JanetP wrote on Dec 15, 2007 3:30 AM:It is past time for us to revisit the process of appointing federal judges. They consistently issue rulings that change our society in ways that voters would never approve if the issue was on a ballot. Many of their rulings do not represent or serve the interests of American Citizens. Since federal judges are appointed for life there is no opportunity for citizens to express their grievances against them. This system served us for more than two hundred years, but it is now broken. Federal judges should be ELECTED and held accountable to the people whose lives are affected by their rulings .

TO THE THREE STOOGES!! wrote on Dec 15, 2007 5:31 AM:THE TRUE GALLO AND ABED JUST WANT TO BE RE-ELECTED AT THE COST OF THE SEGREGATION OF THE DIFFERENT GROUPS OF THIS CITY. THEY JUST CARE ABOUT THE POWER TRIP AND THEIR POLITICAL AGENDAS;IF THEY REALLY CARE FOR THIS CITY THEY JUST HAVE TO ENFORCE THE ORDINANCES ALREADY ON THE BOOKS AND NOT TRY TO REINVENT THE WHEEL. THIS CITY IS LOOSING TOO MUCH ON IT'S CREDIBILITY AND COMMUNITY TRUST. WHEN WALDRON WAS FOR RE-ELECTION SENT THAT NONSENSE OF RACIAL ORDINANCE AND NOW THAT GALLO AND ABED ARE FOR RE-ELECTION ,THEY'RE THE ONES SENDING THIS FIASCO OF PROPOSAL. MR DANIELS HAS TO BE A LEADER AND PROTEC THE INTEREST OF THIS CITY BUSINESSES NO HIS COUNCIL FRIENDS.

tucson joe wrote on Dec 15, 2007 7:32 AM:why is it every time the people try to enact legislation that will make it more difficult for the illegals to live here, the government tells us how hard it will be to enforce. in arizona the people say "no benefits to illegals", the government says "we have no way to tell if you're here illegally...show us a utility bill and you can have benefits". escondidians say "make stacking 3 or 4 families in one residence harder". the town council and staff say "it's too hard...we can't find anyway to enforce it" funny, the town where i live just enacted a new tax for stormwater that for commercial is based on "impervious area". they were able to calculate the percent impervious area for every commercial property in town, correlate that to the property's water bill, with three different water companies serving the area, and are ready to begin billing....in three weeks. but we can't ask someone how many people live in a house..."it might be offensive"

Abed needs to stop talking ... wrote on Dec 15, 2007 7:32 AM:"If my intention was to attack illegal immigration, I wouldn't be supporting a simpler approach that gives out permits without forcing people to apply and show identification," said Abed. "This is only about quality of life." What he thinks he is now the INS? "Abed said Friday he wishes the council had thought of the simpler rules months ago." Geez man are you that stupid or do you really not hear yourself. You sound like a babbling moron!! The problem here is that you guys don't think before you act and that is the reason you are wasting all our tax dollars on your immigrant bashing ordinances. Give us a break now. There is a letter written by James McDaniel in todays paper and I agree with him completely. Stop already.

Pablo wrote on Dec 15, 2007 7:56 AM:This proposal, if approved, will simply enable residential overcrowding under the false claim of reducing it and cast the demise of Escondido in stone. Rather than being so quick to react to this status report before it has been formally presented and thoroughly evaluated, city council members should give some serious thought to the consequences of automatically issuing two parking permits per residence and business. Anyone who can add two and two should be able to see through this blatant effort to deceive. According to the DMV there were 91,490 autos registered with an address in the city of Escondido in 2006. According to SANDAG's website, in 2006 there were 46,815 housing units in the city of Escondido. According to Escondido's off-street parking requirements each single family house and each mobile home had to have provided two off-street parking spaces at the time of construction. Each apartment had to have 1.5, 1.75 or 2 off-street parking spaces depending on the number of bedrooms. What this means is that there are already close to 91,490 off-street parking spaces available in Escondido. That is enough off-street parking for every registered auto except for unique situations like Old Escondido and for guests. According to the facts there is no need whatsoever to issue two on-street parking permits to each home and business. Issuing two permits to each of the city’s 46,815 housing units will generate 93,630 on-street parking permits. Add on to that two permits sent to each business and there will be well over 100,000 on-street parking permits issued. That is many more permits than there are registered autos in the city. Issuing permits that are not specific to vehicle and address and using a hanging type of permit that can be moved from car to car will surely lead to auto break-ins and a lively black market in superfluous, counterfeit or stolen hang tags. How sad.

