Residential Rental Property Owners ALERT:

The City Council has a plan before it to remove or restrict some of your property rights. Specifically if you are the owner of property that is currently rented out to individuals for housing, YOU MAY NOT freely decide to convert that property to condominiums to be purchased and owned by the people living in the units.

The document has much more in it this is just the One that HITS ME IN THE FACE the BOLDEST

Why would the City Council/Redevelopment Agency take such an action. Well with the miss use of 4.6 MILLION Dollars of the Redevelopment Agency Funds there is a lack of funds to build the much needed housing units for low and middle income families and individuals. The State Housing Authority was happy that the city build housing for Seniors, but ruled this was no sufficient to address the needs of low and middle income housing within Grand Terrace.

So that the City of Grand Terrace is not further penalized for the improper use of funds and the non provision of housing for individuals other than Seniors they have determined that the existing Privately Owned Buildings which are rental units shall not be converted from apartments into condominiums without great hardships placed on the property owner if at all. By increasing the difficulty of conversion, the City/RDA has once again manipulated the Rights of Property Owners to use, and dispose of their property as they see fit.

ALL Because Mr. Schwab could not use RDA DEBT Funded Money the WAY it was REQUIRED by the State and Bond Stipulations. Citizens tried to warn the Council/RDA Board. But the Majority (Ferre, Cortes, Garcia) would not vote against "Staff" or "Schwab Recommendation".

Also note that the Council Packet is much over 100 pages and it is posted on the City Web Site

http://www.cityofgrandterrace.org/archives/38/05252010%20Council%20Packet.PDF


IF the City Council wanted and directed it so the Tax Non Payment Report would also be published on line for all citizens to read without further expense.

Mr. Stanckiewitz the citizens deserve to have you at least make a motion to have the Tax Report Posted on the Web Site. Let the Citizens know where you really stand on an open government, and where Ferre, Cortes and Garcia stand on the issue of a Citizens right to information without having to Pay for it again. Citizens already paid for the legal opinion, it is only fair Citizens get to read it for free on line.