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Re: Jacobsen Family Holdings Mailer,

Let's take a look at this Jacobsen mailer. So far it has been sent to select address's east of Mt. Vernon. Why is that? Doesn't Jacobsen want the opinion's of those that the traffic will affect the most. The traffic will affect everyone.

What "Opportunity" is knocking? It's knocking at Jacobsen's door not ours.

We are going to have to pay more than $7500 a month for the library and if according to his 43 rd plan the library will be a free standing building on Michigan. That has to increase maintenance and monthly lease cost. The location of the library, according to his latest plan, anyway the one we saw, looks like the three or four houses that sit back off Michigan will either have to be taken out or at least be walled in because the truck and library entrance will now be at their door step.

O.K. "Join us as we open the door to our future". The residents of Grand Terrace already "opened the door" to their futures by moving here. The exact reasons we all moved here was to get away from all the "open" doors developers like Jacobsen want to force on us for his enrichment.

"A state of the art flagship new Stater Brothers Market, Lowe's and Miguel's Jr. Restaurant, creating a new focal point for the community" There you go, we all can't wait to go look at drive thru's and acres of asphalt and watch the 1300% increase per acre of polluted run off that asphalt provides over porous soil. What does every storm drain in town say on it. "No dumping, flows to creek". Who's getting dumped on with this project? So far it's been the people that have had to give up their homes under the threat of eminent domain and the residents of the trailer park that did not take the offer from Jacobson. They are now given less than a year to vacate and take their trailers with them.

Jacobsen said he was going to relocate them on Grand Terrace Road with a new park. That turned out to be a prefab housing project that Jacobsen will again use Grand Terrace to line his pockets and whoever else is promoting him in the city. If any resident does not believe that there are palms being greased then they have to be very naive.

The library. Show us the "letters of intent and the signed long term leases" from the County of San Bernardino that they are going to fund this library. They don't fund the one we have now adequately. "With a children's room, computer lab and a quite reading room". Except that it's going to be either located between two big box stores with day workers in the parking lot or at the side of a truck entrance on a street that is going to be widened to four lanes and have the new freeway off ramp come out on Commerce directly across from the new library site. Maybe Jacobsen can have everybody take their shoes off when they shop so they won't disturb the library patron's. I love the sound of a shopping cart being pushed across a paved parking lot. I'm sure none of the other shop's will produce any noise. Everyone knows how quite Lowe's can be. Lowe's wont have to install a day laborer site. They can just use the library. A cost cutting measure for Lowe's. The waterfall will serve the purpose also. A built in beer cooler, laundry mat and wash basin for the day laborers. I can hardly wait till the high school pranksters dump about five gallons of soap in it.

"Convenient and safe local one stop shopping". Well , we may be safer in our home's or maybe not. Burglar magnet. So two trains of thought here. The residential burglars will graduate to business, like the other burglar magnet that will be built on Michigan, or it will draw in more burglars that will hit more homes when they can't get day labor jobs. This has been a reported problem all over the country where the big box stores are located. The crime rate has gone up in every area when the big box stores attract day labors. I would imagine that Staters will have an increase in thefts from those that hoover in the parking lots looking for day work. We have already had panhandlers at our Staters here.


"The added benefits and convenience of Grand Terrace Town Center will raise property values and enhance the quality of life for all residents". Oh yeah, I'm sure the residents on La Paix are all in a twitter in anticipation of having their street extended and having the truck loading docks in their back yards not to mention the wall that Jacobsen said he will have to build. If it's such a wonderful thing why would he want to build a wall between the residents and the Town Center. I would guess it's to keep them out. Not to worry, they can buy ladders from Lowe's and climb the wall to get there before anyone else. How much more would you pay for a house that has a truck entrance and loading dock in it's back yard. I haven't heard of anyone complaining of the inconvenience of the location of Staters where it is now.

"The Grand Terrace Town Center represents a major milestone for the City, removing old City eyesores and providing a wide range of services while keeping our small community feel". Jacobsen can't really think we believe that load of crap. What this represents is a City Council that has not listened to the residents, has illegally deviated from the General Plan, taken campaign contributions from Jacobsen and allowed him to donate to City functions in exchange for using their power to make him wealthier at the cost of Grand Terrace. "Old City eyesores". That's us. That's the home's he has taken from your neighbors with the threat of eminent domain and the home he intends to take from our neighbor with the help of a corrupt City Council. This is a private development. The City has no business being involved. Maryette Ferre said in a newspaper article several years ago she intended to out develop her father. Why doesn't she start in Honey Hills. That's an old eyesore, all those rock's sticking up that you have to drive around to get to Grand Terrace coming up Barton. If it wasn't there we could get home a lot sooner from Home Depot. The only" old eyesores" I see is Tom Schwab and the constant Lie's he tells this community and the Council that is part and particle to them.

