Dozens of dead palm trees on a state lawmaker’s private land, viewed by neighbors as a dangerous fire hazard, have sparked urgent calls to clear the mounting piles of tinder-dry fronds in light of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles.
Rossini Canyon, a property in Cardiff-by-the-Sea owned by state Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas), has drawn several complaints in recent years about potential fire hazards posed by more than 40 dead palm trees and mounds of dried fronds on the site. According to neighbors, dozens of Canary Island and Queen palm trees on the parcel were killed during a palm weevil infestation starting in 2021.
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In November 2023, Cummings reported the potential fire risk to the city through MyEncinitas, a civic engagement app that allows residents to share their concerns quickly. The city responded on Dec. 29, 2023, stating the area was not located in a “very high fire hazard severity zone” and, therefore, the dead palms did not necessitate action, according to emails obtained by The Coast News.
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Chapter 11.12 of the Encinitas Municipal Code states that it’s “unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant of any real property within the City to place or maintain dirt, rubbish, materials, grass, weeds or vegetation on or about such property or on or about adjacent sidewalks, parking areas, alleys or streets in a manner that is either dangerous or injurious to neighboring property or the health or welfare of residents in the vicinity; or interferes with the use of public rights-of-way.”
Friday, January 17, 2025
Blakespear's fire hazard has been a problem for years; city ignored under previous administration
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Blakespear is such a pawn scum.
ReplyDeleteAll pieces of shit support her like Nathan Fletcher and his family.
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* Blakespear is such pawn scum 🤮
DeletePond. But pawn works, too.
DeleteNo, in the freak showcase it’s pawn scum!
DeleteAnyone else wanna help me make Catherine Blakespear's Coast News article blow up. I encourage you to visit the article and make a comment.
ReplyDelete1. Blakespear should not have waited this long to take off the problem.
2. She's not taking care of the most important part of the problem, dealing with the weevil disease that had turned these Canary Palms into what they are now. This disease spreads and kills surrounding vegetation if not treated by an Arborist.
3. Dragging palms frowns to a wood chipper over the ground is exactly how you spread this disease to other habitat. Then when the palms go through the wood chipper it becomes airborne.
4. According to publications such Master Gardner SD, only a trained Arborist should handle Canary Palms. See article https://www.mastergardenersd.org/canary-island-date-palm-weevil/
Conclusion: Blakespear has shown a complete disregard for the people and city's safety for several years now. Only now is she fixing this because of the LA fires. Finally, if Blakespear cared about the environment as much as she says she does, she'd hire an Arborist.
Lets keep this topic alive so people can see the real Blakespear.
“WE DEMAND YOU DO IT OUR WAY!”
Delete—whiney Karens.
9:26 We're not demanding you do it our way.....
DeleteWe're demanding you do it the RIGHT WAY for the sake and safety of our properties, families and protecting the spread of a disease that creates more dead growth.
Hire and Arborist and do it the right way Catherine Blakespear.
Sorry, Kevin, you’re a bigger whiny Karen than any other bitch.
Delete856 plan to help by sending Let's get this viral on Twitter. Marlon may be the fruit loop below
DeleteAccording to a Master Gardener publication regarding Blakespear's Canary Palms. Blakespear should remove all of her trees as they are now a serious HAZARD. Not just because of the fire hazard.
ReplyDeleteIt also states that she needs to hire a professional arborist.
"Hire a professional arborist to remove infested, dead or dying palms on your property. This can stop the next generation of weevils from flying to another host on the block or in the canyon. The infested material removed (usually only the top 25% of the tree where the SAPW larvae have been eating away at the apical meristem) should be chipped, then tarped securely and transported to a certified landfill that will bury the material in 24 hours or less."
https://www.mastergardenersd.org/canary-island-date-palm-weevil/
The hypocrisy of all this is that Blakespear's Chair of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee, yet she has neglected a very serious environmental hazard. This environmental hazard is her failure to address her diseased Canary Palms over the last 5+ years.
ReplyDeleteHer diseased Canary Palms should only be dealt with by a professional Arborist according to numerous publications. If not, the disease can spread to other plant life and trees in the surrounding area. In short, she's been appointed to the Senate Environmental Quality Committee and has already proven herself a hypocrite and failure.
I encourage people to spread this information about Ms. Blakespear, so we can get rid of people like her who aren't qualified for the job.
Check out the veiled threats by this Cummings guy on EV. It's a real tell when Blakespear supporters start acting like tough guys when someone offers a dissenting opinion, but her antics when she was mayor showed me just what a self serving narcissist she really is inside. She's acting just like Trump.
