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Ramona Sentinel Ramona Sentinel
Littlepage property owner wants downzoning reconsidered By KAREN BRAINARD
“They’re taking away our property rights. Basically they’re devaluing our properties.” once again when it met on Jan. 9. She told planners her land is agricultural, not wilderness, and
a county-maintained road runs through it. The county planning commissioners are sched-
uled to meet at 9 a.m. in the County Conference Center, 5520 Overland Ave., San Diego.
Roof project donations pass $8,200
Sentinel photo/Karen Brainard
Jeanine Hawkins, a member of Ramona’s Littlepage family, tells the planning group she will ask the county planning commissioners to reconsider the RL80 zoning on her property as part of the General Plan Amendment and Rezone Cleanup.
On Friday, Jan. 24, she plans to ask the San Diego County Planning Commission to reconsider her two parcels that were rezoned RL-80 when it holds a public hearing on the 2013 General Plan Amendment and Rezone
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ChuckAlek Independent Brewers employee Melissa Schmidt will donate all of her tips on Friday, Jan. 24, to the Friends of Ramona Unified School District Roof Project.
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Cleanup. She also owns one parcel that is RL-40 and wants the other two zoned the same. “I’m doing it for my family,” she said. “My greatgrandfather settled here.” Hawkins got the support of the planning group
Friends of Ramona Unified Schools (FORUS), a group of volunteers working to fill the gaps in deferred maintenance that affect the health and safety of students and staff at Ramona’s public schools, continues to accept donations to repair school roofs that leak. Recent donations have brought contributions to $8,245, FORUS treasurer Carmen Bedia reported Tuesday. Donations are accepted in canisters at numerous Ramona businesses. Checks payable to FORUS Roof Project may be sent to Dave Patterson, Roof Project chairman, 1003 Sixth St., Ramona, CA 92065.
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For 150 years Jeanine Hawkins’ property has been in her family’s hands, but in the past 20 years the county has chipped away at her property rights, down-zoning it 800 percent, she said. When Hawkins inherited the property on Littlepage Road, named after her family, it was zoned to allow one dwelling unit per 10 acres, she said. That was changed to one dwelling per 40 acres or RL-40, and then to one per 80 acres, RL-80, in the General Plan Update adopted by the county Board of Supervisors in August 2011. She tried to fight the zoning changes and had the support of the Ramona Community Planning Group but said county officials ignored property owners and community support. “They’re taking away our property rights,” she said. “Basically they’re devaluing our properties.”