More Spring Valley CPG news here.
Ham radio recordings full of jamming and bad behavior from 2019 here.
Above: The 2025 Coches fire in Lakeside starting point; the chances are high that catalytic converter sparks set off the blaze.
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Unprinted Planning Group News, because It's on Video
Some video links.
https://archive.org/details/00034_202512
Valle de Oro Community Planning Group meeting, Fragment. 12-02-2025
https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/dam/sdc/pds/Groups/valledeoro/2025/VD251202AG.pdf
Agenda above.
Crowd was there for E5 (actually E4), "Public Input on Potential Short Term Rental Recommendation to County" aka Locals vs. mini hotel rental houses.
Items F1 and F2 were approved. I had to leave before the meeting ended.
Spring Valley Community Planning Group meeting, 11/11/2025
Agenda of the evening:
9. Establish Nomination Committee for 2026 Executive Board. No vote on this item.
E. GROUP BUSINESS
1. Announcements:
2. Reports: ◻ Chair ◻ CSA 128 ◻ TAC ◻ Highway cleanup ◻ APG ◻ Other
3. Next scheduled SVCPG meeting: December 9, 2025
A. CALL TO ORDER & ROLL CALL
B. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
C.
PUBLIC COMMUNICATION – Opportunity for the public to speak to the
Planning Group on any subject matter within our jurisdiction that is not
on the posted agenda. A two (2) minute period shall be allotted to each
person addressing the Group to facilitate business proceedings.
D. ACTION ITEMS with designation as to whether there will be vote or not on the item:
1. Approval of Minutes: 10/28/2025. Vote on this item. (Approved.)
2. Undergrounding of Utilities Waiver Request: 1054, 1056, 1058, and 1060 Leland Street, Spring Valley, CA 91977. APN:
584-061-16-00. Vote on this item. (Tabled.)
584-061-16-00. Vote on this item. (Tabled.)
3. Request for Minor Deviation - Commercial Signage: McDonald’s, 8730 Jamacha Blvd, Spring Valley. APN:584-520-30-00.
Vote on this item. (Approved.)
Vote on this item. (Approved.)
4.
Supplemental Application for Site Plan - PDS2023-STP-23-015, 516 Grand
Ave, Spring Valley. APN: 584-450-47-00 Vote on this item.(Tabled.)
5. Pre-intake: 633 Grand Avenue, Spring Valley. APN's: 584-410-81 and 584-410-82. No vote on this item.
6. Candidate Introductions for SVCPG Vacant Seat #1. No vote on this item.
7. Discussion: CSA 128’s PLDO Priority List for submission to the County. Vote on this item. (Approved.)
8.
Standing Rules Updates: Review proposed changes the subcommittee has
made to date, and provide suggestions /feedback. No Vote on this item.
9. Establish Nomination Committee for 2026 Executive Board. No vote on this item.
E. GROUP BUSINESS
1. Announcements:
2. Reports: ◻ Chair ◻ CSA 128 ◻ TAC ◻ Highway cleanup ◻ APG ◻ Other
3. Next scheduled SVCPG meeting: December 9, 2025
F. ADJOURNMENT
Location: San Miguel Fire District Headquarters: 2850 Via Orange Way, Spring Valley, CA 91978
Sunday, December 29, 2024
Raw News Material: Laurie Switzer or Steve Suslik blew it!
Yours truly was/is? on the USS Midway Museum email list for reasons, and after months of hearing nothing I get this. I get the feeling that I am on a shitlist (contact Laurie Switzer for more information) when it concerns this museum's staff (or at least with Switzer.)
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Monday, November 11, 2024
Infodump: list of people involved with the long-defunct "radioActive" internet/pirate radio station 2003(?)-2007
For a project.
Everybody involved with RASD had handles instead of names, a practice passed down from the primary members' time with Free Radio San Diego (Bob Ugly had given them the boot for an alleged takeover attempt).
Primary? members (by time in)
"lotus" (stylized "lotu5" in fake leetspeak): Mika (formerly Michael) Cardenes [sic?], now a professor at some college. Hated my guts.
"Kat": Girlfriend of M. Cardenes. Actual name unknown, hated my guts.
"Onto the Ontologist": Jake [insert name here]. I knew his last name and forgot it. Was also the second tech guy after lotus.
Secondary? members (joined after RASD started)
"djette aporetics": Ashley Lukens, who now runs a promotional/think tank business in Hawai'i and is a Ph.D. May have been a primary member, was a friend of Kat's. Was probably doing her Masters at UCSD at that time. Like Kat, hated my guts.
"Al Uh Looyah": Allen M. Conrad, limo driver. Was hosting the 100 watt mono transmitter that transmitted on 106.9 FM ("Teenage Mutant Ninja Radio") at his house in Encanto. Found his name by searching the FCC "notice of apparent liability" letter (aka "the $10,000 threat letter") pages.
(document under construction.)
Doomed schmucks
That Black Guy: Did one show with Onto, played Michael Jackson songs, was booted after a rain-soaked meeting in the trailer for using anti-gay slurs and other verbiage on-air. I wanted to keep him and teach him, the group booted him.
Your Humble Narrator
God-Kings of Radio
That Guy Who Had Lived in Italy, Spoke An Italian Dialect Fluently, And Was A Punk: I can't remember his name or his handle, but he was a decent person.
"Bazooka Joe": Michael Aleo, and I feel sorry for naming him here. Was working with FRSD, did stuff with RASD when FRSD was raided by the FCC and had to relocate. Still doing radio last I checked.
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Greg Eichelberger, 1961-2018
Miriam Raftery's take.
