Marston in Del Sur

[Anonymous]

Did anyone notice that included in the “view” from Marston are those ginormous power lines? I don’t think I want to look at those things for the rest of my life. I don’t think there are truly health risks from the electricity or whatever. Just concerned about the view.

[ocrenter]

[quote=sister]Did anyone notice that included in the “view” from Marston are those ginormous power lines? I don’t think I want to look at those things for the rest of my life. I don’t think there are truly health risks from the electricity or whatever. Just concerned about the view.[/quote]

Unfortunately of the 50+ lots being offered, half will have the high voltage line view. it also turns out all of the larger lots are on the side of the street impacted by the high voltage line. The more south you go, the closer the line is to you.

btw, the 3 homes squeezed in together sharing a driveway mentioned earlier? no high voltage line view.

[kcal09]

Agree with sister. If I had to pay $1.3 million for a home I would hate having to look at power lines and live in an area where most other models cost less. I think resale will be a major problem if you don’t want to lose money.

[4slive]

be cautious, the MR payoff amount is $170K !!! It essentially bring the home price to 1.3M.

[ocrenter]

[quote=4slive]be cautious, the MR payoff amount is $170K !!! It essentially bring the home price to 1.3M.[/quote]

wow, for real?! that’s more than the MR payoff of Santaluz + Stonebridge combined.

[4slive]

yes, I did check with sale agent. 4S ranch payoff amount is around 11X of annual payment. But Del Sur is 24X. For most of the family who can afford this price range, there is no tax benenfit for property tax and MR.

[ocrenter]

[quote=4slive]yes, I did check with sale agent. 4S ranch payoff amount is around 11X of annual payment. But Del Sur is 24X. For most of the family who can afford this price range, there is no tax benenfit for property tax and MR.[/quote]

I suppose you are right.

A typical Santaluz MR would be $6000 per year.

A typical Stonebridge MR would be $5000 per year.

A similar sqft home in Del Sur’s Avaron (which is much better compared to Marston btw) is looking at MR of $10k per year.

So per year Del Sur’s MR is about the same as a Santaluz + Stonebridge added together. So would the payoff…

Just absolutely floored by the number…

Wow!!!

[earlyretirement]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=4slive]be cautious, the MR payoff amount is $170K !!! It essentially bring the home price to 1.3M.[/quote]

wow, for real?! that’s more than the MR payoff of Santaluz + Stonebridge combined.[/quote]

Yikes! I knew it was over $100,000 for a Mello Roos payoff in Del Sur but that is crazy! I guess part of the reason is it’s newer and developments like Santaluz have already been paying on it for 10 years.

But that pay off is insane! IMHO.

Not sure if you saw my other post on Mello Roos taxes but I’ll repost below.

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For anyone following this Mello Roos topic on KPBS you might find these links interesting.

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/aug/19/poway-school-district-mello-roos-tax-machine/#c23595

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/aug/20/poway-parents-want-answers-about-their-mello-roos-/

It sounds like Mello Roos funds are CLEARLY being misused. Some of these things are shocking and it sounds like illegal. 200 bank accounts? There doesn’t sound like there is any oversight at all.

This is why I pre-paid off my Mello Roos taxes off early.

[ocrenter]

[quote=earlyretirement]

Yikes! I knew it was over $100,000 for a Mello Roos payoff in Del Sur but that is crazy! I guess part of the reason is it’s newer and developments like Santaluz have already been paying on it for 10 years.

But that pay off is insane! IMHO.
[/quote]

Don’t know, plenty of developments that came about around the same time with much lower MR.

might be something for the Voice of SD reporter to look into.

[earlyretirement]

[quote=ocrenter][quote=earlyretirement]

Yikes! I knew it was over $100,000 for a Mello Roos payoff in Del Sur but that is crazy! I guess part of the reason is it’s newer and developments like Santaluz have already been paying on it for 10 years.

But that pay off is insane! IMHO.
[/quote]

Don’t know, plenty of developments that came about around the same time with much lower MR.

might be something for the Voice of SD reporter to look into.[/quote]

Yeah, you’re right OCR. I can’t for the life of me figure out why the MR taxes are so dang high in Del Sur.

