Del Mar City Council Meeting Agenda
Del Mar Town Hall
1050 Camino del Mar, Del Mar, California
April 15, 2024 City Council Meeting
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From: Brad Walters <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 10:14 AM
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Subject: Red Dot on item 6 (TPAC work plan)
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Dear Council,
Regarding TPAC's amended work plan for FY 2024-25:
In addition to the proposed improvements along Camino Del Mar, I hope consideration can be given to adding a painted zebra crosswalk across 4th St. at Stratford Ct. when that intersection is repaved later this year as part of the power line undergrounding.
Why: Drivers coming down the hill on 4th St. often make the wide right turn onto Stratford without so much as slowing down, and sight lines are extremely limited due to the high privacy hedge at that corner. A crosswalk can at least serve as a visual cue to drivers that, hey, there might be pedestrians present, so I might actually need to come to a full stop at this stop sign.
Since the stop lines will have to be repainted anyway, why not take this opportunity? I can't fathom any negative consequences; plenty of residential crossings west of CDM (including Stratford at 9th) already have crosswalks in place. And ADA ramps are already in place as well.
I realize such a change can't be authorized at Council today, but my work schedule precludes me from attending either this meeting or TPAC later in the week, so I'm using this letter as a means to get my request officially on the record. Ideally such a minor addition could be OK'd on a staff level without the need for much (if any) future Council or committee deliberation.
Best,
Brad Walters
Stratford Ct.
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2 Above: Photo of the intersection as it stands now (via Google); requested crosswalk would be in the foreground. Existing tall hedge is on the right and ADA ramps are already in place on both sides.
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From: Tate Scott <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2024 3:45 AM
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With regards to Item #11.
Dear Mayor Druker and City Council Members,
Please vote no or table the proposed San Dieguito Drive (“SDD”) Special Assessment District.
Consider this scenario: early in the drive along your usual route, you watch a home undergoing significant landscaping renovations – frontage improvement. Shortly after completion, you receive an invoice in your mailbox, demanding payment for a portion of the improvements. The justification? The enhancements purportedly benefit you, enhancing your view and bolstering fire safety through drought-tolerant landscaping, and areas made easier to reach because of brush clearing and placement of DG. You protest, questioning the legitimacy of this demand. The response you receive is unsettling: "The City permitted my neighbors and me to make the decision." Voting yes would set into motion the process whereby 10 of the 14 owners of SDD who are responsible for the maintenance of their private road to unilaterally force other Del Mar Residents, who are not legally responsible, to assume financial responsibility to repair the SDD private road. Or it could begin the process whereby non-SDD owners force SDD owners to assume an unagreed to financial obligation and turn over their private property to the City along with requiring payment from the rest of Del Mar Residents.
The only logical and fair approach is to confine any special assessment district to those who directly own the private road - the SDD residents. If 8 of the 14 SDD owners who have mutual easements and maintenance responsibility wish to establish a district to pay for a road meeting City Road standards or alternatively one meeting lesser standards and not eligible to be transferred to the City, then it passes.
Including in the district other Del Mar Residents, who merely use an easement granted from the City which does not have, as the City repeatedly states, any maintenance responsibility is simply incorrect. Passing off expenses to Del Mar’s Oribia Residents who merely use their easement rights from the City without maintenance responsibility and reducing their right to vote through an engineer’s report tailored to “willingness to pay” thresholds just compound the error and sow neighborhood divisiveness. I respectfully request you to consider it does not faithfully represent all Del Mar Residents nor adhere to a reasonable standard of practice for ethical transparency and authenticity. And given the fact pattern, claiming post-facto, “Well, residents voted for it” might not absolve one of those responsibilities either.
Please represent all Del Mar residents and vote to assist in the formation of a SDD Only Special Assessment District for whatever level of road SDD residents wish (thereby providing an excellent community service) and vote April 15, 2024 Item 11
2 NO to a process that would enable just 10 SDD owners to force Del Mar Residents including Del Mar’s Oribia based residents who are not legally responsible to pay; or for non-SDD owners to force SDD owners to assume an unagreed to financial obligation and turn over their property to the City along with requiring payment from the rest of Del Mar Residents.
