Like we didn't have enough to worry about!

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The SR-56 Connector DEIR is out with thousands more pages of information on impacts to Carmel Valley and Torrey Pines... One interesting point: It appears the One Paseo DEIR Traffic analysis relied on the best case version, the Direct Connectors. If any other option is picked for the SR-56 connectors, traffic on Del Mar Heights Road will increase by 4,000 to 9,000 trips per day, making the One Paseo gridlock even worse!

CV Planning Board Meeting, May 24, 2012

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The Carmel Valley Planning Board has announced that the May 24, 2012 meeting will be at the Carmel Valley Middle School located at 3800 Mykonos Lane, San Diego, CA 92130 in the Performing Arts Center at 7:00 pm. That's good, because the larger venue will allow additional people to attend, although the parking at the Middle School can be terrible. Arrive early to find a parking spot! I don't have the agenda yet, but at least the board's One Paseo DEIR comment letter will be heard. I'll post the information when it's available. You can imagine that Kilroy is rounding up the troops and planning on giving them a free dinner...

Torrey Pines to discuss One Paseo

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Torrey Pines Planning BoardThe Torrey Pines Community Planning Board (our neighbors west of I-5) will meet on Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm. Meeting at the Del Mar Hills Academy - Performing Arts Center, 14085 Mango Drive, Del Mar, CA 92014. Their meeting will include a discussion of the One Paseo Environmental Report. Here's your chance to hear more firsthand, and speak up about this over-the-top project! You can download the Torrey Pines Agenda here.

City muzzles local Recreation Council

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The Carmel Valley Recreation Council, a community volunteer group formed to provide the City of San Diego with local community input on City Parks, decided to comment on the Recreation Element of the One Paseo DEIR because of perceived errors in the parks analysis. You'd think this would be the perfect group to comment, as the members are very familiar with the local parks and their use. The item was added to the agenda and the meeting was announced at last week's Planning Board meeting, which was attended by representatives from Kilroy. Somehow, in the short time between these meetings, the City decided it wasn't appropriate for the Council to comment on the DEIR! Read more...

Meetings on the DEIR

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There are two meetings this week to review the One Paseo Draft Environmental Report (DEIR): at the Carmel Valley Recreation Council on Tuesday, May 1, and at the Regional Issues Subcommittee on Wednesday, May 2. NOTE: Commenting on the DEIR is a technical discussion looking for errors and omissions in the DEIR Document itself. While everyone is welcome to attend, please plan to comment ONLY if you've read all or part of the DEIR and have an issue with it's contents. Read More...

Planning Board Meeting, April 26, 2012

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One Paseo Overview

The Carmel Valley Community Planning Board meets next on this Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Carmel Valley Library. This is the only regular meeting of the board before it will approve and send its DEIR comment letter to the City. Since this is a controversial project, there will probably be a crowd. Arrive early and look for street parking or use the large Solana Pacific school parking lot.

Dump Trucks Every 2 Minutes for a Year?

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dump trucks hauling dirt

If you think One Paseo is going to be a nightmare after it's built, just wait until you hear about the construction! Kilroy estimates that they're going to have to remove about 500,000 cubic yards of dirt to build this thing, and they say they can remove about 2,100 yards a day. If you think about that, it's nearly 240 days of trucks hauling dirt. And we're not talking about just a few trucks, we're talking lots of trucks each and every day. A standard truck size is 10 yards, which means 210 trucks a day.

Hillcrest Uptown: A Proper Community Village

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Hillcrest Uptown District

One Paseo is being marketed to Carmel Valley as a "Community Village", as defined by the San Diego General Plan. Yet, if you look to see what is meant by "Community Village", I'm not sure that this monster of a project is actually consistent with that designation! The problem is, the description of the village types are very vague, so it's hard to tell what was meant by "Community Village". Let's see if we can figure out what the people drafting the original "City of Villages" plan were thinking.

Will Carmel Valley be a “guinea pig”?

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One Paseo is being touted by the developer as a “smart growth” mixed-use project. The developer should be asked to provide examples of successful projects that are similar to One Paseo in scale, density and mix of uses that have been built in communities with similar demographic profiles, access to mass transit, and site access from only two streets. We haven’t found any.

Some Facts About Traffic Signal Timing

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This is a story about a fancy new type of traffic signal timing, called an "adaptive traffic control system." It's used in San Marcos and Kilroy has claimed that it's had fantastic results. Let's start with the conclusion: "San Marcos traffic engineers’ overall conclusion was that the adaptive signal system was reasonably effective during non-peak periods, but made relatively little difference when traffic approached road capacity.

3D Model of One Paseo

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While the developer continues to provide artist renderings that attempt to minimize the scale of the project, the simulations that follow represent the dimensions of the One Paseo buildings taken from the architectural plans and superimposed on to Google Earth to get a 3-dimensional view of the project from various angles.

There are some limitations to this methodology, but we believe that this is a good representation of the project’s scale relative to what currently exists in this part of Carmel Valley.

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