{"id":228208,"date":"2015-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-july-27\/"},"modified":"2015-07-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T07:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-july-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-july-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u2013 July 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents concerned about new residential development in San Carlos<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear editor,<\/p>\n

I read your article in the Mission Times Courier<\/a> this week regarding the possible closure of Magnolia Science Academy and the purchase of the property by the developer Preface to build homes on the property.<\/p>\n

You wrote that John Pilch, who I am unfamiliar with, said residents on Lake Arrowhead Drive have no opposition to new homes being built on the property. That is completely untrue.<\/p>\n

I live directly behind the school on Lake Arrowhead Drive. We didn\u2019t know the school was being sold until after it was sold and received a little postcard in the mail from the developer regarding a meet-and-greet at the Rec Center to discuss our concerns.<\/p>\n

My husband went and told them he was unhappy about it and that our daughter has asthma and we are concerned about all of the construction that will take place behind our house. They basically said \u201coh well.\u201d<\/p>\n

We have spoken to our other neighbors and they are not happy either.<\/p>\n

We would rather see an \u201cundeveloped, unkempt, decomposed granite expanse,\u201d as Pilch put it in your article, than a bunch a single-family homes. We like how it looks when we go out into our backyard.<\/p>\n

Do you know how ridiculous these homes will look in this neighborhood? The reason we bought this home is because there were no homes behind us. We now are considering moving and when we will be able to do that. Will the value of our home go down? Can we sell our home when all of this construction is going on?<\/p>\n

The dust from the construction will really impact us and our backyard. I just pray that my daughter\u2019s health isn\u2019t made worse.<\/p>\n

We are not at all happy about this.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kathy Galloway, resident of Lake Arrowhead Drive (via email)<\/em><\/p>\n

Dear editor,<\/p>\n

I grew up in this neighborhood back in the 1960s and \u201870s, and the school was there already. It\u2019s been a part of the neighborhood forever, and I would hate to see it get torn down, either the school itself or the playing field and the school together.<\/p>\n

If this company comes in and puts in 50 homes, it\u2019s just going to destroy what\u2019s left of this neighborhood. I\u2019ve talked to people up and down Lake Arrowhead Drive and they\u2019re not looking forward to it. I used to be a paperboy in this neighborhood, so I know a lot of people. They feel more strongly about it than you realize.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d rather have a vacant playing field to look over than 50 houses with all kinds of stink and smells and dogs barking and all the crud that gets accumulated in people\u2019s backyards. I\u2019d rather have a wide-open view.<\/p>\n

They didn\u2019t give this Magnolia school a chance to round up the funds fast enough. It makes you wonder if money\u2019s talking. If they\u2019re going to put in all these homes it\u2019s going to bring down the quality of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

If they put in 50 more homes it\u2019s just going to make this area overcrowded. There\u2019s already families here doubling up in houses. You\u2019re talking four to six people per house. Lake Arrowhead Drive is already a cut-through for traffic. It\u2019s just going to be hellacious.<\/p>\n

I live near Charlotte, North Carolina, now, but I\u2019ve been here a number of weeks now visiting family and friends who still live on this street, and I\u2019ve been hearing all this talk about water shortages. Every night you see on the news we\u2019ve got to save water, save water. Every time you turn around they\u2019re putting in new homes or businesses.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the little school here is not going to use the amount of water that 50 new homes are going to use. They\u2019re being hypocrites. They\u2019re not saving water because they\u2019re allowing more building to be done. If they take this little school and convert it into more housing it\u2019s just going to be a bigger water issue.<\/p>\n

The city schools should have been paying attention to those things too. Did the city schools just need the money so bad that they were in too big a hurry to pay attention to what they were doing to the neighborhood? Why would you sell a piece of land that\u2019s worth way more than $6 million? The developer is going to get rich and go back to LA and they\u2019re not gonna care about the impact on this neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u2014Randy [last name withheld], former resident of Lake Arrowhead Drive (via telephone)<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Note: Letters are edited for length and clarity. Please send letters to jeremy@sdcnn.com.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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