ReplyDeleteWhen can I come over to your house and offer my opinions on how you should manage your property?
Delete9:23 can you be a bit more specific, what veiled threats did Cummings make?
DeleteI get it, I don't like Blakespear either, I think she's an awful leader for a variety of reasons. However, Lance Cumming is obviously no fan of Blakespear either. Look at what he has to say about her fire hazard and diseased mess in the Coast News article. I think that says exactly how he feels about Blakespear.....
I recommend you comment on the article, this will surely be used against Blakespear in her next election campaign, just like her $300K loss on her Facebook censoring fight.
https://thecoastnews.com/dead-palms-on-encinitas-lawmakers-property-spark-fire-safety-fears/
9:27 If my property was endangering families and houses in the surrounding neighborhoods, I'd welcome all opinions and solutions from my neighbors. I guess that's the difference between you and I. You don't give a fuck and I do.
DeleteThis has been an ongoing issue for 5+ years now, residents have gotten no traction until now with the LA wild fires.
Yet Blakespear is still disregarding professional advice. She needs to hire an arborist, those Canary Palms are diseased with weevils. Only an arborist can mitigate the spread of that disease which will affect other plant life in the surrounding area if not taken care of properly.
Dragging palm frowns up her canyon will only spread more disease and create more dead growth, which becomes another fire hazard.
How is Blakespear Chair for the Senate Environmental Committee? She obviously doesn't know anything about the Environment we live in.
When can I come over and have a look to give you my opinion?
Delete1156 anytime… what’s your address?
DeleteBlakespear's peeps are going to claim she was threatened. This is what she/they do when caught wrongdoing.
ReplyDeleteIt's why she still lives with her mother. Blackwell claimed it, Hinze claimed it, Beauchamp's claimed it on Preston's behalf. It's their go-to red herring. Not once did any of them go to the Sheriff with proof.
If Cummings threatened her, she needs to take her concerns to the Sheriff.
The only threat Blakespear sees is litigation and a big red stain on her political career. She's twist that around and play the victim card, she always does. The silver lining is, more and more people are starting to see through her Bull Shit, and that will spread like a real wild fire.
DeleteIf she saw the threat and stain she would've cleaned up her property years ago. She thinks she's teflon and has been right so far.
Delete952 I agree, Blakespear definitely thinks she's entitled to things that other people aren't. That's what happens when you grow up a spoiled brat like she was.
DeleteYou start to get this sense of entitlement and that I'm better than you are, or you owe me something attitude.
Vote NO on Blakespear.
Threatened?
DeleteLol that's rich.
JeremyKevin chud muppets making shit up again.
927. The City should have given her a citation and a fine. So, stop with the bullshit
ReplyDeleteI agree 9:53.
DeleteRemove Blakespear from office in the next election cycle. She has destroyed Encinitas with her BIA alliegance.
ReplyDeleteHow about resign today
DeleteIf the dead items are removed where will the lefts illegals sleep?
ReplyDeleteNever mind, in short order they will be back in mexico.
blakespear............clean up your mess like the rest of us homeowners. Get the illegals out and on their way.
Untrimmed-tree-gate is my everything!
ReplyDeleteI like ve for getting angry about things that caused zero damage to anyone, especially me.
12:00 Zero damage???? Far from it.
Deleteyou seem to be forgetting that the Canary palms are diseased, because of Blakespear’s neglect and that disease has spread throughout her canyon and will continue to spread.
The disease (weevil) spreads by touching other plants. Only an arborist can take care of this problem and knows exactly how to remove the trees and proper handling of the diseased frawns.
This is crucial so the diseased Canary Palms don’t continue to hurt surrounding plant life.
This is a VERY SERIOUS matter!
VERY SERIOUS!!!
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12:20 Please explain to us how this is not serious.
Delete1. Major FIRE HAZARD on Blakespear's private canyon that according to neighbors were "Roman Candles"!
2. Diseased Canary Palms that spread by touching other plants, thereby killing those plants and creating more dry brush.
3. A major publication referenced this exactly problem and how to deal with it the right way.....
"Hire a professional arborist to remove infested, dead or dying palms on your property. This can stop the next generation of weevils from flying to another host on the block or in the canyon. The infested material removed (usually only the top 25% of the tree where the SAPW larvae have been eating away at the apical meristem) should be chipped, then tarped securely and transported to a certified landfill that will bury the material in 24 hours or less."
https://www.mastergardenersd.org/canary-island-date-palm-weevil/
All you're doing is making Blakespear's supporters look really bad with your complete disregard for other peoples safety and property.
