HomeMy WebLinkAbout2022-11-30; Growth Management Citizens Committee; ; Committee Business (2)CA Review ______
Meeting Date: Nov. 30, 2022
To: Growth Management Citizens Committee
Staff Contact: Eric Lardy, City Planner
Eric.Lardy@carlsbadca.gov
Sarah Lemons, Communication & Engagement
Sarah.Lemons@carlsbadca.gov
Subject
Committee Business
Recommended Action
Receive presentations and discuss the following topics:
• Review Carlsbad Tomorrow Report Sample Table of Contents and Sample Page. Receive a
presentation from city staff on the proposed work product of the committee (Exhibit 1).
• Fire Standard. Participate in a committee discussion to determine direction regarding the Fire
standard – keep as is, remove, or update (Exhibit 2). Fire Chief will be available for questions.
• Police. Participate in a committee discussion to determine direction regarding establishing a
new standard for police services. Police Chief will be available for questions.
• Library Standard. Participate in a committee discussion to determine direction regarding the
Library standard – keep as is, remove, or update (Exhibit 3). Library staff will be available for
questions.
• Arts/Culture. Participate in a committee discussion to determine direction regarding
establishing a new standard for arts and culture. Cultural Arts Manager will be available for
questions.
Currently, the city’s art program is supported by the Arts Master Plan using existing city
resources. Carlsbad Municipal Code Section 2.18.110 requires that city projects use funds in
the amount of one percent of total project cost for works of art.
www.carlsbadca.gov/departments/cultural-arts/public-art
• City Administrative Facilities Standard. Participate in a committee discussion to determine
direction regarding the City Administrative Facilities standard – keep as is, remove, or update
(Exhibit 4). City Real Estate Manager will be available for questions.
• Schools Standard. Participate in a committee discussion to determine direction regarding the
Schools standard – keep as is, remove, or update (Exhibit 5).
Fiscal Analysis
This action has no fiscal impact.
Environmental Evaluation
In keeping with California Public Resources Code Section 21065, this action does not constitute a
“project” within the meaning of the California Environmental Quality Act in that it has no potential to
cause either a direct physical change in the environment, or a reasonably foreseeable indirect physical
change in the environment. Therefore, it does not require environmental review.
GROWTH MANAGEMENT CITIZENS COMMITTEE @) Staff Report
Public Notification and Outreach
This item was noticed in keeping with the Ralph M. Brown Act and it was available for public
viewing and review at least 72 hours before the scheduled meeting date.
Exhibits
1. Carlsbad Tomorrow Report Sample Table of Contents and Sample Page
2. Fire Standard – Summary of Previous Committee Discussion and Options
3. Library Standard – Summary of Previous Committee Discussion and Options
4. City Administrative Facilities Standard – Summary of Previous Committee Discussion and Options
5. Schools Standard – Summary of Previous Committee Discussion and Options
Exhibit 1
Carlsbad Tomorrow
Growth Management Citizens Committee Report
Sample Table of Contents
Introduction
Growth Management Program history
• How and why the program was created
• 11 facility standards
Why an updated approach is needed now
• Existing City of Carlsbad plans and polices (Community Vision, General Plan, etc.)
• Changes in laws, regulations and policies
• Changes in city growth patterns
• Check in on current community needs and priorities
Committee
Membership
How formed
Charter
Process
Limitations
Funding models
• Legal framework of funding – new development cannot make up deficiencies,
requirements for establishing fees, nexus and district.
• Overview of approaches used by other cities/different models in use today in other
jurisdictions
• Overview of various approaches to generating fees and other revenue to offset new
spending to mitigate the effects of growth
Recommended quality of life standards (see sample report page)
• Present the standards recommended by the majority of the committee, options for
how they could be measured and potential associated fees to support them
• Note other standards suggested by committee members
Quality of life standards recommended for removal
• Present the standards recommended for removal by the majority of the committee
and the rationale
Appendices
1. Meeting dates and topics
2. Summary of public input on committee’s recommendations
3. Committee working documents
o Summary handout
o One page per performance standard
▪ Options for potential new performance standards
o Meeting minutes
4. Other feedback for consideration
• Present other policy issues the majority of the committee would like to bring to
the City Council’s attention (outside the scope of the new framework for
managing growth)
• Other related issues individual committee members would like presented
DRAFT SAMPLE
INSERT NAME OF STANDARD
Proposed standard
What standard would need to be met in this area to protect Carlsbad’s future quality of
life?
