6 Comments

1. 

   Shadash on September 17, 2023 at 7:53 am

   Downtown Carlsbad is turning into an expensive version of Pacific Beach.

   I like development but currently there’s only 3-4 ways in and out. The lights aren’t designed to handle all the additional traffic going in and out every day.

   There’s not enough local jobs to keep people out of their cars. Also traffic where Oceanside and Pendelton meet makes commuting to LA almost impossible.

   You can’t even ride the train up to LA because they’re repairing the tracks in San Clemente.

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   Susan on September 17, 2023 at 8:13 am

   What’s so horrible about this project? It’s close to both the train station and the freeway. It’s near shops, restaurants and the beach. If the rents are too high for the market, the owners will lower them.

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   Jim the Realtor on September 17, 2023 at 8:34 am

   Itr’s horrible because the city council is giving preferrential treatment to these projects just because they need the low-income units to satisfy the state mandates.

   If they have to build these monster buildings, then spread them around the city, instead on concentrating them at the entry point to downtown.

   And build the public parking structure that has been promised for decades!!

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   Jim the Realtor on September 17, 2023 at 9:10 am

   The City of Carlsbad should also consider changing their 38% open space in the general plan. They could get by with 30% or so.

   From their website:

   When all the major new development in the city is complete, the city will remain nearly 40 percent open space (the equivalent to almost eight times the size of Balboa Park). Although cities use different methods to calculate open space, it’s safe to say Carlsbad has committed to set aside significantly more open space than our neighboring cities, more than double in some cases: Encinitas (23 percent), San Marcos (14 percent), Vista (12 percent) and Oceanside (18 percent).

   https://www.carlsbadca.gov/departments/parks-recreation/open-space

   Building more homes for sale would offer more choices at hopefully more-reasonable pricing. Houses on lots of 4,000sf or so are palatable.

   P.S. Balboa Park is 1,200 acres. Couldn’t we get by with seven of those, instead of eight?

5. 

   Susan on September 17, 2023 at 2:55 pm

   The train to LA is running again! I grew up in South Carlsbad in the 1980s and 1990s. I like seeing development downtown, near amenities and transportation, instead of new residents living somewhere more remote in the city where they have to drive miles to get to anything. Open space allows for wildlife and native plants to thrive. If they thrive, ultimately we thrive. We’re all connected! And the open spaces are great for recreation like trail running, and allowing us to get a sense of the wild, which is good for mental health too. Our future housing needs are changing as the baby boomers age and birth and immigration rates decrease.

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   Jim the Realtor on September 17, 2023 at 6:48 pm

   7 x 1200 acres = 8400 acres is that enough to thrive? Central Park in Manhattan is 840 acres (one-tenth).