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One million dollar houses atop San Pasqual Valley
Here are Safari Highland Ranch's issues with the story. Per Southwest Strategies. · Paragraph Five: Safari Highlands Ranch will have one access road off of Rockwood Road and will create two new emergency access roads. One emergency evacuation road will be constructed to the north of the project, providing a brand new route of access for the San Pasqual Valley, where currently the only access is to the south. The other emergency access will connect to and improve Zoo Road, eliminating the “aging” and “narrow” roadway you describe, ultimately improving emergency response times and public safety in the San Pasqual Valley. · Paragraph Six: Safari Highlands Ranch will contribute $4 million in traffic impact fees for improvements to local roads, in addition to all of the proposed roadway, widening and traffic signal improvements it will construct, including constructing the emergency access roads which alone are estimated to cost over $10 million. · Paragraph Seven: You mentioned that the Q&A I provided is located at the end of the story, but it is not there. Could you please add the questions and responses per your line in the article? · Paragraph Seven: The neighborhood group is named Friends of Eagle Crest (www.friendsofeaglecrest.com) not Friends of Safari Highlands Ranch. · Paragraph Eight: Safari Highlands Ranch was thoughtfully designed to be consistent with the City of Escondido’s General Plan for this area, as well as Specific Planning Area 4, of which it is a part. Safari Highlands Ranch will meet critical local housing needs and the vision of the City of Escondido’s general plan, while also maximizing more than 70 percent of the site as permanent open space. · Paragraph Nine: It should be noted that the Safari Highlands Ranch community will be a new defensible fire break for first responders because of its state-of-the-art fire safety measures, which will help provide an additional line of defense for nearby neighborhoods, which are not designed with these improved measures, in the case of a wildfire. The addition of a new fire station and a two-way traffic emergency access road will also help improve overall public safety for the San Pasqual Valley. · Paragraph Ten: Ongoing fire station funding will be funded through surplus tax revenues generated by the project, and a new assessment district that will be placed on only new homeowners of the Safari Highlands Ranch community, though the fire station will serve the whole San Pasqual Valley community.— May 23, 2018 10:55 a.m.
Clairemont braces for homeless housing
What's interesting about Cate's position is that everyone else on the council will most likely support this should it end up there.. An 8-1 vote, just like the city council voted when David Alvarez was trying to keep tents out of his district in March and fought the Palm Avenue motel project. A cynic might observe that knowing that the city council will approve the project (with Cate voting no) gives these members the ability to appear to 'take a stand' for their district without endangering the project. It will be interesting to see if council members break ranks on this one. I'm pretty sure Cate voted against Alvarez in the Sherman Heights matter. https://timesofsandiego.com/politics/2017/11/14/s…— May 9, 2018 5:24 p.m.
Dog on death row since December
I wish you had told me any of this when I rang your doorbell and talked with you. What you told me then was you'd never had an encounter with either the dog or the owner, but there was a lot of gossip going around. I didn't use the gossip because you couldn't tell me who was saying that, and you insisted it was someone else. It seems pretty clear from what you've posted that you are the source. I hope next time you speak with a reporter you are honest.— May 9, 2018 5:04 p.m.
City Heights' freeway-friendly bus stop
Great story, Joe Deegan. The Centerline is an amazing accomplishment. An urban marvel. And you did so well at drawing out and recognizing Gary Weber, whose commitment to what's right and to his community are gifts that keep on giving. Plus the work of the City Heights CDC and especially Maria Cortez, who never gave up the fight.— May 8, 2018 10:19 p.m.
Circulate San Diego: Planning groups kill needed housing
Full disclosure: After this story was reported, written and turned in, I became a member of the Normal Heights Community Planning Group.— May 7, 2018 5:30 p.m.
San Diego doggie bag wars
Scraped right off Nextdoor, where the number one issue is parking and the number two issue is, uh, number two from dogs. Hey! most of us pick up and a lot of us pick up extra. We get tired of being lumped in with those lazy shitbags.— April 16, 2018 1:24 p.m.
Chicken Pie Shop 80 years later
No stinkin' peas! No soggy carrots! Buy yourself a Swanson's if that's what you want. Chicken pies are exactly as they should be. No arugula or sun-dried tomatoes or quinoa either.— April 16, 2018 1:15 p.m.
Was Soon-Shiong outsmarted?
Is there any real estate in play? You know, like the land in Mission Valley where the UT once resided?— April 16, 2018 1:08 p.m.
Border Patrol confronted the Viva Villa movement
There is no international fence there. It's yellow paint across the bottom of the Tijuana River channel that they crossed.— April 4, 2018 11:09 p.m.
Don't tell them you are a reporter
I just found this, at about the same time I heard there was a memo, Del Cerro did too. So that's a city council office and the economic development department - both of which were queried by NextRequest and said they had nothing. from the Del Cerro Action Council blog: Update on the Proposed Maintenance Assessment District for Del Cerro Posted on February 9, 2018 by delcerroactioncouncil Good afternoon all: Mark Rawlins, who has been keeping us updated on the status of the proposed Maintenance Assessment District just sent out the following information for everyone’s reference and referral. Everything is on hold – city-wide. ========================================================================================================================== (an update from Mark Rawlins) Del Cerro Neighbors, It has been a while since I have provided an update. The good news is we have made progress, but the bad news is the process is currently on hold. The City completed the Engineers report and we were expecting to have our final meeting with the City on January 12th. The goal for the meeting was to review the Engineer’s report, make any last minute edits and then get the petition approved so we could begin the signature drive. However, the ruling on the lawsuit over the newly established La Jolla MAD came back against the City. Apparently the City did not show enough distinction between general benefits (the services the City is currently providing) and the special benefits (The services the property owners would pay for from the assessments.) With that being said, the City’s plan for now is to hold formations moving forward (Del Cerro is one of them) until the City has a ruling on a potential re-trial for the La Jolla lawsuit. Unfortunately we won’t know if the City will be granted a re-trial until early March. So for now we are standing by. I will keep you posted. Once this is resolved, we will be back on track. Below are the links of two articles from the San Diego Union Tribune on the law suit. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog… http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog…— March 28, 2018 12:34 p.m.