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Huge Success In Santa Cruz Referendum Drive!
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- California CoastWatcher
Date Created
- 01 Apr 2005
Following the success of the community organizing and signature gathering for the referendum petition against the Coast Hotel project in Santa Cruz, the hotel owners conducted a detailed phone survey in Santa Cruz and learned that not only the hotel, but all the people and politicians associated with it were terrifically unpopular. Following the survey, the hotel pulled the plug on the project and the community is now free to plan for their future without having to pay for a huge hotel hugging the beach.
On February 14, Santa Cruzans for Responsible Planning (SCRP), a local grassroots organization backed by former Santa Cruz Mayors, held a news conference at the entrance to the Santa Cruz City Wharf. This was the official kickoff for a community-wide referendum campaign to halt the construction of a 270 room hotel, 6-level parking garage and a 23,000 square foot Conference Center.
From: California CoastWatcher March 2005
Huge Success In Santa Cruz Referendum Drive!
Santa Cruzans For Responsible Planning (SCRP) announced last week that they had collected over 8400 signatures (or twice the number needed) in order to place on the ballot the City Council's ill-advised decision to approve a grossly oversized hotel expansion project, and chuck in over $60 million in public funds to boot. Frightened local citizens collected the signatures in just over two weeks, and now all eyes are on the City Council, watching to see if they'll rescind their own vote or require the public to do it for them in a community-wide vote. For the latest information on SCRP, and photos of the project area, go to www.scrp.us/ For great photos of the locals, go to santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/15934/index.php For news from the Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper, which supports the project, go to santacruz.indymedia.org/otherpress/display/511 For more photos, go to www.cacoast.org/200401446
Coast Hotel Project Collapses.
Following the success of the community organizing and signature gathering for the referendum petition against the Coast Hotel project in Santa Cruz, the hotel owners conducted a detailed phone survey in Santa Cruz and learned that not only the hotel, but all the people and politicians associated with it were terrifically unpopular. Following the survey, the hotel pulled the plug on the project and the community is now free to plan for their future without having to pay for a huge hotel hugging the beach. santacruz.indymedia.org/otherpress/display/510 For more news, go to www.brattononline.com/
Incredibly, now hotel boosters in Santa Cruz are saying it is the fault of environmentalists that they wasted over $600,000 pushing the project. santacruz.indymedia.org/otherpress/display/511
Huge Success In Santa Cruz Referendum Drive!
Santa Cruzans For Responsible Planning (SCRP) announced last week that they had collected over 8400 signatures (or twice the number needed) in order to place on the ballot the City Council's ill-advised decision to approve a grossly oversized hotel expansion project, and chuck in over $60 million in public funds to boot. Frightened local citizens collected the signatures in just over two weeks, and now all eyes are on the City Council, watching to see if they'll rescind their own vote or require the public to do it for them in a community-wide vote. For the latest information on SCRP, and photos of the project area, go to www.scrp.us/ For great photos of the locals, go to santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/15934/index.php For news from the Santa Cruz Sentinel Newspaper, which supports the project, go to santacruz.indymedia.org/otherpress/display/511 For more photos, go to www.cacoast.org/200401446
Coast Hotel Project Collapses.
Following the success of the community organizing and signature gathering for the referendum petition against the Coast Hotel project in Santa Cruz, the hotel owners conducted a detailed phone survey in Santa Cruz and learned that not only the hotel, but all the people and politicians associated with it were terrifically unpopular. Following the survey, the hotel pulled the plug on the project and the community is now free to plan for their future without having to pay for a huge hotel hugging the beach. santacruz.indymedia.org/otherpress/display/510 For more news, go to www.brattononline.com/
Incredibly, now hotel boosters in Santa Cruz are saying it is the fault of environmentalists that they wasted over $600,000 pushing the project. santacruz.indymedia.org/otherpress/display/511
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Only $600,000 wasted?
Since we have such a budget crisis, let's save a bundle and eliminate the Redevelopment Agency. It was formed to manage earthquake recovery and hung on to address blight. Ummmmmmm. We still have two earthquake holes left 16 YEARS after the earthquake!
Talk about stretching out a government job at public expense! Other "accomplishments" of the RDA were putting up change machines on Pacific Ave so no one can sit down, tearing out a parking lot to rebuild a parking lot, and some yuppy, swanky alleyways. The RDA also privatized two public sitting planters because "the wrong kind of people were sitting down."
We have a planning dept. and a zoning commission, and a Downtown Commission. We don't need a redevelopment agency (except perhaps on paper as a funding magnet).
Fire Ceil Cerillo and 9/10ths of her staff. They were the dept. most responsible for attempting to foist this Coast Hotel Corporate giveaway on us. It only makes sense to make the cuts in the dept. which brought this to us. Maybe then the City can begin to dig itself out of the financial hole it has dug for itself.