Month: November 2009

Good News for Most

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After several years of not being successful in getting clear and unambiguous answers about how GP2020 (GPU) will affect my property it seems that if hundreds of concerned landowners call, write, email, and show up at meetings the importance on clarifying things and supplying statements that commit the DPLU gets elevated.

Prior to the meeting on Nov. 6th my emails were not even replied to now I (we) get quick and thorough explanations.

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GO TO THE DISCUSSION FORUM!

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Yes read all the posts here and comment on them please! But there are so many folks with great information that we can all share and discuss that needs to be put out there.

Don’t Monkey around. Go.  Start a new subject.  Add to an already going subject. Meet your neighbors.

Top 10 dumb things NEW RURAL LANDOWNERS do

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Hey, I was a new owner once also.  So I am not trying to be pompous here just listing the things you will be saying about those newbies in a few years….

10.  Fail to realize they are the newcomers to an established community.
9.    Fail to understand that your property and your life depend on how well you treat your neighbors.
8.    Shoot at people for trespassing ( see THIS)
7.    Make booby traps or trench across a path (See Prison Time)
6.    Think that if somebody does not use an easement for 5 years it has been abandoned and they fence it.
5.   Look at their deed and think it would have any and all easements on it. (see THIS)
4.    Put in their well before figuring out where their septic will go.
3.    Build a fence to protect themselves from liability see THIS and California Civil Code § 846
2.    Fence a property with barbed wire (cattle ranchers now use high tensile wire and thieves just cut it)
1.     Build a fence across a documented easement. (average legal cost = $73,000)

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Report: DPLU Hearing Nov 6

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Two Steps Forward One Step Back   —     —     —

As advertised the meeting was the General Plan Staff presenting to the commissioners  and “interested parties” and the community groups presenting afterward.  I will fill in details later.

Of interest is what happens in the hallway.  (isn’t it always that way?)

Maps were posted along the hallway (different looking than any that I have seen before) and there were at times people around to answer questions.  (No badges or identification that these folks were anything other than general public. )  The first time I stopped  a group was talking with Mr. S  from zoning.  Mr. S was explaining that they had no plans to change the zoning in Ocotillo Wells. I was puzzled and mentioned that I was confused by conflicting information from building, zoning, and County Supervisors that I have contacted.  Nope Mr. S was clear that they had no plans to change the zoning out there (moving his hand over Ocotillo Wells.)

Ok.

After the break I meet another person at the map answering questions for a concerned woman.  This new person explains that the areas in cross hatch on Ocotillo Wells is what is going to be changed and the solid areas are fixed.  Getting clarification on this she says that the areas in cross hatch are what is changed from one of the four maps being considered the area that is solid is the same on all maps being considered.

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