[quote=AN][quote=flu]Not to mention that the bigger density of non-owner occupied, the less likely people that live there will ever donate money to the public schools extended studies programs. Just follow the money trail for the DMUSD extended studies programs, in which you have a small percentage of the families contributing to an optional program for which a big percentage of others don’t contribute jack and enjoy all the benefits of it.

This is a cash grab by kilroy. That’s why developers usually do. They dump a bunch of rental properties into a community, and then when the schools are overburdened, they don’t donate 1 penny to the public schools in that community. I might change my mind if Kilroy actually stepped up and committed to annual contributions to the DMUSD, San Dieguito school district for middle school, and high school for the next 10 years. But nope…I haven’t seen that mentioned.[/quote]Does that mean you’re objecting to them building apartments but you’re ok if they build condos?[/quote]

I would be more open to housing that would be more owner occupied, yes. You have less of this “transitory” nature of people in the community.

My two main objections are
1) Concentration of apartments
and
2) Just the shear size of the thing.

I don’t think the housing they are proposing is owner occupied. I’m not saying it has to be 100% owner occupied either. But, renters don’t typically contribute to public school extended studies funds, at least not based on what we’ve seen. Probably because most people aren’t going to be staying for the long-haul..Or rent is too expensive in this area anyway for them to be able to afford rent + donate. So you really need a mix of both kind of families to make this optional system work in which part of the population pays for the optional programs that the other enjoy for free. Because if that percentage drops such that more people don’t donate and pay into that optional systems, pretty soon the ones with the financial means to pay into the system end up stop contributing, because they figure they can take the same amount of money and spend that same money sending their own kids into classes/enrichment for which their kids benefit 100%.