Lance G. Jobson
Chula Vista
In response to emails requested by Kevin O'Neill, et. al.:
Now that the dear Gaylord Corp. from Nashville, Tennessee, etc., is threatening to turn down $300 million plus in taxpayer subsidies offered to private development of Chula Vista's bay front, perhaps now, we local taxpaying citizens can get back to our lives devoid of further developer/city council/port district shenanigans in favor of enriching this troika of bosses at the expense of super-exploited non-union labor and a despoiled bay front congested by hordes of polluting conventioneers lounging in the high rise lap of luxury---a giant sunset blocking building, monument to man's unending greed in pursuit of ever greater tax dollars and the profit god.
Perhaps now, our venal city leaders will pull in their fingers grasping for dollars and really engage the community with public meetings and focus-groups in a true grass roots attempt to develop the Chula Vista bay front. May I suggest a combination 2000 to 3000 private homes, including some for low income and seniors. This combined with 300 plus acres of open public space, a community facility designed to accommodate local celebrations, museums, including one dedicated to survival of the planet free from burning fossil fuels, botanical gardens, a research center to study ways to combat child obesity, all areas serviced by light rail, watercraft and other alternative means of transport in a carbon dioxide vehicle exhaust free zone. A major feature will be to get people out of their cars. Another feature would include building a freeway roof covering, undergrounding I-5 traffic from the Sweetwater River to Main Street with a landscaped covering of vegetation and hiking trails.
The major obstacle to creative development of the C.V.bay front is a lack of imagination brought to the planning/design table by city leaders tied to doing it the old back door deal way and with outside investors too ready to take the city for a ride down another avenue of broken dreams. Mayor Cox and your cohorts need to get real, show some initiative/leadership and stop sucking-up to whatever deep pocket developer
comes along, ready to scam the taxpaying public.
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