We ask for speed reductions and considerations of calming measures. The city has been great to work with considering the challenges of the round a bout. I am grateful for the city's participation in meeting with us as individuals and as a HOA. I appreciate the continued conversation.
The reason for today's note is to express opposition to Phase 2B of the proposed plan.
The effect of widening of Ynez - DePortola -Ynez roads will invite more traffic, exacerbating the challenges already experienced in our neighborhood (noted above) and will further diminish our quality of life.
Respectfully
Jeffrey Tomaszewski
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Tuesday, June 13, 2023 3:25 PM
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To Be Read at City Council 6-13-22
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Good Evening,
Once again Temecula has found itself at the center of the news, but not for its family events, new businesses, or the freshly planted remembrance trees in the community. It is once again a result of Jessica Alexander pushing her Christian beliefs down the throats of our community and being an ignorant, hateful person who believes that just because she is a follower of Christ means that she can do no harm despite the constant hate that pours out of her.
That doesn't quite align with the teachings of love and acceptance now does it? Perhaps there is more of the devil in you than you believe Jessica. I wonder what your God thinks of your constant goal to encourage hate instead of encouraging acceptance. Even the sick, those that turned their backs on Him, were still accepted by God. He never turned His back on them. He is an all -loving God. There are no limitations on who he loves. The only person placing those limitations are your and your minions.
You are not the only Catholic or Christian in Temecula. Who made you believe that you were suddenly the voice for all those that believe in Him? You can have your extremist beliefs and live by them as strongly as you would like. However, you should share those beliefs with the members of your church. Your spot as a city council person was not so you had a bigger platform to spew your discriminations, hypocrisies, and judgments.
If you don't respect or accept the LGBTQIA community, ignore them. Don't be a part of the community. That is your right. What isn't your right is to force everyone else to believe or feel the way that you do. You are constantly bringing negative attention to a beautiful community. You are a stain on Temecula and constantly make us look bad. You need to be replaced and I look forward to the day you step down so someone, maybe even myself, can take your place. To use your seat for what it is supposed to be used for, to make our community strong, and better together instead of trying to turn everyone against one another. You are not a martyr Jessica, you are not the designated messenger of God, you are simply another hyper -conservative Catholic who has lost all sense of reality in regard to what power she holds. You're sad.
I hate (not really) to tell you that while you think you are speaking of the majority of people in the community, you are wrong. The younger generations of this community are larger, smarter, and more accepting. We and they have a stronger voice and we fight for change. For every piece of hate speech you speak, we will speak louder. For every discriminating policy you attempt to put forward, we will block it. We will never let you win.
You will never win. Hate will never win.
Mayor Schwank, where are you? What happened to you? I was a big fan of yours before you became mayor and was excited when you stepped into the role. I thought this is who we need. Someone in touch with the community, alive on social to connect with the younger citizens of Temecula. He is going to be great for us. I was wrong.
You've disappeared off social, you are no longer easily accessible to the younger generations and you no longer act as a voice for those that are being targeted. We have a cult leading our school board that is getting
the attention of Governor Newsom. Where have you gone? Members of the LGBTQIA are being grouped in with pedophiles by members of your council and we don't hear anything from you. It is good to know though that when Lisa from Temecula shows up on SNL you will step up for that tv spot.
I am disappointed in you. You've lost yourself among these conservatives. You've become a sheep and have allowed your voice to go quiet behind the bigotry and trash that flows from Alexander and her minions.
Temecula is growing. We are getting great businesses, people are moving down from OC, etc. Temecula has the opportunity to be the next place to be. Why are we letting it down? Do we really want our sign into our town to be "Welcome to Temecula... but only if you are straight, catholic, and conservative? Shame on you all. Do better. We all deserve better. Isn't there enough hate in the world? Life is too damn short. Love is love. Love is beautiful. Love will always win.
