The developer of the 85/15 plan (that hopes to bring a Nordstrom-anchored shopping center to Carlsbad) is using a new angle to get project approval - read the VOSD story, click HERE for link. An excerpt: One of the country’s largest mall developers, Caruso...
There has been vocal opposition to the Nordstrom development proposed for Carlsbad, and it's only right that people have a chance to review the project. Here is your chance: A group supporting a proposal to create a 26-acre development near Agua Hedionda Lagoon is...
It is California law that neighbors share the cost of a new fence - hat tip DV: http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xhtml Section 841 (a) Adjoining landowners shall share equally in the responsibility for maintaining the boundaries and monuments...
The opposition has to be in shock: http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-City-Council-Considers-One-Paseo-Project-293662831.html In front of a packed house, the San Diego City Council approved a controversial mixed-use project in Carmel Valley after hours of...
I don't have a dog in this race, I just like seeing people getting involved in their community. KPBS has both sides of the debate here: http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/feb/21/sides-debate-merits-one-paseo-carmel-valley/
W.C. Varones has been covering the Pacific View fiasco, and the recent commitment by the City of Encinitas to pay $10 million for it (even though the school district only asked $9.5 million). Here is his most recent post about the community activists who supported the...
Here's a good review of the recent Dave Camp tax proposal: http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-harney-20140309,0,7914993.story#axzz2vWoDGLkZ Under intense scrutiny will be the two-out-of-five-year rule - Congress will find it irresistible to tinker with...
From Forbes: In an effort to simplify the nation’s unwieldy tax code, Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) is socking it to homeowners. His proposal as chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, The Tax Reform Act of 2014, hits first-time home buyers, jumbo mortgage...
The California Association of Realtors' political action committee gave $500,000 to the state Democratic Party the day before the Democrat-dominated Franchise Tax Board effectively resolved a months-long legislative fight over the state's tax treatment of short...
From the California Association of Realtors: LOS ANGELES (Sept. 3) – Thanks to partisan political gamesmanship by the Assembly Appropriations Committee, struggling homeowners who sold their homes in a short sale in the past eight months will be further penalized by...
