If you support affordable housing projects and live in Olivenhain, please let me know where in Olivenhain they should be built? All of our affordable housing projects should go into Olivenhain, they have the most undeveloped area in the city and the least amount of voters. The rest of the city will vote for it there. Even if they all vote no, it would easily pass on election day.
Should go on El Camino Real and Encinitas Blvd., both areas need redevelopment. 3 story mixed use with parking behind. Does not affect existing neighborhoods, other than traffic. Traffic on those streets can be improved using smarter signals.
I live in Olivenhain and I'm not opposed to having affordable housing projects here, but they need to make sense. The 2 identified parcels in the latest round of the HE almost makes sense. It's on a major intersection that has mixed use and public transportation - all good. The bad is that RSF Rd needs to be overhauled. Widen it, straighten out the curve to the north and replace the stop signs with roundabouts - then it might make more sense - but we all know that would never happen. As far as your statement that all affordable housing should be put in Olivenhain, are you suggesting changing the zoning for the entire area? Or are you saying that all Olivenhain houses should build granny flats (which is happening by the way...)? Or are you just being obtuse?
Sculpin, you live in Olivenhain? For some reason, I thought you hailed from Leucadia. I just lost all respect for you. Just kidding, never had any respect for you to begin with. Carry on.
I live in New Enci and I support new housing in/around El Camino Real and Encinitas Blvd with 3 story mixed use. The housing has to go somewhere, and that area is underutilized. Yes, it's crowded weekdays from 4-6PM, but most of that traffic is cut-through to La Costa/Carlsbad/etc...but that's separate issue.
3:44 PM The Council will start planning for another 2000 new housing units just required by HCD in 6 more months. Eminent domain will have to take over. Please offer your home and neighborhood to the city. The housing has to go somewhere.
When was the traffic counts conducted? I'm hoping summer 2017. Anything other than that will show numbers lower than reality. For example 101 during the summer is horrible. And that is without streetscape.
By the way - was streetscape factored into it? Or was housing factored into streetscape analysis?
Read the Environmental Assessment. Traffic counts were taken straight from the Spring 2016 EIR for Measure T. Then the spreadsheet of new HE traffic was just added in. The EA does offer mitigations - mostly of the form "acquire property and widen". The EA assumes 4 lanes on North 101 and ignores the narrowing from the streetscape.
When in summer 2017? Because if you don't pick the right few days, the study is obviously flawed. Whatever days you reply with will be the wrong days, by the way.
Summer would be the time of year when many out of towners are visiting our coastline. Yes, traffic is worse this time of year than spring, fall, or winter.
Sarcasm aside, you have to account for the worst conditions when contemplating all this new housing.
So what do we do? Seems like is being swept under a rug....Certainly staff and Council reads these blogs, yet they don't want to respond with the right analysis.
They always claim to being doing great with public participation. They can't even keep a housing task force together.
Does the study include seasonal factors, like the Fair, the Track, Comicon, beach traffic, vacationers etc? Anyone who lives here knows that the summer is peak season, along with commuting and school hours.
Until they do some remediation at Leucadia BLvd. and the RR, little is going to change.
What is the City Council's proposed solution to the traffic gridlock? Ignore the facts, approve the environmental assessment, and approve the lies in the housing element update. In other words - scre- the residents again and again. Don't expect honesty and caring for the residents and community from the Council, the City Manager, the Planning Director, and the planning department.
I have heard by one who is well-versed that the push for round abouts is a way of taking the environmental issue of traffic off the table. It is not really about what people like as much as what developers like--which is to not have to consider traffic as an environmental factor.
5:06 - I heard from a developer insider that special "favors" are delivered to the city planning folks in the men's room at Moonlight. Trans room also utilized for special sessions.
8:13 if you meant to say "development services department" you'd be right, only you've got the location wrong. "Services" are delivered at 505 S. Vulcan St.
8:56: 1) If it were possible it would have been done already. 2) This is the USofA - how can that ever be a selection criteria??? 3) Agreed - but other than infrastructure redesign where do you think it will get you? 4) Been there done that - who's left?
7:28 AM The solution is to say no more building. This first round of RHNA housing will put 35,000 ADT of cars on the city streets. HCD has issued the number of new housing that must be built starting in 2022. It is 2000 new units. That will put another 40,000 ADTs on city streets. Those numbers don't include the building outside Encinitas. There are no sane people in Sacramento and only Council lemmings in Encinitas.
