Wednesday, May 11, 2022

5/11/22 City Council meeting open thread

 Please use the comments to record your observations.

47 comments:

  1. Margo, haha, playing the race card?

    Who couldn't have seen that coming?

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  2. Maybe it is just me, but all this talk about equity from a city that allows selling the few affordable homes to be sold to investors rubs me the wrong way.

    The unashamed hypocrisy is shameful.

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    1. Yes and that hypocrisy came from several speakers but the 5 just sat stonefaced like Easter Island statues. Catherine did perk up when Marco tried to come to her defense just didn't do too good a job of it he acted like he was in some weird little world of private jokes with himself.

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    2. Roots run deep. Don't dig any further.

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    3. The look on the City Attorney's face was priceless when the bogus low income housing topic came up. A complete "Oh no, what did I get into" expression.

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    4. Marco lied when he said he was talking about Solana Beach when he slammed Encinitas residents for being racist against "brown" people. I heard him say it at least twice. The first time everyone was shocked into silence. The second time he started to get some push-back. He was clearly directing his remarks to local residents about Encinitas projects. He publicly admitted he is a developer. He can't lie about that anymore.

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    5. And even if he was talking about Solana Beach, if he didn't specify that and was talking with Encinitans, of course they would assume he was playing his usual race card against them. He's a liar either way. His body gyrations while he was talking were very strange.

      Yo Marco, time to hang it up? You think you helped the mayor, you didn't. You just made yourself the object of ridicule - again.

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    6. https://voiceofsandiego.org/2014/10/20/marco-gonzalez-calls-bullshit-on-dense-development-objectors/

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    7. Feel free to read the article linked by 6:55. There's nothing there referencing a specific project or city. I work on affordable housing projects throughout the county, not just Encinitas. If you think I was talking about you when I mentioned racist undertones to anti-affordable housing messaging, then maybe it applies and you just feel guilty.

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    8. Margo you were reaching so hard there you dislocated your shoulder. Do you not know what an object of ridicule you are? Apparently not.

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    9. Why would I give a shit about being an object of ridicule among you idiots? LOL...

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  3. Thanks Tony for another sleepless night and for our whole family being woke up by the 4:45am train that went blaring through full horns for miles with no breaks.

    I'm sure many of us our well on our way to dementia from all the sleepless nights.

    Since your F'cking train increase you approved last fall when you where chair of NCTD, I have felt completely sleep deprived and sick. I feel, its only a matter of time until I get a diagnosis of cancer or dementia. All for an increase in a train service with very low ridership and spewing spent diesel fuel over our children in the adjacent schools and all the surrounding communities down wind.

    Tony - Your promotion of the Coaster death machine is probably your greatest accomplishment in life. Too you didn't focus your energy on doing positive in life instead of the devils work.

    For anyone who is well enough to help, please move towards the light and Recall Kranz Now.

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    1. What is the process? How can this be started?

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    2. Like recalling Kranz. Dislike increased train noise and pollution that gets our school kids and community sick and dying.

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  4. Watch the City Council meeting last night. Speakers Linda and Jim Barber know the seriousness of the deathly Coaster service. They look excremely tired and Alheimerz loves nothing more than a tired braiin.

    My question is why didn't City Council take action last night to direct Staff to change their prior bad direction and move the $6 million dollars available toward the beacons repair project and also funding the quiet zones?

    Fixing beach access and addressing a public health dissaster is much more important than funding yet another unneccary public art ccommunity center. The few Karens that want to do their art together can form a club and if the want to meet, they can meet at the existing libraries, or the existing huge City Community Center on Bolour and get some of the seniors and homeless involved.

    Fund Beacons Beach Repair with $4 million as a start and fund the health emergency for the quiet zone for the remaining $2 million.

    This City Council needs to quiet approving actions that causes hte demise of its residents.

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    1. Public health is a very hard topic to brush off and ignore

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    2. Dislike hurt children and promoting mental health and dementia

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  5. I am sorry to all for my sloppy writing. Unfortunately, my dementia is accelerating with my recent lack of sleep.

    *This City Council needs to quit approving actions that causes the demise of its residents.

    Please approve budgeting the $6 million dollars in discretionary funding towards Beacons and the Quiet Zone. If you fund the $6 million to Pacific View it shows you have zero compassion for your citizen's welfare.

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    1. Like beacons. dislike spending millions on PV

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  6. Gonzales hypocrisy stinks up the room... Blakespear is hoping to get to the State level, where she can really accomplish nothing. Take Speedy with you.

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    1. Dislike Gonzalez

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    2. Big surprise, people on this site don't like me. Not leaving anytime soon. Happy to engage if anyone cares to visit in person.

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    3. No surprise, people off this site don't like you. Folks ask your attorney friends around the county...you'll get a good laugh.

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    4. And yet, the clients keep walking through the door...