Sincerely,
W. Tate Scott
1200 Oribia Rd
Del Mar, CA 92014
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April 15, 2024 Item 11
City of Del Mar
Memorandum
________________________________________________________________________________________________________ TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
From: Martin Boyd, Project Manager II
Joe Bride, Public Works Director
Via Ashley Jones, City Manager
DATE: April 12, 2024
SUBJECT: Red Dot for Item 11: San Dieguito Drive Improvements Project Update, Engineer’s Report Related to Project Benefits, and Proposition 218 Resolutions
Item 11 on the April 15, 2024, City Council agenda is related to the San Dieguito Drive Improvements Project which includes a project update, Engineer’s Report, and recommends adoption of Proposition 218 Resolutions. There are two administrative corrections to the agenda report and a resolution that need to be amended for the record prior to City Council authorization.
1) The first correction is to the agenda report in the fifth paragraph (pg. 7) under “SCI Engineering Report”. The following sentence needs to be amended as shown below in red consistent with the Engineer’s Report:
“The resulting contribution by San Dieguito Drive (Zone A) and Oribia Road (Zone B) property owners’ would be $16,924.40 $11,847 and $8,462.20 $7,193 per property, respectively.”
Note, all fourteen San Dieguito Drive (Zone A) and all seventeen Oribia Road (Zone B) property owner’s pay $11,847 and $7,193 per year combined, respectively. 2) The second correction is to the Attachment A Resolution. The fourth recital (pg. 1) is to be amended as follows in red:
“WHEREAS, San Dieguito Drive and a portion of Oribia Road are currently not part of the public street system or maintained by the City; and” Note, a portion of Oribia Road is currently part of the public street system.
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From: Ann Williamson <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 9:40 AM
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Subject: Red Dot April 15 Agenda Item 11
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Dear City Clerk and City Council Members:
I strongly urge you to vote YES on adopting a resolution to provide the intention of levying assessments for 2024-2025 and mailing assessment ballots for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District. We do not live on private San Dieguito, but since that street is our only means of accessing our property, we depend on a safe San Dieguito Drive for everyday transportation as well as for emergency vehicle access. We are happy to pay our share of the assessment district fees as determined by the SCI Consulting Group according to California law.
There will always be someone to quibble with the details, but the district is a good plan and I urge you to keep this moving with a YES vote on Item 11.
Thank you very much.
—Ann Williamson
1352 Oribia Rd
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Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 10:31 AM
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Dear City Clerk and City Council Members:
I strongly urge you to vote YES on adopting a resolution to provide the intention of levying assessments for 2024-2025 and mailing assessment ballots for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District. We do not live on private San Dieguito, but since that street is our only means of accessing our property, we depend on a safe San Dieguito Drive for everyday transportation as well as for emergency vehicle access. We are happy to pay our share of the assessment district fees as determined by the SCI Consulting Group according to California law.
There will always be someone to quibble with the details, but the district is a good plan and I urge you to keep this moving with a YES vote on Item 11.
Thank you very much.
Scott Wilson
1450 Oribia Rd
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From: S. Gill Williamson <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 10:41 AM
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Subject: RED DOT Item 11 April 15
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Dear City Clerk and Council Members
We are longtime residents of the City owned Orbia Road. Our access to our home is only via San Dieguito Drive. We would be delighted to pay our share of the SCI Consulting Group's determined assessment district fees.
We have had numerous close calls driving the too narrow increasingly busy rut ridden San Dieguito Drive. A YES on Agenda Item 11 is literally a matter of life or death.
Thank you,
Gill WIlliamson
1352 Oribia Road.
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From: becky beckywalkerinc.com <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 1:08 PM
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Cc: Terry Gaasterland; David Druker; Tracy Martinez; Dan Quirk; Dwight Worden Subject: RED DOT LETTER - Item # 11
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Dear City Clerk and City Council Members:
I strongly urge you to vote YES on adopting a resolution to provide the intention of levying assessments for 2024-2025 and mailing assessment ballots for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District. We do not live on private San Dieguito, but since that street is our only means of accessing our property, we depend on a safe San Dieguito Drive for everyday transportation as well as for emergency vehicle access. We are happy to pay our share of the assessment district fees as determined by the SCI Consulting Group according to California law.
