In The News:

Your Escondido
Chamber of Citizens:
"In The News" 

Check out these recent stories published in the local newspapers:

Merriam Mountains decision draws
celebration, ire

Escondido doesn't need Car Wash Hogwash

Deal Revived for Downtown Marriott Hotel

Panel:  Update shouldn't have Prop S repeal

Panel: New guidelines needed to match plan

Abed proposes tech park for part of industrial site

Strong conservation efforts prompt city to ease irrigation rules

Grass-roots group revitalized under new leader

After six years of recruiting, technology park mostly empty

Panel:  Job growth will require more industrial land

Leaders to consider key decisions for future

Despite some turbulence, Diaz has productive year

Hype Dream?  Chargers Stadium would give City 'bustling hub'

Citizens Panel will Help City Update Development Plan

City Scaling Back ACT Program Funding

Campaign Launched to Preserve 400 Acres West of Daley Ranch

City Budget Crisis Prompts a Flurry of Suggested Cuts

Hotel Deal In Jeopardy Despite Concessions

What was Escondido Mayor's Motivation?

Another Helping of Political Fodder

Budget Ills May Doom Downtown Hotel Plan

Workshops will Focus on Proposed Water Rate Hikes

Hotel Developer to Miss Financing Deadline

Hotel Funds Should Be Used

A Hotel Subsidy or Reserve Funds

Who Needs Grass?

Proposed city cuts revealed at session

City details deep budget cuts
Officials spare library branch; union balks at pay reductions

The Future of proposed hotel uncertain amid deficit

Group, Diaz say Escondido should cover budget gap with hotel money

Drought Prompts Crackdown on Water Usage

Olga Diaz Represents Ordinary Residents in The Race for City Council

Escondido Officials Speak Out Against Slow Growth Initiative

Ignoring the facts in pushing for a parking ordinance

Citizens must stop unjust parking ordinance 

Proposed parking controls stir ire

Council hits stalemate on parking plan

Special Permission to Park?

Overnight parking law faces discussion, vote

Group mobilizes against Escondido's parking proposal

Planners deadlock on looser yard-parking rules

Escondido Chamber of Citizens battles City over parking issues

City States:  No Negative Impacts from Ordinance

Escondido citizens oppose parking ordinance

Proposition S has served Escondido well

Citizens group joins voices against parking restrictions

Council challenge lacking in numbers

ESCONDIDO: Council approves controversial subdivision near Reidy Creek Golf Course

Parking restrictions stir debate

Escondido's push for overnight parking district is a sham

ESCONDIDO: City ready to update development blueprint

Watch List
Featuring:

WalMart in Escondido?
It's ALIVE!!!  Conversation, that is.  

Mall Expansion:
Westfield North County Mall
Mall Expansion Map. 

Rancho Guejito:
Twenty-Two Thousand acres of Undisturbed Land! 

Click on the title "Watch List" (above) to check out the Escondido Chamber of Citizen's "Watch List" document.  The document features items that residents will want to keep a "watchful eye" on - as these items have the very potential to affect the residents of Escondido (sometimes positively and sometimes negatively).
 

EMPAC's Impact
EMPAC Newsletter
Escondido Mobile/Manufactured-Home
Positive Action Committee
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CEMV Newsletter
Coalition of Escondido Mobile/Manufactured Home Voters
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TRIP Update
(Traffic Relief is Possible)
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More TaxPayer Money Down the Drain!!!

On June 30th, the Council Majority
Mayor Pfeiler, Council Members
Abed, Daniels and Waldron voted to
GIVE-AWAY OUR TAX DOLLARS to a
Private, For-Profit, Out-of-Town Developer
to Build a so-called "Luxury" Hotel.


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Revealing Escondido Creek
The Escondido Creek Trail is an underutilized Class I bike path that follows the course of the channel through the center of the city of Escondido. The bike path holds great potential for the city of Escondido and the larger region to be a main artery in a larger system of pedestrian and bicycle corridors.

Diaz proposes lush "river walk" along creek, bike path, April 25, 2009:  Despite pessimism from fellow Council members, Councilwoman Olga Diaz wants to transform the city’s flood control channel into a lush and lighted creek walk.    Diaz envisions building bridges over the channel, adding drought-tolerant plant life and persuading local businesses to sponsor sections of the 7-mile bike path.  Councilwoman Diaz said her plan is modeled after similar efforts in Santa Fe, N.M., where a flood channel was transformed into a river walk in the 1990’s.

Proposed river walk gaining momentum, Sept 30, 2009:  A proposal to transform the city's barren flood control channel into a lush river walk is gaining momentum, with graduate students near Los Angeles launching a detailed analysis and local business leaders joining environmentalists in support.  April  Marshburn, a city native and 1994 graduate of Escondido High School, said that she was inspired and intrigued this spring when she read about City Councilwoman Olga Diaz's desire to create a lighted and landscaped river walk out of the flood control channel.  Marshburn, a graduate student in Cal Poly Pomona's prestigious landscape architecture program, began researching the issue this summer. 

Revealing Escondido Creek Team:  April Marshburn, Jason Andrews, Karen Chieng and Katherine McNiel

City Budget Deficits Continue to Plague the City!!!

Updated June 20, 2010

The City Council adopted the General Operating Budget on June 9, 2010.  This year was another year of shortfalls, deficits, and cuts, cuts, cuts.

(The Council Majority believes that giving away $16.5 Million in Tax Revenues
 is the best thing to do in the case of consecutive years of deficits.  Go Figure!)
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The Escondido General Plan Update "Issues" Committee Meeting
Updated June 20, 2010

Please Attend:  June 24, 2010, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m., City Hall Mitchell Room, 201 N. Broadway

The City of Escondido is in the process of updating the General Plan.  Residents are encouraged to get involved!  Why is this important?  Well, because the plan affects all Escondido residents, as well as those in the "sphere of influence".

The General Plan is a public-policy planning document, which guides the city's development and generally covers a 20-year period.  It is a "blueprint" for the community reflecting the vision of its residents.
Continue reading...

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The "low points" of High Point

A Development All Wrong!  A Mountainside Scarified!

    
Before picture 2004                                         After picture 2008


Read the editorial by Escondido resident Marlene Beard:
Problems with High Point

If you are interested in more information on High Point, please check the website:  http://sites.google.com/site/escondidohighpoint/


This is a view of the ridge on which HighPoint will be built as seen from the Country Club area of Escondido. The ridge is part of the Merriam Mountains.
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Hear Ye!  Hear Ye!  Hear Ye!

The Official Newsletter of  the Escondido Chamber of Citizens:
Voice of the Citizens