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The Los Angeles Times had another sad but well reported story about the housing bust hitting home. This time it’s in Temecula, California, one of the those classic ex-urbs full of McMansions that’s located about half way between Los Angeles and San Diego and a little further inland. What’s unusual about Temecula is that it’s a fairly upscale community, Southern California wine country, and yet now buffeted by a rash of foreclosures.
As the Times reports, one of the problems the city faces, and probably countless other cities across the country, is green pools. These are swimming pools in abandoned homes that are now filled with algae, dead birds and debris. They are festering sources of mosquitoes and potential disease and it is the job of city workers to go around and disinfect them. The number of green pool reports is up 45% in the past year in Temcula. Another example of how municipal costs are rising even as property taxes fall.
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Continue Reading June 6th, 2008
The Los Angeles Times had another sad but well reported story about the housing bust hitting home. This time it’s in Temecula, California, one of the those classic ex-urbs full of McMansions that’s located about half way between Los Angeles and San Diego and a little further inland. What’s unusual about Temecula is that it’s a fairly upscale community, Southern California wine country, and yet now buffeted by a rash of foreclosures.
As the Times reports, one of the problems the city faces, and probably countless other cities across the country, is green pools. These are swimming pools in abandoned homes that are now filled with algae, dead birds and debris. They are festering sources of mosquitoes and potential disease and it is the job of city workers to go around and disinfect them. The number of green pool reports is up 45% in the past year in Temcula. Another example of how municipal costs are rising even as property taxes fall.
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Continue Reading June 6th, 2008
The Ritz-Carlton broke ground on two developments at Kaua’i Lagoons, the 520-acre oceanfront resort. The groundbreaking ceremony was held yesterday to mark the start of construction on The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Kaua’i Lagoons and The Ritz-Carlton Club, Kaua’i Lagoons. Read more »
June 6th, 2008
Nick Kempinski from Evolution Radio 107.9 (run by students at BCIT) talked with happyfrog.ca’s Community Manager for the Planet Earth depict. They talk of Dave’s background as an activist, the ways happyfrog assists greenish businesses and organizations and ways to set out needed.
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