Meeting Minutes from April 12, 2005 LANA meeting

Hello:

Thanks to everyone for attending the LANA meeting on April 12^th. What started as a casual meeting evolved to include a successful launch of the new LANA T-Shirts, controversy regarding a Council candidate and an opportunity for many suggestions for improvements at Buddy Todd Park, which I personally delivered to City of Oceanside Public Works Director Peter Weis.

In order to maintain our non-profit status, steer clear of politics and keep everyone happy at City Hall, the LANA board has steadfastly maintained that no candidate running in the June 6 special election will have an opportunity to speak officially at any LANA meeting.

Any resident is welcome to our meetings however, as in the case of one City Council candidate, anyone can comment from the floor at any appropriate moment.

In any event, several phone calls were placed after the meeting suggesting that the candidate’s impromptu participation was actually a candidate’s forum.

Interested individuals who did not attend the meeting became vexed, confused, agitated and flummoxed until I explained what actually occurred. I trust this issue is now behind us and all interested parties are comfortable in the knowledge that no candidate will receive a preferential opportunity to speak.

It appears the new 2^nd edition LANA T shirts are quite acceptable and selling well. Please email me if you haven’t purchased yours because they are going fast.

Once again, the front of the shirt features “the Great Seal of Loma Alta” and the graphic on the back is a faithful reproduction of Chuck Epperson’s actual Hi-Hi Sky Ranch pilot’s shirt from 1947.

Other News:

Thanks to City Manager Steve Jepsen and Public Works Director Peter Weis, our Historic Loma Alta Sign Initiative is finally moving forward. In anticipation of that, there will be a City Council meeting in July that we will need to attend (please stay tuned). Until then the city has installed temporary signs to call out our boundaries and “jump start’ our quest for recognition at Buddy Todd Park and at the corner of Hoover and Oceanside Boulevard.

City Economic Director Jane Mcvey strongly feels that our signage will “definitely increase property value” and our association “has already increased Loma Alta value significantly”.

The city is monitoring our progress carefully and you can be sure other communities will replicate our efforts soon.

Further, Jane agrees:

Our community is poised for such unimaginable change over the next several years we must remain proactive to stay ahead of the traffic patterns as they evolve. This will include our ongoing insistence that traffic calming be planned and implemented now to offset the possibility of allowing Loma Alta to be adversely impacted by stop and start traffic generated by The Sprinter at Crouch and Oceanside Boulevard, approved residential developments of St. Cloud (400 units), Ocean Ranch commuter traffic on Oceanside Boulevard, the Rosicrucian development and commercial developments planned for the site currently occupied by the Oceanside Drive In and MORE.

It is through the collective and considerable strength of the Loma Alta neighborhood Association that we will weather these changes with enhancements to our neighborhoods, increases in our property values, and a heightened appreciation for our historical significance.

Give yourselves a pat on the back, you ALL deserve it. I ask only that you do not become complacent, attend the meetings or at least, stay in touch through email or other correspondence.

Greg