... on WalletHub's best places to raise a family in California.
Not quite as good as Poway, but much better than Carlsbad.
We score high on "affordability" not because housing or the cost of living is cheap, but because we're all rich!
HT: Jim the Realtor.
Encinitas a better place to raise a family then Coronado?? I don't think so.
ReplyDeleteWrong. Kids in Coronado start snorting blow in 6th grade. Encinitas kids don't even see that shit until high school.
DeleteWait - what? Don't we have an opioid epidemic? I'm confused. The mayor said we did, it must be true.
DeleteWhat? !! We are no 1 in the worst run City Hall in CA for sure!!!
ReplyDeleteLook at how everything the City Hall touches turns to shit.
Elect a whole new City Council who will hire a competent City Manager.
You should make yourself a cup of tea. Maybe go for a walk on the beach.
Delete^^THIS.
DeleteSo many sad people bitching that their hometown isn’t ranked as a shit hole.
1:04 - Agreed. I had to spend last week in the Midwest. It was brutally cold, the food was terrible, and the neighborhoods were sketchy. I came home to a small swell, a delicious burrito, and kids playing in the streets. Viva Encinitas.
DeleteWe may be #23 but our council is definitely a #2.
ReplyDeleteHuh? A 2 would be second to the best. Either you are confused or Nancy Pelosi. Never mind, it's the same thing.
DeleteI wouldn't want to try any stand up with you in the crowd. NUMBER TWO is doody. GET IT?!!!!? Jeeze....
DeleteWriting/doing standup is a tricky art. For instance, instead of using the number symbol, the poster should have spelled out the word "number" then it may have had a chance. When a joke needs to be explained, the joke has failed. But, now that the joke has been explained, it has potential, it just needs a little work. It's all in the delivery.
DeleteSo what? Our City Hall sure seems to mess up everything they attempt to do.,
DeleteThey screw everything up. Too bad. Our town is amazing with a F City Hall. It would probably be too nice if we had an actual functioning City Hall like Solana Beach.
We are #1 at an overpaid and overpensioned staff and fire dept. All hail the princesses!!
ReplyDeleteMuir at a $190,000/year with medical - did he walk on water?
DeleteYour mom is #1 prostitute in village.
DeleteSo is Moose and Squirrel.
ReplyDeleteJust saw the rail trail in Cardiff at 8am on a Saturday morning. Boy is it packed with happy people: couples, kids, families, dogs, strollers. All enjoying exercise, blue sky, fresh air, sunshine, and an ocean view.
ReplyDeleteJust another reminder of the good things that can happen when the negative, depressed, and angry “get off my lawn” crowd is rightfully ignored.
Have a wonderful weekend. Get out in the fresh air. Go for a walk and contemplate the wisdom of one of our nation’s greatest leaders: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Wondering where we will rank if Kranz's proposal gets support from the other four: https://encinitas.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=7&event_id=2065&meta_id=107094
ReplyDelete"Direct staff to draft modifications to Encinitas Municipal Code which could be adopted to explicitly allow for the use of parking lots for approved Safe Parking Programs."
LotS...not lot, which is already under fire for the usual council back-door shenanigans. Kranz is proposing this in addition to the Leichtag Saxony lot. So all y'all condemning the Saxony neighbors for being heartless better put your big pants on and suck it up in your neighborhood, because Kranz has big plans for the entire city.
Tidbits from his noggin of stellar ideas:
Mobilehomes, Recreational Vehicles, and Modular Units -
"Allowed within a High Fire Hazard Area"
"Allow the overnight use of a paved parking portion of [their] real property by the registered owner of a recreational vehicle as a transitional housing alternative"
To quote the mayor: "Don't mean to alarm you, but they're coming. THEY'RE COMING!!!" Wonder why?
No neighbor of mine is going to have homeless people sleeping in their driveway. No way, no how. We already have that rule. You have to be a relative. However, even that is no guarantee the family member won't be trouble. The woman in front tried that 30 years ago. Our car got broken into, radio stolen and then her Dad's unit was burglarized. Wait until it happens to you then you'll take off the Mother Teresa drag, in a hurry.
ReplyDeleteTell it to Kranz and his loyals.
DeleteKrantz needs to go - he has been on the council too long. He has become Dalager II.
