Meeting
March 22, 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). March meeting will start with a
report from our board members including our president and treasurer. We will
then vote on a fund raising idea Carmela has. Next we will vote on whether we
will do everything possible to support and help the residents of any mobile
home or trailer park in the southwest that is threatened with closure. The
title of the meeting presentation in Planning tools. The main part of the
program will be learning planning basics and how we can have an active voice in
how the southwest changes. We will talk about the Palomar Gateway area which is
around Palomar between frontage and Industrial.
Mobile
Home and Trailer Park News
Karen and Theresa attended meeting
community development held to discuss revising the city’s Relocation Ordinance.
It is important that representatives from every park attend these meetings in
order to insure a stronger ordinance than we now have. Please volunteer to be
on the mobile home park committee and help us contact people at all the parks.
ROP (Resident Owned Parks) in Sacramento has promised to help every park that
is threatened with sale, if owners can organize informally. If owners cannot
qualify for loans to buy the park as a coop, ROP can buy the park and manage it
for the life of the mortgage. When the rents paid pay off the mortgage they
will help the residents to form a formal corporation and turn over the park to
them. We also went to the Rent Review Committee meeting where a report was
given by the inspectors of parks. The General Plan proposes changing the zoning
on a number of parks (12). It is important that all residents become informed
and be prepared to act in their own best interest.
REMEMBER
UNITED WE ARE STRONG.
Infrastructure
Three Board members spoke at the
council meeting on March 13. You can watch streaming video of the meeting at
the city’s website:http://chulavista.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2.
Earl, Theresa, Steve, Ned and Norberto have been collecting information about
infrastructure problems and meeting with city staff to try to get more information.
Everyone acknowledges that the infrastructure in the southwest is below par and
the roads are in terrible shape. We have to put pressure on the council to come
up with a committed funding source. Staff estimates the price of putting in and
upgrading all infrastructure to standards would be around $132 million.
Obviously the city does not have this much extra money lying around. We need to
insist they stop relying on grants and get a steady income stream for upgrades
and maintenance. We must make them understand that the existing infrastructure
simply can not handle any more people. If they want an increase in density they
have to deal with infrastructure and maintenance funding first.
Calendar
March 19 4:30 Home Depot at City Council Chambers on F Street
March 21 6PM Home Depot at City Council Chambers on F Street
March 22:
SWCA 6:45 MAAC Charter School
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