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Stop Selling Out Our Master Plan On Nov. 5, I sent an email to council members regarding Item No. 41 on the Nov. 5 agenda. The item was listed as follows: 41. Casta del Sol Golf Course Recommended Action: Initiate full public discussion with City Council regarding status of Casta del Sol Golf Course. Determine if Council wishes to direct staff or Council to pursue any action such as San Clemente has taken regarding conversion of a portion of a golf course in their city. My email was among those received by the council but not read into the record at the meeting. Following are my comments: I would like to register my support for a citizen-sponsored initiative that will restrict the City Council's ability to sell out our master-planned community to developers. Over the past four years, our City Council has approved five dubious proposals to add more very high-density residential developments into our city. Two of them, the Kmart property and the Steadfast property, were very heavily argued against by concerned citizens, yet the City Council approved them anyway, over the objections of the Planning Commission and citizens. The other three are now approved for up to 30 units/acre and will be built when this council is out of office. The people of Mission Viejo need to remove the power to corrupt our Master Plan from this and all future City Councils and give themselves the power to make these decisions. Do not be fooled by phony initiatives. Look at what Yorba Linda did successfully and what San Clemente is about to do and promote the initiate that will give you real power to fight the greedy developers in Mission Viejo. Dale Tyler |
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