A designated affordable home in Cardiff-by-the-Sea was sold to an investor and entered third-party escrow two weeks before the developer was authorized to advertise the sale, public records show, raising doubts as to whether the home was purchased legitimately under the terms of the city’s affordable housing agreement.More history here.
Friday, May 13, 2022
Still more shady insider deals in city’s “affordable housing” program
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Maybe Gonzalez wants to come on here and play faux economics expert like he tries on Facebook. And maybe Barth can come on here and thank him.
ReplyDeleteI'm not happy to hear about the failure to follow the procedural requirements with that Cardiff property. I still don't think there is any legal requirement to sell the property to a low income family rather than a management entity, but whoever buys it should have to follow the required procedures and timelines. I would point out, however, the remedy for failing to follow procedures is to require them to do so in the future. I doubt a court would undue the sale, and it certainly won't mandate sale to some other entity.
DeleteThis affordable housing ruse is under Blakespear's watch; her beau Gonzale$ is in the thick of it. She has yet to explain her involvement in the SANDAG $candal - she is unfit for State office. Sh is incompetent and corrupt - PURGE HER WITH YOUR VOTE!
ReplyDeleteMarco: "This is how it's supposed to work".
ReplyDeleteThis is a must read article - it shows how pervasive the insider deals penetrate into the City Administration. For example. the person that acts as City attorney, comes from a law firm that represents a wealthy investor - she "interprets" how the affordable housing law is to be applied by the City. You can guess how those decisions are rendered. Time violations. listing discrepencies and double broker fees are a few other tidbits. This is Blakespear's fiefdom - corruption and cover-ups! She cannot be allowed to rise on the political ladder with these "ethics".
ReplyDeleteWhat worse for you?
ReplyDeleteBreathing roundup fumes or breathe cancer causing spent diesel fumes mix with dust plumes from trains?
Thx Tony! You sure know how to care for Encintas resident’s health.
Encinitas Undercover is more "Leucadia Undercover" than anything. We aren't all obsessed with the noise trains make and Tony Kranz.
ReplyDelete1:08 - probably true since you Cardiff knobs have yours and could not care less about those in the Leucadia ghetto. How about just representing home-owners / taxpayers here in Leucadia? That would be something new.
DeleteLucky you…. I guarantee you that Encinitas and some Cardiff residents aren’t too happy about the cancerous discharges and mental illness causing noise. But of course no noise in the mayors neighborhood because she took care of that.
ReplyDeleteI can hear the trains from the east side of the 5. Our queen can surely hear them from her castle on the hill.
ReplyDeleteAs a point of reference, decades ago, I lived on Vulcan south of Leucadia Blvd. for a couple of years and got somewhat used to the trains at all hours. There had to have been fewer of them back then, but I don't know the number. We can agree on that.
What we really have needed all along was to trench the train tracks. Our councils have never put in any real effort toward that solution that would be such a benefit to everyone in so many ways.
Years ago, Dave Roberts asked me at one the Summer Fun on the 101 gatherings what I would most like to see done. At that very moment a train went roaring by and I simply pointed to that.
His response should not have been a surprise, but it was. He said there has never been any genuine effort by our city to lower the tracks. Genuine is the key there.
While we watch Solana Beach and Carlsbad lowering and trenching their tracks, we are stuck with 'who' we have representing us.
We need a new council majority more than ever. The cost for trenching has gone ballistic that I doubt I will ever see the tracks lowered. County supervisors could be helpful with the billions$ they have to distribute. Snoozed and losed is our current plight.
While not hoping for a disaster, the Del Mar bluffs could become a defining element in moving the tracks off of the coast.
The tracks falling like they did some years ago would put an end to this completely idiotic polluting railroad built literally right along the beach because it was the cheapest flattest alignment some 140 years ago. Now it is time for the RR to pays for the poor alignment. Move the tracks inland to the high speed rail alignment and get the polluting trains off the beach.
DeleteIf you in fact live near the tracks...aren't you to blame for your own displeasure? Those tracks have been there long before you were born. It is you that move there.
DeleteWhen I moved there they were no fence or no issues crossing it. Through only about 10 trans per day no big deal. Under Tony’s time as chair at NCTD, the empty polluting coaster trains went from 22 a day to 30 a day. Now we have nonstop empty trains polluting our air with spent diesel fumes causing cancer and endless train blaring noise.
DeleteBlakespear is a conniving , corrupt tyrant. Her developer paid for glossly mega mailers are now in the mailboxes - all BS hype. She will be a disaster in the State Senate. VOTE HER OUT OF POLITICS.
ReplyDeleteSome people aren't paying attention. This is one of two sales that is the subject of the lawsuit, reported long ago by the Coast News, and detailed in the civil rights complaint.
ReplyDeleteCity Council- Open Beacons immediately!!
ReplyDeleteYou are killing Encinitas. It seems like every action you do is extremely bad for existing residence.
Closing cost to access, fencing off coastal access, promoting empty trains that spw cancer causing spent diesel fuel throughout the community and over school children every day, increasing noise so that residents cannot sleep and have mental decline, over developing an arid desert that is running out of water.
Everything you do is bad. It Felt so good to vote for someone besides BIA. It is going to feel so good to recall Kranz!!
Vote against Blakespear!
ReplyDeleteCity employee names all over these documents. Blakespear's response so far has been to promote instead of fire.
ReplyDeleteIf you've ever seen a bluff collapse, as I have, at Del Mar's dog beach, it can happen in a second. That path is extremely dangerous right now. I remember the old path at the north end of the parking lot and that vanished overnight in the early 80s. Did the city drag their feet on fixing this problem? Yes, but maybe it's something that cannot be fixed.
ReplyDelete"Maybe?" Care to elaborate on what sounds like inside information, 2:04?
DeleteYes it’s called nature. Get off yer hi horse.
DeleteThe fix is simple and is already planned. Double the width of the planned wooden stairway similar to Grandview and Swamis but twice as wide and redo the entire parking lot, and provide adequate pedestrian and bike access to the beach up along Leucadia Blvd. Its the same solution that should have been constructed by now, hence, we have functional City Council members not voting on items to degrade the quality of life in Encinitas and block coastal access.
DeleteThe record shows that the fixes are temporary. True all along the bluffs in Encinitas.
ReplyDeleteWell we need a 50 year fix. Similar to swamis and Grandview but wider Wood stairways. We also need more access points at the west end of all of those dead end streets.
DeleteKranz opened his campaign this weekend with his good buddy Peder Norby. If you remember Peder, you will remember why this makes such sense. Just say NO.
ReplyDeleteHahaha Norby. And...Kranz makes another huge miscalculation.
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