Tuesday, January 10, 2006

You've got to be kidding me...

So here's the deal. I get an email a couple of days ago from our neighbors, I know it's hard to believe we have neighbors, letting us know that a developer has proposed to rezone the 15.92 acres across from us for single family housing. The support documentation in pdf form can be found here! Now that isn't that big of a deal and kind of expected except for the SIX FOOT BLOCK WALL around the complete perimeter of the land. So instead of having the nice open space that we have now, or even just the front of someone else's home, we will have a LARGE graffiti magnet.

Anyone who has been to our home before knows that there is nothing really around us and that we have this vacant land that was designated to be a park or maybe a school across from us. I have no idea WHY someone would want to make a moat in the middle of other houses. It just doesn't fit.

The other issue with this is that all the information hasn't really been put out there to the public. One of our neighbors went to City Hall to find out what was going on, and only then did he find about the "closed" community they were making. Nowhere else was a block wall discussed.

I did go to the Planning Commission Meeting tonight where this was the topic of discussion and the start of the public hearing on this modification. Fortunately the developer did not show up so the discussion was tabled until the next scheduled meeting. So now I have time to draft a memorandum with my concerns and attempt to team with the other neighbors to ensure that EVERYONE makes their voices heard. Right now there are only three opinions documented, all three negative, but this is out of 127 people that were notified of this. The worst part about that is there is an error on who owns the land I live on and the city sent the notice to CalVet instead of me.

So now we don't know what to do. The if this goes through I don't think we want to live across from that. The problem is that what are we going to do. We like the house, we LIKED the location, and I LOVE what I am paying. If we moved it is going to cost a LARGE fortune and we aren't really going to get that much more for the extra cost. It is just really frustrating.

2 Comments:

At Wednesday, 11 January, 2006, Blogger Donna Rae said...

It probably was a blessing that the developer did not show up, which gives you time to rally the neighborhood for a unified front. It has not happened yet, so do what you can to stop it.

 
At Thursday, 12 January, 2006, Blogger Donna Rae said...

The picture of Desirae is really cute standing out in the rain!

 

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