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Councilmember Sherri Lightner's Campaign Receives Thousands From One Paseo Developer
This whole project doesn't smell right, and I can't believe how gullible people are to fall for Kilroy's/Davies's PR tactics. I live in Del Mar Heights, and we're going to be as affected by this development as Carmel Valley is, yet we're not even considered in the DEIR. Nor are neighborhoods within a two-mile (maybe three-mile) radius, which are also going to be significantly--and negatively--impacted. We use the shopping centers and other amenities in Carmel Valley all the time; we use the same freeway onramps and exits. Traffic is already a nightmare during the fair and racing season, and this monstrosity, as the previous comment notes, will add significantly more traffic every single day. And what will happen when people can't get on the freeway at Del Mar Heights? They'll head for the coast, as they do now, backing up traffic on Del Mar Heights and Camino Del Mar. The DEIR also makes no mention of plans to widen I-5, and what effect that will have on traffic in the area, along with the impacts of One Paseo. The decision to limit the DEIR's scope to the very small area just around the development seems deliberate and duplicitous. This a project with regional implications, and to imply otherwise is simply dishonest, maybe worse. San Diego has a long, appalling history of rubber-stamping inappropriate development projects without any regard for the infrastructure to support them--in this case, roads and transportation. (Read a book called Under the Perfect Sun for more info on that.) If One Paseo is allowed to go through as proposed, it will be yet one more black mark against a city council that cares more about campaign (and possibly other) contributions than it does about the interests of the people its members were elected to represent. Why not put something of this scale out along the 56, where there is adequate land and where there's an opportunity to put in enough roads, and limit development on the One Paseo property to the 500,000 square feet it is zoned for (which will also have an effect on local traffic, only not as much)? I voted for Lightner last time, but she's lost my vote. This is unconscionable.— May 3, 2012 10:29 a.m.