DeleteDalakranz the Second
DeleteAnother thing our City Hall sucks at is the message to not encourage the homeless and provide information to the many alternatives. Many residents are stupid and enable the bad behavior of the sad mentally ill and drug addicts.
ReplyDeleteOne of the worse things you can do for a homeless person is to give them money at a street-corner. If you want a rat problem, feed the rats, if you want a pigeon problem, feed the pigeons. If you want to help the homeless then read some information from the experts here - https://www.san-clemente.org/home/showdocument?id=45278 and here
The best thing you can do for the homeless (that do not want to be homeless) is refer them to many resources like shown here - https://crcncc.org/
The best thing the City can do is to not encourage those freeloaders that do not want to work towards anything for their own existence and chose to live like rats. I for one, take care of rat problems in my neighborhood, and the same goes for freeloader/thieves.
Another best thing we can all do is to support additional funding to the CRC, who have been providing daily REAL shelter for years, plus giving out foodstuffs daily.
ReplyDeleteThey can use as much as we can generate their way. Compare their operating costs to JFS who take 95% of the $256,000 HEAP grant for administration purposes, leaving 5% that actually makes it to helping the homeless.
Not profiting off the HEAP grant? Give me a f'in break. Opening the door to future housing on a designated ag in perpetuity, this is a scam on all of us if it allowed.
Lastly, you can bet this is not over with Leichtag trying to get around the restrictions to developing the Ecke property that they bought into. It is only up to us to make sure that remains.
Our current council has been compromised and needs to go, all of them, for not being transparent and hiding behind closed for way too long. There is not a keep in the bunch. They have all been selling us out.
If we could vote out more than the three who are up this fall, you better believe we would. When a new majority is in place, Jodi and Joe will bend to the will and change their tunes. They are already history to many here.
Joe and Jodi should announce their retirement asap. but of course they will not. We are stuck with them for two more excruciating years. Their upcoming minority positions will not be enjoyable next year. If they have any sense, they should get out now while the getting is good.
They can actually generate some positive feelings as they are ushered out. How would anyone who remains in our community want to be remembered?
Jodi and Joe, how do you want us to feel about your part when you are in the minority and further when you time is up? Sleep on that perspective that is coming your way.
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DeleteLaughing all the way to the bank by making money on the homeless?
Delete11:08 makes as much sense as the fine print on a Dr. Bronner’s bottle.
DeleteWhy don't you use your words and tell us why, 5:51?
DeleteSomething severely lacking on team blakespear is the inability to convince everyone why there's not a single thing wrong with her backroom deal.
So why don't you explain what's wrong with 11:08's post? But unlike the council, you have to use facts. We'll wait.
I’ll start by explaining what’s wrong with your comment:
Delete“ Something severely lacking on team blakespear is the inability to convince everyone why there's not a single thing wrong with her backroom deal.”
So Blakespear’s team “lacks” the “inability.” That double negative means that they have the ability. Also, if there’s a “back room deal,” you’d need to prove that with some evidence. Just throwing it into the premise of your argument is garbage thinking that wouldn’t pass in a middle school debate.
Basically, your ability to form a cogent thought is so limited that it’s not productive to engage you seriously.
But just for fun, what’s laughable about 11:08 is the idea that two people who are not facing election should resign now based on the assumption of a sweep in a future election where no one has even declared candidacy yet, and the incumbents have been winning comfortably with up to 85% support.
That’s some real Ha Ha stuff right there.
Stepping down aside, do you believe that blakespear showed transparency when she held two Brown Act violation meetings before the public forced her out into an open one?
DeleteDo you think she showed knowledge/honesty/transparency when she claimed the state's list of jurisdictions gave her the mandate to declare an emergency housing crisis when we're not even on the list?
What I see is a lot of people who think homelessness is a crisis as long as the answer is carting them off to somewhere else and making them someone else’s problem.
DeleteAs soon as talk began of offering a safe harbor and services locally, suddenly the same people have changed their tune and it’s no longer a crisis. If your definition of whether there’s a crisis or not hinges on what the proposed solution is, then you are not to be taken seriously.
What I see is a bunch of spoiled, rich soccer moms who get their drugs from questionable doctors rather than street dealers and think that makes them better people.
It doesn’t.
