FW: Stinks!: 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 17:23:42 +0000
To: Charlene Ayers <char.ayers@att.net>
Subject: Stinks!: PR-Cullea/Horn : County to Consider Purchasing More Property for San Luis Rey River Park

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From: xxxxx
To: Patsy Fritz <patsyfritz@aol.com>
Subject: Fwd: Re: PR-Cullea/Horn : County to Consider Purchasing More Property for San Luis Rey River Park
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 02:54:54 +0000


It stinks. All this is just 'low ball' pricing and
grounds for a case action law suit of taking the land
and use thereof. You know anyone can hire a biologist
to claim something is endangered on our land. The
most likely endangered specie/party is the owner.

XXXXX


--- PatsyFritz@aol.com wrote:

> From: PatsyFritz@aol.com
> Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:17:09 EDT
> Subject: Re: PR-Cullea/Horn : County to Consider
> Purchasing More Property for San Luis Rey River Park
> To: char.ayers@att.net, ljglavinic@yahoo.com,
> eric@sdfarmbureau.org,
> washburn@pacbell.net
>
>
> 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 w illow scrub and coast
> live oak woodland. ... The area 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.
>
t; Fair is fair ...
>
> Patsy Fritz
>
> *******************
>
> From: Culea, John
> [mailto:John.Culea@sdcounty.ca.gov]
>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008
>
> Subject: County to Consider Purchasing More Property
> 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, 2008,
> 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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