The battle is not over regarding this property. The Register article only shows that this article that blew the lid off of this dirty deal has swayed the owners into perhaps doing what is right for the community instead of ruining Raymond Hills.
Build it and they will come ladies and gentlemen and believe they will come. Low income housing is headed to Raymond Hills. Mayor Fitzgerald says development plans don’t exist for this location but yet a public hearing regarding rezoning this location to do just that made the paper.
Sources to the Fullerton Informer indicate that the new owner of the property on Chapman and Raymond may have prevailed against the current tenants in vacating their leases and the property is eventually slated to become a massive high rise development with a major component of low income housing. Welcome your new neighbors with open arms ladies and gentlemen and there will be lots of them. Here is a slide from last night’s planning commission hearing and you will notice the big pinkish rectangle on the right. Patti’s cakes and Polly’s are toast folks.
For years this center’s occupants were not allowed to expand their businesses, potential new additional tenants were turned away and all while this place was intentionally run into the ground for the moment that they are still waiting for. Last night the planning commission unveiled that moment again after it was delayed two years ago by the pressure we applied to the city council who was meeting in the library room with no live coverage.-
We were out in front of this mess years ago and they are trying to resurrect this scam again. Watch Jennifer Fitzgerald tell us no plans exist as plans exist, as she calls me a liar and insults all your intelligence with the zoning change map right in front of your eyes.
Yet when asked to remove this location from the Revised DCCSP, she doubles down.
Yes the plans to rezone the property are already written, you are looking at them in the photo above, the tenants are already being run out and the goal will be high density section 8 housing.
Nelson operatives Fitzgerald and her running mate phony conservative Larry Bennett that ran the anti recall campaign a few years back and was on the police union ticket last time around is in on this scam too. Watch as he is called on out his involvement. After all he is on the planning commission and is pro development.
All this is carefully being laid out behind your backs and will go down quickly if the planning commission and council approves the biggest sellout to the developers in Fullerton’s history that our city manager Joe Felz is trying to repackage, THE DCCSP. What you see below will be encompassing 1000’s of acres of Fullerton.
THIS IS THE NEW FACE OF FULLERTON FOLKS RIGHT HERE
The Harbor Gateway-80 units per acre-this is what is coming to Polly’s and a neighborhood near you.
The site at the corner of Chapman and Raymond will could bring up to 500 more housing units which would bring in 50 million in developer fees to the city. That is what is at work here. Here are those who are at work here.
The entire property will be packem’ and stackem’ high rise high density housing just the way the at large appointee that the Vice President of Curt Pringle and associates Jennifer Fitzgerald
Fullerton’s queen of conflict of interest-Hands out raises to police and fire like lolipops on Halloween
moved to appoint, the S.C.A.G. operative on the Fullerton Planning Commission Ms. May an Johnson
In case you don’t know, these two don’t work for us, they work for the developers and the social engineers and boy do they have plans to transform the entire city into Agenda 21 stackem’ and packem’ high rise housing. We just dodged the College Town deal recently and now they are resurrecting the huge DCCSP plan.
You see the city is out of money because of all of the establishment cronies that have bled us dry for decades with their lavish salaries, pensions,car allowances, medical, dental, vision plans and perks while hiding behind a thin political veneer comprised of a bizarre combination of liberal populism hybridized with phony conservatism that has put the residents to sleep while leaving the city’s infrastructure (roads, sewers, parks, public restrooms) and finances in utter ruin. Folks the trusted names in Fullerton politics have been screwing you all over for decades. Stop going along with them and being their sycophants.
Recently reality didn’t stop the city council from going millions into the red for Police and Fire raises and benefit increases. They have done this because they want their endorsements for the upcoming election and they anticipate getting upwards of 12-15 thousand dollars per unit developed to pay for the out of control city hall gravy train while they put you to work on Love Fullerton day washing police cars, cleaning up school buildings, government buildings and parks that our tax money was supposed to pay for and then putting you to sleep with firework shows, parades, and backpack giveaways. See how they play this game? You sit back and vote for these people that are endorsed by the police and fire unions, you think you are supporting a strong community when in fact, the greed of these factions is sucking the taxpayers dry with selling Fullerton off to development behind your backs as the only way out. I could go on and on. This website documents years of this train of abuses and the inaction and complicity of those who you would never think have a hand in this.
