With the Bond Passed, its Back to Business as Usual

Apparently emboldened by the passage of the open space bond, Larry and his posse got right back to work the very next day on their grand vision for Fourth and Osuna.

But first they had to deal with a few malcontents who had the audacity to argue that the prohibition against drive throughs in the VC zone should be enforced. They spoke at length against the Starbucks, undeterred by rude comments by hizzoner (who sometimes acts as if he's ODed on grande double expresso no-fat lattes, and may be looking for a convenient place to get his fix), and in the end achieved the Pyrrhic victory of that time-honored BOT cop-out, the "deferral for further study". Roughly translated as "We didn't anticipate so much opposition and haven't the nads to actually do the right thing and vote "no", so we will put this off and bury it at the end of a long agenda in the future, hoping that these crazies will somehow forget to show up the next time".

Then it was on the the VC revision. The last step in that grand scheme of Larry's to place a development of his choosing at 4th and Osuna---removing all of the design guidelines, pedestrian amenities, controls on the floor space of businesses, and ironically the requirement for FREE dedicated open space from the zone, calling it, in classic double-speak, "protection for the neighborhoods". But now the administration wants to gut the thing even more, by making drive throughs a conditional use and to make gas-stations a PERMISSIVE use!! What could be more pedestrian friendly than a big old gas station, with maybe a McDonalds drive through attached! What says, "welcome to Rural Los Ranchos, note our unique village center" better than that?

It sure doesn't take a 'rocket scientist" to see where this is going. Wake up, people! Now that Larry and his friends on RGB have secured their scenic vistas with our tax money, its time to make 4th into another San Mateo to pump GRT into the now nearly empty village coffers.

El Picador says---Say No to the VC revision before it is too late!

And as for that area being "blighted"---EL Picador knows of no greater blight than a mega-gas station and McDonalds. I'll take weeds and land-locked property anytime.