I was really surprised to read the KPBS links today about how PUSD is misusing our CFD taxes. Did you read those links? I was also surprised to read they take our CFD taxes and use them in NON-CFD school districts. Also, to buy lunches, put seminars, etc. This was NOT the intended purpose of CFD taxes.

I wrote in to my City Councilman today for the District to ask him about this. Hopefully I hear back. It was shocking to read.

[ocrenter]

[quote=earlyretirement]

Yeah, you’re right OCR. I can’t for the life of me figure out why the MR taxes are so dang high in Del Sur.

I was really surprised to read the KPBS links today about how PUSD is misusing our CFD taxes. Did you read those links? I was also surprised to read they take our CFD taxes and use them in NON-CFD school districts. Also, to buy lunches, put seminars, etc. This was NOT the intended purpose of CFD taxes.

I wrote in to my City Councilman today for the District to ask him about this. Hopefully I hear back. It was shocking to read.[/quote]

In every PUSD school, they have a big banner: CHARACTER COUNTS!

apparently that only applies for the PUSD students, the PUSD administrators are exempt from that.

[Essbee]

Earlyretirement,
I heard the radio version of those stories on the KPBS radio station.
If I recall correctly, you live in the Willow Grove Elementary district. One of the people interviewed on the radio was a Santaluz parent who lives 3 minutes from Willow Grove, but whose child has been assigned to a PUSD school several miles away (can’t recall which, maybe Turtleback).

He was very upset because instead of bringing a temporary classroom to Willow Grove, they were doing improvements at another school. I strongly hope that my kids will get to attend our local school (Stone Ranch).

What City Councilman are you speaking of, though? If you live in the city of San Diego, I somehow doubt that the Council members have any pull with the PUSD, seeing as most of San Diego is part of SD Unified. Heck, I don’t even HAVE a councilperson since I live in 4S Ranch (unincorporated). I wonder if it would be more effective to write to members of the PUSD school board.

Anyway, good luck!

[joec]

Yeah, I read those articles too…They are being sent to Adobe Bluffs, a school that is 21 years old or something according to the article. The parent also lived directly across the street from the school so instead of walking to school with the kid and having some bonding time, they have to drive and fight the traffic…pretty f*cked up for everyone and a major fail by the administration imo.

[earlyretirement]

[quote=Essbee]Earlyretirement,
I heard the radio version of those stories on the KPBS radio station.
If I recall correctly, you live in the Willow Grove Elementary district. One of the people interviewed on the radio was a Santaluz parent who lives 3 minutes from Willow Grove, but whose child has been assigned to a PUSD school several miles away (can’t recall which, maybe Turtleback).

He was very upset because instead of bringing a temporary classroom to Willow Grove, they were doing improvements at another school. I strongly hope that my kids will get to attend our local school (Stone Ranch).

What City Councilman are you speaking of, though? If you live in the city of San Diego, I somehow doubt that the Council members have any pull with the PUSD, seeing as most of San Diego is part of SD Unified. Heck, I don’t even HAVE a councilperson since I live in 4S Ranch (unincorporated). I wonder if it would be more effective to write to members of the PUSD school board.

Anyway, good luck![/quote]

Yes, I live in Santaluz. I did hear about some parents that didn’t get in. It might also be that they didn’t pre-register on the two days in May when you get first crack at getting in to Willow Grove. The lines were VERY long that day for registration. I think many parents don’t understand the importance of pre-registering their Kindergarten kids those first 2 days.

Yes, I would be IRRATE if they were taking our CFD taxes and using it at other non-CFD district schools if my kids couldn’t get into a school that I live 3 minutes from.

I know my City Councilman, Mark Kersey probably can’t do anything but at least I wanted to see if he had any pull at all to see what can be done about oversight and possibly what measures taxpayers in these CFD areas can do.

I’m not sure how effective writing to PUSD members are when they are quoted and doing interviews saying what CFD funds should be used for and then getting caught using funds for something else!?

200 checking accounts???!! No reason they need so many accounts and I’d like to know who is authorized to sign off on those accounts and what the process is. It sounds like the system has the potential for a LOT of fraud and abuse.

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