There will always be someone to quibble with the details, but the district is a good plan and I urge you to keep this moving with a YES vote on Item 11.
Thank you very much.
Rebecca Walker
1440 Oribia Rd.
Del Mar, CA 92014
[email protected]
(619) 884-6095
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Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 2:03 PM
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Cc: Terry Gaasterland; David Druker; Dan Quirk; Tracy Martinez; Dwight Worden Subject: Red Dot Letter - Item # 11
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Dear City Clerk and City Council Members:
Please vote YES on adopting a resolution to provide the intention of levying assessments for 2024-2025 and mailing assessment ballots for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District. We live on public Oribia Road but we are dependent on private San Dieguito as the only means of access for us and the emergency and public services required by all residents of the City. Since we are at present unable to compel a fair distribution of the costs of road maintenance, we are witnessing the continued degradation of our only route to the outside.
We are willing to pay our share of the assessment district as determined by the SCI Consulting Group according to California law.
Our situation pits the private San Dieguito Drive residents against the Oribia Road residents with no mechanism to resolve the cost sharing. The plan proposed by the City is fair and necessary, and I urge a YES vote on Item 11
Thank you,
wade walker
1440 Oribia Road
Del Mar, CA 92014
[email protected]
619 719 7763
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From: Julie Korsmeyer <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2024 6:37 PM
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Subject: Assessment District SanDieguito Drive
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April 15th, 2024
I, the undersigned residents of Crest Canyon in the City of Del Mar, ask the Del Mar City Council to approve the following resolutions regarding the San Dieguito Drive Improvements Project :
Adopt a Resolution Providing Intention to Levy Assessments for Fiscal Year 2024-25, Preliminarily Approving the Engineer’s Report, Providing for the Notice of Hearing, and the Mailing of Assessment Ballots for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District; and Adopt a Resolution Adopting Procedures for the Proposition 218 Assessment Ballot Proceedings for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District.
I acknowledge that public safety is the highest priority in this matter before the Council and we must move forward with repairing this road on a timeline that aligns with the undergrounding of utilities in this neighborhood.
Sincerely,
Julie Korsmeyer
1230 Oribia Road
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I, the undersigned resident of Crest Canyon in the City of Del Mar, ask the Del Mar City Council to approve the following resolutions regarding the San Dieguito Drive Improvements Project :
Adopt a Resolution Providing Intention to Levy Assessments for Fiscal Year 2024-25, Preliminarily Approving the Engineer’s Report, Providing for the Notice of Hearing, and the Mailing of Assessment Ballots for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District; and Adopt a Resolution Adopting Procedures for the Proposition 218 Assessment Ballot Proceedings for the San Dieguito Drive Improvement District.
I acknowledge that public safety is the highest priority in this matter before the Council and we must move forward with repairing this road on a timeline that aligns with the undergrounding of utilities in this neighborhood.
Sincerely,
Amy Cheshire
1561 San Dieguito Drive
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Dear City Clerk,
I am asking you to vote YES on a resolution to assessments for 2024-2025 and mailing voting ballots. I ,also, don't live on private San Dieguito dr. but I am happy to pay my share of the assessment district fees.
Thank you,
Kay Geiserman
1426 Oribia Rd.
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[email protected]
561-289-3512
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From: Larry Krystkowiak <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 7:22 PM
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Subject: Censure?
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My wife Jan and I are adamantly opposed to your recent censure of Dan. I’m happy Dan is involved and shedding light on a system that seems broken. It’s an embarrassment to attempt to silence a council member and should be rescinded asap. Keep telling it like it is Dan and others need to stay in their lane Larry and Jan Krystkowiak
151 23rd st
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To the Del Mar City Council Members:
On, July 18th, 2023, I emailed each of my City Council members individually and asked each of them to call me because I thought the San Dieguito Drive (SDD) Improvements Project should be added to the agenda for the July 24th, 2023 City Council meeting. There was a closed session discussion scheduled for that date but the open discussion has been cancelled after a poorly received rollout of the Preliminary Engineering Assessment on July 13th. I thought the residents needed to share their questions and concerns about the Preliminary Engineering Assessment with the entire City Council in order to stay on track with the timeline to coordinate with Utility Undergrounding.
