We are concerned about the quality of life.
This web site was developed by a group of concerned citizens committed to providing information about the developer's proposed project and its likely impacts to the community. Our group consists of citizens who believe that future development should be consistent with Carmel Valley's community character and within the traffic and infrastructure capacity set forth in the current community plan. Our group is not seeking to eliminate or reduce existing entitlements for the property. We are working to ensure the density, traffic and parking envisioned in the community plan are adhered to.
But hasn't Kilroy reduced the project?
Yes, the project has been somewhat reduced, but it's still full of massive residential blocks and 8 story office buildings -- a scale that doesn't match the surrounding community. And the traffic counts have only been reduced by around 10 percent, still leaving some 23,000 new cars on the road. Think about that: Kilroy claims to have reduced the project by 30% and it's still out-of-scale with the local community. How big was this project originally?!!
We're NOT Against Development
We are a diverse bunch, but most of us want a mixed-use project to be built at the One Paseo site. We just want it to be appropriate to Carmel Valley. We want a Trader Joes. We want more restaurants. We want a town center, with a beautiful plaza. But, how about making a smaller project, a suburban village like downtown La Jolla? There are great examples of villages in San Diego, let's make one just for us!
This Web Site
We created this web site to provide community members the opportunity to share their thoughts and concerns about the project to decision-making officials and advisory boards. With the information found here, the Carmel Valley community, its residents, businesses and visitors will better understand the price they may have to pay for a project 10 times the density of Del Mar Highlands Town Center and larger than the size of the University Town Center in the middle of our well-planned community.
Website conceived and content created by Carmel Valley residents. Ken Farinsky (the "ken" in all the articles), a Carmel Valley resident, runs the web site and makes most postings. Ken can be reached at ken@cvsd.com.
For more information or to join our effort, please visit the Get Involved page or email us at info@WhatPriceMainStreet.com.
Are We Run by Local Businesses?
We're an independent group of community members, so why would Killroy be trying to associated us with some local business? I suppose they want to make us look like we're being run by some big corporation. Kilroy is likely doing this because they've hired a company called Davies Public Affairs to do their marketing and community outreach, and Davies has been associated with "fake grassroots community support" (see this OpEd piece by Molly Ivins and this San Diego Reader piece by Dorian Hargrove.)
What are the facts? We don't have the multi-million dollar budget that Kilroy has, so, in the past, we've asked around the community for help. There's a difference between us soliciting funds from local businesses to support our efforts and their hiring outside companies to influence local residents. Yes, the Town Center has paid for some printing and mailing of cards, and once-upon-a-time they helped with our website (before I took it over --ken.), but they have never set our message. Everything you hear from us comes from local community members.
Our Supporters
I apologize for not getting everyone's names posted, but I've been busy with the DEIR. I hope to get to this soon!
The following is a partial list of the citizens who support our efforts in providing factual information about the impacts of the Main Street project:
- Jerry Mailhot, Past Member of Carmel Valley Community Planning Board and Carmel Valley Resident
- John Dean, Past Chair of Carmel Valley Community Planning Board and Carmel Valley Resident
- Eugene Helsel II, Past Chair of Julian Community Planning Group and Carmel Valley Resident
- Eugene Helsel III, Carmel Valley Resident
- Gabriele Prater, Past Member of Carmel Valley Community Planning Board and Carmel Valley resident
- Lawrence Adelson
- Kevin Allen
- Gil Armour
- Levent Aydin
- Kambiz Azimzadeh
- Daun Bahr
- Michelle Bailey
- Ellie Barnes
- Virginia (Ginny) Barnes
- Marian Bartlett
- Chaitan Baru
- Marvin and Ruth Bauch
- Jean and James Bechtel
- Victoria Bennett
- Cheryle Besemer
- Suzanne Bevash
- William Bibb
- Candice Bowman
- Eva Cahen
- Donna Campuzzano
- Christine Carr
- John Carra
- Denise Casino
- Amy Caterina
- C Chang
- Dawn Chang
- Heather Clark
- Karen Cody
- Cindy Cooney
- Katrina Cunningham
- Robert Del Cid
- Karen Dillen
- Karen Dubey
- Jennifer Dyer
- Barbara Farrell
- Frank Ferdon
- Marsel Filiba
- Viktor Filiba
- Mark Fisher
- Tina Fodrie
- Jessica Fogg
- Troy Freeman
- Robert Freund
- Bob Fuchs
- Mary Anne Fuchs
- Frank Furnari
- Adrienne Gallo
- Mark Gallo
- Richard Garfein
- Teresa George
- Patrick Giles
- Dale Glantz
- Lawrence Goldenhersh
- Marco Gonzalez
- Lynne Gulizia
- Brij Gupta
- Vishal Gupta
- Martin Haas
- Gayle Hanson
- Tsuneko Hasiguchi
- Brenda Hegli
- Ron Hegli
- William Heimer
- Eugene Helsel
- Eric Hillis
- Rodica Hillis
- Linda Hisey
- Iris Hoefling
- Meredith Hooke
- Marta Hoyt
- Stuart Hurlbert
- Roberta Inamdar
- Cathy Ingrassia
- Robert Jellison
- Peter Jensen
- Richard & Linda Johnson
- Vikki Johnson
- Brent & Lisa Josephson
- Chandan Kanodia
- Nadia Keilani
- Christine Keller
- Steve Kennedy
- Dan Kirkham
- Tange Krause
- Justin Kulongoski
- Sharon LaPaglia
- Lynwood Lary
- Michael Leeds
- Kit Leeger
- Nitza Leichtzing
- Sarah Lifton
- Christopher Lindsey
- Maureen Lindsey
- Robin Lipman
- gustavo lugo
- Neal Macudzinski
- Melissa Maes-Wolfson
- Jerry Mailhot
- Dragan Marinkovic
- Jill Marsal
- Marissa Marsala
- Mary Marshall
- Patricia Marshall
- Jonathan Masters
- John Matthews
- Kyle McEntee
- Jeffrey Miller
- Barbara Mitchell
- William Moody
- Donald Muehlbach
- Jennifer Muehlbach
- Molly Muehlbach
- Trey Muehlbach
- Mary Mullen
- Caroline Murphy
- K.A. Murphy
- Dave Nafranowicz
- Pamela Naughton
- J Nicole
- Marybeth Norgren
- Lisa O'Brien
- Lindsey O'Hara
- Shahpar Ostovar
- Lynn Paiz
- Gabriele Prater
- Steve Quigg
- Richard Reid
- Lilia Rivas
- Richard Roberts
- Christopher Robinson
- Maureen Robinson
- Karen Roegner
- Paul Rosenthal
- Peg Ross
- William & Juliet Saltman
- Alan Schonfeld
- Debra Schonfeld
- Tim Schulze
- Cathy Sciarappa
- Charlotte Seckington
- Deborah Serra
- Ari Shaprut
- Jim Sims
- Lisa Smith
- Lindsey Sniegos
- Robert Sonnhalter
- Guistina Stoddart
- Dorothy Taylor
- Harris Teague
- Phoebe Telser
- Terrie Tiegs
- Marilyn Torchia
- Tim Torchia
- Steven Usselman
- Susan Waggener
- Laura Walker
- Yang Wang
- Catherine Waters
- Lisa Watkins
- Doug Wescott
- Ken Wetstone
- Cristiana Winter
- Frank Winter
- Jill Wolf
- Dave Wolfson
- Donna Wontorsky
- Jack Wu
- Wei Xiao
- Debra Yaruss
- Diane Yen
- Jim Zerkle
- David Zhang
- Wendy Zhang
