Mark’s Soap Box

Yes, I know it’s not a shock; these clowns are giving Bureaucrats a bad name. That takes effort.

OCEANSIDE — Staff members of a powerful body that holds sway over developments along the California coast have recommended steep fees be imposed on hotel and motel developers in this city’s downtown area that would pay for hostels, campgrounds and RV parks for those who can’t afford high-end hotel rooms.

The California Coastal Commission which is nothing more an anti-business/development bureaucracy is insisting on fees that even the most hardened Socialist could not justify.

The precedent-setting recommendation was made Wednesday by staff members of the California Coastal Commission. The commission is considering an amendment to the city’s Local Coastal Program that would pave the way for the downtown Oceanside Beach Resort, a $187 million beachfront project that includes investor-owned units known as condo-hotel rooms and fractional time shares.

The recommendation calls for developers who demolish and rebuild a hotel or motel in the downtown redevelopment area to pay $30,000 per unit for half of any additional rooms.

As well, the staff is proposing an in-lieu fee of $30,000 per room on 25 percent of those that are not "lower cost" in all new hotels and motel projects.

Deborah Lee, district manager for the San Diego Coast district office of the Coastal Commission, said Friday that "lower cost" is "something in the order of $100 a night" for Southern California.

The fee would amount to $2.9 million for the Oceanside Beach Resort alone, said Kathy Baker, the city’s redevelopment manager, in a memo sent Thursday to council members and city staff.

RVs? Tents? WTF? I don’t want any of those here. Just another example of how out of touch the Bureaucratichks are. You have to wonder what are they smoking in this meetings.

If they keep this up, California will end up being nothing more than the thirld world nation the left wants us to be.

So why do they want to do this? The usual Socialist motivations.

Lee said the recommendation flows from the commission’s concern that, as more and more high-end development occurs along the coast, individuals and families of modest means will be less able to enjoy the beach.

"There just isn’t the development of lower-cost facilities occurring," she said. "There just aren’t the support facilities if a family wants to come and stay at the beach for vacation."

Unreal. These people have absolutely no concept of economics. What is even worse is they are attacking a city that is poor by comparison to the surrounding area to "make right" what places like Encinitas, Hunting Beach are have done in the past. Both wealthy compared to Oceanside.

Amazing, the arrogance of these pinheads.

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