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  7. Thanks to Donna Westbrooke for expressing the frustration many of us observers have felt toward the city's non-representation we have had for too long.

    The straight shooter she is allows little of the bs that we have been getting with this bunch. Way to go Donna! You continue to be my hero for your courage to state the unadulterated truth. Just the facts ma'am. You are always spot on and always appreciated, at least by the public that pays attention.

    Not so much by the council and their so deserving of criticism lackeys.

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  8. Blakespear had called all of her supporters to attend the meeting. This included Marco Gonzalez who was there to support his favorite mayor. Anytime Blakespear starts talking first and makes the motion before the others council members speak means the decision has already been made. This is a Brown Act violation. Blakespear was talking so fast that she sounded like she was high on something. Kranz, Hinze, and Lyndes were looking at her with rapt attention. Only Mosca was staring straight ahead.

    Kranz surprised by saying he had doubts about expanding the Planning Commission to seven members. Mosca surprised by his terseness, by not thanking everyone, and by not circling back with his comments and saying everything three times. Hinze and Lyndes surprised no one by their predictable, worshipful support of Blakespear. Of course, the Equity Committee report was accepted with enthusiasm, even though the mayor didn't have that triumphal look on her face. The vote was 5 to 0. She quickly declared a recess.

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    1. The Equity Committee and Hinze/Blakespear support of adding two renters to the Planning Commission for "representation" shows just how poorly they understand the function of the Commission. You know it's bad when Kranz has to explain to the others that there are laws and code that must be followed whether homeowner or renter and that yet another virtue signaling brainstorm will not work in reality.

      But that doesn't burst the lala land bubble inhabited by Blakespear and Hinze.

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    2. Terseness, he knows what lame duck means.

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    3. Dislike BIASpear. Dislike Hinze.

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    4. Blakespear didn't call me to support anything, but I did see Mali's email. ; )

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    5. Just happened to see it, huh. And the mayor didn't work with Mali to put out the all hands call. Marco why do you bother, you're such a piece.

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    6. Marco got all poetic on us by quoting Hamlett. MG reminds me of a famous poem by Robert Burns called "To a Louse."

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  9. Place your bets. The three applicants for the Olivenhain seat on the Planning Commission are Robert Prendergast, Frederick Snedeker, and Dan Vaughn.

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  10. Mailed in my vote today for Joe Kerr. That felt great!!! 👍🙏🙏🙏✅

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  11. Joe Kerr four state senator for the 38th District and Christopher Rodriguez for the 49th district of US representative👊💪👏👏👏🙏

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  12. Did you notice they allowed clapping?

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    1. Ha ha. I was going to make the same comment. Guess you can clap for speakers who support Catherine’s positions. More hypocrisy.

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  13. Concerning Bluff erosion and Beacons Beach Access;Just building another expensive stairs and or sea wall won’t stop this problem.This is a result of inland irrigation runoff , climate change and erosion from weather and increased massive human foot traffic. Combined with humans stopping the natural flow of sand down the coast from development of jetties and other structures. the natural flow of sand down the coast from the north has been stopped first by the landing jetties at Camp Pendleton ,SanDiego county has no public natural water supply .The unnatural design landscape uses are a big problem with this erosion with the constant flow of irrigation run off underground eating away at the soft sandstone. As last long as we are continuing our addiction to fossil fuels , temperatures will be rising and we will loose 6 inches of these soft sandstone bluffs every year.We are addicted parking lots, oil, gasoline guzzling automobiles and water slurping landscaping . Americans are only 2% of the world yet we are using 25-30% of the worlds oil making us dependent on foreign countries that use that money on war and Oppression of the weak.Our own oil companies supported by huge subsidies from the government ( our taxes) gouge us with huge profits now using the pandemic and inflation as an excuse. Until we stand up for ourselves and the environment nothing will change for the next generation our children

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    1. Ohhh' gawd...not another gullible warming lecture.
      I tell what...figure out a way this section of the earth isn't desert...go on...give it a shot. You don't drive a car?
      Have landscaping?
      Perhaps living in another country will make you feel better. How bout' the U.K, Australia and the like.
      Never mind, they drive cars and, and, and.
      Stopping the natural flow of sand down the coast???
      Huh?

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    2. Maybe 12:04 can call on the drooling fool biden or goofy leftists to save us all. Just wait till people like this have no electricity as the crazy eyed warmers have managed to get "all of the power plants closed down in San Diego County". If you clowns think power producers in other states are going to share in times of trouble...You are dreaming. Number one comes first, not number one shares. You fools

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    3. 12:04 AM Accurate assessment.

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    4. 5:57...Huh?

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    5. 5:26, classic radical religious right door knob. Pubs ruin everything they touch. Being batshit delusional yahoos, they have no choice but to bury their heads in the sand.

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  14. If you had another brain, it would be lonely.

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