How will the city know if the standard has been met? What indicators can be tracked?
Rationale
Why is the standard important to maintaining Carlsbad’s excellent quality of life?
What is working well with the existing performance standard that should be continued?
In what ways is the existing standard falling short?
If this is a new standard, why should this be added?
What would make the existing performance standard better?
What problem is the proposed standard trying to solve?
If this is a new standard, why is it needed?
What potential challenges or barriers could prevent the standard from being successful?
Potential fees/funding sources _____________________________________________________
Residential development fee, new tax, commercial development fee, etc.
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Exhibit 2
Fire - Discussed July 28, 2022
No more than 1,500 dwelling units outside of a five-minute response time.
Key Takeaways from Committee Discussion
on Standard Options for Consideration
• Consider methods for tracking, measuring, and
evaluating results, and reporting of performance
metrics. Identify ways that the current
performance standard stated in the Growth
Management Plan can be used to aid the fire
department.
• The current standard should be revised to
consider high call volumes or call saturation like
the recommended standard in presentation.
• Determine whether there is a development impact
fee charged for fire.
• Consider the 5-minute drive time versus a 5-
minute response time.
• Consider counting retirement homes when
counting the number of dwelling units. Aging
community is an issue within the city. Are
considered?
• Consider the possibility of charging specific impact
fees for retirement homes or senior citizen
housing facilities in other areas that could impact
response times.
• Consider the benefits of including a fire
performance standard or other metrics as part of
the Growth Management Plan (GMP).
• Consider the benefit of the fire department
managing their performance with other metrics.
• Committee must ensure that we mitigate impacts
to existing residents, which is a critical part of
answering this question.
1. Keep standard as it currently exists in the Growth
Management Program.
2. Remove standard from Growth Management Program.
Staff recommends that the Fire standard be removed
from the Growth Management Program and replaced
with annual evaluations of service in the city’s
operational planning.
3. Change standard (increase, decrease, modify metric, etc.).
Notes or Resources
Approved minutes from the July 28, 2022, Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
PowerPoint presentation from the July 28, 2022, Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Agenda packet (staff report for the Fire Facilities item begins on page 8) from the July 28, 2022, Growth
Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Nexus
A nexus can be established for fire facilities; however, the funding has not been established related to this standard.
Future fees could be established or updated based on these nexus standards.
• Public Facility Impact Fees
• General Fund
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Exhibit 3
Library - Discussed August 25, 2022
800 sq. ft. (of library space) per 1,000 population must be scheduled for construction within a five-year period or
prior to construction of 6,250 dwelling units, beginning at the time the need is first identified.
Key Takeaways from Committee Discussion
on Standard Options for Consideration
• The current standard has worked well for the
library system.
• Library currently supports and provides cultural
arts space and programming – consider
separating into two distinct standards.
• Foot traffic continues to increase.
• Consider what digital technology has done for
storage demand.
o Storage needs haven’t gone down but
the opportunity for technological
spaces, like play areas, space for
“library of things” rentals, etc., has
gone up. More space would be
beneficial.
• Consider the adequacy of geographic
accessibility. Consider addition to the west of I-
5?
• Consider the collection of fees continue to be
collected or are current facilities adequate?
1. Keep standard in as exists Growth Management Program.
Staff recommends that the Library standard remain as it is in
the Growth Management Program because it has worked
for the library team and has helped fund services. Continued
collection of funds for this measure will help support future
increases in population.
While the library industry has moved away from formulaic
calculations per capita to determine space needs, they have
not replaced it with a new standard. Rather, libraries are
focused on more flexible spaces that can adapt readily to
changing community feedback and needs.
