Breaking News:Mayor Pro Tem John Capoccia joins Denise Delmar in calling for a review of the Planning Commission decision on One Carter. It's on!
When Judy Webb Martin stands before God, humanity, SMTV3 and the City Council and declares that overdevelopment is threatening to ruin this town. That's how. And did you know that Carol Canterbury is on a personal crusade to stop lot splitting? Will I have to stop laughing at that go-cart she rides around town on? Do I even know these people anymore?
You want to know something really crazy? Sierra Madre is coming together. And the issue that is getting people there is the threat of hostile foreign economic forces McMansionizing this quaint little village that for so many here means home. Where do you go once that is all gone? Will you ever be able to replace so much loss in your life? That sense of place? You need to think about that. Judy did. Carol did, too. They're thinking people. They get it. You would have to be pretty numb to life not to know this.
At the end of the meeting last night Councilmember Denise Delmar let it be known that she has put in her request for a review of the Planning Commission's One Carter decision. All of those brilliant people who turned out to make the case for an appeal did their job very well, and they have their champion. Their other potential champion, Rachelle Arizmendi, lives too close to that highly at risk place. Which means by law she cannot do anything about this issue that involves the City Council. Sadly Rachelle is forced to sit this one out.
Which means that one of the Three Dudes will need to step up and second Denise's call for a review. The deadline is November 4th, and by that time one of them will have had to throw their hat into the review ring to stand up for this community. You know, the one that has come together in its opposition to McMansions.
There is also this. If none of the three do that, and someone wants to come up with the $7,500 in blood money needed to save this city, they will have very little time to do that. Please keep that in mind.
Here are their e-mail addresses. Tell each of them that they either need to put in for a review of the One Carter disaster or risk being known forever as faithless enablers of grotesque Arcadia starter castles.
JHarabedian@cityofsierramadre.com
JCapoccia@cityofsierramadre.com
ggoss@cityofsierramadre.com
As you know, I am not exactly the PollyAnna type. Quite the opposite, actually. I often expect people to behave in unfair and selfish ways, and I am rarely disappointed. It's the New Jersey in me. However, I feel pretty good about this. I think at least one, if not all three of the Three Dudes, is going to call for a review as well.
And it could be because all three of them actually meant it when they said they'll do what they can to preserve this little village. You know, just like they said they would when running for election. But, just to add a little realism to this mix, how can they possibly not? This at a time when the town is clearly unifying to stop this awful stuff? The pressure on the them to do the right thing is immense.
Would you want to spend the rest of your political life having to explain how you did absolutely nothing to stop this?
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I didn't think you would. Personally I cannot wait for the City Council meeting when the One Carter review takes place. The room is going to be packed, it is going to be filled with passion, and the people of Sierra Madre are going to come to together like they never have before and save this town from a terrible fate. It will be great moment that you will always be proud of.
All it takes is one more City Council vote. Write them every chance you get. Trust me, the politics are way on your side. Almost everyone in town wants this to happen.
Other stuff from last night's meeting
I am starting to wonder who it is that is lying to perfectly innocent people about the Library. Because it really is lying. There is no other good word for it. It got so bad last night that the City Manager herself had to state that no Library programs are being cut and nothing there is going away. Yet here stood this poor young mom at public comment expressing her fears about something that doesn't even exist.
Whoever put her up to that should be horribly ashamed of what they did. It was manipulative, cruel and in the end quite pathetic.
The reorganization went through. Something that we have been going on about here at The Tattler for the last year or so are those $36,000 health care plans our chronically po' mouthing pals at City Hall were providing for themselves. You know, while at the same time telling us they'd cut everything to the bone and utility taxes still needed to go up to 12%?
How bogus was that, right?
Well, because of the reorganization those Maybach health care plans are now gone. Thanks to the voters of Sierra Madre we will soon no longer have the highest utility taxes in California, which means city government here had to come back down to earth, and soon. The era of stupid city government excess is over.
The reorganization is in place. We won. Have a cup of coffee on me. Oh, and thank our friends at Transparent California as well. I don't think this would have happened without them.
One more. I believe that the people calling for "traffic calming" on Sunnyside need to expand their horizons a little bit. If things go south on the McMansion thing those concerned residents are about two years from community devastation.
If that 50 some odd unit Mini-Mansion development goes through at Mater Dolorosa, those wild and wacky speeding weekend pilgrims are going to magically transform into a three year flotilla of dump trucks, backhoes, bulldozers and God knows what else. All backed up by a racket so loud you'll think you are living at the dusty gates of hell. Which is supposed to be quite different from a monastery.