Dan Quirk called me on July 21st and we had a great conversation for almost an hour and a half. I enjoy talking to Dan. I think this is in part because there are some similarities in how our brains work. He is very interested in efficiency and sensible decision-making when it comes to City services provided to the community. He has creative ideas about how to get things done in Del Mar. That’s why I voted for him to represent me on the City Council.
I’m sure we talked about SDD and utility undergrounding and the railroad tracks during this conversation. I think the main reason he called was because he empathized with my frustration over how long it was taking to see a reasonable design for SDD and he was being supportive.
After the closed session on July 24th, Dan called me and spoke with me for sixteen minutes. I know he expressed his frustration again that council members and residents didn’t have the opportunity to ask questions in open session that evening. After our conversation, I remember feeling more optimistic that the City Council would continue to move forward with our project in part because Dan seemed to care so much about it. Dan April 15, 2024 Item 12
2 didn’t share any Closed Session details with me. He was reassuring me in the most general terms that he thought the project would eventually get done but that he shared my frustration at the slow progress and cost. I called my neighbor Beth Westburg to tell her that I was feeling more hopeful after talking to Dan.
I was grateful to Dan for being responsive to my request for a phone conversation before the meeting and for following up with me after the meeting. I have never felt bullied or stressed out by any conversations I’ve had with Dan. On the contrary, I’ve always been glad to have conversations with him because he listens respectfully to my opinions, and I always learn something useful. We sometimes disagree and then we have spirited but respectful debates.
I hope you will take my personal experience and sworn statement into consideration when making your decision on how to vote on this matter.
Thank you.
Amy Cheshire
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From: Peter Cramton <[email protected]>
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To: Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
From: Peter Cramton, 901 Highland Ave, Del Mar, CA 92014 Date: 13 April 2024
Subject: Item #12, Council Consideration to Censure Council Member Daniel Quirk for Personal Violations of the Brown Act, City Council Policies, Del Mar Municipal Code, and Related Misconduct I urge Mayor Dave Druker and Councilmember Tracy Martinez to withdraw Item 12 from the agenda. Barring withdrawal, I urge Councilmembers to vote against censure.
Councilmember Dan Quirk is an outspoken advocate on issues he believes in. He tends to ruffle many feathers. I am sure this is annoying to many at times. It also is a reasonable mode of expression. Councilmember Quirk is tireless in seeking facts to determine whether our Del Mar budget is spent wisely. He and I disagree about many spending decisions, but I respect his views. Gathering these facts is costly, but it also has benefits. It is hard for any of us to gauge how to optimally navigate the desire for more information. Councilmember Quirk errs on the side of too much information, which is perhaps a reasonable bias to have when spending public funds.
I know little of the facts of this matter. I, however, believe the Council's time could be better spent on more substantive matters than another censure of Councilmember Quirk. I urge the Council to focus on these critical matters: 1) the preservation of our beach, 2) the avoidance of further train destruction, 3) the development of affordable housing, and 4) any needed adjustments to building rules between 11th and 15th Street.
As with the prior censure, the request for censure appears to be a means to get the Council to speak with one voice on issues. Some believe that speaking with one voice will have a greater impact. I disagree. Like a university, Del Mar consists of thousands of voices. We do not all agree on complex issues. That is good. Del Mar should strive to promote knowledge (the Del Mar Foundation is an example of Del Mar's positive efforts). Open civil debate is much more effective in the pursuit of knowledge.
Please withdraw the censure item. It is unwise.
I thank you all for your public service in making Del Mar as good as it can be.
Kind regards,
Peter
Peter Cramton
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University of Maryland
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From: Jas Grewal <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 3:12 PM
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Dear Council Members,
It is with a great deal of sadness that I write to you today. I have just returned from a trip to settle my parent's estate to learn about what is going on in our fair City.
After digesting the details disclosed by an INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATOR about council member Dan Quirk, whom I
have supported based on his commitment to maintaining the character of our town against development, I am truly in shock.
Knowing all five council members and understanding their values and commitment to this town, I know in my heart
that this Council had no choice but to take on the very difficult task - not because of political considerations but out of genuine concern to manage the situation caused by Mr.
