all you want, but I am willing to publicly share my opinions at Council Meetings, and here. Peder Norby has not been honest. He may be considered money "well spent" for those in the various 101 Mainstreet Associations, for those commercial interests for whom he lobbies, at taxpayer, fee payer expense.

    In my opinion, and in the opinion of friends with whom I've discussed this, the best thing that Council could do to repair their shattered image, and to find more money to support true charities through the community grant program is to get rid of Peder Norby, Gus Vina and Glenn Sabine, replacing Vina and Sabine with lower cost, better qualified candidates. We have far too many employees and contractors in our small city making well over $100,000 per year. I propose a 20% salary reduction, across the board, for all heads of departments, including Vina's newly renamed "cabinet." And don't create another cabinet position for a PR Communications Specialist no one in the public wants, another Yes person for Vina. That would go a long way to freeing up money to pay for unfunded pension liabilities and other expenditures the City wants to fund through our escalating budget's Capital Improvement Projects and Operating Expenses. The City needs to set an example though non-represented employees in achieving cost savings.

    Peder Norby may be intelligent. He has not been honest with Council and the public. He has gone behind our back and written e-mails to all of Council, which are violations of the Brown Act, because of his position as a contracted "officer." Peder Norby has not been honest in fulfilling public information requests that were forwarded to him through the city. He has worked for the benefit of developers over and over again, and against the expressed desires of the neighbors, the little guy. His position has helped to polarize the businesses, who are sponsored by and who sponsor the City, against the residents, while he solidifies the business associations "influence" as symbiotic partners, and overriding "stakeholders."

    Norby has not been honest, as has been documented through Youtube audio/visuals, when he before misrepresented what "consensus" means, then threatened to sue those who objected in another illegal communication with all of Council, a threat reported by Jerome Stocks in the UT. Norby was openly recommending, on ERAC, for five story buildings, which was a "lie of omission," enabled by Council's false anti-Prop A ballot arguments. Council seems unable to distinguish facts from twisted opinions, thanks to contractors, like Norby and Sabine, who lie, representing false conclusions as facts.

    With Norby's help, in our City, commercial sponsors are subsidiaries, and subsidiaries are sponsors. We should not be paying Norby $105,000 plus expenses per year, and paying $30,000 for Leucadia 101 Mainstreet Assoc. and $20,000, each, for Encinitas and Cardiff 101 Mainstreet, putting those non profits before all the true community charities in this town that we love.

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