If you think about it, this is quite a high price for a neighborhood of nice folks to pay. All so a few old Passionist fathers who didn't properly plan for their retirements can enjoy their golden years in the posh style they believe they deserve.
You really don't owe them a thing, you know. Obviously they could care less about you.
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You want to know something really crazy? Sierra Madre is coming together. And the issue that is getting people there is the threat of hostile foreign economic forces McMansionizing this quaint little village that for so many here means home. Where do you go once that is all gone? Will you ever be able to replace so much loss in your life? That sense of place? You need to think about that. Judy did. Carol did, too. They're thinking people. They get it. You would have to be pretty numb to life not to know this.
At the end of the meeting last night Councilmember Denise Delmar let it be known that she has put in her request for a review of the Planning Commission's One Carter decision. All of those brilliant people who turned out to make the case for an appeal did their job very well, and they have their champion. Their other potential champion, Rachelle Arizmendi, lives too close to that highly at risk place. Which means by law she cannot do anything about this issue that involves the City Council. Sadly Rachelle is forced to sit this one out.
Which means that one of the Three Dudes will need to step up and second Denise's call for a review. The deadline is November 4th, and by that time one of them will have had to throw their hat into the review ring to stand up for this community. You know, the one that has come together in its opposition to McMansions.
There is also this. If none of the three do that, and someone wants to come up with the $7,500 in blood money needed to save this city, they will have very little time to do that. Please keep that in mind.
Here are their e-mail addresses. Tell each of them that they either need to put in for a review of the One Carter disaster or risk being known forever as faithless enablers of grotesque Arcadia starter castles.
JHarabedian@cityofsierramadre.com
JCapoccia@cityofsierramadre.com
ggoss@cityofsierramadre.com
As you know, I am not exactly the PollyAnna type. Quite the opposite, actually. I often expect people to behave in unfair and selfish ways, and I am rarely disappointed. It's the New Jersey in me. However, I feel pretty good about this. I think at least one, if not all three of the Three Dudes, is going to call for a review as well.
And it could be because all three of them actually meant it when they said they'll do what they can to preserve this little village. You know, just like they said they would when running for election. But, just to add a little realism to this mix, how can they possibly not? This at a time when the town is clearly unifying to stop this awful stuff? The pressure on the them to do the right thing is immense.
Would you want to spend the rest of your political life having to explain how you did absolutely nothing to stop this?
I didn't think you would. Personally I cannot wait for the City Council meeting when the One Carter review takes place. The room is going to be packed, it is going to be filled with passion, and the people of Sierra Madre are going to come to together like they never have before and save this town from a terrible fate. It will be great moment that you will always be proud of.
All it takes is one more City Council vote. Write them every chance you get. Trust me, the politics are way on your side. Almost everyone in town wants this to happen.
Other stuff from last night's meeting
I am starting to wonder who it is that is lying to perfectly innocent people about the Library. Because it really is lying. There is no other good word for it. It got so bad last night that the City Manager herself had to state that no Library programs are being cut and nothing there is going away. Yet here stood this poor young mom at public comment expressing her fears about something that doesn't even exist.
Whoever put her up to that should be horribly ashamed of what they did. It was manipulative, cruel and in the end quite pathetic.
The reorganization went through. Something that we have been going on about here at The Tattler for the last year or so are those $36,000 health care plans our chronically po' mouthing pals at City Hall were providing for themselves. You know, while at the same time telling us they'd cut everything to the bone and utility taxes still needed to go up to 12%?
How bogus was that, right?
Well, because of the reorganization those Maybach health care plans are now gone. Thanks to the voters of Sierra Madre we will soon no longer have the highest utility taxes in California, which means city government here had to come back down to earth, and soon. The era of stupid city government excess is over.
The reorganization is in place. We won. Have a cup of coffee on me. Oh, and thank our friends at Transparent California as well. I don't think this would have happened without them.
One more. I believe that the people calling for "traffic calming" on Sunnyside need to expand their horizons a little bit. If things go south on the McMansion thing those concerned residents are about two years from community devastation.
If that 50 some odd unit Mini-Mansion development goes through at Mater Dolorosa, those wild and wacky speeding weekend pilgrims are going to magically transform into a three year flotilla of dump trucks, backhoes, bulldozers and God knows what else. All backed up by a racket so loud you'll think you are living at the dusty gates of hell. Which is supposed to be quite different from a monastery.
If you think about it, this is quite a high price for a neighborhood of nice folks to pay. All so a few old Passionist fathers who didn't properly plan for their retirements can enjoy their golden years in the posh style they believe they deserve.
You really don't owe them a thing, you know. Obviously they could care less about you.
http://sierramadretattler.blogspot.com