Let's not play stupid games pretending that some alternative sites or magical provisions added or removed from the HEU would work. Because you don't want a solution.
That's a fair and honest position, by the way. Not one I share, but it's completely valid.
ACTUALLY. Some lands score better than other in tax credit programs or affordable housing grants. So, no, he didn't. Maybe for once we talk to affordable housing developers instead of resorting to diatribe.
10:23 - again, if it were possible, it would have been attempted. Regardless, low income housing developers (LIHD's) are not going to waste their time underwriting projects on yet to be zoned land. LIHD's are just as motivated to build projects as any other kind of developer, and if there was a way they'd find it. Query whether there would be any project in Encinitas big enough to warrant the cost of syndication and servicing of a tax credit program?
Point is, the programs that will actually help build affordable housing look for land near transit and commercial areas. Not single-family neighborhoods, where a for-profit developer convinced the Mayor that it would work. Speak to the good guys. Not bad.
Governor Jerry Brown yesterday approved two new laws forcing water usage for Californians. Daily limits will begin at 55 gallons per person, later dropping to 50 gallons. As one California news report notes, "Fifty gallons are considered the minimum needed for health and safety." It further explains, "How consumers will meet the goals remains unknown. An eight-minute shower, for example, uses about 17 gallons of water, a load of laundry up to 40 and a bathtub can hold 80 to 100 gallons of water. A flushed toilet wastes at least 2.5 gallons. It is presumed that vegetarians use the toilet much more than non-vegetarians and a 'toilet tax' is in the works whereas a toilet flush meter will be forced on Californians toilets so that the State can monitor who is flushing more than than fair share." The paper notes that the restrictions are supported by various Democrat environmental groups, though some of these Democrat environmental fascists complained the restrictions don't go far enough.
The imposition of these draconian water limits was predictable. In 2015, referring to previous water restrictions mandated by Governor Brown, one conservative wrote, "And it's a safe bet that Brown's mandatory water reductions will not alleviate the crisis, leading to a drastic increase in restrictions in the not-too-distant future. Watering your lawn, washing your car, flushing your toilet numerous times per day due to a vegetarian diet, and countless other everyday activities will be banned up and down California. In their mania to attack Central Valley farming, the Democrat radicals are inadvertently running the entire state out of water."
Make no mistake, environmental extremists and the Democrats who serve their interests put us in this situation through their misguided legislation and their prolific lawsuits designed to impose ever-stricter water limitations. And by blocking commonsense solutions in House-passed bills such as operating the pumps to full capacity, repealing damaging laws, and approving more water storage projects, they have engineered a permanent water crisis.
The result, as we see today, is a drastic reduction in personal freedom and our standard of living. Californians don't want to have to choose between doing their laundry, taking a shower or going #2 for the third time in one day due to a highly fibrous vegetable-based diet , but that's the kind of choice being forced on us - and the odds are, without a drastic course correction, more restrictions lie ahead.
What I see is a City in disarray. The City Manager must be bipolar or have no ability to get priorities accomplished.
WTF- Hwy101 still striped to kill people.
Housing element - AUkM- The worst ever developed. All will be voted down.
L101 streetscape- City could not have f)_(*d this one up more than humanly possible. All involved should be fired. Especially the City Manager who has no concept of what is good for the City.
Anyone up watching the PC cluster? Will "staff" accurately reflect what the commissioners decided when reporting to the council? With Langagger pushing her developer marching orders, its doubtful. Mumbling Wisneski tripping over her spin per usual.
It was a glorious night for involved residents to tell the Planning Dept. where it can stick their latest futile attempt to craft a housing element plan.
The only true stakeholders had their say, thanks to those cared enough to show up and defend us all from another developer giveaway.
This could not have been made more clear about the incestuous relationship the city has with profiteers when the Keith Harrison property somehow showed up overnight on the list to be developed.
That was quite a fast track with no public revue. Nothing new there.
The majority appeared to feel the city should band together with other towns throughout California and sue the state for not funding the demands for increased housing.
If you support affordable housing projects and live in Olivenhain, please let me know where in Olivenhain they should be built? All of our affordable housing projects should go into Olivenhain, they have the most undeveloped area in the city and the least amount of voters. The rest of the city will vote for it there. Even if they all vote no, it would easily pass on election day.
