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*****Environmental Alert, San Diego!******

"Witching Hour Approaches for Carmel Mountain"
"Trick? or . . . Treat? . . . for community planning efforts"

October 31st, 202 C Street, City Hall, 12th floor
"Halloween at City Hall"
2pm

Please attend. Public support at this meeting will make a difference. 

        This is our final chance to save our last remaining big, red, 
rugged, sweet-smelling coastal  mesa. Known as Carmel Mountain,  or 
"Neighborhood 8A",  just east of Torrey Pines State Park, this mesa top  
sustains the last relatively undisturbed ecosystem of its kind on earth!  
Essential to maintaining the character, quality, and values of the 
neighborhood, and critical to wildlife movements in the region and to 
the viability of Torrey Pines State Park,  acre for acre, this is most 
biologically important and threatened parcel in the County. 

       Home to deer, bobcat, coyote, mountain lion, and 34 species of 
endangered and threatened plants and animals, its the only remaining 
undeveloped land link between Torrey Pines and Pe�asquitos Canyon. And 
there's one big problem . . . A Pardee Construction Co. plan currently 
before the City Council would bulldoze off the top of the mesa, fill the 
canyons, build 950 houses, and generate 10,400 new traffic trips every 
day. The plan failed its Environmental Impact Report and the Planning 
Commission voted 7-0 against it. But the City Council is leaning toward 
approving the development. Approval of this plan will actually slow 
approvals for other developments because of the environmental 
destruction of the Pardee Plan.

        This Halloween, Tuesday, October 31, the San Diego City Council 
will hold the critical hearing to decide of fate of Carmel Mountain. 

        Now the public must come forward to express their support to the 
City Council for quality of life, sound science and community planning.  
The San Diego City Council needs to see a strong public showing to stand 
up a powerful special interests.

        Who maintains the values for the neighborhood? How much do we 
really believe in protecting something unique? Do we value community 
planning and support it when it counts? How much will we leave for 
future generations? We need only look 100 miles north for a case study 
of what can happen. 

        This is it folks. This is the time to stand up to save Carmel 
Mountain. This is literally the last chance to save an area of native 
habitat as it was before Europeans settled here.You can�t really �save 
the earth,� but you can protect pieces of it. The only thing that is 
going to make a difference now is a showing from the people of San 
Diego. By attending these hearings en masse, we can tell the City 
Council that it is worth taking a firm stand for more open spaces, the 
life that depends on them, and community planning.

*********>        We are keeping a count of attendees so we can manage 
the logistics. The first 170 folks will be provided t-shirts you can 
keep for a $5 donation. Plan to arrive by 1:30pm for the media event. 
Please send email to cdchase@qualcomm.com to RSVP and for more detailed 
info on the process, players and politics. Questions? call 272-2930.

Scientific inquiries may be directed to oryder@ucsd.edu

Flyers are available in PageMaker 5.0[attached file], via fax [email #], 
or they can be picked up in Pacific Beach[email request for how many 
flyers, and directions].

If the planning process fails to support quality of life and community 
values, 20 years from now we, and our children will be shaking our heads 
and saying, �Gee, you know, we had a chance to save it, but....�  

Now is the time to act to make a difference. Now is the time to get off 
our 'buts'! You can help shape the future now. Call Carolyn at 
(619)272-2930 for more info.

If you absolutely cannot attend, 
Write, call, or fax:  (Use the information above, if you like.) Mayor 
Susan Golding and 
        Members of the City Council (especially your own council member)
        c/o City Clerk, 202 C Street
        San Diego, CA 92101
        FAX: (City Clerk) 533-4045 by Oct. 30th 

Express your support for open spaces being preserved, for quality of 
life, sound science and community planning. 

Ask them to vote no on the Pardee zoning change for Carmel Mountain.  

Mayor Susan Golding: 236-6330 � Harry Mathis 236-6611 � Scott Harvey: 
236-6622 � Chris Kehoe: 236-6633 � George Stevens: 236-6644 � Barbara 
Warden: 236-6655 � Valerie Stallings: 236-6616 � Judy McCarty: 236-6677 
� Juan Vargas: 236-6688

You Care! Be There!

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