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From: Tom Judd <tjudd@cue.net>
To: <CDAdmin@ci.carlsbad.ca.us>
Date: 12/29/99 12:55PM
Subject: Standard Pacific Builders construction
Director of Planning
City of Carlsbad Planning Department 29/Dec/1999
RE: Standard Pacific Homes development of Poinsettia Properties
Dear Sir:
Standard Pacific Homes (SPH) has planned for a high-density, low-
income development on the southward extension of Lonicera Street.
This plan is
* unfair, and
* unsafe.
Unfair:
I understand that SPH is required by city and state codes to set
aside a portion of their construction for low-income units. SPH does
not want the low-income housing in their development. So, they
have designed two separate developments; a main project
containing their own single-family homes, and a separate one with
the required high-density low-income units. They have shrewdly
walled off the low-income units from their main development; there is
no way to get from one to the other. Lonicera will dead-end at
Poinsettia; empty onto Camino de las Ondas. With no
communication there will be no negative impact on sales in their
main development.
But, what about the existing community? While this division in
development may not be illegal, it is at least tricky. The SPH plan
satisfies their low-income construction requirement; but the
increased noise, congestion, and population density is directed
outside their main development; the surrounding community bears
the burden. This is not fair. As a member of the surrounding
community, I vigorously oppose it.
Unsafe:
A drive up the hill on Cam. Ondas will demonstrates the questionable
safety of the SPH plan. Ondas curves up and out of sight at exactly
the spot SPH wants to put the high-density units. One has to be
alert now when going around the corner; it will be much more so with
the higher density. Especially so with all the cars parked on Ondas.
As with most high-density units, not enough space will be given to
parking spaces. Cars will be parked on Ondas. Many cars. Cars
will spill over into spare places in adjoining communities. In effect,
the neighbors pay for the parking spaces that SPH wouldn't put in;
we pay for the land and give up a degree of safety. These cars will
block the view and narrow the safe driving corridor.
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All of this is done in view of the new Pacific Rim Elementary School.
The school itself is a magnet for traffic. Won't the degraded road
conditions make it all the more dangerous? Won't all those two-car,
two-wage-earner families will be rushing down the hill right past the
school on their way to the freeway?
One can make it safer by adding flashing yellow lights, put in a stop
sign, or a traffic signal. These are ugly patches to a bad design.
Flashing lights are noxious, otherwise they wouldn't be used. Stops
create noise, especially on a hill where everyone has to gun their
motor to start.
SPH is spending community resources. They are adding more
congestion, more noise, more people; and with the people, more
problems. They are pushing the worst of the problems onto the
surrounding community for their own gain. They should not unfairly
spend our resources to optimize their profits.
Respectfully submitted,
Tom Judd
1241 Gold Flower Rd.
Carlsbad, CA
(760) 602-0848