ReplyDeleteShould go on El Camino Real and Encinitas Blvd., both areas need redevelopment. 3 story mixed use with parking behind. Does not affect existing neighborhoods, other than traffic. Traffic on those streets can be improved using smarter signals.
DeleteTraffic could be improved, but not mitigated to handle tens of thousands more car trips daily. It would worsen under 9:52's scheme.
DeleteAny super concentration of high-density housing such as 9:52 suggests is unworkable.
I live in Olivenhain and I'm not opposed to having affordable housing projects here, but they need to make sense. The 2 identified parcels in the latest round of the HE almost makes sense. It's on a major intersection that has mixed use and public transportation - all good. The bad is that RSF Rd needs to be overhauled. Widen it, straighten out the curve to the north and replace the stop signs with roundabouts - then it might make more sense - but we all know that would never happen. As far as your statement that all affordable housing should be put in Olivenhain, are you suggesting changing the zoning for the entire area? Or are you saying that all Olivenhain houses should build granny flats (which is happening by the way...)? Or are you just being obtuse?
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Sculpin, you live in Olivenhain? For some reason, I thought you hailed from Leucadia. I just lost all respect for you. Just kidding, never had any respect for you to begin with. Carry on.
DeleteI live in New Enci and I support new housing in/around El Camino Real and Encinitas Blvd with 3 story mixed use. The housing has to go somewhere, and that area is underutilized. Yes, it's crowded weekdays from 4-6PM, but most of that traffic is cut-through to La Costa/Carlsbad/etc...but that's separate issue.
Delete3:44 PM
DeleteThe Council will start planning for another 2000 new housing units just required by HCD in 6 more months. Eminent domain will have to take over. Please offer your home and neighborhood to the city. The housing has to go somewhere.
4:37 - 3:44 did offer up his neighborhood, as did I. So that's 2 neighborhoods, 372 units - time to pony up!
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- The Sculpin
Using Tony's logic: since we have existing F levels of service and "traffic sucks already," don't worry about where we build - just do it!
ReplyDeleteHey, Tony! We all know you read and post in this blog. What do you have to say about the gridlock map?
DeleteDOA
ReplyDeleteWhen was the traffic counts conducted? I'm hoping summer 2017. Anything other than that will show numbers lower than reality. For example 101 during the summer is horrible. And that is without streetscape.
ReplyDeleteBy the way - was streetscape factored into it? Or was housing factored into streetscape analysis?
Read the Environmental Assessment. Traffic counts were taken straight from the Spring 2016 EIR for Measure T. Then the spreadsheet of new HE traffic was just added in. The EA does offer mitigations - mostly of the form "acquire property and widen". The EA assumes 4 lanes on North 101 and ignores the narrowing from the streetscape.
DeleteSeems like a subsequent EIR is needed.
DeletePlus new mitigation likely required for housing next to freeways.
When in summer 2017? Because if you don't pick the right few days, the study is obviously flawed. Whatever days you reply with will be the wrong days, by the way.
DeleteSummer would be the time of year when many out of towners are visiting our coastline. Yes, traffic is worse this time of year than spring, fall, or winter.
DeleteSarcasm aside, you have to account for the worst conditions when contemplating all this new housing.
8:10, the city knows that, which is why it chose low-volume Spring. No surprise there.
DeleteSo what do we do? Seems like is being swept under a rug....Certainly staff and Council reads these blogs, yet they don't want to respond with the right analysis.
DeleteThey always claim to being doing great with public participation. They can't even keep a housing task force together.
Does the study include seasonal factors, like the Fair, the Track, Comicon, beach traffic, vacationers etc? Anyone who lives here knows that the summer is peak season, along with commuting and school hours.
ReplyDeleteUntil they do some remediation at Leucadia BLvd. and the RR, little is going to change.
-MGJ
What exactly is the map author’s proposed solution?
ReplyDeleteThe city authored the map and provided the LOS designations, although per city SOP it declined to connect the two halves to tell the whole story.
DeleteSo I believe you meant to ask: what exactly is the city's proposed solution?
What is the City Council's proposed solution to the traffic gridlock? Ignore the facts, approve the environmental assessment, and approve the lies in the housing element update. In other words - scre- the residents again and again. Don't expect honesty and caring for the residents and community from the Council, the City Manager, the Planning Director, and the planning department.
ReplyDeleteAnd in return, residents will give the Council, CM, PD, and "staff" a no vote.
