Sunbreak Ranch

by | Jan 26, 2023 | Homeless Cure, Jim's Take on the Market, Local Flavor | 5 comments

Others including Bill Walton are thinking the Miramar open space would be ideal for housing – an excerpt:

San Diego has the nation’s best year-round weather and ample adjacent federal lands, making it the perfect site for the start of a national solution to homelessness. Sunbreak would soon prove successful in San Diego and could then be quickly replicated up the West Coast and across America.

We need help in three ways to launch the Sunbreak initiative:

1. We need our President and federal government to lease 2,000 acres of MCAS Miramar land to Sunbreak Ranch at $1 per year, and to designate this land as a temporary “federal emergency homeless help zone.” This will eliminate local red tape and opposition.

2. We need our President to deploy the military and security services to build a tent city for Sunbreak Ranch on this site with surplus equipment from the Afghan and Iraq deployments. Our military and security services have the manpower, expertise, and equipment to build out this entire tent city within weeks.

3. The cost of this Sunbreak experiment is minimal compared to the untold tens of billions of dollars currently being spent (to no avail) on homelessness annually.

To prove the viability of Sunbreak, we need significant individual philanthropists or organizations to step up and seed-fund this three-year Sunbreak initiative with up to $275 million.

This funding would include the proviso that when the first Sunbreak Ranch succeeds, the federal government will step in and begin fully funding a ranch outside of every major U.S. metropolitan center that agrees to return to the Rule of Law on their streets.

Homelessness is ultimately a public sector responsibility, but we first need the private sector and philanthropists to illuminate the pathway forward.

https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2023/01/14/sunbreak-ranch-is-the-answer-to-san-diego-and-americas-homeless-crisis/

Carlsbad Train Redevelopment

by | Jan 22, 2023 | Carlsbad, Local Flavor, Local Government | 5 comments

As a way to “raise additional revenue and to increase ridership on trains and buses”, the train people started looking for developers last April – their solutions:

Under agreements the board approved Thursday, West Village Partners will build 184 market-rate apartments or townhouses and 50 affordable units on 14.37 acres the transit district owns at the downtown Carlsbad Village Station on State Street.

Affordable housing will make up 27 percent of the Village residential units, well above the city’s minimum requirement of 15 percent. The Village project also will include 17,000 square feet of ground floor retail space, 435 parking spaces, a 110-room boutique hotel, a senior living facility, and 80,000 square feet of office space, according to preliminary plans.

“This location is primed for redevelopment with only a short walk to restaurants, retail and local beaches,” a district staffer said.

The Village station sees an average of 800 patrons daily, with about 600 of those riding the Coaster and 200 using Breeze buses. The Poinsettia station, on Avenida Encinas near Poinsettia Lane in southwest Carlsbad, averages 400 Coaster riders and about 40 bus riders daily.

Raintree Partners was selected for the 11.47-acre Poinsettia Station, which will have 146 market-rate dwellings and 31 affordable units, or 17 percent of the residences. Almost 5 acres of the site will remain undeveloped under a permanent conservation easement.

Both exclusive negotiating agreements are valid for 2.5 years. During that time, the developers will work with district, city and regional officials on final designs, permits, and other issues. Construction is expected to start in 2025 at the Village station and in 2027 at the Poinsettia station.

Just another 234 apartments, a 110-room hotel, senior facility, and ~100 offices in downtown Carlsbad.  You think it’s crowded now? There won’t be any room left for the tourists!

Link to UT Article

Another Desal Plant?

by | Jan 19, 2023 | Local Flavor | 2 comments

I still haven’t heard anything regarding the development of the Encina Power Plant property…..but there is a new idea for it. The company is also building a device to power your home for 400 years!

Our company ECD Energy Corp is interested in purchasing the NRG property where the Encina smokestack was located. We are interested in building a desalination plant that will provide water to all of Southern California with energy produced by our (soon to be released to the public) electro-kinetic power generation device which does not use any carbon fuel. This would be excellent for the community of San Diego, provide water at a fraction of the cost and revolutionize desalination worldwide-with San Diego as the leader in this new technology. We are a San Diego based company.

See our website at www.ecdenergy.com

Thank You!

by | Nov 25, 2022 | Local Flavor

Thank you for the tremendous support!  You generously bought 65 pies and donated another $3,300 to the cause. It will allow Mama’s Kitchen to provide 2,017 medically-tailored meals to San Diegans who are vulnerable to malnutrition due to critical illness.

A special thanks to Brian for donating $1,000!

We are eternally grateful for your support.

Mama’s Pies!

by | Nov 7, 2022 | Local Flavor | 5 comments

Thanksgiving is right around the corner!  Are your holiday pies handled yet?

Please join us and help make an impact on those in need this holiday season.

Mama’s Kitchen is an organization that delivers meals to homebound individuals vulnerable to malnutrition due to conditions such as HIV, cancer, heart disease, and more. Their primary fundraiser is Mama’s Pies and with the purchase of each pie, they’re able to produce and deliver 12 meals to those in need!

Sales end Nov. 19th or as long as supplies last, so get your orders in ASAP.

To buy pies and/or donate, here’s the information:

1. Visit our selling page: https://mamaspies.org/seller/donna-klinge/
2. Click “Buy or Donate Pies.”
3. Add your desired pies to your cart.
4. Under the “Select a Seller” section, click “Yes” and select “Seller: Jim & Donna Klinge.”
5. Choose your desired pick up location OR under Private, choose “PRKLINGE” to have our team deliver it to your home in San Diego! If choosing delivery, we’ll reach out for your address.
6. Add in any donation amount if you’d like.
7. Put in your payment method and click submit!

Signs of Swingers

by | Nov 4, 2022 | Local Flavor | 5 comments

Did you know that a garden gnome is a sign that the homeowners are swingers?

They do say no one knows what goes on behind closed doors – but is your neighbor giving out secret clues that they’re a swinger?

Yesterday we told how sales of garden pampas grass have plummeted because it’s believed to be a secret signal that swingers live in the home it belongs to. But it turns out that the exotic plant isn’t the only giveaway that the house’s residents are into liberal sexual practices.

They also cite white landscaping rocks and pink or purple decorations in the front garden as a signal of swinger activity.  Bizarrely, the website identifies pineapples as another swinger signal – in the form of a door knocker. They may look sweet and innocent, but it turns out garden gnomes are a likely indicator that the resident is into swinging too.

Read full article here:

https://nypost.com/2017/06/02/secret-signs-your-neighbor-might-be-a-swinger/

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