SELL THE HOUSE & SAVE THE PARK! Vote YES on measure I

ABSTRACT: The text of the SELL THE HOUSE & SAVE THE PARK! Vote YES on measure I color postcard mailed to Carmelites, sent by the Committee for AYE on Measure I, is reproduced and COMMENTS are made.

SELL THE HOUSE & SAVE THE PARK!

Vote YES on measure I

IT’S AS EASY AS AYE ON I

A = ACTIONS by Carmel City Mayors and Councils since 1999 have been to sell the house. Any public use with public events is impractical, with the burden of financing on the taxpayers.

Y = YOU have the power to stop the payment of taxpayer money in frivolous litigation, nearly $800,000 to date, which could be used to improve our local needs.

E = ENVIRONMENT and parkland will be preserved. The Flanders Mansion is on 2% of the Preserve. All 5 trails are unaffected.

VOTE YES ON MEASURE I

Paid for by Committee for AYE on Measure I P.O. box 22351, Carmel, CA 93922

COMMENTS:
• The color photo on the postcard depicts a park bench and bridge near the 11th Av. Entrance surrounded by invasive vegetation overgrowth.

• Since 2000 when Sue McCloud was elected mayor, the City has not appointed an Ad Hoc Committee or Task Force to examine potential public uses for the Flanders Mansion, nor has the City placed proposals for potential public uses on any public hearing agenda for public input and consideration. Therefore, there is no evidence since 2000 that “any public use with public events is impractical.”

• The Committee for AYE on Measure I characterizes litigation involving defendant City of Carmel-by-the-Sea as “frivolous;” translation, the City defines “frivolous” as substantive violations of municipal and state laws. This definition places the City above the law. Interestingly, at the 6 October 2009 City Council meeting, a private attorney deemed the City’s motion to dismiss his clients’ lawsuit against the City as “frivolous,” to which Council Member Gerard Rose replied that a court’s decision in favor of the City granting dismissal of the lawsuit made the motion not frivolous. Applying the same rationale, if a court’s ruling in favor of the City made the City’s motion not frivolous, then a court’s ruling in favor of Flanders Foundation and against the City made the Flanders Foundation similarly not “frivolous.”

• As parkland, the Flanders Mansion Property in Mission Trail Nature Preserve will not be preserved according to the goals, objectives and policies in the City’s General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan. The construction of new trails is mandated due to the creation of a private inholding, if sold to a private owner, because of the permanent loss of parkland currently used by the public.