Reminder, Tonight is the last City Planning Housing Needs and Growth Workshop to be held from 6-8 pm at the Community and Senior Center.
Participation seems to primarily position neighbor against neighbor - you get a map and 10 dots representing 1,300 new living units, each representing a concentration of 130 units - to place on a map. The packet also includes a survey they allows a bit more citizen expression regarding options. After several years involvement, it's difficult to not feel the cynicism and infectious distrust of the duplicitous officials and still largely uninformed population.
If you miss out tonight, city planners did extend the opportunity to participate at City Hall from May 21st to May 24th from the hours of 8am until 5pm. During these times community members can come to city hall and complete the mapping exercise They must turn it in at the end of the exercise.
Update: Failed to mention the obvious, when you go to an event like this and see hundreds of your fellow citizens, it is invigorating. There is absolutely no comparison to visible crowds of people showing by their very presence that community matters. Please help fight the malaise and distrust by showing up - and bring a friend. Whatever you mark on your survey, wherever you place a dot or if you choose neither, experience the REAL authority in Encinitas, the voters.