10:10 AM
DeleteWhat a hypocritical tirade this is! You seem to interpret and judge the supposed motives for the legitimacy of peoples' concerns regarding the situations that impact their neighborhoods. 25 parking spaces does not cure homelessness and is likely a ploy for long-term ulterior motives on land zoning. Your snide drug comment puts your commentary in its proper perspective - totally irrelevant.
Oh, so unless ONE proposal “cures” homelessness 100%, then it isn’t worth doing?
DeletePerfection fallacy.
Helping a few people is better than helping no people.
It's proportionality. The statement is true - it is a temporary appeasement for a problem looking for more substantive solutions. If it is a ruse to slowly eliminate the agricultural only zoning of the land, then it is nothing but a cruel hoax, exploiting these unfortunate peoples' plight.
DeleteI don’t think you know what the words proportionality or appeasement mean, because they make no sense in the context you used them. I literally have no idea what you are trying to say in the first half of your comment. Maybe try again.
DeleteOn the second half, I’ve seen this fever dream around that somehow allowing safe parking on the lot will lead to a zoning change. But no one ever explains how, and it makes zero sense. If Prop A is revived in court, then a zoning change would be in the hands of voters, so I’m not sure how up-zoning to high density would be more desirable for voters if the lot was being used to help the homeless vs. some other use. If Prop A dies in court, same thing. It would be political suicide to change the zoning to evict the indigent so developers can build expensive condos. In fact, I can’t imagine a better way to protect land from up-zoning than allowing it to be used to serve the needy. It would be way easier politically to rezone land that is basically unused and vacant. If I was a villainous council member bent on pushing condos there, the last thing I’d want is a bunch of do-gooders using the site to help the less fortunate.
In relation to the overall homelessness problem, this is a token effort to address it in a very unsubstantial manner. "Better some than none" is an admission that a real solution is either elusive or out of the realms of possibility for local jurisdiction. (Or a scheme).
DeleteYour inability to grasp the rezoning concept as a possible underlying motive perhaps belies your alliance to some particular agenda.
sure, Marco
ReplyDeleteBlakespear has gone the way of Stocks and flat out defies public comment and opinion. Blakespear will go the way of Stocks and be voted out next election.
ReplyDeleteI think Blakespear and crew are very bad for Encinitas. I would vote for Crazy Eyes over Blakespear at this point. How about you?
I agree. Blakespear and team are gone next election.
DeleteThe real story here is how Blanco Nightmare is bussing in hundreds of homeless to Encinitas to draw law enforcement resources away from their gang activity. You can’t get a stall at the farmers market, or teach a yoga class without paying them “protection money.” They also control the entire local production and distribution chains for gluten free baked goods.
ReplyDeleteI heard Bread and Cie wanted to move into North County, and set up a booth at the Farmer's Market. The owner, Charles, ended up with a decapitated raccoon head in the backseat of his Lexus.
Deletesomeone is prejudice against blancos. Sad. Dr. MLK would not approve. Its only skin color. What matters is actions not color of your skin.
ReplyDeleteWe didn't name the gang. A bunch of Oak Crest kids named the gang themselves. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock.
DeleteHarry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
The Blanco Nightmare crap sounds like Marco prejudice against white people to me. Sad.... MLK would not approve.
ReplyDeleteThe people being born with whiter skin today are not responsible for the travesty of prejudice in the past. Please listen and understand MLK's messages.
Marco looks as Hispanic as Prince Charles.
DeleteBlanco Nightmare is an all-white gang, mostly made of kids from Oak Crest middle school. How is this prejudice against white people? It's all white people.
DeleteMore like Prince Harry. He's a Ginger!
Delete“ The people being born with whiter skin today are not responsible for the travesty of prejudice in the past.”
DeleteFirst, it’s great to hear that all racism is in the past—that it’s been solved. I did not know that, and it’s good to hear.
Second, if a group was denied education, freedoms, economic opportunity, and representation for generations, all is not solved and healed the moment the boot of the oppressor is removed from their necks.
If you were running a marathon, and the organizers decided to hold you back at the start line while others were allowed to run the first five miles, when they change their minds and eventually let you start, has it instantly become a fair race?
9:08- You have poor reading comprehension. No one wrote that all racism is in the past. You might want to go to school and consider losing the victim mentality.
ReplyDeletePersonal appreciation, compassion, and accountability are keys to happiness.