Encinitas residents know what’s best for Encinitas!

Pam Slater-Price has done so much for our City, both when she lived here, for many years, formerly on our block, and during her tenure as our elected representative on the Board of Supervisors,. She had the County buy back the Manchester Property which the City negligently bought for soccer fields, where they couldn’t be built, in a protected watershed area. She allocated funds for the Cardiff Library, a gem, where our present mayor was involved with Friends of the Library, before she entered politics.

Kristin, your reasons for bad-mouthing Pam and for opposing Prop A are vague and non-specific, based on partisan politics and a failure to understand the true needs and desires of our community. We all want a better future! Council’s position on Prop A shows that you don’t understand the true simplicity of our General Plan, which Prop A, the initiative supports.

You don’t trust the community’s ability to make wise choices, to determine what our values are, for ourselves, and our neighborhoods. Kristin, Council isn’t trusting its own judgment, but seems to need to be spoon-fed by overpaid, under-qualified staff, and outside contractors/consultants who are too often actually lobbyists and influence peddlers, in thin disguise.

I’m voting YES on A because past Councils and THIS Council have attempted to override the public’s ability to participate and to decide for ourselves if we want to exceed the General Plan’s simple restrictions of 30 ft and two stories, supported by the initiative, as specified in Policy 7.10. Past Councils OVERRULED public input to keep those restrictions, and through the Planning Department, the Planning Commission, and a supermajority of Councilmembers, increased the height limit to 33 ft and 3 stories, in the North 101 Specific Plan, for example, and similarly increased, by upzoning, in the Encinitas Downtown SP, discounting thousands of hours of public input that you wax on about, hours given in hopes of bettering our community through Specific Plan Action Review Committees and Community Advisory Boards.

No, we, the people, DIDN’T want to increase height limits; we did want to allow two story, mixed-use, with basements, so that Artists could have their studios above their galleries, and artisans could live above their shops. That is how “mixed use” was “sold” to the CABs!

We’re voting YES on A to take back local control, the same reason we who served on the North Coast Coalition to Incorporate Encinitas, and all those who helped our incorporation efforts, including Pam-Slater-Price, voted, before you were “politically aware,” so that we could become a City on 10/1/86. We are taking back Encinitas from special interests, including those redevelopment organizations highly subsidized by taxpayer money.

We support our businesses, the businesses associations should support adjacent residents! Put the freedom to decide back in the hands of the people who live here, the voters. The campaign of misinformation being pushed by redevelopment interests is shameful.

We just got our absentee ballots in the mail and will be voting YES on A, later today. All those who understand all the forces at play, who care about preserving our quality of life and community character, protecting our neighborhood self-determination, and individual right’s to choose know:

VOTING YES IS BEST; DON’T DELAY, VOTE YES ON A!

If Encinitas residents know what’s best for Encinitas, shouldn’t they be allowed to vote on major zoning changes?
Let them vote. YES ON PROP A!

In her 2010 campaign for City Council, 66.4 percent of Kristen Gaspar’s funding came from outside Encinitas. It’s disingenuous for her to claim that “outside meddling” produced and supports Prop A. Her claims fit with the organized opposition to Prop A: It’s deceitful. They can’t win with facts, so they lie.