thank you for responding to this important issue.
the thing is you have to call them over and over and over and over and over. my rep is Sam Farr, a devout socialist. he sends automated responses.
i pretty much view any call to representatives as displacing a call for more socialism.
here's a letter to the editor i wrote the other day that was printed in the paper.
Gavilan campus site an offensive tax grab
Board trustee and former Judge Tom Breen's comments regarding the proposed campus site (It's no longer proposed; it's a done deal. The vote is only a formality and so is the EIR.) offend me. His choice of one word, a bodily function, and his assumption that it is not necessary to offend are sufficient for no harm to take place are disturbing, particularly since he is a former judge and should know that lack of intent doesn't free one from responsibility of harm.
The campus site sits on five-acre zoning. The remaining dividend homes property will probably be converted to a higher density, allowing Mr. Oliver and his party to "make" more profit from the development lost to the campus. This will create a leapfrog development of surrounding areas.
Homeowners who purchased their homes with the knowledge of this parcel being for five-acre development are harmed by this transaction. We have lost our privacy, peace and quiet and other values we purchased when the land was in five-acre zoning. We will not be compensated for this. In fact, probably the only way we can be compensated is for us to have our zoning changed to a higher density so we can again purchase land that offers privacy and freedom from proximity to a college campus. We have lost the time and investment we have put into our properties. I noticed not one of the board of trustees located the campus next to their property where they live. The campus will eventually be annexed to the city, and five-acre parcels will become islands within city limits, essentially folding them into the city proper.
This is a tax revenue grab, as the only way the state government can balance its books is to mandate growth to generate revenue, even though the net population of the state is losing legal residents, and only grows through illegal immigration. This is because residents realize they have no representation in government anymore and are voting with their feet and retirement dollars and are fed up with financing bankruptcy.
The trustees say they need to campus to stay ahead of growth, mandated by the state. I see something very wrong with this picture.
I would like to see very concrete plans to mitigate campus impact on my investment with specific mitigations to traffic, parking, parking location away from our development, no night time games on campus fields similar to existing standards at Gavilan, a fee based system for athletic field use, open space for the EXISTING tiger salamander pond recently heavily disced, as well as brush planted on the open space for transient kit fox population and a dead end for Harbern Way with the existing easement removed as well as other items. The sustainable agriculture program should probably be limited to a focus on backyard gardening as farming in the area will no longer be a viable option when the campus is completed as the entire valley floor will be houses to finance the next wave of mandated growth.
That is my current mood after just filling out this census B.S. ! That was a complete waste of time.