The existing square footage for library spaces currently
includes arts spaces as well: Cultural Arts office space, the
Cannon Gallery, and the Schulman Auditorium. Consider
this during the committee’s discussion on the topic of arts
and culture.
2. Remove standard from Growth Management Program.
3. Change standard (increase, decrease, modify metric, etc.).
Notes or Resources
Approved minutes from the August 25, 2022, Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
PowerPoint presentation from the August 25, 2022, Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Agenda packet (staff report for the Library Facilities item begins on page 7) from the July 28, 2022, Growth
Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Arts & Culture Master Plan
Nexus/Funding Sources
A nexus could be established connecting the future growth to the need for library services, one has been
established in the creation of CFD#1 resulting in it being eligible for a funding source.
• CFD #1
• Public Facility Impact Fees
• General Fund
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Exhibit 4
City Administrative Facilities - Discussed May 26, 2022
1,500 sq. ft. per 1,000 population must be scheduled for construction within a five-year period or prior to
construction of 6,250 dwelling units, beginning at the time the need is first identified.
Key Takeaways from Committee Discussion
on Standard Options for Consideration
• Calculating standard by square footage should be
reconsidered.
• Assess need for standard.
• Compare current space requirement to previous
years (due to telecommuting or work share).
• Assess if current facilities are adequate. Assess
employee satisfaction.
• Assess if standard should cover upgrades to
existing facilities and not just new facilities.
• Somehow integrate efficiency into the metric.
• Assess if other community facilities should be
included in this standard.
• Assess how the City of Carlsbad compares to other
cities.
1. Keep standard in as exists in Growth Management
Program.
2. Remove standard from Growth Management Program.
Staff recommends that the City Administrative Facilities
standard be removed from the Growth Management
Program because the standard is no longer reflective of
business operations and the new civic center and city hall
project has ben authorized in August 2022 to move
forward.
3. Change standard (increase, decrease, modify metric, etc.).
Additional Resources
Approved minutes from the May 26, 2022, Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Powerpoint presentation from the May 26, 2022, Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Agenda packet (staff report for Admin Facilities item begins on page 15) from the May 26, 2022, Growth
Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Carlsbad City Council, Aug. 16, 2022, new city hall and civic center staff report
New City Hall and Civic Center:
o Site, scoping and planning analysis
o Public input summary report
Nexus/Funding Sources
A nexus could continue to be established based upon this standard for the current delta. However, funding for
future programs would have to be estimated because the current City Hall project is funded through CFD fundings.
Current funding sources are:
• CFD #1
• Public Facility Impact Fees
• General Fund
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Exhibit 5
Schools - Discussed June 23, 2022
School capacity to meet projected enrollment within the Local Facility Management Zone (LFMZ) as determined by
the appropriate school district must be provided prior to projected occupancy.
Key Takeaways from Committee Discussion
on Standard Options for Consideration
• We need a greater understanding of the city
demographics and demographic projections; recognize
that projections are not always accurate.
• Need to have a better understanding of headcounts and
what demographics they represent. What demographic
projection data do schools use?
• Assess if school safety should be included.
• Is this standard useful without city control?
• School sets its own standards – are there other options to
explore? Define the term “capacity” and “temporary” as it
relates to schools. (for instance, is a trailer acceptable to
meet capacity? How long is temporary?)
o Need better understanding of what “relo” (trailer)
requirements are for schools.
• Is there a student generation factor that could be
developed for each project (used to do this in the past at
Planning Commission)? Perhaps an infill version of this
factor?
• Will serve/will not serve letters – this process may be an
area to fine-tune as part of the growth management
standard (how the city responds).
• Assess impact of all-day kindergarten on school standards.
• Assess city’s role in the quality of education.
• Assess private schools’ impact on capacity and school
planning.
• Assess need for a census tract by tract understanding of
the population.
• Population projections will never be an exact science.
• Neighborhoods transition and change over the decades –
assess how this is accounted for.
• Our growth standard recommendations should be
actionable.
