Here's the conclusion:
Throughout this prolonged and expensive legal process, it is worth noting that none of the city’s adopted housing plans provide adequate affordable housing, despite this being the stated goal.
In fact, the city is currently being sued in Federal Court due to alleged violations of Fair Housing law.
The city’s aim has always appeared to give the developers what they want, rather than to follow the intent of state law to create affordable housing. The mayor and city council lost sight of this intent and goal.
There is an upside. Who wants to live near poor people?
ReplyDeleteI don't. I was once poor and dug ditches for a living, I know exactly of what I write. Screw the poor as I didn't come all this way to live near them. I worked hard not to be them.
You sound like a developer talking. Poverty is not an indication of who will be a good neighbor or a bad neighbor. In my experience, it is the rich and entitled who are the worst neighbors.
DeleteSo 2:18 is either Marco or carrying water for him. 2.18 doesn't like the facts well isn't that tough luck.
DeleteAnyhoo back to the fact that: the mayor sued us, the mayor lied, and the mayor lost.
2:36 bingo. Gonzalez and the BIA have their twisted story and they'll keep telling it and the mayor and council keep repeating it.
DeletePeople who are qualified affordable housing buyers are often the most conscience of all since they are so grateful to actually get a chance at ownership. Marco keeps pointing out that the houses are affordable for 55 years. So what benefit does selling these properties to millionaires bring Encinitas taxpayers? If the City wants affordable renters, they should buy the houses and oversee who rents them not sell them to investors. This is another example of the laziness found in the Planning Department.
DeleteHey pinheads, I don't know "any" of these people you claim I do NOT ONE OF THEM. So, you are WRONG. I in fact dug ditches in the beginning and lived with other poor people. And after 10 years of that, I worked sometimes three jobs to get the hell out of "that hell."
DeleteOf course, the limp wristed know little about that.
2:42 wrote: "So what benefit does selling these properties to millionaires bring Encinitas taxpayers? If the City wants affordable renters, they should buy the houses and oversee who rents them not sell them to investors."
DeleteWell, you answered your own question, sort of. In an era where we need to house the most people we can as quickly as possible, maintaining the greatest amount of rental stock benefits everyone in the City. And I agree, the City should make sure it has a right of first refusal on any deed restricted SFR affordable units that go up for sale, and should create a fund for acquisitions. I think in the past the problem is that managing property as a government entity can be expensive, and without economies of scale (which hasn't previously existed), it didn't make sense to have staff devoted to it. Not sure if it would now, but it's worth discussing.
Gonzalez you've made it painfully clear over the years that the only people you care about "housing quickly" are the buyers of the market rate houses that your clients sell.
DeleteEnsuring developer profits in exchange for keeping the economically disadvantaged on a permanent treadmill of renting is the name of your game. Just own it already. No amount of spin and virtue signaling is going to get you out of the bed you made.
And whne Marco writes that "maintaining the greatest amount of rental stock benefits everyone in the city", he is including the massive build-up of vacation rentals in Leucadia. As a home-owner / taxpayer, I'd thank the City to find another way to "benefit" me. Short-term renters ruin neighborhoods.
DeleteThe city owns 16 affordable rental units on El Cam Real. They're affordable because they're Section 8 units subsidized by HUD. They're managed by a private company, not city staff. HUD subsidizes about 100 rental units in Encinitas. About 85 are owned by private landlords.
DeleteThe city subsidizes the Habitat for Humanity houses by owning the land they're built on. That greatly reduces the cost.
6:11 - oh, good god, please confirm that it is Swell Properties managing these ECR dumps.
DeleteTake a look at Swell's web site - they will manage your crapshack for 8% / $175 per mo min ... Encinitas pols are totally sucking Eric's cock.
As if the wink-wink cannot be tracked to the Blakespear admin.
These poeple are cannot hide their glaring greed.
9:54 They're not dumps and Swell doesn't manage them. The city has owned them since long before Swell showed up. 6:11 responded to Marco. Like you, 9:54, he doesn't know shit.
DeleteBlakespear and Gonzales are grifters - they sold out long ago.
ReplyDeleteGonzalez back to spinning his baseball cap with hysteria over on Verdooo site. Does the dude needs a break? He doesn't sound well.
ReplyDeleteBlakespear hopes voter apathy doesn't realize that her only priority is to serve her developer patrons. She is the antithesis of a dedicated civil servant - she is a crony dupe for the big monied interests. She has made a mess out of Encinitas and now wants to move on to bigger horizons, where the dough (payoffs) is even better.
ReplyDeleteI have to say, I love the fact the Marco has the balls and the brains to post under his own name.
ReplyDeleteObviously I do not for fear of repercussions.
Hence, whether or not you agree with Marco. Hat off to you!!
Always tons of more respect for those that enter the arena:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
.....Oh but now, aren't they calling this man a racist?
10:24 sounds like Marco talking about himself in some weird, detached third person voice. The issue with Marco is that he accuses others of being racist against him when things get uncomfortable and his story unravels. If he didn't do so much to hurt other people he would be worthy of pity.
DeleteRemember when Lisa Shaffer used that quote to praise herself?
Deletehttps://encinitasundercover.blogspot.com/2013/10/in-praise-of-politicians-and-in.html
Shaffer is a founding member of the Thin-Skinned Club with Blakespear as heir and Hinze coming quickly up through the ranks in the organization.
DeleteWC, thanks for the great link! Everyone should read this thread from 2013!
DeleteGonzalez is the racist if you look at his actions and ignore the jawing.
ReplyDelete'Margo' would love his own balls is what I came away with.
ReplyDeleteHis worth to our community is zero. The exception as always is the plight of the developer interests.
He sold out years ago. His positive environmental actions in the past have been squandered to the point of being null and void.
Whoever owns his corporation would be better served sending him on to greener pastures.
Those dried-up pastures may be in the offing. Word is he screwed up bigly?
DeleteLOL...
DeleteThat sounded like a nervous LOL, Gonzalez. If you think people at CLG don't talk...think again.
Deleteseriously why did he even bother to post that...?
Delete2:09 - because it's comical and makes me laugh every time I see one of the anonymous tools claim there is someone here at CLG other than me who has a say over what I do.
DeleteSeriously? You must be the last one to know word is out and you look all the more ridiculous for pretending everything's copacetic. How's this for comical: look in the mirror.
DeleteOuch! Anonymous keyboard warrior burns... LOL...
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