Samantha Nguyen
From: Mark LeTourneau <
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 5:13 PM
To: Council Comments
Subject: Vote Against Widening Ynez Rd - Phase 2B
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Hello,
I am writing to include comments for the Council members this evening; I cannot be present but wish my comments be included in the discussion. Please reply that you have received this email and the attachment. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Mark LeTourneau
Temecula, CA 92592
Good evening City Council members. Thank you for the opportunity to share our SAFETY concerns regarding plans to widen Ynez Road identified as Phase 2B in the proposed CIP plan considered before you tonight, June 13, 2023. Please do not support Phase 2B. Old Traditions and New Opportunities.
My name is Mark LeTourneau and I write to you representing me and my family who live at in beautiful, lovely Temecula. We are vehemently against any projects which result in the further widening of Ynez and De Portola Roads between Santiago and Margarita Roads.
We are also opposed to increasing posted speed limits and hope you would consider reducing them.
In spring of 2000, the United States Marine Corps transferred me and my family from Northern Japan to Camp Pendleton. Our search for our new home took us along the areas adjacent to Camp Pendleton and we spent a week looking in Orange County, in North San Diego County, and we chose our home in Temecula because of the "Old Traditions and New Opportunities" which we could feel in this community. We knew we had found our forever home.
My wife and I were both born in California, and we have lived in Temecula longer than we have lived anywhere else. We are engaged community members; we are active in local, national, and international organizations, volunteering at the Rose Haven, biweekly cleanup of our adopted Temecula Veterans Park, and activities at our church, to name a few.
Weekdays before 5:30 a.m. when we are driving on DePortola Road and/or Ynez Road heading to the gym, we are often passed by people driving at speeds of 80 plus miles per hour who are in a rush to join the daily morning migration to work. Later in the day, as we pull out of or into our driveway, drivers honk their horn and wave fingers at us because we are moving too slowly.
Widening these streets or increasing the posted speed limits will create more safety problems. We have already absorbed increased traffic, which includes increased pollution, trash, noise, etc. And consider the safety issues for runners, walkers with their family and pets, cyclists, people on horseback; heck, just crossing the street, even at the 4-way all stop intersection often results in honking horns and near misses from irate drivers.
People traversing in and through our community are already driving faster than the posted 45 miles per hour speed limits and you already know that creating a wider thoroughfare will only encourage increased speed, frequency, and the lethality of the accidents that result in injuries and death, as happened to Deputy Creed, the San Diego County sheriff's deputy who died in a single vehicle accident on De Portola Road on a clear Saturday morning in January 2020.
Just two months ago, a speeding driver lost control of the car she was driving and she crashed through bushes and our fence and the car finally came to rest completely in our front yard.
Fortunately, no one was killed, but she barely missed running over our daughter, by less than five feet, who was sitting in our driveway at the time. Less than an hour later, many of the same personnel returned for a multi -vehicle accident at the intersection of Jedediah Smith Rd and Ynez/DePortola Roads, only 200 feet from the car in our front yard.
Old Traditions and New Opportunities is a great slogan and the connection to our past is equally as important as our bridge to the future. Council members, please oppose any widening of Ynez and De Portola Roads, oppose any increase and consider a decrease in the posted speed limits along these thoroughfares. Please protect our properties, our homes, our Los Ranchitos community, our equine traditions, our property values, and our city's history and heritage, for the enjoyment of the citizens of this great city of Temecula today and in the future. Thank you.
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June 13, 2023 Temecula City Council Meeting at 6pm- Opposition to Phase 2B of the proposed plan
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To the Temecula City Council and whom it may concern
My name is Judi Foster, I live at and have been a resident of Los Ranchitos since 1999 (on behalf of my husband Tim Foster, and 1).
I chose to live in Temecula, and specifically Los Ranchitos, because I was drawn to the beauty, safety, quietness, and space of the neighborhood allowing residents to live on several acres each.
Additionally, another major factor in living in Los Ranchitos is that it is a historic neighborhood, dating back to 1964, the oldest within the city of Temecula (before it was even established as a city).
Unfortunately, the increase in traffic and excessive usage of Ynez road has compromised the safety and quietness of this neighborhood. This is particularly exacerbated by the fact that the speed limit on Ynez road is 45 mph for the entire duration that it passes through Los Ranchitos. Furthermore, the posted speed limit of 45 mph is rarely obeyed, and most drivers speed far in excess of that.
