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Lower Property Values

Crime rates affect home values: https://www.inman.com/2017/08/07/6-factors-that-influence-a-homes-value/ “Crime rates, similarly, are negatively correlated with home values in the neighborhood.”


Increased Traffic


Loss of Green Space


The Property is Zoned Estates Residential (E-1) and is surrounded by E-1 zoning:

  • 536 Matagual is zoned Estates Residential (E-1) per this zoning map: 5/26 Strawberry Festival petition pop-up signing effort https://gis.cityofvista.com/gvimages/general/Map-Zoning.pdf
  • “E-1” Estates Zone: Permits one detached single-family dwelling per lot, agricultural crops, limited small animals, one horse for each one-half acre, and related accessory uses. Similar but more intense land uses including public facilities and churches may be permitted subject to a Use Permit. Minimum lot area is one-half acre. Setbacks as measured from the property lines: front=50 feet from the street centerline; sides=10 feet; and rear=20 feet. https://www.cityofvista.com/home/showdocument?id=588
  • Vista General Plan 2030, written 2012 https://records.cityofvista.com/WebLink/Browse.aspx?dbid=0&startid=201438
  • Community Identity: https://records.cityofvista.com/weblink/DocView.aspx?id=712581 “Although all elements carry equal weight, the Land Use and Community Identity Element is often perceived as being the most representative of the General Plan. Other elements of the General Plan are coordinated with the Land Use and Community Identity Element to provide and integrated, internally consistent, and compatible statement of development policies for the City.”


Hotel Guests Have No Stake in Our Neighborhood

  • Homeowners research the quality of life, amenities, traffic, roads, and safety of a neighborhood before buying homes. We check Arjis/CrimeMapping.com, and we look a sex offender registries. We expect that a neighborhood will maintain its qualities when we purchase a home there. Then we invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in our future.
  • Hotel guests have no requirement to register as a sex offender when they stay at a hotel. Our children could be walking to school past an unregistered sex offender.
  • Hotel guests don't care if traffic has increased on our residential roads, nor do they care if they attract a completely different energy to our rural area. Their residence is temporary, and they can choose to never come back.


California is the number 1 state for human trafficking. Hotel/motels are the number 3 venue for human trafficking.

  • The National Human Trafficking Hotline

https://humantraffickinghotline.org/states;

https://humantraffickinghotline.org/sex-trafficking-venuesindustries/hotelmotel-based

  • Laws signed into effect by Jerry Brown re: training hotel workers to recognize signs of human trafficking

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/new-california-laws-target-human-trafficking-transit-hotel-workers-n915796


San Diego County Advisory Council on Human Trafficking and CSEC meets on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at 1:30-3:00pm at the County Administration Building on Harbor Drive, San Diego.

http://www.abolishhumantrafficking.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Human-Trafficking-Advisory-and-CSEC-Council-Report-Final-Submission-10-21-14.pdf


San Diego has a gang-related sex trafficking problem beyond anyone's imagination

  • Excerpt from The Nature and Extent of Gang Involvement in Sex Trafficking in San Diego County by Ami Carpenter, PhD and Jamie Gates, PhD:

"Location: Commercial sexual activity has moved off the streets and into hotels, casinos and residential brothels. We mined law enforcement data for location of prostitution, pimping and pandering arrests to identify locations where commercial sexual activity is most common. In 2013 for example, the majority of arrests took place in just 13 locations, 10 of which were hotels. Facilitators also reported that hotels/motels are the most common site of CSA, in addition to casinos, and private homes. This pattern of activity is associated with concerted efforts by San Diego Police Department that targeted the most visible forms of street prostitution, e.g. El Cajon Blvd in 2011, and the desire by facilitators to avoid law enforcement by 'staying off the street'." https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/249857.pdf

  • Excerpt from What you need to know about Sex Trafficking in San Diego County presented by Summer Stephan, June 2016:

"According to the FBI, San Diego has one of the highest rates of child prostitution in the country. The underground sex trade in San Diego generates over 800 million dollars in annual revenue. As many as 8,100 local women, girls and boys are prostituted here every year. And because prostitution and sex trafficking can occur at private homes, hotels, casinos and fake massage parlors, it’s happening more often than you think. And doing more damage than most of us can imagine." https://sdgrantmakers.org/sites/default/files/files/events/2016-06-09%20Sex%20Trafficking%20Presentations_web.pdf