Encinitas' most fanatical "affordable housing advocate" is baaaack! The ink's barely dry on the BIA deal with the devil our Council made recently. The BIA settlement included rounding up on base density for six pipeline projects, although Barbara Kautz, the attorney representing the City, is now of the opinion that rounding down is entirely defensible.The lawsuit filing can be read here.
No surprises here – Meyer said he would sue. No doubt, he's counting on the Council folding like a cheap tent - yet again.
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
David Meyer sues city on density bonus
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Leave it to David. Want to make your city nicer? Sue it!
ReplyDeleteGreedy twit. People like this are what make the world miserable.
DeleteLemon.
ReplyDeleteAh, the Eckes must be so proud that their daughter married this slime ball that is dragging their name through the dirt. I heard they have tried to reign him in but apparently to no avail.
DeleteNo one is surprised one bit that this pos would pursue this avenue no matter what kind of sell out deal our council made with the BIA last year and it was a major sell out to the residents and neighbors of all the projects in the pipeline that got a free pass. This was total bs. Any project should not be counted from the date of application. On the contrary, it should be from when the permit to build is granted. More selling out by council and especially the Planning Dept. hacks that fight the residents every freaking time. This is so old.
If only our [not really ours, are they?] Planning Dept. respected the community and its residents like the Planning Commission showed last week, we might have some real representation at city hall for our votes.
Ecke senior would be turning on his grave at his grandson-in--laws actions.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the city/school should bid all the names around town with Ecke on it?
After all, it's ALL about the money and nothing to do with character right?
Send in The Clowns
ReplyDeleteHe may be legally right.
ReplyDeleteMorally? Another story.
Hey also may not be legally right. According to Kautz, he is not legally right. You sound kinda hopeful, 5:33.
DeleteWhat he is is sure that he's dealing with a council that can't put a spine together using all five bodies and that threats will win the day. That I'll give you. Happy?
Shaffer, Blakespear, and Kranz paved the way for this suit by settling the other suit. Gaspar and Muir cast the right votes on that one.
DeleteI wouldn't give GASpar and Muir that much credit. It was obvious they didn't have a clue what they were voting on, so took their usual safe route of NO.
DeleteWhile I'll take the two no votes, it is an election year. Both continue tight ties with Stocks, Meyer, Andreen, the usual suspects. They just know their true values are not supported by most residents and are that folks watch more closely leading up to elections.
Delete@4:22 what are you talking about? Have you seen this Planning Commission in action?!? The ineptitude is off the charts. I watched online last Thursday as they took a 700 sf addition off consent calendar and grilled the poor pregnant woman and her husband for AN HOUR. They were going to deny it if it wasn't for O'grady shutting down Tasha "I have ZERO qualifications so lets drag everything out for hours" Horvath.
ReplyDeleteIf “respecting the community and its residents” means NOT respecting the city’s own design guidelines, zoning code, housing element, etc. then why should anyone else respect this PC? And the same 10 professional citizens that show up at every meeting does NOT represent the community at large – just the ones without jobs or hobbies.
The way this PC works right now they might as well just put up an applause meter in the corner and if the professional citizens show up and clap loud enough they just automatically deny the application being heard.
Why should this guy suing the City (or anyone building anything, even a 700 sf addition) respect the rules or process (design guidelines, zoning code, etc.) if their own PC doesn’t. The City WILL lose this housing bonus lawsuit this time and it will cost them more than just money this time. The state will control land use in Encinitas by years end. Maybe that’s not a bad thing…
LBDT
Such a lavish Moonlight Beach Safety Center......all to be washed away in due time.
ReplyDeleteGASpar doesn't know what renovate or clean up means. Why am I not surprised?
ReplyDeleteFolks; the Council ONLY settled the BIA/Pipeline suit because Barbara Kautz assured them that once it came before a judge and it was determined that previous councils and the current council had not or did not complete an 'approved' housing-element; that lawsuit would have kick-started the first judge into turning Encinitas' land-use decisions over to a second judge that would begin making land-use decisions for Encinitas from Sacramento, a judge who couldn't and wouldn't know the difference between Neptune Ave. and Rancho Santa Fe Road.
ReplyDeleteThe moment the Council dares to take this Meyer suit into court, the exact same thing is going to happen.
