Community Issues
Land Use Problems this Community Faces: Ramona is facing substantial threats to its diminishing rural character including the following: (Please visit Planning and Land Use Definitions):
- Out-of-character development
- Unsafe and failing level of service on area roads and highways
- Future proposed or approved developments with inappropriately small parcel sizes will preclude equestrian, FFA/4H activities, and other agricultural and rural family activities
- Inappropriate high-density design/development has been proposed and in some cases approved for Ramona town center areas
- Opportunities to implement an interconnecting system of trails in Ramona fade with each passing day as uncoordinated and incremental development fails to accommodate needs
- The San Diego County Department of Planning and Land Use (DPLU) is aggressively pushing the General Plan through the process, effectively limiting the incorporation of decades of thoughtful and appropriate input from current and past members of the Ramona Community
- Ramona is viewed by many County planners and staffers as a poorly coordinated, disjointed, and politically ineffective community, making Ramona an opportunity to implement many land use policies that are contrary to Ramona’s best interests. Examples are out-of-character “smart growth” and low-income housing projects that go beyond simply poor planning and land use practices and actually threaten the quality of our area schools
- Further expansion of the Ramona Airport and its associated industrial area - a County designated “enterprise zone” where revenue generated therein goes to County coffers and is not directly available to Ramona
- Comprehensive advocacy of alternative energy sources needs greater emphasis and would obviate the need for additional power lines across the County in general, and Ramona in particular
Communication: I know each of you are very busy with jobs and your personal family matters – The Merry-Go-Round of life seems to spin ever-faster these days. I have posted this information in an effort to improve communication with you - Ramona’s concerned electorate/voters.
More Communication with RCPG: Years ago prior to running for a seat on the RCPG, I authored an online and print community survey. The time you spent contributing to this survey, and your heart-felt response including many hand-written letters, was encouraging to those of us working with the survey results. Your input will provide valuable information as we advocate Ramona’s concerns in the County General Plan process
