....Citizen Battlefronts:  ----  College Park - LNG - Downtown - Land "ΏRe-Development?" --- etc.....
  The Oxnard Journal --  January 2005  --  Oxnard, Calif. --  THE PEOPLE'S VOICE --    
  
  The Oxnard Journal is News          
     
of Oxnard & Port Hueneme        
The City Council RETREAT has Retreated and Now Do Oxnard Residents have to Retreat from its Council . . .  Wait & See.....
Tuesday  25 Jan. promises to hold its fair share of fun public comments
....from Sunny Atkinson talking about another Peace project to
Ventura Fernandez telling the Council they have their heads firmly inserted into their own ....well, you know where
....The Council will hear public comments and surely most comments will be about ......  Read More .......
 
Marie Callender's Restaurant in Oxnard is closed - out of business
 
Saviers Road Design Team will h ost meetings at the IHOP on Channel Islands Blvd. and Statham - Same bat-time 6:30pm  Monday nights.
Next meeting is Jan. 24.

ΏBIG LEAGUE DREAMS
or special interest? -
The How and Why Oxnard
City Staff independently negotiated a half-million Dollar contract for nothing but Air....and spend $88K as a down payment on that Air......

A  
DEVELOPING 
  STORY...

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The infamous Signature Page showing City Staff who were in on the Deal
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See the Checks which
the City of Oxnard
Paid to
BIGLEAGUEDREAMS

Exhibit A     //   Exhibits  B & C

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Greetings Oxnard Neighbors -

Happy New Year to you all and I hope this finds you and yours doing well. Just so you know, I obtained your email addresses from the sign-in sheets at the neighborhood council meetings concerning our proposed development.

I'm writing to let you know that we have filed our Pre-Review Application with the city. It consists largely of the site plan we showed you at the last neighborhood meeting on November 18th. I have attached jpeg and pdf file showing the proposed site plan laid into an aerial photo of the intersection. Please contact me as noted below if you have any trouble viewing the files.

I am currently working on posting our complete Pre-Review Application on a website that will be dedicated to this process. It is not yet available but the address will be: www.vineyardventura.com
Throughout the application process, the website will provide places for you to view and comment upon exhibit materials shortly after they are turned into the city. I will write you again once the site is up and running.

We look forward to your continuing involvement in the process. By working together, we can create the best development possible.

We are interested in scheduling our next neighborhood meeting in the second half of February. Your neighborhood council chair should be notifying you once the date has been determined. Please feel free to contact me any time throughout this process with any questions or comments you may have.

Best Regards,

Darren Embry
Community Relations Manager
CASDEN PROPERTIES LLC
Office: (310) 385-5078
Cell: (310) 871-1168
Fax: (310) 550-3795
dembry@casprop.com

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

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Martin Jones - One Year Since Brown

• Gary Gillig - Under Fire
[City Attorney - Patsy for Brown]

• NARDCORE LOWRIDERS

• FREMONT north NEIGHBORHOOD

 

 2004 ELECTION NEWS.....   


• Democrats Celebrate Labor Day
  {view pix of Freedom Park Rally}


            Candidate Views
          -1  -  2  -  3  -

• Read Candidate Statements
  [ to appear in your voter pamphlet ]

• Eddie Castillo Chimes-in
on
Oxnard City Council's
own private Injunction

•  Oxnard Gets Slapped
on the wrists
by Superior Court Judge

•  Medina Under Fire

 

• FRYs Electronix Coming to OX

• Patel Family Horror - Oxnard - the
                      City that cares less
.....

• Alex Ramos to appear on 
  
"Remarkable Journey"

• Feedback/Letters to the Ox JO

OXNARD HIGHLIGHTS   

Beautiful Wilson Historic
Neighborhood Views.
...

• Tomαs Cafe Hosts PPV Fight Nite

Oxnard Economic Outlook  

• Is Oxnard's Living Wage
Policy A Joke?

Read this Press Release  about
Big League Dreams from League City Texas - Do We Really Want To Bring This Kind of a Mess to Oxnard?

View the April 22, 2000 Ventura Star Article about Big League Dreams
trying to wedge into Oxnard's
College Park

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      An Opportunity to 
       Serve your City      
& Your Neighborhood....
.

The following Neighborhood Council meetings need at least 11 residents
to attend this meeting to be "Street-legal"
& official - ---
To Date -- We have not had 11 residents show Up to support or attend their own Neighborhood Meeting in these three following 'hoods  -- so there is Who-Cares Problem in Oxnard - or who even knows........

We all need to care and support where we live...and it begins in the Neighborhoods.......
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EAST VILLAGE
Fewer than 11 showed up
- No Quorum -

Gonzales Rd. -to- Camino del Sol // Rose -to- Graves Ave
Monday - Jan. 24
7:00 p.m. (1900)
Rio Rosales School - 2001 Jacinto Dr.-
<<< Cafeteria >>>>
ELECTION MEETING.
New Neighborhood Council Reps Sought.

BARTOLO
SQUARE
SOUTH

Hemlock -to- Channel Islands Blvd. // Vta. Rd. -to- J St.
Wednesday - Jan. 26
7:00 p.m. (1900)
Kamala Elementary School - 634 W. Kamala Street -
<<< Cafeteria >>>>
ELECTION MEETING.
New Neighborhood Council Reps Sought.

Thursday - Jan. 27
REDWOOD SUNKIST

Channel Islands Blvd
-to-
Bard / Vta. Rd. -to- J Street
Thursday - Jan. 27
7:00 p.m. (1900)
Sunkist Elementary School -  1400 Teakwood
<<< Cafeteria >>>>
ELECTION MEETING.
New Neighborhood Council Reps Sought.

