The sale of the fairgrounds is a joke. With the current zoning, the sale of the fairgrounds won’t provide the state with enough money to even cover the interest on its debt for a day. This has nothing to do the state’s financial crisis (as most of us know the state has a spending problem, not a revenue problem), and everything to do with enriching this new non-profit board.
Costa Mesa Planning Commissioner Jim Righeimer sees the writing on the wall. It’s clear the new board (which is the same as the old board), will buy the fairgrounds for pennies on the dollar, sit on it for a couple of years until they can get three council members that will change the zoning on the council, then flip the property (or at least part of it) to a developer. Don’t be surprised if you see Dave Ellis and other board members working as “consultants” to the future developers of this property in order to line their pockets with millions of dollars.
Follow the money.
Yes, yes yes; he does get it and am glad that some folks are starting to notice. more is comming i feel it!