Late Breaking News: Rincon Point Homeowners Vote to Approve Sewer System
Nine Years of Public Process Hopefully Over
Overwhelming Majority of Residents Support the Septic-to-Sewer Conversion at Tonight's CSD Meeting!
The seemingly endless battle that has pitted surfers against landowners, and later landowners against landowners was put to a final vote this evening at the Carpinteria Sanitary District. Below, president Jeff Moorehouse explains to the Board of Directors and a full-house of anxious observers what to expect procedure-wise throughout the evening.
Speakers who were interested in being heard were given 3 minutes each to state their opinions prior to the tabulation of the votes cast by the homeowners of Rincon Point. The faces of most were quite familiar -- mostly those in staunch opposition to the sewer conversion. Accusations of impropriety were made by a couple of the opponents, directed towards both the Carpinteria Sanitary District and the environmental group that has spearheaded the effort (Heal the Ocean).
Once everyone had spoken the task of counting the homeowners' votes began.
How many lawyers does it take to tally a vote? The task of counting the votes seemed to take forever, the reason for which was the lawyers retained by the opponents who scrutinized every single ballot as if they were working for the George W. Bush nominating committee of the 2000 Presidential election... :-/ "What are they looking at, a hanging chad?"
The Preliminary "Unofficial Results of the Zone "A" Rincon Point Vote Came in as Follows:Overwhelming Majority of Residents Support the Septic-to-Sewer Conversion at Tonight's CSD Meeting!
The seemingly endless battle that has pitted surfers against landowners, and later landowners against landowners was put to a final vote this evening at the Carpinteria Sanitary District. Below, president Jeff Moorehouse explains to the Board of Directors and a full-house of anxious observers what to expect procedure-wise throughout the evening.
Speakers who were interested in being heard were given 3 minutes each to state their opinions prior to the tabulation of the votes cast by the homeowners of Rincon Point. The faces of most were quite familiar -- mostly those in staunch opposition to the sewer conversion. Accusations of impropriety were made by a couple of the opponents, directed towards both the Carpinteria Sanitary District and the environmental group that has spearheaded the effort (Heal the Ocean).
Once everyone had spoken the task of counting the homeowners' votes began.
How many lawyers does it take to tally a vote? The task of counting the votes seemed to take forever, the reason for which was the lawyers retained by the opponents who scrutinized every single ballot as if they were working for the George W. Bush nominating committee of the 2000 Presidential election... :-/ "What are they looking at, a hanging chad?"
41 Homeowners making up 56.9% of the pool voted in favor of the Rincon Sewer System.
Only 31 Homeowners making up 43.1% of the pool voted against the project...
The only question now is whether or not the opponents will finally - after 9 long years of fighting - accept their defeat once and for all, or will they continue to wage a battle with the majority of environmentalists, surfers, and Rincon Homeowners themselves who believe that the time has finally come to do the right thing?
Personally, I hope for the sake of everyone involved that they will acknowledge their loss, and let the healing process begin.
If you have any thoughts on the results/outcome, what should happen next, or anything else related to this matter, I invite you to speak your peace by adding a comment below.
Peace Out!
--Jon Shafer
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