As a result, for the following reasons/concerns, I am AGAINST PHASE 2B of the proposed plan:
1. 1 am not able to enter or exit my street safely, as the high speed limit of 45 mph coupled with the congestion of Ynez road, makes it overly burdensome to slow down with notice and turn onto my street as well as turn out of my street. This is even further exacerbated by the many residents who have driveways directly on Ynez.
2. Many drivers already turn onto my RESIDENTIAL street of Flores Drive at excessively high and unsafe speeds with the hopes of using it as a shortcut to get through town. In fact, Flores Drive is NOT a through street. Instead, what should be a quiet small residential cul-de-sac is used as a busy thoroughfare traveled at speeds of up to 45 mph. I do not believe any track home would want someone driving through their cul-de-sac at this speed. This severely dangers the safety of everyone who uses this street, and particularly kids, horses, and other animals/pets.
3. Many residents use Ynez and the surrounding neighborhood streets to walk, and bike, just as anyone else would in any RESIDENTIAL neighborhood. Currently, the dirt buffer zone and bike lane on each side of Ynez facilitates walking and biking to a somewhat safe degree, albeit the speed limit should be REDUCED given this fact. Additionally, Los Ranchitos is home to livestock and particularly, horseback riding. This unique factor means horses and their riders also need this space and buffer zone to travel effectively, which again would also benefit from a REDUCED speed limit. Widening the road would eliminate and deprive residents of any safe and reasonable chance to walk, bike or horse ride in their own neighborhood where they pay taxes in and live.
4. Widening the road to 4 lanes would severely impact the overall safety of the residents of this neighborhood. Consider the following real world example that happened within the recent past: A car went off Ynez road onto the previously mentioned dirt buffer zone, crashed and knocked out several utility boxes at my home, several fences and signs for nearly a mile of Ynez before coming to a stop past the now rotary. The driver in fact suffered a heart attack which caused the driver to go off the road resulting in the above damage. If Ynez had been 4 lanes when this accident occurred and there was NO buffer zone, this driver would have crashed into a home, garage, person, animal, child, pet, etc.
5. Why would the city of Temecula compromise the safety, well being, and history of its oldest neighborhood? It would be unduly irresponsible.
To conclude, I am AGAINST PHASE 2B of the proposed plan.
Sincerely,
Judi Foster
Subject: FW: City Council Meeting dated 6/13/23 at 6:00 @ 4100 Main Street, Temecula, Ca. -----Original Message -----
From: Bret Ward
Subject: City Council Meeting dated 6/13/23 at 6:00 @ 4100 Main Street, Temecula, Ca.
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My name is Bret Ward and my wife and I live at in the Los Ranchitos community in Temecula, Ca. 92592. 1 am writing this statement because we are currently in Oregon.
We moved to Temecula from Chino in 2015 when some aspects of living in Chino started to become uncomfortable.
We felt fortunate to find our little piece of heaven in the Los Ranchitos area of Temecula. It was only after our first year or two that we felt concerned about the auto congestion in our little piece of heaven. If you live in Los Ranchitos and have someplace you need to be you must travel on Vallejo, La Paz, Inez/ De Portola or the 15. And if your timing puts you in the area of 2:00 to 6:00 in the afternoon you can plan on adding 15 to 30 minutes of extra time to arrive at your destination, 15 to 30 minutes of frustration and then the added carbon pumped into the atmosphere from just sitting and burning fuel.
Then there is what I call "The Fast Lane Skip". The "Fast Lane Skip" is the part of Vallejo that is between Inez and La Paz where the speed limit is stated at 25 because of the School and the Church. My wife and I walk our dogs down Palma and then cross Vallejo to the School. If you happen to be there at the wrong time, during "School and Work", some cars will almost take your breath away as they go by at something like 45 mph. This part of Vallejo needs speed bumps because even I find myself forgetting and speeding. You will "NEVER" change human nature unless you "mechanically force the issue."
Bret and Marilyn Ward.
June 15th, 2023
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