Meeting April 26, 2007

Our next meeting will be at 6:45 at the MAAC Charter School at 1385 Third Ave. (between Palomar and Quintard, east side of street).  The first 10 minutes will be a presentation by the people circulating a petition to have district elections for the two school boards.

John Schmitz, Principle Planner will finish his presentation from last week and answer questions about zoning.   Leah Browder, city engineer, will do a presentation about the $339 million in pavement and drainage problems in the city of Chula Vista. (Check the map she will bring to see if all problems you know about are on the map.) We will also vote on whether we should change our meeting date to the fourth Monday in order to avoid conflict with CVRC (Chula Vista Redevelopment Corporation) meetings. If you cannot come please call or e-mail your vote.

Mobile Home and Trailer Park News

Brian Sheehan who was in charge of the updating of the Mobile Home Conversion Ordinance took a job in Oregon so there were no meetings this month. Someone else will be taking over and meetings will start again in May. As things stand now these are the parks in most danger of conversion: Parks NOT now zoned MHP (mobile home park) or TP (trailer park): -Georgiana (zoned now R-3), Farm House (zoned now limited industrial), Mohawk (R3), Rose Arbor (R-3), El Mirador (R-3), Fogerty Bros. (commercial), Mountainview (commercial), Sharon’s (R-3); as well as parks the General Plan suggests be rezoned: Bayscene, Caravan, Flamingo, Trailer Villa. As long as the owners do not request a rezone or sell the property there is no problem, but all together these parks have 365 spaces in the Southwest and 703 spaces in the Northwest.

It is important that the new conversion ordinance have very strong protections for residents.

Text Box: If there is mud in your street or sewage on the ground in your park, the number to call is (858) 467-2952. They will make the city do something about it!The Cummings Initiative

The city’s Growth Management Ordinance is based upon an Initiative passed in due to the efforts of Joe Cummings in the 1980’s. The city council voted on 4/12 to make the provision in the ordinance that says only a one step zone change can be made every two years not apply to properties in specific plan areas. Now property can only go from agriculture to R-1 or R-1 to R-2 or R-2 to R-3. The owner must wait two years to change the zoning again. This controls growth so that infrastructure and facilities have time to keep up.

The council is saying if the specific plan has a detailed financial analysis of all the needed infrastructure and services as well as a way of paying for it, this protection is not necessary. The problem is that it is impossible to do a sufficiently detailed analysis in the west, and the success of this strategy in the east is now coming into question with the current budget situation.

Calendar

April 24 6PM Home Depot decision and second vote on Cummings ordinance change- City Council Chambers on F Street

April 26 6 PM CVRC vote on Urban core specific Plan, Council chambers; SWCVCA meeting MAAC Charter School

May 3 6PM 1600 Maxwell Growth Management Oversight commission Public Workshop; Redevelopment Advisory Committee Meeting-discussion of KOA project

May 31 6:45 PM SWCVCA meeting MAAC Charter School

 

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