Back from l-o-o-ong road trip and saw this thread.
South County already has way too many worker-bees trying to navigate I-5/I-805 to/from SD and points north during rush hours. It is patently ridiculous that Chula Vista has annexed itself 3 zip codes in the past 27.5 years (91915 in the last 13 years) growing from 52K to 278K in population and from 2 zip codes to 5 zip codes in that length of time. The traffic from I-805 east on H St, Telegraph Cyn Road and Palomar St (taking >40 minutes to go 12 miles during rush hours) is horrendous and the Eastlake shopping corridor full of ugly big box stores is a densely crowded h@llhole to get in and out of every single day of the week.
Whatever sh!thole “attached-home project” is “in the works” for Otay Ranch will be located <4 miles from the international border and no one can deny that fact. The city has absolutely no business approving any more subdivision permits. It still hasn’t rehired all the employees it had to lay off after the deep crash of 91914/91915 residential RE several years ago. The type of buyer such a project will attract will be very marginal and may even likely purchase with “creative financing,” if available to them (assuming they are Americans). Or they will be purchased by Mexican Nationals using all cash (IF the price “pencils out” for this group on this side of the border).
There are no “redeeming qualities” to that location (i.e. jobs, fine dining and tourist attractions, like Civita in MV offers) except possibly a view of the bright lights of Homeland Security operations and TJ . . . up close and personal.
Whatever units don’t sell in a timely manner will end up getting dumped by the developer (either back to their lender or for pennies on the dollar or both). All this project will do (IF approved by City) is create a traffic-generating behemoth throughout the city as buyers who are in it for MR of up to 1.7% of assessed value of their unit PLUS one or more HOAs to pay dues to can’t afford the $90+ month it will cost them to use their own (SR-125 ext) toll road.
I hope there is/are a reasonably intelligent councilperson(s) on the panel who is/are not afraid to put a spanner in the works to derail this dumber-than-dumb idea out of the gate, so City doesn’t waste too much time on it. They have far more pressing problems to focus on than approving yet another substandard subdivision in lizardland.