It's been five years since my former editor died, and I still can't get over that fact whenever I think of him. I knew him way back in the Steve Saint days of the East County Community Newspapers "mini-chain", before Jay C. Harn bought it out and combined it with the Daily Californian to form The East County Californian....which Harn had to sell because the costs were too high for him; he was also running The Alpine Sun at the same time. Greg was my boss at the EC Californian for about a year before he went back to Idaho, because The Management would not let him design the front page of the paper.
He deserved his own "Mormon Jeb Bush Conservative" newspaper, but actual ownership never seemed to be his goal. He could be an annoying dork, but the world is smaller without him.
Thursday, November 24, 2022
Notes.
VALLE DE ORO COMMUNITY PLANNING GROUP HOLDS MEETING IN AN ODD LOCATION; SPRING VALLEY CPG CHAIR REVEALS WHY HIS GROUP IS STILL MEETING ON ZOOM
by Jake Christie
At their last fully staffed meeting (date?), the Valle de Oro Community Planning Group had a special meeting at the large but echoey multipurpose room of the Hillsdale Middle School on Brabham St. in the Rancho San Diego community of unincorporated El Cajon. This meeting was held in that location due to a holiday cancellation, thus only the people involved with the various action items on the VDOCPG agenda were present.Too much emphasis on where they meet and you mention this again at the end. This should be discussed later. The lead paragraph on this story should be something like, “At its September ___ meeting, the Valle do Oro Community Planning Group took action on a revitalization plan for Campo Road and proposed changes to a pickleball court and club, also hearing a county presentation on local impacts of SB 9, a new state law that makes it easier for most homeowners to split their lots and build homes to help address the statewide housing shortage.” Change the headline, too.
This is an example of a meeting that shouldn’t be covered in chronological order. Instead, the lead should be whichever was the most controversial item or the one of broadest public interest, probably the Campo Road plan approval. We need much more detail on what this includes. In earlier stories by other writers, there was talk of adding a roundabout, angled street parking, bike lanes, a center median with trees, connections to a nearby park, new building facades and maybe retail with residential above up to 3 stories. I don’t know how much of that made it into the pre-Final draft but to run this story we must have more info.
Then on the SB 9 “change” we need to explain what SB 9 is. When you say change, do you mean SB 9 requirements for communities? I have no idea from your story what changes this planning group area is required to have or what the whole goal is or any issues. Or what’s a covenant and what’s the relevance of that?
Before the action items, the floor was opened to Nathan King from the County, who made a presentation on new guidelines following the Senate Bill 9 change. Explain for those not familiar with SB 9. These concerned lot design and layout and would not involve historic homes. VDOCPG member Baillargeon pointed out that the area lacked a covenant. I don’t understand. What’s relevant about a covenant? After a number of questions and answers, King’s presentation ended and the action items began.
The forthcoming El Pollo Loco at 9714 Campo Road (formerly Gina’s Treasures) requested a minor deviation to the sign rules so they could put up a 41 inch tall sign. The Pollo Loco representative, Tim Seaman, got his approval and left after the papers were stamped.Put this after all the other issues at the meeting, say something like, “In other business, the El Pollo Loco on Campo Road was granted a minor deviation to put up a 41-inch-tall sign.” This should go after all the other more important issues that the public would care about, including after the Hub.
Next was Mike Madrid for the “Pre-Final Draft of Campo Road Corridor Revitalization Specific Plan” concerning the business/rental area of Casa de Oro. VDOCPG member Herron was the lead on this issue, and after a long discussion the item was approved. “People don’t want to go to Casa de Oro,” said VDOCPG member Hermann. Can we please have significantly more details on what the Campo Road Corridor Revitalization plan, as approved, actually includes? We’ve had other reporters do very lengthy stories on the early proposals, but I don’t know what’s changed along the way. People care about this. Shouldn’t this be the lead and title? VALLE DE ORO PLANNING GROUP APPROVES CAMPO ROAD REVITALIZATION PRE-FINAL DRAFT?
The final issue was a change to the still-under-construction “The Hub San Diego” pickleball court and club at 9545 Campo Road, formerly the Helix Tennis Club and a short-lived hemp dispensary. The owners of the all-new site wanted to covert part of it to self-storage or mini storage. According to a letter drafted by VDOCPG Chair Oday Yousif to the County Planning Commission: “….the use under the Specific Plan would allow for the use of as a pickleball club as well as for housing and retail. The Hub seeks the support of the VDOCPG for an alternative use for the parcel (and possibly neighboring parcels): self-storage or mini storage…..the [planning group] appreciates any attempt to improve the parcel, which is an eyesore for the Casa de Oro Community and for all those who can see the property from the westbound side of Highway 94.” The letter was approved by the group on September 13, 2022.
No business was undertaken at the Valle de Oro meeting in October because the group lacked a quorum.
Add a subheader such as “Why is Valle de Oro holding live public meetings, while Spring Valley’s planning group is only on Zoom?”
In related news, the Chairman of the Spring Valley Community Planning Group responded to a question during the meeting? From ECM via email or phone? as to why his group was still meeting on Zoom. He replied that this is mostly due to older members of his CPG being unwilling to meet in person due to COVID-19, also the Helix Water District was still not allowing outsiders to use their facilities.
The Valle de Oro Planners have been meeting in the Community Room of the Rancho San Diego Library,which is open to the public, but as of press time the Spring Valley Community Planning Group iss still meeting by Zoom. I think this paragraph should go above the one above it. I was confused at first and though the Valle de Oro group was still meeting on Zoom.
Finished variant of story: https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/valle-de-oro-community-planning-group-approves-pre-final-campo-road-revitalization-draft
https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/why-spring-valley-community-planning-group-still-meeting-zoom
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
We are still out there.....
.....over at http://wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogspot.com/.
Things found online....
TV screenshots of the various weird hats ol' Gene Scott wore in front of a TV audience. Bizarre but true.
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