Wednesday, April 24, 2019

4/24/19 City Council meeting open thread

Please use the comments to record your observations.

23 comments:

  1. Wasting your time. The Developers Whores will give some lips service to make it seem like they give a shit about the city character but this is all about developers profit.

    The vote was decided well before they entered the

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  2. Told you... now they want to figure out how they can get more retirement pay from the property taxes to the City Management and the City Council.

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  3. This council voted 5-0 to support Dave Myer's other development project in Leucadia. This is the most developer friendly council I have ever seen, and I've seen a few...

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  4. The only way to preserve our paradise is to vote these clowns out of office and replace them with people who care about the community and its residents.

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  5. It was cutting in and out a bit watching from home but we saw enough of Tony's super-aggressive interaction with the Batiquitos Lagoon guy to figure he's in Meyer's pocket. Way too argumentative on behalf of the developer. Way.

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  6. next election Tony and Blakespear gone for sure!!

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    1. you cannot beat something with nothing. Where are the people ready to declare their candidacy for the two open Council seats. WE can all be as mad and dismissive as we want, but if we are condemned to having another JP equivalent as our candidate, we're nowhere.

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    2. Patience, grasshopper. JP is not invited to the party.

      There will be three seats open to flip these developer shills: Turncoat Tony, Blankstare, and "I'm with Blankstare" Hinze. Replace them all in 2020. In the works.

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  7. Tony's announcement that NCTD wants to buy more trains so the Coaster can run every 30 minutes sounds good at first blush. If it happens, then the council will say, OK, lots of trains, so let's build five-story apartment houses and condos along the rail corridor.

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    1. Kranz announces a lot of things. I'd ask for the evidence before I'd take anything he says on face value.

      He blurted out a few weeks ago that he'd known all along there would be zero trees in the NCTD right of way as part of Streetscape...only a few minutes after he acted all shocked to hear the news.

      Dude is a mess.

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    2. They need to build 5 story building next to tracks to block the noise every 30 minutes from trains. It keeps getting better :(

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  8. Barely within the camera's view Catherine was visible, popping up and down out of her chair near the end of the Meyer vote. What was that about? It was like the vote couldn't come soon enough for her.

    She, Kranz, Hinze all went on a project "tour" this morning, guided by none other than Meyer himself. Never too early in the day for Kool Aid, dontcha know. And no doubt he threw in some threats to sue just in case they weren't getting the message.

    The three fell all over themselves tonight helping city staff and Meyer explain away issues. What a joke they all are.

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  9. Do you like how Brown Nose Joe Mosca sucks up to everyone before and after he stabs them in the back. He thanked the conservancy then voted against them. Do these folks see what he's doing?

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  10. Developer Whore is too kind of a word for this Mayor and this City Council.

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  11. at the council meeting, in the middle of the David Meyer La Costa project appeal, all five council members were handed white envelopes from a person who entered from outside the chambers.

    The envelopes were fanned out and handed to blakespear, who then passed them down. it seemed that most councilmembers opened them on the spot, below the dais level so the audience could not see what they were looking at.

    Was there some kind of irregularity going on? this was out of the ordinary. Some council meeting veterans had never seen anything like this before.

    does anyone know what this was about?

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    1. They probably were being paid by the developer.

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  12. Payola for all the fine work they have been doing on behalf of developers?

    Anyone recognize the woman who delivered those sealed envelopes to each of the council members, the mayor, and the city manager?

    Curiouser and curiouser. Maybe they were all being sued. To do that delivery in such a public way where it could not be missed, is even more curious.

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  13. At what time designation is that on the video?

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  14. IOW, what time on the video does the mystery woman enter and distribute the envelopes?

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    1. Sometime during the Meyer item. It happened while someone was speaking so the camera didn't move to the woman with the envelopes. You can see at one point brust and sabine looking over a paper very intently and after about half way through the item you can see white envelopes on top of the table next to some of the council members.

      what is certain is that it happened and it was super weird. maybe they were served individually as someone else said.

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  15. Someone certainly wanted to send a message by delivering the envelopes during a public meeting. That's a message in and of itself.

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  16. This sounds like Grand Jury territory!

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