Dalidio has tried to get his project built for almost 20 years now. Now, Lowe’s wants to leave the project because home improvement sales in San Luis Obispo are down.

The only way for Lowe’s to leave is for Dalidio to sell his land, thus Lowe’s and Target contracts will be cancelled.

Ernie Dalidio has claimed Macy’s, Target, and Lowe’s as his tenet. Take Lowe’s out of the picture, and he’s force to follow Macy’s building requirement and turn the project into a beautiful “new urbanism” regional open-air mall like La Cumbre Plaza in Santa Barbara.

Macy’s and Target in a regional open-air mall could offer an arcade and food court for teen guys to have fun at, tons of shops for girls to shop together at, and plenty of lower-income stores in one convenant location for families and anyone to shop at.

Since retail stores are not doing well now in the economy, and we have no mall-stores in our market I believe a mall is a good idea for Dalidio’s land.

With that all said. A mall only needs to be at 400,000sq. ft. with tons of parking. If he builds 450,000sq. ft. regional open-air shopping mall, and pays a little more for the 101 freeway interchange then perhaps his project will gain more popularity and favoritism. So, Dalidio can sell his land or build a mall. He’s got no other options at this point.

But, your point about the national elections is a good one. Too often those in power forget the obligation they have to the governed. As Thomas Jefferson penned long ago:

that to secure certain rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Too often the governors forget this one small lesson. I hope we don’t see a recurrence of this type of activity in the future. Nipomo has a plethora of issues with which it must deal. We don’t need to be wasting our time dealing with issues over which we have no legal control–no matter how great the temptation.

Rob Veder

Hi Ken,

The numbers are actually from the County Recorder’s office. Do you have some different Stats?

I have no inside information but a quick scan down the columns revealed that the %YES + %NO add up to considerably more than 100% for Cambria and a recalculation with the votes gives neither of the %numbers. Perhaps a typo at the Recorder’s office.

Do you care if I publish your email on my blog?

Here is what I considered posting but decided not to as it was only adding superficial fuel to the fire without constructive input:

Regarding the official positions of governing bodies on Measure J, it is interesting to simply look at their names. SCAC is chartered to dispense “advice” but they chose not to while the NCSD is to provide service (water, sewer, trash) but they unanimously chose to dispense advice.

Feel free to use any of my comments as you see fit.

Ken Shamordola

Well Mike,

I guess this pretty well puts J into some perspective. It was a clean sweep county wide, including San Luis Obispo City. I give the voters much more credit than do you. It’s the NCSD board which is out of step here–over an issue where they should not even be walking.

Regards,

Guy
SLO County vote tally for Measure J
Vote Totals/Percent
Community Yes % Yes NO % No
Arroyo Grande 4037 68.28% 1875 31.72%
Atascadero 5661 69.55% 2479 30.45%
Avila Beach* 597 63.31% 346 36.69%
Cambria* 1776 71.15% 1320 52.88%
Cayucos* 860 62.91% 507 37.08%
Creston* 402 72.95% 149 27%
Grover Beach 2055 69.19% 915 30.81%
Heritage Ranch* 525 75.53% 170 24.46%
Los Osos* 3109 58.1% 2242 41.89%
Morro Bay 2518 62.16% 533 37.84%
Nipomo* 2761 64% 1562 36%
Oceano* 704 70% 303 30%
Paso Robles 5373 73.95% 1893 26.05%
Pismo Beach 2176 68.06% 1021 31.94%
San Luis Obispo 6303 50.79% 6109 49.21%
San Miguel* 506 73.3% 184 26.6%
Shandon* 194 72.9% 72 27%
Templeton* 2273 73.4% 820 26.5%
County total 49933 64.81% 27117 35.19%

“Unincorporated Communities
Source: SLO County Clerk-Recorder’s Office

Guy,

In light of the election results, the residents of this county voted to pick up a significant portion of Ernie Dalidio’s impact fees. I continue to believe they were mistaken. I have not looked at precinct results, so I have no idea whether Nipomo’s residents voted in “substantially differing numbers or not”. Until the results are released, I will continue to believe that our residents most wisely voted to the contrary. We’ll see.

Perhaps I am wrong instead. Perhaps the residents of Nipomo are willing to pick up a portion of the Woodlands’ impact fees, or those of Crystal Oaks or another large-scale development along Highway 101 on land currently zoned Ag. Perhaps.

But what is more certain is that any developer thinking to pass along his costs to us has been encouraged by yesterday’s votes.

If that does happen (and I hope it doesn’t), I propose to cash in on it by selling “Don’t blame me. I voted No on Measure J.” bumper stickers.

With any luck, the developers will instead voluntarily offer to pay their fair share here. And if not, you might cash in on my idea by selling bumper stickers saying: “Measure J? Wazzat? No precedent here.”

Amused, but with sincere regards,

Mike

Mike,

One last after thought on our Measure J exchange. In light of the actual election results:

YES Total Votes 49933 64.81%

NO Total Votes 27117 35.19%

it is abundantly clear that county voters, in overwhelming numbers agreed with Mr. Dalidio’s vision for his project. I have no reason to believe Nipomo’s residents voted in substantially differing numbers. I think this reflects that the NCSD Board’s position on the measure was entirely out of step with that of its own constituents. I would again urge the incoming board of directors in the future to steer away from such radical advisory recommendations on issues over which they really have no control.

Regards,

Guy

As usual Judith, the issue seems to escape your grasp. My opposition to the NCSD’s political position on measure J is as a private individual–NOT as co-chair of the Incorporation Committee. Nor did the incorporation committee seek to even consider taking a political position, since that would have been inappropriate.

There is a difference.

Regards,

Guy Murray

I shuddar to think that the chair of the Nipomo Incoporation Committee is opposed to the NCSD Board’s stand to publicly oppose Measure J. I fully agree with all who have defended our vote. The Nipomo Incorporation Committee should fight for everything it possibly can do to protect Nipomo and it’s future. Guy Murray’s argument causes me great concern for his motivation for the future cityhood of Nipomo and if my concerns are justified, all I can say is “God Help Us.”

Judith Wirsing,
NCSD Board of Director and PROUD OF IT!