FW: $35,000/acre unbuildable?: PR-Cullea/Horn : County to Consider Purchasing More Property for San Luis Rey River Park

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From: <char.ayers@att.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:20:43 +0000
To: Charlene Ayers <char.ayers@att.net>
Subject: $35,000/acre unbuildable?: PR-Cullea/Horn : County to Consider Purchasing More Property for San Luis Rey River Park

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From: PatsyFritz@aol.com
To: char.ayers@att.net, ljglavinic@yahoo.com, eric@sdfarmbureau.org, washburn@pacbell.net
Subject: Re: PR-Cullea/Horn : County to Consider Purchasing More Property for San Luis Rey River Park
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 01:17:19 +0000



In a message dated 4/8/8 6:30:13 PM, char.ayers@att.net writes:

<< The parcel to be considered is owned by the Vessels family and if
acquired, would cost approximately $5 million. >>

Question: Is $34,965 per acre an appropriate price for land so
environmentally impacted that the County would never let the property owners
develop it?

Per Horn's press release, " The land features a southern cottonwood-willow
riparian forest, with areas of mulefat scrub, southern willow scrub and coast
live oak woodland. ... The ar ea lies entirely within the draft North County
Multiple Species Conservation Program boundaries." (see below)

The Vessels family is fabulously wealthy so they are not giving up their land
for peanuts. But does $35 grand per acre set a precedent in this County for
land you can't develop?

Maybe now the Farm Bureau can press the Board of Supes to grant ranchers fair
TDR's ("transfer-of-development rights") on their land when the next General
Plan Update sucks economic value from their property by downzoning their
farms, groves and ranches - so that the County can up-zone developer-owned land
to
higher density (and higher profits for those developers).

I'd like to see rancher Bill Horn give this his support.

Fair is fair ...

Patsy Fritz

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From: Culea, John [mailto:John.Culea@sdcounty.ca.gov]

Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Subject: County to Consider Purchasing More P roperty for San Luis Rey River
Park



County of San Diego

Bill Horn

Fifth District Supervisor



Media Advisory

April 8, 2008




County to Consider Purchasing More Property for San Luis Rey River Park



SAN DIEGO ˆ County Supervisors will be asked tomorrow at the regular meeting
of the Board of Supervisors, to consider the acquisition of a 143-acre parcel
of land located along the San Luis Rey River. The parcel is within the
proposed boundaries of the 9-mile, linear San Luis Rey River Park; a project
spearheaded by Fifth District Supervisor Bill Horn.



„If the acquisition is approved, it will be a great moment for the people of
San Diego County, especially those in North County,‰ said Horn. „Ten years
ago, it was my vision to create the San Luis Rey River Park, which would be the
largest park project in the history of the County and at the same time make
good on our promise to widen Highway 76.‰



The parcel to be considered is owned by the Vessels family and if acquired,
would cost approximately $5 million. The land features a southern
cottonwood-willow riparian forest, with areas of mulefat scrub, southern willow
scrub and
coast live oak woodland. The County currently owns 116.56 acres of open space
purchased from San Luis Rey Downs in December 2005. The area lies entirely
within the draft North County Multiple Species Conservation Program boundaries.



The park will ultimately extend from Oceanside to Interstate 15 parallel to
State route 76, along the San Luis Rey River. Plans call for Highway 76 to be
widened to four lanes from Mission to Interstate 15.



This will be the first hearing of the agenda item. If approved, a second
hearing will be May 14, 2008.



Media information: Meeting date, time, and location˜Wednesday, April 9, 200 8,
9 a.m., 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 335, San Diego 92101



Contact: John Culea ˆ Media and Communications Director

619 531-4709 Cell: 619 548-1765 Fax: 619 685-2662



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