{"id":6056,"date":"2009-08-20T08:33:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6056"},"modified":"2009-08-20T08:43:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T15:43:44","slug":"do-the-eckes-really-need-city-handouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=6056","title":{"rendered":"Do The Ecke&#8217;s Really Need City Handouts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/UTI1428548__t350.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/UTI1428548__t350.jpg','popup','width=350,height=228,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\/08\/UTI1428548__t350-tm.jpg\" height=\"130\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Uti1428548  T350\" \/><\/a>After raising the water rates for <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> agriculture by 45 percent last week, the <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> City Council is now considering subsidizing the water bill for <strong>Paul Ecke<\/strong> the third&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theflowerfields.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Flower Fields<\/a><\/strong>, according to a <strong>Michael Burge<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/aug\/20\/city-weighs-subsidy-farms-water-bills\/\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mayor <strong>Bud Lewis<\/strong> said he was concerned about subsidizing the farms&#8217; water bills, but in 2006 voters passed Proposition D, which said they want to preserve those two operations. . . In 1996 the city also required the Ecke flower-growing family to cultivate the 53-acre Flower Fields \u201cin perpetuity\u201d in exchange for the right to develop the 471-acre Carlsbad Ranch, which includes <strong>Legoland California<\/strong> and the <strong>Carlsbad Premium Outlet<\/strong> stores.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, <strong>Chris Calkins, <\/strong>president of the Ecke-owned company <strong>CB Ranch<\/strong>, says they are &#8220;staring down a barrel of a gun that makes it impossible to grow the crops&#8221; inferring that if the City of Carlsbad wants to keep the Flower Fields all colorful they&#8217;re going to have to help with the water bill.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it nice how businesses will agree to almost anything when they&#8217;re trying to get a huge development approved, only to come back later and say they&#8217;re not going to be able to hold up their end of the bargain? Classic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After raising the water rates for Carlsbadistan agriculture by 45 percent last week, the Carlsbadistan City Council is now considering subsidizing the water bill for Paul Ecke the third&#8217;s The Flower Fields, according to a Michael Burge story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. Mayor Bud Lewis said he was concerned about subsidizing the farms&#8217; water [&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":[8,15,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056"}],"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=6056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6056\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}