[quote=joec]This maybe why certain people simply refuse to buy in certain housing areas in the south bay…schools have a larger population of this happening and I don’t know the percentages, but I certainly don’t see that many latino/foreign types in my hood simply due to the cost of the housing around here.
Economic segregation seems to be the thing keeping houses in “better” school districts from dropping as much in prices due to higher demand…
Just one less thing to worry about I guess, esp with constant funding issues with school.[/quote]joec, the South Bay area has some very nice (and expensive) neighborhoods! In addition, most homeowners in Otay Ranch (91915), built 2001 thru 2006 (but primarily 2003 and later) are each paying on TWO 40-yr CFDs totaling approx 1.6% of their assessed value just in Mello Roos alone (nearly ALL going to the local public school districts and CC)! This is in ADDITION to their ad valoream portion of their tax bill of 1% PLUS approximately .17 of their assessed value in voter approved bonds (mainly local public school and CC construction bonds) for a total of 2.77% to 2.78% of assessed value towards property tax outlay for each affected parcel every year! There are actually a LOT of truly “wealthy” families around here! And yes, many of their ancestors originally came here from MX. Those 2nd, 3rd and even 4th Generation South County residents of Hispanic origin (100%/50%/25%) with LEGAL status actually detest the situation with all these daily border crossing children being allowed to occupy seats in their children’s and grandchildren’s schools!
The west side of Chula Vista (91910/91911) is almost ALL situated less than two miles from SD Bay (excepting the communities of Sunbow, Deerpark and older surrounds immediately east of I-805). As is Nestor, Egger Highlands and communities in the Otay Mesa area south of CV (92154), all annexed to the City of SD between 1977 and 1979. In addition, portions of 91910 have 1/2 to 4 AC residential lots which can NEVER by upzoned and many corner lots in 91910 are typically 1/4 AC. These areas are still in the cooler “coastal zone” even though they are not directly on the ocean. SD Bay is only 1.5 miles wide between the NC/CV boat docks and the Silver Strand (Coronado). Living here is very hospitable and requires no A/C (except during a heat wave and we usually lose power at those times, anyway, due to our antiquated electrical grid and overhead lines still present in almost all areas). What I’m trying to say here is that SD South County is actually a great place to live! It’s just “convenient” for border-crossing kids to avail themselves of our (mostly excellent) schools!
We also have Bonita (91902) which is landlocked and now surrounded by newer communities with their own (CV) zip codes on its south and east sides whose residents now use Bonita’s streets daily to get to I-805/I-5. The “jewel of the South Bay,” Bonita (circa 1952 to 1986) is a hilly, semi-rural view community with only FOUR condo complexes and ONE PUD complex. Its SFR stock is zoned just 3 parcels to one AC, on average! 3/4 unincorporated (County of SD) and 1/4 incorporated into the City of CV, Bonita is situated just 3-5 miles from SD Bay and is actually in the semi-coastal zone. It’s a FABULOUS place to live, people! ESPecially for families who like to entertain! And the residents of Bonita (among the rest of their SD South County brethren) have hundreds of daily border crossing kids attending their kids’ and grandkids’ schools (ALL FIVE of their assigned K-12 schools)! Its a dirty shame and a travesty. Some of the houses in Bonita (as well as in a small subdivision in Eastlake (CV) are assessed at over $2M. Yet Bonita’s homeowners (if they have school-age kids) must DEAL with this collossal mess on a daily basis.
There would actually be NOTHING WRONG with SOUTH COUNTY’s location IF the adjacent Int’l border didn’t present so many problems for its residents. The fact that the border IS where it IS obviously deters many qualified buyers from considering the area to purchase in (even though most of it has GREAT weather and is extremely conveniently located)! And rightly so. The border isn’t properly managed and hasn’t been for decades. Our current problems with rampant northward daily int’l border-crossing students attending our public schools is partly Pres. Obama’s fault thru his “amnesty” provision he enacted for children crossing our southern border (both when accompanied by parents AS WELL AS being “unaccompanied”). And, as a nearly lifelong Dem, I voted for Obama TWICE, mind you. The Int’l border is nothing more than a SIEVE of northbound POOR and NEEDY people (incl children) whose parents will, by hook or crook, seek a better life for them, and, in doing so, their children have successfully availed themselves of a US K-12 public education at OUR expense for decades> (This phenomenon much more pronounced in recent years.) And it will NEVER stop until the affected school districts and their schools are mandated to refuse “residency by affidavit” unless it is court-ordered and demand to see a state-issued Driver License or ID card for each and every so-called “parent or guardian” who tries to prove residency for a prospective student. Then, the district must record that DL or State ID NUMBER and make every effort to determine if that (bona-fide school district resident) who “proved residency” for a prospective student whilst residing out of the district/country is actually their “parent.” The County HHSA Depts can often be used for this exercise. And the border personnel needs to DEMAND student visas from border-crossing students into the US in the mornings. The only way public school systems are going to sponsor such visas is IF the student’s family pays tuition to the district. This will cut down on 99.9% of daily border-crossing students who have for decades “freeloaded” off resident taxpayer’s backs.
Any procedure less than this is just another attempt to perpetuate the non-resident school attendance fraud in South SD County which has been going on for decades … same old, same old. Yes, it is nothing more than “residency fraud,” plain and simple.
