In 2002 a woman in North County was attacked by a pack of coyotes while walking on a trail. Since that time, a growing number of reports have come in regarding attacks on leashed pets, invasion of yards and homes and even attacks on humans. One has to wonder if there is not a strong correlation between the boxing in of the habitats by road and highway construction, and the growing unrest of coyote and other wildlife in our area.
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Kids may see some changes in the foods served by schools and the snacks available in campus vending machines if County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price has anything to say about it. From a study she presented at a countywide School Food Summit at Rancho Bernardo Inn, an average of 29% of boys and 18% of girls currently attending county schools are overweight.
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Here is an interesting question. Let's say you have a road, 4 lanes, 2.13 miles in length. The road is fairly wide and straight (as well it should be, only being 2.13 miles long). Now on that road we are going to put two Elementary Schools and one large water park, with huge grass areas for children and families to play and picnic. The rest of this road is going to be framed by family housing, with children playing in the yards and dogs running about on sunny days.

How fast should you be driving down this road?

I'm not sure what your answer was, but I'll bet it wasn't 50 mph. However, that is the answer the Traffic and Safety Commission were proposing at the meeting on Jan 10th to the Carlsbad City Council, and if four concerned citizens didn't show up to that meeting, that proposal might have been listened to, instead of being sent back.

You might ask yourself, why only four showed up? That part is easy, none of the residents in that area were informed of the meeting, or the proposed speed limit. In fact the only warning issued was from the North County Times the day before.

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The City Council of Carlsbad received a wakeup call in January. The recently formed group called the Concerned Citizens for Carlsbad, and their lawyer Peter Lind, forced the issue through a Public Records Act request for the private talks regarding the Strawberry Fields development plans to be made public, and the records of those talks to be published. Carlsbad City has complied and stated that these were only preliminary talks, and there were no deals or plans being made; just ideas floating around, and creative options being explored.

While this may be true, detailed plans were being created, and the meetings which prompted these plans under the guidance of Sterling Consulting came at the cost of $150,000.00. The City of Carlsbad states that no public officials have been in these meetings, so they are not a real concern, however the point was made that activities like this tend to gain momentum after a while and become official simply because of the mass and inertia they have accumulated. 150k for coffee and some drawings, seems like a good start down that road of mass and inertia.

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