New Compromise Offer

Mike Rosenthal has contact the leadership of Vista del Oro Neighbors Against Condos with a new proposal. Also now he is willing to meet with the leaders of the group to review the compromise proposal.

Mike wants the neighbors' blessing on having just two single-family, detached houses on the south-east corner of 20Th Street and Walker Avenue.

His proposal for the north-east corner of that intersection is to construct two units on each of the four lots that made of the footprint in the store's building and the adjoining parking lot.

The total of units would be ten residential dwellings.

Vista del Oro Neighbors Against Condos have set their demands, at this time, for having only six single-family, detached houses on lots that made up the store's footprint and the two parking lots.

It should and must be up to the neigbors living in that neighborhood to either accept Mr. Rosenthal's proposal, study it further, come up with a counter compromise, or reject the offer.

R Neighborhoods Are 1 will back whatever the neighbors vote for.

Mr. Rosenthal has scheduled a meeting with some leaders and others to consider his proposal. At that meeting, he will probably be presented with pages and pages of filled out petitions that state the demand that NO CONDOS will be approved of at the corner in question.

I need to state a point of fact here. Just about everybody has traveled by The Cape. It is the cluster of small-lot single-family dwellings at 19Th Street and Western Avenue.

The Cape features small houses, basically no yards, and some common areas. Here is the little fact you may not know. The Cape is a condominium development. Those houses and undivided open spaces are legally considered to be in a condominium area.

Whether Mr. Rosenthal and/or the neighbors dealing with the former McCowan's Market site will suggest what are sometimes called "Patio Homes" or not, it a decision Mr. Rosenthal and the neighbors get to decide.

Whatever happens, I don't think we have seen another neighborhood take such quick and strong action since John McCowan thought about building condominiums in 1992. Oh yea, it is the same neighborhood!

San Pedrans and residents of other local communities can look with a great amount of pride at that neighborhood and those neighbors who stood up, shouted, organized, and said what they needed to be said. They got their messages throught to Councilwoman Hahn, her staff members, and the owner(s)/developer(s) of the site.

Whatever happens by Monday evening, I should be able to post the outcome on this blog.