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 Joe Imbriano on April 15, 2016 - 8:14 am
Bruce Whitaker also replied back See below:
“The City Council has not yet acted on that development plan.
The “Core and Corridors Plan” is heading toward a vote, however. That plan may allow appointed bureaucrats to approve such developments WITHOUT Planning Commission or City Council action.
Please research the “Core And Corridors plan” and let neighbors and other interested individuals know about this possible action. Objectors need to be heard loudly now, by contacting Council Members now… and by speaking out at future meetings.”
Yours truly,
Bruce Whitaker, Council Member
City of Fullerton
Cellphone- 714-981-8474
The fact is We have a 3-2 majority on the council which may approve the DCCSP plan which will take the decision away from the commissions and hand it over to the City manager-here are some articles on that from some time ago. This has been cooking for a while now.
https://thefullertoninformer.com/category/the-dccsp/
While showing up to the meetings may be of some value, so much money is needed for the city’s out of control police and fire pay and pensions that Flory, Fitzgerald and Chaffee may pass it anyway. The real way to stop this is to push for Fullerton to join the Huntington Beach S.C.A.G. lawsuit which I have asked the council to consider. Thus far no response to that.
#2 by Reply to Bruce Whitaker on April 15, 2016 - 8:43 am
typical, instead of the Fullerton City Council acting on its’ residents behalf, they are continually selling off the city to developers. In order to stop this, residents must continually appear before the council to plead with the council to stop the development in their neighborhood.
So, any council action to stop the destruction from development is dependent on the Fullerton residents rising up CONTINUALLY! Otherwise, the worst case scenario gets voted through by the council members.
WHAT THE HELL!!!!
Message to Bruce Whitaker: Why are YOU not working in the Fullerton residents best interests? Get off your butt and do what’s necessary for the Fullerton residents.
ALL of these council positions are answerable to the PEOPLE OF FULLERTON, you work for us.
#3 by Telling It Like It Is on April 16, 2016 - 5:08 pm
What is Bruce Whitaker going to do to stop the DCCSP from passing since Mr. Levinson sounded the alarm very effectively two years ago on the city’s initial version? I do not recall Council member Whitaker speaking out on this issue at all…not now and not then. His current response to ordinary citizens is to tell them what they should do while he himself remains suspiciously quiet about what he can and should do as our council member. It is apparent that his Park and Recreation Committee appointee, Barry Levinson has been very busy standing up for the people of Fullerton without any support (both public and private) from Mr. Whitaker. In fact it seems that the last time Mr. Whitaker showed some support for Mr. Levinson and some moxie was when confronting the good chief of police almost 18 months ago. Has he not been present for 2 council meetings a month for the last 18 months? It seems he has faded faster than an unprotected piece of cloth left on the beach. Why do you think that is so? Is he more concerned about future political plans beyond Fullerton? Should not every elected official be doing their best from the first day elected to office until their very last day serving the people? I know that it is the only honorable way to serve the people. I think it is way past the time for ordinary citizens to figure out how each elected official is different from each other and start noticing how much they are alike in protecting their own self-interests while failing to speak out for the people. This should be the year of clearing out the old brush and putting in some new worthy timber that can stand tall and lead the city to make fundamental changes that will put the needs and the rights of the people ahead of special interests and/or selfish politicians.