DeleteI have heard by one who is well-versed that the push for round abouts is a way of taking the environmental issue of traffic off the table. It is not really about what people like as much as what developers like--which is to not have to consider traffic as an environmental factor.
ReplyDeleteThe state has already done that for you. LOS isn't a concern for them.
Delete5:06 - I heard from a developer insider that special "favors" are delivered to the city planning folks in the men's room at Moonlight. Trans room also utilized for special sessions.
ReplyDelete8:13 if you meant to say "development services department" you'd be right, only you've got the location wrong. "Services" are delivered at 505 S. Vulcan St.
DeleteLots of complaining.
ReplyDeleteNo solutions.
Lots of solutions, just none the developers, staff, and asleep-at-the-wheel council like.
Delete@ 7:28 - the obvious, in order:
Delete1. Propose housing in smarter locations - away from people's single-family neighborhoods.
2. Look at locations that property owners don't profiteer. Maybe actually meet with affordable housing developers, instead of market-rate developers. Maybe you'll find locations where affordable housing developers can actually build affordable housing.
3. Run updated traffic analysis.
4. Don't run for Council again.
8:56:
Delete1) If it were possible it would have been done already.
2) This is the USofA - how can that ever be a selection criteria???
3) Agreed - but other than infrastructure redesign where do you think it will get you?
4) Been there done that - who's left?
- The Sculpin
7:28 AM
ReplyDeleteThe solution is to say no more building. This first round of RHNA housing will put 35,000 ADT of cars on the city streets. HCD has issued the number of new housing that must be built starting in 2022. It is 2000 new units. That will put another 40,000 ADTs on city streets. Those numbers don't include the building outside Encinitas. There are no sane people in Sacramento and only Council lemmings in Encinitas.
This alone will cripple streetscam.
DeleteThank you for your honesty.
DeleteLet's not play stupid games pretending that some alternative sites or magical provisions added or removed from the HEU would work. Because you don't want a solution.
That's a fair and honest position, by the way. Not one I share, but it's completely valid.
See 8:56 above. Workable solution that perhaps just doesn't pencil out for ya, 10:36. At least be honest yourself.
DeleteSculpin nailed it. Nothing to add.
DeleteACTUALLY. Some lands score better than other in tax credit programs or affordable housing grants. So, no, he didn't. Maybe for once we talk to affordable housing developers instead of resorting to diatribe.
Delete10:23 - again, if it were possible, it would have been attempted. Regardless, low income housing developers (LIHD's) are not going to waste their time underwriting projects on yet to be zoned land. LIHD's are just as motivated to build projects as any other kind of developer, and if there was a way they'd find it. Query whether there would be any project in Encinitas big enough to warrant the cost of syndication and servicing of a tax credit program?
Delete- The Sculpin
You mean like Iris apartments?
DeletePoint is, the programs that will actually help build affordable housing look for land near transit and commercial areas. Not single-family neighborhoods, where a for-profit developer convinced the Mayor that it would work. Speak to the good guys. Not bad.
DeleteIt was attempted with the 2012 General Plan. It worked, but then got blasted by neighbors who live in New Encinitas
DeleteNo zoning, no where will be supported.
DeleteBut if you are going to do it. I would also like to see the city work things out a little better. Certainly better sites.
Governor Jerry Brown yesterday approved two new laws forcing water usage for Californians. Daily limits will begin at 55 gallons per person, later dropping to 50 gallons. As one California news report notes, "Fifty gallons are considered the minimum needed for health and safety." It further explains, "How consumers will meet the goals remains unknown. An eight-minute shower, for example, uses about 17 gallons of water, a load of laundry up to 40 and a bathtub can hold 80 to 100 gallons of water. A flushed toilet wastes at least 2.5 gallons. It is presumed that vegetarians use the toilet much more than non-vegetarians and a 'toilet tax' is in the works whereas a toilet flush meter will be forced on Californians toilets so that the State can monitor who is flushing more than than fair share." The paper notes that the restrictions are supported by various Democrat environmental groups, though some of these Democrat environmental fascists complained the restrictions don't go far enough.
ReplyDeleteThe imposition of these draconian water limits was predictable. In 2015, referring to previous water restrictions mandated by Governor Brown, one conservative wrote, "And it's a safe bet that Brown's mandatory water reductions will not alleviate the crisis, leading to a drastic increase in restrictions in the not-too-distant future. Watering your lawn, washing your car, flushing your toilet numerous times per day due to a vegetarian diet, and countless other everyday activities will be banned up and down California. In their mania to attack Central Valley farming, the Democrat radicals are inadvertently running the entire state out of water."
