To answer your questions my house was not built in a nature preserve. I used to mountain bike all over the land my house now sits on and it wasnt much of anytthing. It was owned by Fieldstone for decades and has been in the general plan of Carlsbad as housing for decades longer than you ever livied here. The fire station was built in the middle of an area designated as a nature preserve for those same decades. Also, I agree that many of the developments were built in beautiful areas and paved over paradise as well. When I look at Arroyo Vista and Tiburon, I remember the beautifl canyon with cows roaming it just a few years ago. I was always reminded me of the setting for John Wayne movies. That makes me sick too. I am equally appalled at what the private sector has done. Dont you get it? There is no difference.
As for the RSF station its a single engine station and even smaller than the La Costa Station. Its not the size of that one but the opulence.
The area to the east of the La Costa station is San Marcos not Carlsbad. Sorry check your map. Try looking at an aerial photo and see exactly where that station sits. The communities it serves including your own house are all to the west by quite a margin. The station on Levante was in the middle of it all. There is a ton of land west of that location and closer to the community it serves. If they really need to serve Bressi and Rancho Carillo better they could move the La Costa Resort station that is old closer to all of that. There is more open land than the eye can see over that way. That would have been a better plan that dropping it in the middle of a the nicest nature preserve in the area. It was a developer payoff to the city plain and simple.
BTW, I have no desire to be a firefighter and cant remember ever wishing I was one. I like and respect fireman. With that said they get a sweetheart deal that doesnt exist in the private sector. The public sector and the idea of public servants is a joke. You have said many times that they give up salary for benefits and security for their family. Nowhere have I ever heard public service from you. That was how it used to be. You of everyone longs for the way things used to be. There is no difference. They are as corrupt and self serving as the private sector. It makes me laugh. No jealously here. Life is good…..