1. Keep standard in as exists Growth Management
Program.
2. Remove standard from Growth Management
Program.
Staff recommends that the Schools standard be
removed from the Growth Management Program
because state law requires annual coordination.
3. Change standard (increase, decrease, modify metric,
etc.).
Notes or Resources
Approved minutes from the June 23,2022 Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
PowerPoint presentation from the June 23,2022 Growth Management Citizens Committee meeting.
Agenda packet (staff report for the Schools item begins on page 9) from the June 23, 2022 Growth Management
Citizens Committee meeting.
The city’s General Plan reviewed school facilities in the Environmental Impact Report, projecting current and future
enrollment. This chapter is available here: 3.11 Public Facilities and Services March 2014_clean (carlsbadca.gov)
Nexus/Funding Sources
• State fees are established by each school district. As building permit issuance the city confirms submission of
developer fees. Government Code Section 65995
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From:Lance Schulte
To:Growth Management Committee; Council Internet Email; City Clerk; Eric Lardy; Kyle Lancaster; Boyle,Carrie@Coastal; "Prahler, Erin@Coastal"; Ross, Toni@Coastal; Homer, Sean@Parks; "Moran, Gina@Parks"
Cc:info@peopleforponto.com
Subject:Public Input on Coastal Land Use Planning & Growth Management - Marketplace: A Southern California townreckons with its disappearing beaches - For the next public meetings
Date:Tuesday, November 22, 2022 11:43:35 AM
Dear Carlsbad City Council, Carlsbad Tomorrow Growth Management Committee, Planning-Parks-
Beach Preservation Committees; and CA Coastal Commission:
Please consider this information in the Marketplace news article: A Southern California town
reckons with its disappearing beaches.
https://www.marketplace.org/2022/11/21/southern-california-town-reckons-with-its-
disappearing-beaches/ for:
· The next CTGMC meeting on Growth Management Plan recommendations
· Carlsbad City Council and Planning-Parks-Beach Preservation Committees’ consideration of
Carlsbad’s Proposed Local Coastal Program Land Use Plan Amendments – Citywide and
Ponto Planning Area F & Site 18
· CA Coastal Commission consideration of Carlsbad’s Proposed Local Coastal Program Land
Use Plan Amendments – Citywide and Ponto Planning Area F & Site 18
The issues in the article are also what Carlsbad is facing but to some different land uses – our
Campground and coastal access parking lots – Land Uses Carlsbad’s 2015 General Plan did not
provide a credible/accountable/reasonable Coastal Land Use & Growth Management Plan to
address. The CA Coastal Act has specific Land Use Policies that to land use plan vacant “upland
areas” to move “CA Coastal Act high-priority Coastal Land Uses” (Coastal Recreation {i.e. Public
Parks} and Low-cost Visitor Accommodations) out of harms why due to coastal erosion and bluff
failures that are being accelerated by climate change and sea level rise. The City’s 1st sea level rise
Impact assessment was only done in 2017 and well after the City designed on a Coastal Land Use &
Growth Management Plans. The 2017 Sea Level Rise impact assessment and loss of 32+ acres of
Coastal Land Uses critical to “Carlsbad’s Community Vision” sadly is not being considered by the
Carlsbad Tomorrow Growth Management Committee. Sea level rise impacts and the loss of these
32+ acres of CA Coastal Act high-priority land uses in South Carlsbad will be derogation of Carlsbad’s
Community Vision and a significant negative Citywide impact to Carlsbad’s Tomorrow and future
generations. Ignoring this not responsible.
Since 2017 People for Ponto Citizens have been asking the City Council to honestly, and in a
comprehensive open ‘Citizen-based planning process’ to responsibly provide a New General Plan
and Coastal Land Use Plan that provides for the forever growing population need for High-priority
Coastal land uses and addresses:
1. the lack of a meaningful Coastal Park for South Carlsbad (62% of the City’s population),
2. the loss of 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal Land Use (Coastal Recreation {Public Parks} &
Low-cost visitor Accommodations),
3. the proper land use planning of the few remaining vacant Coastal acres in South Carlsbad –
Ponto, and
4. importantly the tax-payer savings of simply buying vacant Coastal parcel at Ponto to add
acreage for these high-priority uses v. an inefficient and very costly PCH Relocation that
does not add any new acres but simply makes a few narrow fragments of existing roadway
median possibly more useable by people.
