Comments on: Housing plans for cities are problematic http://thecoastnews.com/2013/01/housing-plans-for-cities-are-problematic/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:10:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: GPU in the ruts http://thecoastnews.com/2013/01/housing-plans-for-cities-are-problematic/comment-page-1/#comment-60118 GPU in the ruts Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:47:07 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=57574#comment-60118 Well said Andrew and 180 Degree Turns. Obviously with Stocks and Murphy out of the way, the pressure to submit a housing element by August 2013 has take a back seat. I think for the most residents of Encinitas like their current General Plan. I haven’t heard too many people asking for more growth, more high density buildings, more crowd and more traffic.
I doubt the members of the GPAC and the ERAC will want to regroup after Mr Vina and the council had a chance to articulate their strategic planning and vision for the city. I would venture to say these groups are effectively dead on arrival. An advocacy group made of residents should reset the clock. By popular demand any final outcome of the revised GPU should be adopted by a vote of the people. At this rate it might be during the 2014 general election.
Slow pace in municipal affairs but in this case it might just be a good thing.

]]> By: 180 Degree Turn http://thecoastnews.com/2013/01/housing-plans-for-cities-are-problematic/comment-page-1/#comment-60115 180 Degree Turn Sat, 12 Jan 2013 05:00:39 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=57574#comment-60115 At Wednesday night’s Council meeting, City Manager Gus Vina stated that he could not find any specific threat to Encinitas if we did not comply with the mandated housing from SANDAG. This is certainly a change in position from his previous threats, and the threats from former Planning Director, Patrick Murphy, who suggested many consequences if we did not accept the low income units that he personally had accepted on behalf of 60,000 Encinitas residents.

The amount of time and energy, not to mention money that Encinitas residents have wasted on the General Plan Update should not be forgotten. It sounds like what we needed all along was to keep our current plan with a little fine tuning. Let’s return to that original vision.

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