…..JUST ADD WATER
As with most new developments and proposals, I began to search the Internet for related stories and articles about the proponents of the Cable Ski Park, an idea being “floated” in water-challenged Wildomar.
Lo and behold, I found an informative article on a similar, if not the same, cable ski park project (it is Sudweeks Development), originally intended for Santee Lakes, which is located in eastern San Diego County.
Please click on the following links, if you want to inform yourselves:
http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/5761
http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/1747
Since the date of this article is March 2011, the adverse economic conditions of less than a year ago have hardly changed.
At the very least, the Wildomar Planning Commission and the City Council need to be cautious in considering this project.
A financial feasibility study should be required of the proponents, for review by the city, as the part of the City’s ”due diligence”, to properly protect the city’s interests. Unlike a residential development, whose failure is normally, eventually mitigated by the marketplace (some of that particular mitigation is occurring right now in Wildomar), a “single-purpose use” project, if it fails economically, would remain an eyesore for years to come.
What is disturbing is the confidential agreements that led the developer, after being advised of the ending of the agreement between the two entities, to request a “settlement.” Even though it was reported that there was no “monetary exchange, “the Padre Water District must have had to give up some rights, or why describe it as a “settlement?”
And why make the decision in a closed session?
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