We again ask the Carlsbad City Council, Carlsbad Tomorrow Growth Management Committee,
Carlsbad City Commissions to as soon as possible provide that comprehensive Citizen-based
Coastal land use and growth management plan process. This needs to be done now. Continuing
the ‘over-controlled, disconnected and siloed’ possesses is detrimental and promotes inefficient,
disconnected and sub-optimal decisions.
Lance
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From:Don Christiansen
To:Growth Management Committee
Subject:LOCAL Electric Power Generation
Date:Monday, November 28, 2022 7:38:37 AM
G'Day fellow Carlsbad Tomorrow Growth Management Committee Members!
A new topic of conversation that has come up as a result of weighing in on our City's eleven "performance
standards" is local electric power generation. Please have a look at the following City of Carlsbad link
from last month that gives an update on the progress of our Clean Energy Alliance, and how it has
grown to include all the cities along the 78
corridor. https://www.carlsbadca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1360/2
"By 2024, the alliance will be the 10th largest community choice aggregation
service in California, with 270,000 accounts."
SDG&E will continue to provide the infrastructure. The question is who is going to generate the
electricity? One option is to continue along the path of our Investor Owned Utility Monopoly (IOU) that
typically buys energy from major players that have the financial capacity to build large scale wind and
solar projects. These projects require very expensive extension cords (AKA transmission lines) to get the
power to where it's actually used.
Another option is to do what makes sustainable sense and generate as much local electricity as
feasible by turning rooftops, parking lots, and underutilized land that have been considered liabilities
(because of maintenance issues) into assets by installing solar panels. LOCAL jobs and LOCAL
business opportunities are created in the process.
Our Investor Owned Utility Monopoly will continue to earn 10% for building infrastructure (whether it's
needed or not). They will simply have reduced income because fewer transmission lines and other
infrastructure will be needed. Please note that SDG&E has the highest electricity rates in the United
States. Those rates were lowered enough to undercut Clean Energy Alliance rates in June, but will be
increased by 8% in January, which will once again put the Clean Energy Alliance at a competitive price
advantage.
Carlsbad has shown leadership in the past by its early support of seawater desalination and the Clean
Energy Alliance. Carlsbad can show leadership in the future by supporting decentralized solar electric
production over rooftops, parking lots, and underutilized land while creating local jobs and local
business opportunities.
Support will also reduce pollution as mandated by Carlsbad's Climate Action Plan AND follow
through on our Community Vision statement on Sustainability which reads:
"Build on the city's sustainability initiatives to emerge as a leader in green development and
sustainability. Pursue public/private partnerships, particularly on sustainable water, energy, recycling
and foods."
The following link helps show how the City of Palo Alto is addressing decentralizing its electric energy
production:
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/Utilities/Business/Ways-to-Save/CLEAN
Sincerely,
Don Christiansen
Committee Member: Carlsbad Tomorrow
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From:Lance Schulte
To:Michele Hardy; Growth Management Committee
Cc:Council Internet Email; Shared City Clerk; Boyle, Carrie@Coastal; "Prahler, Erin@Coastal"; Ross, Toni@Coastal;
info@peopleforponto.com
Subject:Public input to Nov 2022 Carlsbad Tomarrow Growth Managment Committee meeting - prior Public inputsubmitted but not recorded by City regarding Coastal Parks & Open Space - RE: Committee Additional Material
Date:Tuesday, November 1, 2022 3:09:08 PM
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Michele & Carlsbad Tomorrow Growth Management Committee:
The 3 files you included in your email below and posted on the city website did not include the 21
attached emails sent to the CTGMC from 10/17/22 to 10/23/22. Many of these emails also had
personal notes documenting the need for a Coastal Park for South Carlsbad/Ponto.
