The La Costa Valley HOA has formed a committee to look at options for the vacant land. To help them set their budget, take a moment and tell them how much extra you, as a homeowner, are willing to pay in the coming year.
This would be their budget for consulting fees, research, legal fees, meetings, and possibly to buy the vacant land. This would be a one-time assessment that each homeowner would need to pay within the next 12 months.
How much can we put you down for?
Immediately after you take this poll, you will be able to see the results. Visit this site again, and you’ll be able to see the latest results as your neighbors give their votes. This is only a straw poll, so it not legally binding! It’s simply a way for us all to know where our neighbors stand.
There is no current lawsuit about the vacant land owned by the school district.
On some questions, there may be as many opinions as neighbors. Some neighbors may believe it’s worth risking legal action to prevail over the school district, developers, or whoever is at fault for not building a middle school as advertised. Others may be concerned that any legal action will have a negative effect on property values.
What is your opinion?
Check back for the sentiments of other La Costa Valley homeowners.
This quick poll is about the future of property values in La Costa Valley. Think about your own home, look around the neighborhood, consider what you’ve read, or consult the oracle if that works for you.
Immediately after you finish this poll, you’ll see the latest results.
Check back anytime to see what your neighbors think.
This is the latest email from the Friends of North County.
They’ve admitted they don’t have non-profit status. That’s curious because they said before they formed in 2006 and it doesn’t take so many years to attain that status. In any case, it’s unclear what would happen with whatever contributions they get.
Friends
While we are responding as quickly as we can to your emails and questions, we wanted to take this opportunity to share a few points with you and to ask for your help.
Many of you have asked for details about where you can send your donation. Please make your checks payable to Friends of North County. They can be sent to 1042 North El Camino Real P.O. Box 237, Encinitas, CA 92024. Friends of North County is a non-profit organization. We have applied for tax deductible status but we are still awaiting that designation. It may take many months for that to occur (and there are no guarantees that it will). We will let you know if we are granted that designation but urge you NOT to wait for that to occur before you send in your donation.
Several of you have forwarded your thoughts to us since our presentation earlier this week. Your input and comments help us to better understand the community’s perspective and the level of support we can count on as we continue this process. We also request that you share your thoughts with your friends and neighbors as well. For those of you who have not sent us your comments, we ask that you take a few minutes and send us an email with the information noted below. Please send your comments to mail@friendsofnorthcounty.org. To help inform the community, we may post excerpts of your emails on our website (no names, email address, or contact information will be displayed). Please provide us with your thoughts in general about the issues but also include the following:
What you have learned from our recent presentation;
Your thoughts about how the school district has dealt with us;
Why you believe the school district has responded the way they have;
Whether or not you believe the school district (their employees and their elected officials) should be held accountable for their actions; and
Do you believe you were misled by the school district’s seven year promotion and signage campaign advertising the “future middle school.”
We are looking to expand our media relationships. If any of you have strong ties to the media, we would appreciate a referral. We are looking for local media contacts, but also for national media contacts focused on investigative reporting (20/20, 60 Minutes, Primetime, etc.). While we have limited our focus to this particular school district, this particular property, and the specific use of taxpayer funds for which we are all paying $800 per year for thirty-five years, known as CFD 94-2 (Mello Roos), we also are aware of similar issues throughout California (and we believe the nation) where school districts are taking advantage of taxpayers. We believe our story has national significance and that promoting what we have learned (and will be learning) will benefit our community, as well as taxpayers and government officials across the country.
Again we restate what we have posted in the past. The school district has all of our contact information. We continue to hope that they will decide to work with us in this matter to reach a solution. Until that happens (or in case it does not) we will not be deterred by the school district’s campaign of misinformation, propaganda, and scare tactics. The history of the district’s actions can’t be changed. They can’t erase it, get rid of it, or avoid it. We have taken the time to learn those facts and are determined to learn more.Thank you again for your input, support and comments.
The following email was sent out to many La Costa Valley residents. There was no attached presentation.
The Friends of North County bring up some interesting questions
Just how many people attended this meeting?
Why can’t they share the documents they mention? If they can send emails, they can certainly attach scanned documents
What will happen to property values if LCV gets mired in a legal dispute?
How is this letter different from what FoNC says the school district has done: “misinformation, propaganda and scare tactics”?
What will happen with any money donated to FoNC? Is it a legally registered foundation?
To all that were able to attend the Community Meeting last night at Coastline Community Church, thank you so much for your participation, interest, questions, and donations to Friends of North County. We were pleased that so many were motivated to attend the meeting despite the District’s scare tactics and warnings not to attend. Ironically, many of you mentioned that the District phone call and letter actually inspired you to attend. After the presentation, I’m sure you have a better understanding of why the District did not want you to hear what we had to say, to see the documents we shared with you, and what the likely uses for the property will be if we were to all stay silent and don’t get more involved.
Unfortunately, we recognize that many who would have liked to attend were unable to due to the myriad of conflicts that our busy lives present. Given the wonderful turnout at the meeting, we expect that you should be able to identify a friend or neighbor that was able to attend the 2+ hour presentation and can share a summary of our findings. We hope too that you will feel motivated, like so many of your friends and neighbors, to donate to Friends of North County as we will be continuing to pursue our efforts. Friends of North County, and many in attendance, believe that the Homeowners Association for La Costa Valley should get involved in this issue. While we are hopeful that they will do so, that will not happen without greater community involvement and letting your voices be heard that you want them involved. Regardless of their involvement, we also will continue the process we have pursued for the past 31 months. However, as we expand our investigation efforts we are requesting greater financial participation from the community. Again, please speak with your friends and neighbors and/or contact Friends of North County via e-mail (mail@friendsofnorthcounty.org) to inquire about donating.
We are currently developing a strategy of how best to communicate with our community on this issue. Regardless of the strategy please note that our correspondence via email will be very limited. We will not be sharing critical information, documents or findings electronically. In the meantime, we encourage you to forward this email to your friends and neighbors. If they would like to be in the Friends of North County database they can send an email to mail@friendsofnorthcounty.org.As we have said repeatedly to the school district in meetings, at public hearings and in our media interviews, our goal has always been, and continues to be, to seek open and honest dialogue with the school district about the ultimate use of the school property and the money associated with our Mello Roos taxes. The school district has all of our contact information. We continue to hope that they will decide to work with us in this manner to reach a solution. Until that happens (or in case it does not) we will not be deterred by the school district’s campaign of misinformation, propaganda and scare tactics. The history of the district’s actions can’t be changed. They can’t erase it, get rid of it or avoid it. We have taken the time to learn those facts and are determined to learn more.
Total Housing Units: 12,287
Units Sold Last 6 Months: 169
Average Market Time: 73 days
SFD Price Range: $445,000 to $2,450,000
SFD Average Price: $856,024
SFD Median Price: $824,500
Condo Price Range: $265,000 to $775,000
Condo Average Price: $425,500
Condo Median Price: $385,000
Also, the following email was sent by the Friends of North County on March 15, 2008. It included a sensationalized artist’s rendering of high-density housing along Calle Barcelona.
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Could LOW INCOME HOUSING, COMMERCIAL CENTERS, APARTMENTS or INDUSTRIAL PARKS be coming to your La Costa Valley neighborhood?
Find out why the answer could be YES.
Become informed about the vacant property in the heart of La Costa Valley. Neighborhood meeting:Wednesday, March 26 at 7:00 pmCoastline Community Church2215 Calle Barcelona
