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North Park Residents Mind Their BIZ
opassons1: Oh sure, Omar. Really looking forward to you hauling a bus full of loud-mouth 21-year-old drunks from True North up and down into other neighborhoods, so they can drink in yet another bar. You will have an empty bus if, as you claim, no one who has had "too much to drink" will be allowed to board. Your drinkers' bus plan MAY relieve parking on Ray Street and other neighborhoods, but ONLY if you require proof of paid parking in a public garage or lot, in order to get on the bus.— March 5, 2010 8:23 a.m.
North Park Residents Mind Their BIZ
Good luck, NP residents. You are up against an unrelenting adversary: the Economic Development division under Beth Murray, who answers to William Anderson in City Planning and Community Investment. If you have any doubt about who and what these two people are, and what they will do to protect the business asociations in North Park, read Don Bauder's article this week. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2010/mar/03/ci… Murray and Anderson's sacred and corrupt Business Improvement District programs are given free reign to rule and spend your tax money as they wish (in NP there are three business associations that impose business and property taxes: Adams Ave, NP Main Street, and El Cajon Blvd). They are not monitored; there is zero oversight; audits are a joke. The City allows them to assess and collect property owner and business owner tax money inside their "engineered" BID boundaries, and the business associations pay themselves huge salaries for the onerous effort of doing so. What's left of your money is used to promote the business associations, to pay for their "retreats," health insurance, mailing costs, travel expenses, meals, consultants ...on and on. A teeny bit of money might be spent on cleaning the vomit off of your sidewalk, once a week, if you are so lucky to own property inside the BID boundary. The teeny bit of money will be nothing compared to the gigantic bit of boasting by the business association as to how they are "improving the quality of your life." Until San Diego gets rid of and stops electing toadies like Sanders, we'll be stuck with his loyal servants in City Planning and in the City Attorney's office. Their marching orders are to the "run the city like a business," and if you don't like what they sell, then you are kicked out of "their" store.— March 5, 2010 8:14 a.m.
Mayor Sanders joins Marco LiMandri against conflict charges
Ehhhhh, Mr B: - That's very funny! You from Canada?— March 4, 2010 4:31 p.m.
Mayor Sanders joins Marco LiMandri against conflict charges
Visduh: Frankly, the whole drama of Kessler being disturbed by wrongdoing and conflict of interest is laughable. He did plenty of conflicted things during his tenure in Economic Development, when it served to empower his friends in the business community. He just wants financial compenstion from the City. He's not too employable anymore...— March 4, 2010 11:19 a.m.
Mayor Sanders joins Marco LiMandri against conflict charges
Wow, the lawsuit has great stuff! See, even though the City has rigid rules that all City staff are "off limits as far as giving information and interviews" (thanks, José Ysea; see Matt Potter this week), we can still learn how it all goes down inside the holy chambers, thanks to The Reader. You gotta love that the FBI and Police investigations showing that Sanders et al. are in bed with a crook aren't concerning to Sanders et al., at all (courtesy of Sanders' pal Bonnie D), but whoa,... that nasty, nosy Ethics Commission. That's when the big worry starts: "Goldstone represented to Plaintiff [Kessler] that Mayor Sanders’ office was concerned that they may get “dragged into this now that the Ethics Commission had the report.” And here's another insight : Kessler was concerned that "LiMandri’s misuse of public funds exceeded the threshold prescribed by the San Diego Municipal Code." Really? Threshold? What IS the threshold of misuse? How much can you misuse public funds before Deputy Directors and our Muni Code decide it's too much misuse? Great stuff, Bauder. Thanks, Reader!— March 4, 2010 10:21 a.m.
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And what exactly is the reason that The Reader is "off limits as far as giving information and interviews"? Exposing the corruption and unethical practices fostered by (and required by: read Bauder this week) Sanders, Goldstone, Goldsmith, Anderson, et al.) in every corner of the Sanders government doesn't REQUIRE "giving information and interviews": all that is necessary is a Public Records Act and a real journalist with a little conviction of conscience. Ysea's moronic obedient-slave query shows just how cowed the Sanders staffers are. Try asking a simple question of any City employee, and see what type of mindless response you get: they are scared ****less of being fired for revealing the simplest fact. Wonder if that's what twit Maas means by "LOLable" (yes, Maas is a grown man, a full-fledged member of the politically correct alt-media anti-Reader gang, supposedly a journo, using terms like "LOLable"). Jeesh. The Reader is the only publication in San Diego that publishes the truth about the corrupt Sanders administration. The other wannabe "investigative" pubs, populated by twittering little simps, who constantly broadcast their opinion that they are the next evolutionary stage of journalists (while letting you know what they ate for dinner and where they are shopping), love them some access to hizzoner and his twitty little mouthpiece Rach.— March 4, 2010 7:42 a.m.
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How does the $146K compare to other candidates? The curse of the re-appearing bad guys. The Huesos (all of 'em; they are all corrupt), Atkins, Kehoe....— February 11, 2010 6:51 p.m.
Merriam Mountains has its skeptics
The above link to the D.R. Horton/American National Investments publication doesn't work. Try this: http://tiny.cc/0aw7V— December 4, 2009 9:59 a.m.
Merriam Mountains has its skeptics
One more thought: the city-wide community plan updates are just starting a several-years-long process of revamping what will or will not be done in local areas of the city, in the coming decades. The advisory committee members have probably all been chosen, though there may still be a chance to get on your area committee, if anyone has dropped out or not enough people applied. You can check http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/ for your community. Of concern are the number of committee members already announced and selected who are developers and realtors. Why? Because of the following sentence, quoted from the City's objectives in the updating of the plans: "The recent update to the General Plan shifts focus from how to develop vacant land to how to design infill development and reinvest in existing communities." Key word in older neighborhoods ringing downtown: INFILL. If you live in South Park, for example, please pay attention. If you don't want to see your locally owned grocery store with plenty of free parking disappear, you'll have to object when the Plan Update developer members start proposing infill to replace local cottages and shops. Because that is what INFILL is. Instead of a local grocery and ample parking lot, you'll get a "mixed-use" building with as many tiny condos or apartments as can be packed into a multistory unit, right up to the curb, and a token "upscale gourmet" shop with high-priced items to sell to the captives living above the shop. Oh, and metered street parking. Here are a few more quotes, from a D.R. Horton/American National Investments publication about infill objectives: http://coib.govoffice2.com/vertical/Sites/%7B6283… "Extend day into night - develop a place that does not become vacant when the sun goes down." "Project residents create the captive market needed for quality retailers." If you want to retain a quiet residential neighborhood that DOES get quiet at night, and has real, affordable amenities, stay tuned.— December 3, 2009 8:29 a.m.
Merriam Mountains has its skeptics
Thank you for your carefully outlined history of the County Plan Update. We should all pay close attention to further developments. The next meeting is on December 4 2009. The County Plan Update website is http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/dplu/gpupdate/index.ht… From their website: "The Department of Planning and Land Use (DPLU) will hold an additional public hearing on the General Plan Update on December 4, 2009. This hearing is a continuation of the General Plan Update hearings held on November 6, 19, and 20. The Planning Commission will complete discussions on Valley Center and testimony will be taken on the following remaining communities: Rainbow, San Dieguito, Otay, Julian, and Pendleton DeLuz."— December 2, 2009 2:53 p.m.