We request you forward post this email and the attached emailed public input to the city website,
forward them to the CTGMC, and account for them in as public input.
We continue to be concerned that the city seems to be not accounting for this public input, not
sending the input via your emails, and not posting the input on the city website.
The main issues pointed out by the public input also seems to be ignored in the staff analysis of the
issues – such as
·the lack of any Coastal Park for South Carlsbad (62% of the City’s population). This lack of a
Coastal Park for South Carlsbad IS a Citywide issue! Failure to provide a significant Coastal
Park for South Carlsbad will undermine the Quality of Life and retard the fiscal sustainability
for 62% of the City.
·the significant (millions of dollars) tax-payer savings from purchasing Ponto Park v. a
wasteful ($65-80 million for a 2.3 mile) PCH Relocation that only rearranges the PCH
roadway median area
·the city’s 2001 ERA PCH Relocation Financial Feasibility Analysis that shows only a few
narrow and environmentally constrained (habitat & Storm water detention) sites are made
available, and will be very expensive/difficult to fund
·the 900+ page results of the City spending $50,000 to poll Carlsbad Citizens about the PCH
Relocation showing no to limited Citizen support for PCH Relocation, but a strong Citizen
desire to keep historic PCH more as-is with its current natural habitat.
·Ignoring/dismissing Ponto Park’s significant public support (over 5,000 petitions) as a far
better solution
·Ignoring/dismissing the City’s ‘false exemption’ of the Growth Management Open Space
Standard and allowing developers to over develop Ponto (40% higher than the City) and not
provide 30-acers of required useable Open Space
·Ignoring and not discussing the future loss of 32+ acres of Coastal South Carlsbad Open
Space Land Use (Campground and beach) due to coastal erosion and sea level rise
·Ignoring failure to comply with Local Coastal Program Land Use Policies regarding ‘Coastal
Recreation (i.e. Public Park), Low-cost Visitor Accommodations, Campground expansion, and
Regional Park needs’ in the Mello II and Poinsettia Shores LCP Segments covering Ponto
Ponto Park is the most logical, most tax-payer efficient, and most beneficial solution to these issues.
Thank you,
Lance Schulte
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Friday, October 14, 2022 11:33:37 AM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
Anyone calling the proposed Carlsbad Blvd. relocation project as
a "linear park" to avoid admitting the city has failed to address the
real at least 6.5 acre park needs and requirements as originally
set forth in the Growth Management Plan and the Coastal
Commission mandate to the city in 2017 to modify the Ponto
Vision Plan to consider low cost visitor serving uses, specifically
a public park, is an insult the our collective intelligence. The fact
that the city is currently in litigation over this failure to provide the
park space at Ponto , among other issues, is yet another
indication of the city's failure to properly address the open space
and park needs of this completely neglected area of the city.
Name
Harry Peacock
Email
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
hrpeacock41@gmail.com
City
Carlsbad
State
CA
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Tuesday, October 18, 2022 3:39:52 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Kenny Langen
Email
kennylangen@gmail.com
City
Carlsbad
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Wednesday, October 19, 2022 8:11:36 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Kenny Langen
Email
kennylangen@gmail.com
City
Carlsbad
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 9:21:55 AM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
Being a business owner in Carlsbad as well as resident for 25
years, the past 15 being in South Carlsbad I am very much in
favor of Ponto Park and believe the city owes its residents a park
and not another development that makes our coastline busier.
Name
Julia Jansson
Email
julia@soilretention.com
City
Carlsbad
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
State
California
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 9:25:48 AM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Timothy Burke
Email
timothyburkesd@gmail.com
City
Carlsbad
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 12:22:07 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Marisa Paluso
Email
marisa.paluso@gmail.com
City
San Diego
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 3:16:52 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Kelly Hendrickson
Email
khendric25@yahoo.com
City
Carlsbad
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 3:57:59 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Peggy Frye
Email
anioakleig2@gmail.com
City
San Diego
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 4:37:57 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
I have lived here since 1984 and it deeply saddens me to see the
out of control building that has gone on all over San Diego. I beg
you to preserve some of the natural beauty that makes this such
a wonderful place to live, open spaces that are truly open spaces
where people can sit and relax and enjoy the amazing weathers.