Quirk over many issues and to do what is in the best interest of the City - painful as it is to all council members.
Upon reading the most negative communication from Mr.
Quirk today that I have ever seen in this town, I was greatly disappointed. I guess it is understandable when someone is desperate, they lash out with anything they think can
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2 change public opinion. Unfortunately, making outrageous accusations is often deployed as a tactic knowing sound bites matter with busy people. However, we live in a town full of educated people who are fair minded from all walks of life and they can certainly tell the difference between facts and a smokescreen. I would have been more impressed if Mr.
Quirk's communication had put a link to the independent investigator's report or at least to the summary so that people could understand why the independent investigation was done, what it uncovered and then, if he had actually addressed the specific issues that were identified to give any reader a balanced perspective instead of using the catch all "politically motivated", ranting, and then implying as if he is the only council member that does anything for this town!!! As a 33 year resident who tries to be objective, who wants the best for our City, who supports the excellent work our City Manager does, I am offended by angry accusations and finger-pointing. In life we are all accountable for our conduct, personally, professionally and especially in the public domain. I urge you to listen to your conscience and based on facts presented to you by an independent
investigation, make the difficult decision.
Jas Grewal
Resident,
11th Street, Del Mar
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From: Candace Sears <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2024 5:21 PM
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Del Mar City Council,
As long time residents of Del Mar we support Dan Quirk and heartily oppose his censure. He is the voice of reason in all matters pertaining to Del Mar, especially with Sandag, a corrupt organization which cares nothing for the citizens of Del Mar. More of our councilmen and women should get on board and think and act as wisely as Dan does.
Candace and Cody Sears
Candace Leeds-Sears
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619.980.4125
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www.surfandturfproperties.com
16909 Via De Santa Fe, Suite 100
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Rancho Santa Fe CA 92067
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Del Mar City Council Closed Session Agenda Item (B)
15 Apr 2024
Real Property Negotiations
Property: San Dieguito Drive from Oribia Road to Racetrack View Drive Negotiating Parties: City of Del Mar and San Dieguito Drive Property Owners Under Negotiation: Potential dedication and improvement of the road and terms and conditions of the same Dear City Council members:
We’ve been working collaboratively on the San Dieguito Drive (SDD) Improvements Project for many years and it’s great to see the finish line at last. I’m very grateful for the ongoing efforts of the City Staff and the City Council in getting us to this point. Thank you.
In the 3 Apr 2024 meeting with the neighborhood, City Staff provided revised estimates of the cost of the project that still hovered at the $1.3 million mark. Residents were still being asked to contribute about $400K to the project, about twice what it would cost the residents to do a quality repair to the existing road surface.
The Crest Canyon residents are now being asked to pay for repairs to the storm drain that passes under the public road and empties into the lagoon. The City is currently repairing a similar storm drain failure at Jimmy Durante Blvd. As reported in the De Mar Weekly on 12 Apr 2024: “On Thursday, crews cut a trench across the northbound connector from Camino Del Mar to remove corroded sections of corrugated metal storm drain and replace them with reinforced concrete pipe. In recent years, failures of aging metal pipes have caused sinkholes and significant damage in Crest Canyon and on Camino Del Mar at Anderson Canyon.” I would ask the City Council to consider adding the entire cost of storm water management to the City’s share of the project cost. Most of the storm water that travels across the surface of San Dieguito Drive comes from runoff from the eastern side of the Crest Road ridge and from public Oribia Road. There are no storm drains on public Oribia Road (which was accepted into the City’s public street system in 1968.) In addition, the City uses San Dieguito Drive as a pressure relief system for the City water supply. All of this water then accumulates at the bottom of SDD and crosses under or on top of public San Dieguito Drive before it empties into the San Dieguito Lagoon Ecological Reserve. Proper management of stormwater entering the lagoon is a public safety issue that should be the City’s responsibility.
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2 Also, I have asked several times for an explanation as to how the City calculated their proposed 70% share of the project cost. I have not received an answer. I would ask the City Council to consider again the public benefit that repairing this street brings to our City and the San Dieguito Lagoon Ecological Reserve and as much as possible – please - increase the City’s percentage share of the cost of this project so that the residents’ share of the cost will be more affordable for individual homeowners.