If you live in these Neighborhoods, please attend and show interest in your city, your neighborhood, and your home.

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Saviers Road Design Team
Monday, January 24, 2005
6:30pm

IHOP Restaurant
Channel Islands Blvd. & Statham

Agenda
• Report from Oxnard City Council retreat
ORMOND BEACH
Please Attend the Oxnard City Council - 7:00pm Tues. Jan. 25 - public hearing to approve sale of Ormond property to Conservancy Coastal Conservancy at their board meeting in San Diego - 10:00am, Thurs. Jan. 27 - re: the purchase of Ormond property
• Report from Ormond Beach Task Force meeting  •  LNG meetings and letters to Statewide LNG Working Group - • COLLEGE PARK
Previous grants and restrictions
Big League Dreams agreement at Chino Hills

2005 - The Year
we said
Good-Bye to
Two Lopez's

With Dr. Manny Lopez leaving the  Mayor's seat and the soon departure of Oxnard Police Chief Art Lopez, the City of Oxnard will be without a Lopez at the helm of any major City govern-ment office.

   ---- Changing Face of Oxnard ----

There is also chatter amongst the locals at a paradigm shift that appears to be taking place in Oxnard - that of the return of "Wonder Bread" to the face of Oxnard leadership.  At the Oxnard Economic forecast breakfast last year, the presentation focused on the new "Gentrification" of Oxnard.  With all the high end housing that is beyond the reach of middle-class households, it appears that Oxnard is trying to reshape and reform its image from being the "Santa Ana" of Ventura County to become Simi Valley-by-the-Sea.

Be it a reminder, but all that gentle, that the latest two new Council-members are non-brown and our heir apparent to inherit the top slot of the Oxnard PD is similar.

      ----- Areas to Watch ----

With the population base changing and make-up of leadership changing, what is next for Oxnard.  The City has just created a new Citizen Advisory Group (CAG) calling it the "Downtown Design Review Committee" - for which licensed architects and business owners only are eligible to join....One has to wonder what will this advisory group recommend to the city. 

Already, there have been complaints about the look of Downtown.  The thrift shops that cater to the needy - the used car lots that serve the first time buyer and mostly Mexican patron - and the general look of dilapidated buildings and design makes Oxnard look seedy and the future calls for more than just an downtown movie house.

Plans for the Oxnard Blvd. corridor will surely come before the Council once the State relinquishes its control of Oxnard Blvd. and moves State Route One officially over to Rice Avenue.  Once that happens - Oxnard City will have full control over the Boulevard and some businesses may be forced to move or close down completely. 

Oxnard's blatant slap in face of Roberto Garcia in his honest quest for the land adjacent to his funeral home was only the tip of the iceberg for how Oxnard will treat its Latino business owners.

So Stand-by for more developments similar to the ones noted - the Oxnard Journal will report on what it finds out.

Big League Dreams
beleaguers Texas Town ---
A Must Read ......

Mansfield, TX, The Citizens of Mansfield Texas are fighting the Big league Dreams Guys like a tiger.
We have stalled them until May. To Oxnard - You will not be able to vote on this because the BLD people say you can't. The Redding, Calif. facility was financed by state grants and loans, but the city was later fined $450K for polluting the vernal pools. The BLD guys after the project was built
asked Redding for 1.4 million for artificial turf. Scott Letierrer, BLD CEO, was the past world soccer CEO.
Bill Simon, your "almost governor" is reported to own 38 % of this company. This is not little league as you already know but a sports venue as defined in Texas. They get money through the parks departments and state grants for parks. Look up the California
definition for parks. Brentwood rejected BLD due to funding problems. The city can't sell tax free bonds for projects that have a net income.

See www.bigleagueschemes.info.
- read it all, your future is there. Also research on Google for League City, Texas they have been through hell
with these guys, their mayor was voted out of office, the finance director quit and is now working for a company that specializes in economic development and the city is 6 million over budget. Don't let this be built in your city. These Texas cities are are married to BLD for 35 years. Their project costs will continue to climb.

I bet your city also signed an operation and maintenance contract as well. The timing would be logical.

Follow the money.

/s/ citizen of Mansfield, Texas

The VC Star Chimes in on the Big League Dreams Flap with our renegade City Manager writing checks like there is no tomorrow -

                        Read the Star's Editorial
 

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Steve's Camera Takes you up-close to the Disaster at La Conchita
                         (the small Sea-Shell)

Houser was the Ox Jo's Photog during the last Municipal Election and brought some great views of the Candidates to Oxnard and the World via the WWW.....he is still stringing for the Ox Jo and goes where the News is to bring you views you won't see anywhere else....

     ....Click Here
to see
the PIX
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Jose Castellanos, of Oxnard is
on the job at La Conchita.

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CHIEF ART LOPEZ ANNOUNCES HIS RETIREMENT
FROM THE OXNARD POLICE DEPARTMENT

R
ead the Official City News Release -      * Note that the Lead and Ending paragraphs focus on City Manger Sotelo instead of Chief Lopez ---

           *  The News Release
 

 


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January 5-13 2005 issue

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Dona Rosa
- Mexican Food - Best Fast Meal Deal in Oxnard -
Hosted by the Mendoza Family
.... come taste and enjoy.......
Inside the
USA GAS STATION
(Corner of Vineyard & Oxnard Blvd.)
Order ahead ::::
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Anthony Ramirez holds his completed Voter Registration Form
Tony, a recording studio artist, is registering before the October 18th Deadline
for the November 2nd Voting Day

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