Here is Barry Levinson last night calling attention to huge problems with this proposal.
The only way out of this mess is to vote them out in November. Jennifer Fitzgerald and Jan Flory need to go. I have a vested interest in what is best for our community and I am not popular with the establishment sycophants that want to ruin Fullerton for that very reason.
You can watch Ms. Shanfiel- the chair of the planning commission explain what happened in 2014. This got the ball rolling on the DCCSP mess and the planning commissioners from 2014 appear to be totally incompetent or corrupt.
She admits in no uncertain terms they were given misinformation and a non existent time constraint. You could say they were lied to. It sure appears that way to me. Clink the video below and 10 seconds in, you will not believe what you will hear.
You can watch how the city staff that tried to ram the biggest threat to our quality of life in Fullerton’s history through in 2014. They are either corrupt or incompetent when what they fed this load to the planning commission to get them to vote to pass the DCCSP which was clearly based on inaccurate information 2 years ago. Looks like they voted to pass the biggest threat to Fullerton’s future without even vetting it, understanding it, and under what appears to be a series of misrepresentations and duress. Read that rubber stamp hacks-listen to this-
And just to remind all of you in the audience on 4-13-16, Kathleen Shanfeild said “…… I wish we would have had more time when we talked about this before…. “
NO KATHLEEN, YOU MEAN WHEN YOU, KATHLEEN ALONG WITH GAMBINO, JOHNSON AND THE GUY THAT HATES THE CARS, MR SILBER, VOTED TO PASS THE DCCSP WHILE PENDERGRAFT MISSED THE MEETING AND NEVER ONCE SAID BOO ABOUT IT-YOU VOTED FOR THIS AND IT PASSED-YOU DID MUCH MORE THAN JUST TALK ABOUT IT, YOU PASSED IT AND YOU ALMOST HANDED THE DESTRUCTION OF FULLERTON UP ON A SILVER PLATTER TO JOE FELZ AND IT ALMOST PASSED THE COUNCIL.
I urge you all to take a hard look at what you take for granted right now because it is in jeopardy. We need real leaders, not phonies and ignorant rubber stamp hacks that will allow Fullerton to be sold out to the highest bidder and hoodwink you with dog and pony shows just to get elected like we have now. The plans in the works could add 100,000 more people to Fullerton in the next ten years almost doubling the population as we already struggle to maneuver our cars in traffic in a park poor city with busted up roads and water mains. Enough is enough.
Stay vigilant Fullerton.
I stand up for the residents even when no one is looking folks. Last night was no exception.
JOE IMBRIANO 4 FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL
#1 by Reality Is..... on April 15, 2016 - 9:28 am
Barry and Joe. What laws must Fullerton abide by in terms of providing low income housing? Based on that, where and what is your recommendation to meet this requirement in the City, seeing that you clearly are against this proposal? Thanks.
#2 by Joe Imbriano on April 15, 2016 - 10:04 am
SB 375 and no sorry, our strategy is proprietary.
RI Fullerton needs jobs.Fullerton needs industry.Fullerton does not need to import poverty and sustain it. Fullerton does nothing to attract or create real employment here. The chamber is all about rezoning and bulldozing commercial property for high rise housing and protecting the city hall cabal that has been screwing the residents for decades.
The DCCSP is a JOB KILLER. SCAG and Agenda 21 policies kill jobs, economic growth, drive people into the compact cities, drive housing prices into orbit by adding ridiculous fees to the home and unit prices while cramming massive amounts of people into small areas artificially inflating demand and prices. Low income housing only needs to be built if the city wants to embark on massive development. There is no obligation to build any if we leave things alone. Fullerton is already built out. Our roads were never designed for what is being proposed. Besides, if you cannot afford to live here then move to where you can rent a house for 400 bucks a month. The US is full of places where you can.