Make no mistake, environmental extremists and the Democrats who serve their interests put us in this situation through their misguided legislation and their prolific lawsuits designed to impose ever-stricter water limitations. And by blocking commonsense solutions in House-passed bills such as operating the pumps to full capacity, repealing damaging laws, and approving more water storage projects, they have engineered a permanent water crisis.
The result, as we see today, is a drastic reduction in personal freedom and our standard of living. Californians don't want to have to choose between doing their laundry, taking a shower or going #2 for the third time in one day due to a highly fibrous vegetable-based diet , but that's the kind of choice being forced on us - and the odds are, without a drastic course correction, more restrictions lie ahead.
9:58am. Your bs ignorant diatribe left out cultural marxists. You must be slipping. Even hogwash would be offended to be associated with such drivel.
ReplyDelete10:31 AM, you are excellent at pretentious-speak.
DeleteWhat I see is a City in disarray. The City Manager must be bipolar or have no ability to get priorities accomplished.
ReplyDeleteWTF- Hwy101 still striped to kill people.
Housing element - AUkM- The worst ever developed. All will be voted down.
L101 streetscape- City could not have f)_(*d this one up more than humanly possible. All involved should be fired. Especially the City Manager who has no concept of what is good for the City.
She cant be fire fast enough. I hear all staff hate her and the only council member that likes her is Krantz.
DeleteBlakespear is waiting for her moment, but does not like the passive aggressive- I hate residents- attitude.
Its time to remove Brust. Lets get Encinitas under control and lets take control of bettering our quality of life.
Oh let me beat you to your response.
DeleteThe prior was a fired employee and don't mind him. He has no credit. Trust me!!
The old fake blond battle axe that has no postive results to show.
The CM biggest accomplishment is how long she can keep a job, not anything she has done for a City.
Its time for a competent City Manager.
How can you question her competence? She did get rid of most the old deadwood on City Staff. And replaced them with new deadwood.
DeleteShe is deadwood. Not a single person is happy with her performance. If streetscape is overturned or if the HEU fails, she's a gonner.
DeleteNot a single person at city hall who's making a career out of sheer laziness and incompetence, 10:35.
DeleteYou are the sound of someone finally being threatened with having to do a full day's work.
If they are doing a full day of work, they wouldn't be posting during working hours.
DeleteAnd if just now being threatened, then it took three years too long for the CM to do anything.
If the poster is city staff then the CM has lost total control of her staff. I'm truly hoping not.
$taff has been runnng the show for years. When was the last time anyone had control over them? Or wanted it?
Delete$taff is doing exactly what the council wants.
Council has no clue other than what the CM tells them
DeleteShe sounds like a dipshit.
ReplyDeleteThe city manager serves at the will of the council.
ReplyDeleteBlaming her should better be directed at each and every council member.
She is not an independent agent.
You know this and have been reminded numerous times. it is council who directs the city manager. Her job is to do what council directs her to do.
Catch up.
Just like someone was saying, wait until steetscam or HEU hits dirt. Need something big so cutting ties isn't controversial.
DeleteOf course I know this.
DeleteThe City Council is responsible. If they don't fire this
Of course. But our City Manager sucks.
DeleteWe get the bottom of the barrel. worst than Vina. This old bag fucked up all the cities she works in.
Anyone up watching the PC cluster? Will "staff" accurately reflect what the commissioners decided when reporting to the council? With Langagger pushing her developer marching orders, its doubtful. Mumbling Wisneski tripping over her spin per usual.
ReplyDeleteIt was a glorious night for involved residents to tell the Planning Dept. where it can stick their latest futile attempt to craft a housing element plan.
ReplyDeleteThe only true stakeholders had their say, thanks to those cared enough to show up and defend us all from another developer giveaway.
This could not have been made more clear about the incestuous relationship the city has with profiteers when the Keith Harrison property somehow showed up overnight on the list to be developed.
That was quite a fast track with no public revue. Nothing new there.
The majority appeared to feel the city should band together with other towns throughout California and sue the state for not funding the demands for increased housing.
The citizens of Encinitas do know how to vote NO in November. They have experience at it. And they will.
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