"Grand Terrace Town Center will provide Grand Terrace with more than $600,000 per year in new revenue helping to pay for expanded police and fire protection and needed road repair". The Outdoor Adventure Center is suppose to do the same thing. So pretty soon we will be tripping over cops and firemen. Where did they come up with this $600,000 figure? Where is the documentation? If it fails to produce it will Jacobsen guarantee to make up the short fall. Menga did the same with the OAC. He just grabbed a number out of the air. When it was shown that the OAC would not provide the revenue he claimed the projection went up. There was no documentation or how they came to their figures. The same holds with Jacobsen and Schwab and the Town Center. Show the feasibility and marketing study conducted by an independent firm and the E.I.R. for the Town Center. The roads, Jacobsen is furnishing the traffic study for the Town Center. Fox and hen house. Schwab and Jacobsen both stated at the community meeting last year that if the traffic study shows Grand Terrace cannot handle the additional traffic that the Town Center project would be dead. Schwab also said that no city funds or RDA funds would be used to pay for the library and two days later in a newspaper article he said the funds would come from the General fund or the RDA. We have learned long ago that there is not one word that you can believe out of the mans mouth. He is the shill for the developers and does not work for the citizens of this city. His illegal purchase of an RDA house should show the citizens who he is in this for.


"The Grand Terrace Town Center is about progress, progress for the residents, for the City, and for the region as a whole" I believe he misused the word whole, it should be "and the region as a hole" I haven't seen long lines of citizens waiting to praise this project at City Council meeting. There have been two people that are developers and one reversed himself in public and one person from the trailer park that took a Jocobsen payoff. The only progress this is about is Jacobsens bank account and the bank accounts of whomever is taking money or favors from him. In the last two or three years many more citizen have gone into the podium at Council meetings and voiced their opposition to the underhanded dealing of Schwab and the City Council Not once save the Manholebuilders project did they listen. They had to on Manhole because of the people involved connection to council members. So here is my suggestion. Fill out the return mailer and write in Schwab's name or your favorite council members name. Then at the meeting on the 23rd of this month where the citizens are supposed to be able to speak on the Town Center ask Jocobsen to show us the results of this mailer along with the signed leases that don't exist. This is not, for one nano-second ,about Grand Terrace or our progress or our small community feel or $600,000 in revenue they can't prove or a library or police or fire protection or increased property values (not) It is about Jacobsen and no one other than Jacobsen. He call us our community like he lives here. He lives in the San Fernando Valley. The Sav-On was up for sale before he even broke ground. If it is such a lucrative leasing deal why is he trying to unload it before it's built on Loop Net .com. Ask yourselves how many projects that Schwab has brought to this town has he or the council told the truth about? What have we gained from the "pie in the sky' projects but lawsuits and do overs because the City violated State laws knowingly. If these were such big revenue makers and did all the things the city claimed, why would Jacobsen want to come here. There must be thousands of other cities glamoring for his services where he could make much more or maybe other cities are just smarter than ours.

Bare this in mind my fellow voters. Jacobsen is not a land lord that takes an interest in his projects after they are built. He is a DEVELOPER. He DEVELOPS and sells as quick as he can so he can move on and work his magic on the next sucker. Ask Jacobsen at the next meeting, if he shows up, if he is going to hold on to the Town Center. Staters will buy the land from Jacobsen build their store then sell it back to Jacobsen and lease from him. That is what he told us through Schwabs lips. Otherwise why would there be long term leases that no one is allowed to see. The Sav-on deal goes into detail how the buyer will automatically have rent increases every year. I don't think Jacobsen is a grocery store land lord. Ask him how many of his DEVELOPMENTS he is the land lord of. I would like to hear the answers to these questions. If he is so financially sound he should be able to offer Ms. Stringfield anything she wants instead of whining to the City to use eminent domain. If you use your common sense and listen, it is the same song and dance that the Corp. for Better Housing gave. Same song and dance from Manhole. Same for the Peaker Plant. Same for the High School and the Water Company building. Same song and dance we heard from Megna on the OAC, now it's just being played by a different band. Same with the trucking company on Michigan. Not one of these projects is going to harm the quality of life in Grand Terrace. Just ask those that are DEVELOPING them or the ones that live next to them.