No more building, no more houses or townhomes or hotels.
Enough is enough. We are not Los Angeles, though at this rate
we will be there soon enough. Save these open spaces while you
can, once they are destroyed and built upon you will never be
able to go back from that
Email
ke.swann@yahoo.com
City
San Marcos
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 5:46:50 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
We live in Oceanside and the family visits Ponto Beach and Park
very often.
Please protect this beautiful area.
Name
Maria Scholz
Email
mariascholz@msn.com
City
Oceanside
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 6:40:26 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Paulette Gramse
Email
paulettegramse@me.com
City
Carlsbad
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 6:58:52 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Alison Wellman
Email
alison21480@aol.com
City
Carlsbad
State
Ca
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 7:41:45 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
Please do the right thing for the citizens of our community and
not just greed! Build our park. We pay taxes for this and deserve
to use our tax money for the benefit of our community.
Name
Michelle Altenhoff
Email
michellea@roadrunner.com
City
Carlsbad
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Thursday, October 20, 2022 9:49:37 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
Please do the right thing for the citizens of our community and
not just greed! Build our park. We pay taxes for this and deserve
to use our tax money for the benefit of our community.
Name
Michelle Altenhoff
Email
michellea@roadrunner.com
City
Carlsbad
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Friday, October 21, 2022 7:02:59 AM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
We need open space for kids to play that are NOT part of
organized sports. Also, the citizens of Carlsbad deserve an open
space to enjoy our beautiful ocean views that is managed by the
city- not State Parks with expensive parking lots. Oh and a
walkway on existing road is not a "linear park."
Name
Nicole Tessieri
Email
andersennicole@gmail.com
City
CARLSBAD
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Friday, October 21, 2022 10:42:19 AM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
We need coastal open space in south Carlsbad for all to enjoy
and to protect from coastal erosion and flooding. Let's not
overbuild.
Name
Dara Pastor
Email
daraelana@gmail.com
City
Carlsbad
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
State
CA
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Friday, October 21, 2022 10:51:44 AM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Grace Soelberg
Email
gracesoelberg@gmail.com
City
Carlsbad
State
CA
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Saturday, October 22, 2022 5:53:39 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Pam Ferraro
Email
pamferraro06@aol.com
City
Tucson
State
Az
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Sunday, October 23, 2022 6:01:05 AM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Additional Comments
please protect our family friendly neighborhood and open
space/wildlife and water prone areas...flood zones.
thank you
Name
paulina miller
Email
pmillerca@cox.net
City
Carlsbad
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
State
California
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Sunday, October 23, 2022 4:58:34 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
N Adams
Email
buckeye@roadrunner.com
City
Carlsbad
State
Ca
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto
Protect Ponto Petition:
Dear Carlsbad Growth Management Committee, City Council, and
California Coastal Commission:
Since 2017 the City received over 5,000 petitions, written and verbal
testimony regarding the need for Ponto Park and the Park and Useable
Open Space unfairness at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad. The City
staff should provide the Growth Management Committee all that citizen
input since 2017.
– The City’s 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise Report shows Ponto will lose
over 32-acres of “High-priority Coastal Land Use” due to coastal erosion
and flooding. (14+ acres of Coastal Recreationand 18+ acres of
Campground will be lost) in Carlsbad’s General Plan.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and 2015 General Plan did not
consider this critical 2017 & 2020 Sea Level Rise data and new actions
and a new Plan are needed to address the 32+ acre loss AND increased
population/visitor demand for “High-priority Coastal Land Uses”.
– Carlsbad’s Growth Management Program and General Plan also did not
incorporate requirements for unlimited population growth that will need
even more City and Coastal Recreation land – “High-priority Coastal Land
Uses”.