Respectfully,
Amy Cheshire
1561 San Dieguito Drive
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Dear Del Mar City Council,
I am writing to express my urgent concerns regarding the accuracy of job numbers in Del Mar and its implications for our community's housing planning. It is imperative that the city take immediate action to address this issue and ensure transparency and accountability in our decision-making processes. a. We need the city to be open and transparent. Residents deserve to know the true picture of jobs data in Del Mar. City Staff was tasked four years ago with obtaining this information, and it is unacceptable that we still lack clarity on this crucial matter. If City Staff does not possess this information, they must expedite efforts to obtain it within the next 30 days.
b. SANDAG promised to provide the city with Del Mar’s jobs data at the September 30th, 2019 City Council meeting by the end of 2019. As far as I know, SANDAG has never provided this information. c. Recent revelations from Terry Gaasterland indicate that our current job numbers may be significantly overestimated by nearly 2000 jobs. This discrepancy alone warrants action and underscores the urgency of revising our Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) allocation. d. Ignoring or delaying action on this issue is not an option. The potential consequences of relying on inaccurate job numbers are too significant to ignore. The city must act swiftly to avoid being blindsided by unforeseen challenges that could impact our community's future.
e. I urge the city to file an Amended 6th Cycle Housing Element based on a revised RHNA number that excludes Fairgrounds seasonal jobs. It is crucial that our housing planning reflects the most accurate and reliable data available, which necessitates excluding Fairgrounds jobs from our job count.
As this is a matter of critical importance, I respectfully request that this issue be addressed under City Closed Session Item III(C) for prompt consideration and action.
Regards,
Mark Handzel
100 12th Street
April 15, 2024 Closed Session Item III
1 Evy Escalante
From: Nancy Stoke <[email protected]>
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Honorable Mayor and Council Members,
Where do we stand on receipt of Del Mar’s employment data used to support the RHNA Allocation? Please share with the residents what you know; we have been kept in the dark for far too long.
Have we ever received the data promised by SANDAG’s CEO during his presentation to you years ago when the question was first raised regarding faulty employment data being used for Del Mar’s RHNA Allocation? If not, why not?
Has Staff ever been able to reconcile and correct/have corrected the faulty EDD data? If not, why not? Has Staff ever been able to reconcile and correct/have corrected the faulty CAFR data? If not, why not? Is there other faulty RHNA-related data that you know of that the public is unaware of? If so, the data should be made public please.
We all know that building on a faulty foundation is unwise; Del Mar cannot let the Housing Cycle process continue to build on known faulty data. This must be addressed now before it goes any further! Do we know that EDD and CAFR and SANDAG and HCD know the difference between the Del Mar city limit boundaries and the Del Mar zip code boundaries?
For those who may not know… 92014 includes the following employment centers and businesses that are not within the Del Mar city limits:
Del Mar Hilton Hotel
Del Mar Golf Center
Flower Hill Mall
Mary’s Tack Shop
Market Restaurant
Polo Plaza (across from the Polo Fields)
Fairbanks Ranch Country Club aka Bay Club San Diego
Beachside Del Mar aka Vons Shopping Center at Del Mar Heights And many more
Here is the USPS map of 92014 and demographics for 92014: https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/92014/ April 15, 2024 Closed Session Item III
2 For comparison sake, here is the map from the city’s website of Del Mar’s city limits: https://www.delmar.ca.us/437/City-Limits-Map Note that the city limits cover slightly less than 50% of the 92014 zip code area west of the I-5. So even if EDD and CAFR and SANDAG and others are using data for only the portion of the 92014 zip code west of the freeway, the data will be off by about 50%. Such errors are totally unacceptable!
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3 We cannot continue to let outside “authorities” dictate Del Mar’s policies. At your direction our Staff has spent an inordinate amount of time (and money) trying to comply with a Housing Element that is built on bad data. This has to stop immediately, as it is negatively impacting other important issues in our community which need to be addressed.
If it is the seasonal jobs at the Fairgrounds that are the known root of the data problems, please file an Amended 6th Cycle Housing Element with accurate employment data and stand firm using correct data; don’t allow Del Mar to spend any more time/money working with known faulty data.
Respectfully Submitted,
Nancy Stoke
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