By the way,JOE FELZ AND KAREN HALLUZA WANTED TO GET RID OF ALL THE GROCERY STORES AND RESTAURANTS AT STATE COLLEGE AND CHAPMAN ALL THE WAY TO THE 57 FREEWAY, SMART AND FINAL AND ACROSS THE STREET GETTING RID OF BIG LOTS, THE 99 CENT STORE AND ALL THOSE RESTAURANTS WITH THE COLLEGE TOWN PLAN AND NOW THE POLLYS PROPERTY WHERE ALBERTSON’S GOT RUN OFF AND THE BUFFET GOT ARSONED SOME TIME AGO. WHAT WILL BE NEXT WALLGREENS? WHERE ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO GO FOR GROCERIES AND WHAT ARE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO EAT? NOW THEY WILL HAVE NO WATER BUT WE HAVE WATER FOR THE HIGH RISE AND NEW RESIDENTS AND NO YARDS TO GROW FOOD AND NO CAR TO DRIVE TO GET THEIR FOOD, NO WHERE TO PARK THEIR CAR AND NO WHERE TO GO FOR FOOD UNLESS THEY LEAVE THE CITY PERHAPS ON FOOT? IS THAT HOW THEY PLAN TO MAKE HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES?
Nice carbon footprint plan design.
Affordable housing is available anywhere in the United States besides wealthy enclaves such as So Cal. Get real. It is the greedy police and fire employees that have created the cash crunch forcing the city to be sold off. Yeah I always wanted affordable housing beachfront down in Newport when I was in college with a boat slip so I could really have at it. No such luck then. Market conditions allowed me to rent a room on Bay street. Don’t have the money to live here? Move to where you can. Not our problem. The city is making this the problem because they spend it faster than it comes in on the greedy over paid and over pensioned city employees who do lousy work while our city is in ruin and is about to be destroyed forever for short term cash infusions for city employees most of which dont even live here-
#3 by Reality Is..... on April 15, 2016 - 10:37 am
Ok well. You did a good job of avoiding my question. I have seen numerous cities recently go through this same issue, affordable housing requirements and where to put them. All of the cities, of which some I own property in and some my parents and family live in, were adamantly against the idea and made their stances clear at council meetings and other city meetings. The city found a place for the housing anyways and now houses are being rammed into small areas to fulfill their affordable housing requirements. Yes it’s a joke and it’s ruined the areas for sure and they aren’t even all the way built yet. Yes, they are high class areas, much more high class that the areas we speak of here in Fullerton by the way. So back to the original question. I guess your answer is that Fullerton should not provide any affordable housing opportunities and all people that want that type of living should go to surrounding cities that provide it? LOL police and fire employees have created the cash crunch LOL LOL. Can you show me the last 10 year chart for police and fire for pay and benefits please? While your at it, please provide me the comparison for police and fire for Fullerton versus all of the other OC cities, or even throw in some LA County cities. I want to really see how Fullerton is over compensated the last 10 years and also now that you mentioned it, how they are over compensated compared to all the other California cities. Thanks.
#4 by Joe Imbriano on April 15, 2016 - 9:10 pm
RI why don’t you do a CPRA request-here is Lucindas email LucindaW@ci.fullerton.ca.us
RI just because everyone is jumping off the Brooklyn bridge doesn’t mean we do. They are all overpaid RI, all of them. Real wages are in decline. Fullerton is in the red because of the the men in black and blue.
#5 by Reality Is..... on April 16, 2016 - 11:33 pm
I’m often disappointed at your answers when you are pressed for more details and more information. Seems that when the opinion differs or someone sincerely asks for more information, you get very upset and very offended. Do you even know what the low income housing requirements are for the City of Fullerton?
#6 by Reality Is..... on April 16, 2016 - 11:36 pm
and the men have very little to do with black and blue. You want a police and fire department in Fullerton to be under paid and under compensated compared to the rest of the State. That was the same speech Bushala preached when he bought the council. It didn’t work out for him and I predict it won’t work out for you or Barry either. Fair is fair, top to bottom.