{"id":5173,"date":"2009-04-14T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T16:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5173"},"modified":"2009-04-14T18:23:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T01:23:47","slug":"group-hopes-to-save-village-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5173","title":{"rendered":"Group Hopes To Save Village H"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/savevillageh.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/savevillageh.jpg','popup','width=755,height=146,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/savevillageh-tm.jpg\" height=\"83\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Savevillageh\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A stretch of private land in Calavera Hills that local residents had hoped the City of Carlsbad would buy and turn into a park has been sold to <strong>Thompson Co. of Nevada<\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2009\/04\/08\/news\/coastal\/carlsbad\/z86c6756d4c7afe48882575920067d707.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. And the new owner plans to subdivide the 60 acre property.<\/p>\n<p>This has made a group of local residents upset enough to launch an anti-developement website called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savevillageh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SaveVillageH.com<\/a><\/strong>. And they are blaming the Carlsbad City Council for not honoring the wishes of its own Open Space Committee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For over ten years, residents around Village H and from elsewhere have done everything they can to lobby the Council and City to preserve the property. SaveVillageH.com, in its original incarnation several years ago, was a focal point for this effort (with much work by PreserveCalavera.org as well). . . .As a result, three Council members now serving who served then (Lewis, Kulchin, and Hall) all expressed a willingness to preserve the land. But despite their Open Space Committee ranking the property as tied for #2 in the entire city (as worthy of acquisition) and despite the landowner making two very low offers to the City (one reportedly only $300,000), the Council \u2014 in a legally questionable closed-door session last year \u2014 declined to buy the property.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we believe for the most part that private land owners should be able sell their land to whomever they want it is strange that the City would pass on a parcel that they obviously had interest in. For more info, click the link.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savevillageh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Save Village H<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stretch of private land in Calavera Hills that local residents had hoped the City of Carlsbad would buy and turn into a park has been sold to Thompson Co. of Nevada, according to a story in the North County Times. And the new owner plans to subdivide the 60 acre property. This has made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16,10,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5173\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}