You look like tool right now!
Have a nice weekend.
1220 are you one of those clueless people who can't research how to fix a problem or do you keep banging your head on the wall all the time.
DeleteTRY READING what the actual solutions to Blakespear's Canary Palms are.....
12:20
DeletePLEASE READ....
FROM: MASTER GARDNER SD publication.
IT SAYS.......
"Hire a professional arborist to remove infested, dead or dying palms on your property. This can stop the next generation of weevils from flying to another host on the block or in the canyon. The infested material removed (usually only the top 25% of the tree where the SAPW larvae have been eating away at the apical meristem) should be chipped, then tarped securely and transported to a certified landfill that will bury the material in 24 hours or less."
https://www.mastergardenersd.org/canary-island-date-palm-weevil/
you want it cleaned up, right? Ok, so she probably should have done it sooner, but she's doing it now and friends are willing to help.
ReplyDelete12:24 she needs to hire an arborist to do the job, that's the problem. Not a bunch of volunteers who don't understand the disease component of this. All the volunteers will do is spread this weevil disease thereby creating significantly more damage.
DeletePLEASE READ....
FROM: MASTER GARDNER SD publication.
IT SAYS.......
"Hire a professional arborist to remove infested, dead or dying palms on your property. This can stop the next generation of weevils from flying to another host on the block or in the canyon. The infested material removed (usually only the top 25% of the tree where the SAPW larvae have been eating away at the apical meristem) should be chipped, then tarped securely and transported to a certified landfill that will bury the material in 24 hours or less."
https://www.mastergardenersd.org/canary-island-date-palm-weevil/
She does not want to spend the 10K to get it cleaned.. she had no issue when those that live near her can't get home insurance
DeleteFucking Blakespear sucks!
ReplyDeleteShe supported two more empty polluting, death-Amtrak trains blowing through Encinitas because she got her quiet zone and isn’t as impacted as other areas.
She must love giving cancer to all the kids in Cardiff elementary and Paul Ecke Central Elementary school.
That clueless bitch sucks and I can’t wait till she’s voted out of office!
Well, I am doing 4K of work today. The arborist told me that canary palms are the most expensive and hardest palms to remove. The cost to remove a palm is 2k each
ReplyDelete1:07 Arborist are expensive, but Blakespear can easily afford hiring one to remove the Canary Palms or treat them.
DeleteIt's a small price to pay for someone who owns a huge piece of $$$ real estate.
Right, spoke to my arborist and he claimed that some peeps are having to pull out 20 above in trees. I want Blakespear to pay proffesionals. Also, she needs to ensure her climbers are getting paid market rate. Senators often do not pay ss and offer benefits to the workers. She most likely has staff . Time to report to the labor dept.
DeleteDoes she have an insurance policy on what she claims is “community space?“ If not, she should. If yes, her insurance company should be notified and they won’t care who she is, they will cancel her immediately. Does this woman not think beyond her nose? This is called consequences. as in “elections have consequences“ as Kranz liked to say.
ReplyDelete1:49- What community space. The entire Canyon belongs to her.
DeleteHer words, not mine: “We aim to remove the risk and keep this space a refuge for members of the community for years to come.”
Deletehttps://thecoastnews.com/dead-palms-on-encinitas-lawmakers-property-spark-fire-safety-fears/
Oh well.
ReplyDeleteSources close to the situation overheard saying the stench around the property is much like a 15 year old whose diet is strictly eggs, beans, and creatine
ReplyDeleteNot sure who needs to hear this, but the law doesn’t require anyone to pay an arborist.
ReplyDeleteYour opinion doesn’t matter.
Ah, the Blakespear apologists. About as environmentally concerned as she, more frauds.
Delete3:53, she should ask arborists to volunteer for free if she can find some instead of those who stand to lose their property and their lives if she doesn't address this nuisance.
DeleteThe initial invitation for neighbors to come out to help and to wear boots and work gloves seems a little inadequate. I hope that they have safety glasses for the people dealing with these sharp fronds and thorns. This is really the work for professionals.
ReplyDeleteThe delusional Diva who shit all over her city, her constituents and her voters is still shitting all over the residents of the town she walked all over to get promoted. Catherine doesn't put a single ounce of energy into anything that sidetracks her from her political ambitions.
ReplyDeleteI sincerely hope she and Bonta, Newsom and Wiener keep doubling down, because they'll all be bounced out once and for all.
Catherine's disdain for residents is on full display with this neighborhood clean up stunt. The sad thing is that some people will show up and with the best intentions.
There is absolutely no bottom to her despicable drive for power and recognition.
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