ObSERVER wrote on Dec 15, 2007 9:06 AM:Abed is a total disappointment. Why create a feel-good ordinance that does absolutely nothing to impact overcrowding? With this solution every house will be able to easily park up to 6 cars (2 in the garage, 2 on the driveway and two on the street). If they have a three-car garage, the number of cars allowed in a house jump up to 8! Great job Sam! Don't count on my vote this time.

Curtis wrote on Dec 15, 2007 9:28 AM:I've never heard anyone complain about parking in Escondido. I've lived in two different middle class neighborhoods with no HOA and it has never been a problem. I go downtown and always find a parking spot without a problem so it seems like the solution is about something other than parking.

To ObSERVER wrote on Dec 15, 2007 9:49 AM:You're right. This scheme enables overcrowding. It is total joke. It is apparent that city staff want the extra 40,000 residents that are jammed into the firetraps. After all isn't staff's pay based on the city's population, the more people served the more money in the paycheck. I feel sorry for the residents of the flower streets, now all the houses with twenty cars will have permits so they can park in front of other people's homes. Nobody in their right mind would think that this free for all permit extravaganza will do anything but make matters worse. I can't wait for election day. How stupid do they think we are?

welcome to Mexicondido wrote on Dec 15, 2007 10:53 AM:"The goal is to drive poor people out of town by making their lives intolerable," said Bill Flores, a spokesman for El Grupo, an umbrella group of civil rights organizations. "It's a misguided approach to addressing a perceived problem with overcrowding." The Mexican ACLU speaks. Escondido no longer belongs to the legal tax paying citizens, it belongs to the illegals and god forbid we tramp on THEIR rights which are really OUR rights that they now presume belong to them because our useless government won't stop them! The city council is only as good as their leader and Mayor Lori is no leader. She's been in office way too long so make sure to vote her out when her term is up. Vote in a leader with a back bone if one exists in this infested city.

In response to Pablo wrote on Dec 15, 2007 11:48 AM:For legal and Census purposes, a "housing unit" includes apartment. I think that the parking permit is just for single-family, residential "housing units".

Restraint of trade.... wrote on Dec 15, 2007 3:25 PM:this new policy really hurts the poorest folks. I rent houses to families all over the county, especially in high end towns. I tend to rent to working folks who need to live close to their workplace (the homes of the rich). Ordinances like this make it hard for multiple families who live in the homes that I rent to them. Quit cutting into my hard earned dollar!!!

Dennis wrote on Dec 15, 2007 9:43 PM:To “Restraint of trade” If your trade was house painting you would have to have a Contractors License and pay INCOME TAXS on all LEAGAL employees. Why when you rent an house or square footage for the purpose of living it is not considered having an employee? That NEEDS proper ID that you are not jailed for a crime? Can anyone? Then the 15 people in a 2 bedroom house sending multiple people to the Welfare Office to cost me a BUCK, Why it isn’t coming out of your pocket

STOP WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS!!! wrote on Dec 15, 2007 11:32 PM:On the last time that they tried to help this city ,they end up losing $240,000.00 of our tax dollars and scared a lot of businesses. don't they learn? I know is re-election and because they haven't done anything good that could get them re-elected now they have the illegal card!! give Escondido a break and resign!!!

Elizabeth wrote on Dec 18, 2007 10:07 PM:I just can't imagine that there aren't better things than parking permits and all the overhead that entails for Escondido to spend its tax dollars on.

The Grand Plan wrote on Dec 21, 2007 9:32 AM:The GRAND PLAN is the ruleing elites and CFR's North American Union; it's, hey gringos get used to illegal aliens because open borders is going to happen. It's about regional government then on to global government for us peons. That is why the governments don't want to enforce the immigration laws. Google: North American Union; New World Order...

Hanna wrote on Dec 21, 2007 8:29 PM:City Councel get this doen. You have been talking about it to long. I live in a middle class area and 4 families moved into the house across the street and began parking cars in the front yard. After one week we informed them if they continued to park in the yard we would reolve the issue. Now the house has been forclosed on and they left it a disaster,