Imperial Beach Voters Guide

I.B. Voters' Guide

PLANS

Continued from page 5 and the Salt Works/MKEG are overwhelming. Could our civic leaders be part of a conspiracy to monopolize development on the bayfront? Will a hotel and ecotourism center with gated exclusive residences replace our quiet bayfront neighborhoods. The answer is YES , if you put Winter and McLean in office. If you live in northern Imperial Beach, you need to take a look at the map which delineates the new redevelopment zone. If you think that this current council may pave your alley' someday , you are mistaken. The bulldozers are coming and so is high priced,

WINTER

Continued from page 1 treatment plant construction at the border. Lack of rain is the only reason our beaches have been cleaner. 5. Winter has so little business sense that she discusses how to improve business in I.B. over many, many luncheons in Coronado, while you and I pick up the tab. 6. Do you want I.B. to have paved sidewalks and alleys now? Or would you rather have this turned into "a very, very long term goal," as Winter has proposed. 7. Winter did not put a mortgage on city property to pay off the $60 million bond debt; she instead put it on all of the private property in I.B. It is your property taxes that will triple to pay this off if Winter fails to. 8. Winter writes the sheriff

high density development. If you don't already own your home, you will be pushed out by economic forces. If you own your home, you will be pushed out too, because it is as easy as a consent item on a council agenda to re-instate eminent domain. If Mayda Winter and Fred McLean are elected, they will have a mandate to do whatever they want for two years. Our neighborhoods could be destroyed by then. Recently public meetings have been held regarding Eco-Tourism Studies and Redevelopment. These meetings are being held to give the impression that the law is being followed and that public input is shaping the decisions of the council and the Redevelopment Agency ( disguised as a legally elected mayor and council). The mas-

ter plans are already done. McCoy, Winter , Rose , McLean and Bixler already know what the finished product will look like. They just can't admit to it in public or they would be confessing to violations of the Brown Act and be forced from public office and maybe be looking at jail time. The inner political circle rallies behind the Mayor and Council. This group which appears to be coordinated by Michael and Deborah Carey also happens to be the same group that shows up at all these public meetings. These plants comment on elements of the finished master plan, so that when it is finally announced in public, the council can say they made their decision based on public input. In recent months the Mayor had made comments that she

a check each and every month for $384,000 for two daytime patrols, and one night-time patrol in I.B. Charles Manson would be the Law Enforcement's choice if his name were on those checks. 9. You have heard of the Tia Juana Valley County Water District scandal. Winter didn't say a word as her friends and close colleagues on that board robbed this neighborhood of more than $2,000,000 while not providing a drop of water these past eight years that Winter has been in office. 10. Winter has proposed that the city council pass a law that will forbid you from having anything in your garage except your car. This from a woman who can't get into hers because it is permanently blocked by her boat. 11. Winter has supported laws that will forbid any one from having any businesses or employees in their homes at any time. So much for the

Internet or improving your self by your own efforts at home. 12. More than 85 percent of Winter's campaign funds come from outside of I.B. and that is where her loyalties are: not here. 13. Fred McLean is well known to be in Mayda Winter's pocket. McLean couldn't even write his own candidate statement. Winter and friends had to do it for him. 14. Mayda Winter has been telling the 26,000 residents of I.B., for eight years now, that our financial salvation lies in eco-tourism. The truth is, wild life is not going to conveniently settle down in the harmful lights from two cities with a population of more than five million people. There are no ecotourists and there are no ecotourist dollars in I.B. It's just Mayda Winter saying, "Keep me in power longer and maybe some day we will find an eco-tourist dollar."

wanted to stay in control of the direction that redevelopment meetings were going. No doubt. If the public were to take these meetings in another direction than the already determined master plan, Rose, McCoy and Winter would be in a lot of trouble with their political cronies. Old Palm Avenue is an area which will continue to be given great attention by the redevelopment agency. It is an area where secret deals abound and corruption festers. In recent months the public has been made aware of a dispute regarding a local business, I.B. Rock'n. An associate of the ladies on the council, who works for County Parks, has filed repeated complaints against an existing business which has operated within its license for many years. Why would the city treat them differently now? It turns out that the problem our council has with I.B. Rock'n is not a noise issue at all, but a redevelopment issue. Confidential sources have told this reporter that the property of the former Brian's Landing now doing business as I.B. Rock'n was in escrow at the time that Penny Boyd and Al Rachovic leased the business. Considering the property's obvious location in a redevelopment zone, it is doubtful that a prospective buyer who wanted to build a hotel would have moved into escrow without first checking with the city or redevelopment agency. Considering that this same council paid to lobby the Coastal Commission for a variance which would allow construction of hotels beyond the 30-foot limit, a potential hotel developer would have already discussed this with the city. A silent agreement to

approve the development was made with this Coronado developer, and then Penny and Al stepped in and ruined the deal by leasing the business currently located on the same property. Council minutes show that an insider mentioned the proposed hotel in public comments and was quickly hushed. Memos obtained under the Freedom of Information Act indicate that Greg Wade and David Garcias (the city's Community Development Director and the city's Code Enforcement Officer) were planning to use the Fire Department, the ABC or whatever agency was necessary to shut down I.B. Rock'n. Although they stated that noise was the reason, their objective was and still is to put the secret hotel project back on track. The council under Rose, Winter and McCoy set a standard of allowable sound which is impossible for the business to meet. Its owners will be put out of business. Although 50 decibels at 50 feet may sound reasonable; at 4 a.m., with no traffic, pedestrians or music, the db level is 74. If you close your car doors it's 65 db or higher inside your car. A request for public records came with a response of "No documents found". In a telephone interview, Greg Wade stated that he knew nothing about a proposed hotel at the site. I contend that officials acting under the cover of authority have harassed a local business owner in order to consummate a secret hotel development. I'm not against the development of a hotel, but not in the devious and misleading manner in which this city has acted regarding I.B. Rock'n. The owners of this business SEE PLANS, PAGE 8

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