Last month at the Muir/Shaffer public-hearing on AT HOME IN ENCINITAS forum, the rep from the State's Housing and Community Development Commission stated that if the Initiative this November on the Housing-Element doesn't pass, then a Judge WILL take over local land-use decisions and Zero permits will be handed out. There was applause in the room full of naysayers; except, they didn't quite understand or think this possibility all the way through, that way means no water heater permits, building permits for new driveways, gardens, fences etc... Nada, just like it happened in Yorba Linda, the Right to Vote template used by the Prop A people; so, right now, as the ink on the Meyer lawsuit dries, the property-owners might be changing position with the Prop A people, for if the Housing-Element Initiative in November doesn't pass, the developers can fly to Sacramento to get their permits; what're the Prop A people going to do? Buy a bus ticket ticket to Sacramento for Donna and the two Kathleen's?
Hopefully there is a YWCA they can crash at in Sac?
Pam Slater Price and her 'No Growth' followers should be rethinking their positions and figure out a way to compromise on At Home In Encinitas, otherwise they are out of Hold Cards.
When home-owners cannot make changes to their own single-family-homes, heads will roll, Council heads.
Watch for the Council to realize that it is (Check) MATE for Density-Bonus, things will return to the time before Teresa Barth asked for changes to Density-Bonus and watch for another $500K in local tax-dollars being spent on fees for Barbara Kautz.
7:42 aka Mikey Andreen, the developer's choice for lies and propaganda on anything that gets between them and their profits.
DeleteConsidering Mikey left near the beginning of the forum, his recounting of what was said is pure fabrication, but that's SOP for him.
Perhaps time to republish the article of a few years ago: "Mike Andreen - Deception for Hire." Remind folks of how and why he's paid.
is this the same David Meyer who divided a property in half so he wouldn't be required to build another low income affordable house according to code? Is this the person who refused to build a comparable low income house to other houses in the subdivision and instead wanted to use the old house that was on the property instead of building another low income house? Is this the same person who fought for more market rate houses but wouldn't increase the low income affording housing in his subdivisions?
DeleteYes it is, and it's the same Andreen who pulled the financial shenanigans at the old Encinitas chamber. Quit calling other people names in the Prop A. battle. Leave the good citizens of our town alone, and take your travelling snake oil show back to Oceanside, and try doing some honest work for once, instead squeezing tainted cash out of the likes of David Meyer.
DeleteFinancial shananigans at the Chamber? Andreen proved to the Grand Jury he was clean and it was the City of Encinitas that got fined $90K because Maggie extorted the Chamber thru Mr. Winereb.
DeleteAs for the guy who wrote 'deception for hire'. What happened to him?
Mebbe you might wanna stop the morning beer break.
Funny I was at the meeting and said the state has never and will never sue a city and send in a judge. I wonder what meeting 7:42 attended.
ReplyDelete3:26PM You'll look great in your Donald Trump costume this Halloween...your delivery is spot on!
ReplyDeleteWow, maybe the silly season on the blog is ending. The personal attacks surrounding discussion of the brave and upstanding David Meyer, pillar of our community and master of lot splitting and low income housing switching..
ReplyDelete-MGJ
Haaa- Good one MGJ- Shows how stupid the whole Low income housing deal it.
ReplyDeleteEveryone knows Meyers was spored from scum and is the essence of scum. Only thing lower would be a lawyer representing scum and any spouse sucking the faculties of the scum.
Add paid mouthpiece Andreen to the list.
DeleteNot to completely take us off track, but will Gaspar use Andreen again as campaign manager? She may have moved beyond him, but he can still be useful to her to spread the manure she won't touch directly.
GASpar should have her good friend $tock$ running her campaign. He knows how to lose them.
DeleteWhat's the old saw, 'takes scum to know scum'?
DeleteLets see how Gaspar does with scum on her windshield. Most Republicans hat $tock$ who was a part of Gaspars inner circle.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats can't even say the word.
So what up Gaspar. Do you support the prior doings of $tock$?
What ever happened to the Quiet Zone effort?
Right. this second I hear an ignorant train engineer blaring their horn.
ReplyDeleteWe need to end this madness. Support Council that will support quiet zones.
Railroad was here before ANY homes. Don't like it? Move.
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