Monday, August 15th at 4:00 p.m. we need as many Park Village residents as possible to show up to the final City Redistricting Committee meeting to speak in opposition to the proposed plan separating Park Village from the rest of Rancho Penasquitos.
On July 21, 2011, the Commission approved a redistricting plan that places Park Village in a new City Council District with Mira Mesa, Kearny Mesa, Miramar and part of Linda Vista thus separating us from our community of Rancho Penasquitos (see attached map).
This proposed change will group Park Village with communities for which we do not have common interests. We need to remain within Rancho Penasquitos Council District which will include those communities of Torrey Highlands, Black Mountain Ranch, Carmel Mountain, Sabre Springs and Rancho Bernardo (northern I-15 corridor). These communities to our north and east are the communities with which we do have similar interests.
Our focus at Mondays' meeting is to stress to the commission that we must not be separated from the rest of PQ. We are in the Poway Unified School District (PUSD), Palomar/Pomerado Health District, Canyonside Community Park which serves all of Rancho Penasquitos is located within the Park Village neighborhood and should remain in the same City Council District as the rest of Rancho Penasquitos.
Briefly as background, this proposed redistricting is in part being driven by an organized group called the API/APAC (Asian Pacific Islanders/Asian Pacific Action Committee) who desire to create a City Council District that would encompass a high percentage of Asian Pacific Islanders. They strongly believe that a district created with a high percentage of Asian residents would increase their odds of electing a City Council person who would best represent their culture and special interests.
We believe this can be accomplished at the same time keeping Park Village with Rancho Penasquitos by keeping Scripps Miramar Ranch with Mira Mesa as it is today in the current City Council district. Scripps Miramar Ranch and Mira Mesa are communities which share common interests of schools (students choose which high school they wish to attend Scripps Ranch High School or Mira Mesa High School), fire stations, three freeway interchanges linking the communities, shopping centers and business parks at Mira Mesa Blvd, Carroll Canyon Road, Pomerado and Miramar Road. In addition, these communities border USMC Miramar Air Station and share like concerns and interests of being directly adjacent to and impacted by such a large military installation. These two communities have been within the same Council District for the past 30 years. Why separate them now? They are “communities of common interests” and keeping them in the same district would satisfy the commissioning criteria and principles of “preserving identifiable communities of interest.”
We need to have a huge presence at this Monday’s, August 15th, Redistricting Committee meeting as this will be our LAST opportunity to convince the commission to keep Park Village with Rancho Penasquitos.
Here are the details and specifics of When and Where:
Date: August 15th, 2011
Time: Meet at 3:30 to fill out a speaker slip in opposition
Where: City Concourse, Silver Room
202 “C” Street, Second Floor
San Diego, CA 92101
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=202+C+Street,+San+Diego,+CA&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=29.716225,77.958984&z=16
Park in the City Concourse parking structure or on one of the street level ACE parking lots.
Directions to the City Concourse parking structure:
163 South to Ash Street
Right on Ash Street
Left on 2nd Street
2nd street becomes the on-ramp into the Concourse parking structure
We would like to have at a minimum 100 people in attendance with signs to hold up stating “ONE PQ”.
We need everyone to fill out a speaker slip when they arrive in the Silver Room to speak in opposition to the proposed separation of Park Village from Penasquitos.
The meeting begins promptly at 4:00 p.m. and all speaker slips are to be submitted by that time in order to be registered and/or heard.
Thank you for making this a priority in your schedule on Monday.
For more background information on the Redistricting Committees criterion and principles, please see
http://www.sandiego.gov/redistricting/documents/index.shtml
http://www.sandiego.gov/redistricting/pdf/preliminaryredistrictingplan.pdf
Jon Becker & Jeanette Waltz-Poole
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