I thought this was kinda funny that Kilroy managed to come up with 30,000 petition withdraw requests, but only 3200 of them turned out to be valid….
They submitted 61,235 signatures on March 25, far above the 33,224 required valid signatures — 5 percent of the city’s registered voters. Many submitted signatures, however, are always disqualified during the verification process for various reasons, such as the signer not being registered to vote in San Diego.
In addition, an aggressive campaign by Kilroy prompted about 30,000 people to request their names be removed from referendum petitions. Protect San Diego’s Neighborhoods said Friday that nearly 90 percent of those turned out to be invalid, primarily because many of the people submitting them didn’t actually sign referendum petitions.
I voted against it not because I’m against development completely, but I think this should be decided by the voters rather than just a city council, because obviously enough people object to it. This is how it should have been done anyway. Neighborhood decides and has an input, not some elitist developer and a few chosen city council people. I wouldn’t mind a scaled down version of One Paseo. And Kilroy has plenty of office space just vacant all along El Camino Real in Carmel Valley that has been unfilled for years.
