How Awful and Corrupt is the Fullerton Downtown Core and Corridor Special Project?
Please let me count the ways as follows: by Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson
1- It is an undemocratic power grab by one unelected bureaucrat, City Manager Joe (I want to be king)Felz.
2- It turns the power to vote on individual development projects from the city council with the requirement to allow public comments prior to any vote, to one unelected man, City Manager Joe (I want to be emperor) Felz.
3- No honest elected city council majority would ever consider giving away their power to decide on numerous future development projects throughout much of the city to an unelected bureaucrat, City Manager Joe (I want to be a dictator) Felz.
4- If you think traffic is bad now wait until you add another 50,000 or more residents with no additional roads or lanes to existing roads. If you do not believe me than look at the million-dollar plan documents. The only traffic improvement called for in the plan is adding one or two roundabouts on Wilshire Avenue.
5- Who do you think might benefit from this project if passed?
May I suggest to you that Council member Jennifer Fitzgerald (who is also the Vice President of Curt Pringle and Associates)
and her boss along with a host of developers who will be knocking at our City Manager’s door?
Jennifer Fitzgerald became Vice President of Curt Pringle & Associates only after her election to the council
If Ms. Fitzgerald does not recuse herself from this vote, I think rather than recalling her we should just laugh her out of town. It is my understanding that we can thank Curt Pringle and Associates for promoting that $194 million neon light elephant known as the new Anaheim Regional Transportation Center.
The $194 million dollar people mover missing the people. Build it and they will come.
It has been built for high speed rail that will probably never come to Orange County in our life times and designed to handle 10,000 commuters a day while only up to 900 people a day currently use said station. Did someone say a big waste of taxpayer monies?
Maybe if these cats would lay off the restaurant food, they wouldn’t need so much of this.
6- I of course have not yet mentioned the concern as to where the needed water will come from for all those additional residents.
….under a chemtrailed sky, a crowd has gathered…….
It would seem that the City of Fullerton motto must be that no matter how bad the times are for you and me, there is never a bad time to get more money (tax money) for themselves.
Good times come to me now.
After all 80% of every dime in tax money that represents the General Fund, does not go for our streets or our decaying sewers and water system.
Fullerton’s ground water replenishment system -patent pending. The entire city with its hundreds of center mile streets will soon be part of a special assessment district. This revolutionary aquifer recharging rainwater collection program perfected by our public works department will be the model for the entire nation as a solution to the lingering pension crisis and ongoing drought .
It goes to our friends at city hall for their salaries and benefits. We get the crumbs that are remaining. Yet for Joe Felz and his merry men and women of Fullerton Forest they are eager to take even more from the poor citizens of Fullerton to make sure their stomachs are full and their retirements are merry.
I have reported and now you can add your own additional reasons this would be a very, very bad idea.
No Jennifer, you work for us. Tell uncle Joe he does too.
#1 by The Twilight Zone on February 18, 2015 - 1:43 pm
Please wake up Fullerton. The government can now spy on us. The police can beat us to death and get away with it.
Most politicians are bought and paid for by the special interests that are in bed with them.
Now the City Manager of Fullerton wants to pass a law which allows him alone to give the okay to huge high-rise development projects throughout much of the city, changing the city and its livability forever without any additional votes by the council or comments by the people.
I would have to say that is immoral, unethical and undemocratic. Furthermore, if the only good thing anyone can say about this project is that you do not think it is illegal, then you are definitely part of this large problem facing the good citizens of Fullerton. Government bureaucrats should not be allowed with one agenda item to fundamentally change the livability of this city forever.