– There is a current Growth Management Program 6.6-acre City park
deficit in Coastal Southwest Carlsbad, and a 30-acre
Unconstrained/Useable Coastal open-space deficit in Zone 9 (Ponto area
– west of I-5 and south of Poinsettia) that only gets worse as we lose 32+
acres of Coastal Open Space lands from Sea Level Rise.
Accordingly, I am making my position known and requesting that
I want the Growth Management Committee, City Council and CA Coastal
Commission to:
From:People for Ponto PetitionTo:petition@peopleforponto.comSubject:Protect Ponto Petition LetterDate:Sunday, October 23, 2022 6:13:28 PM
1) Address the true neighborhood Park needs for Ponto (minimal 6-7 acre
Park to serve minimal neighborhood needs based on Ponto buildout and
City’s current minimal Park Standard). Ponto Park should be an
appropriately wide, viable, flat and fully useable multi-use grassed field –
allow kids space to play informal sports. No thin strip of non-park land.
2) Address loss of 32+ acres of Coastal Open Space Land from sea level
rise by providing for Non-neighborhood City and State buildout-population
and visitor demands for both Coastal Recreation land use and the loss of
the Campground. Provide sufficient Coastal Recreation and Low-cost
Visitor Accommodation land use to address the CA Coastal Act and
City/State ‘unlimited buildout population/visitor demand’, and planned loss
of current supply due to planned sea level rise.
3) Disclose and address 2017 CA Coastal Commission direction to City on
Ponto Vision Plan and Planning Area F Existing LCP in the PCH Project.
4) Fully address Sea Level Rise impacts consistent with CA Coastal Act &
Commission relative to the State’s recent requirement for unlimited City
and State population growth. Document, plot the Seal Level Rise
inundation and coastal erosion/bluff hazard areas in Carlsbad’s General
Plan including the Land Use Map, PCH Relocation Project maps, and in
the PCH Project replace all 32+ acres of high-priority Coastal land use that
will be lost to sea level rise and coastal erosion, and increase the supply of
these high-priority Coastal land uses to address State required unlimited
increases in City/State population and visitor demands.
5) Fully disclose and consider the 2022-June General Comparative tax-
payer Costs/Benefits Analysis of Ponto Park-PCH completion-proposed
PCH Relocation, to assure tax-payers (City and/or State) are getting the
best and most sustainable value for their tax-payer dollars. The City should
use tax-payer money wisely.
6) Incorporate the 5,000+ written/emailed petitions to the Council & CA
Coastal Commission, and the Letters from Carlsbad visitor industry,
Surfrider Foundation, and Batiquitos Lagoon Foundation.
7) Within the Local Facilities Management Plan Zone 9 portion fully
provide the 30-acers of documented missing Unconstrained Growth
Management Open Space that developers were supposed to provide. Also
fully disclose and incorporate the Ponto Open Space recommendations
from North County Advocates per City’s lawsuit settlement.
Fully preserve or mitigate sensitive habitat areas within and adjacent to the
Name
Pam Ferraro
Email
pamferraro06@aol.com
City
Tucson
State
Az
PCH Project area.
8) Fully provide required storm water quality purification and dentition
basins in the PCH Project before project waters and waters passing
through the project area are discharged into the ocean and Batiquitos
Lagoon.
9) I am concerned about the PCH Modification Project more than doubling
traffic congestion along Coast Highway for an extremely costly walkway,
when the same walkway and other needed Coastal land uses can be
provided for a fraction of the cost along existing Coast Highway. It is not
appropriate to try to pass off a walkway as “linear park”.
10) Lastly as requested since 2017, directly engage and specifically
involve the San Pacifico Community Association and Ponto Community in
that portion of the City’s PCH Project of planning and design of land use in
that community.
11) We request the above 11 citizen issues be fully addressed by the
Growth Management Committee, City Council, and CA Coastal
Commission regarding Park-Useable
Open Space and Coastal Land Use issues and City Capital Improvement
Projects at Ponto and Coastal South Carlsbad.
Sent from People for Ponto