This Avenida Brisa Home is for Sale on the golf course between $1,075,000-$1,175,000.

Via De Las Palmas Home that sold 4/27/2012 for $713,000.

Avenida Feliz Home that sold 4/13/2012 for $690,000.

This Avenida Calma Home is in Escrow with a list price of $1.150mil

This Via Broma Home in Escrow with a list price close to $1.175mil

Since January, the Real Estate Market has made a dramatic turn and Whispering Palms in Rancho Santa Fe is an excellent “micro” example of the phenomenon going on. Speaking only regarding the detached housing market, currently two homes are in escrow and only two homes are on the market. For a neighborhood that has approximately 226 homes, we call that …a huge shortage of available homes for sale. In 2011 we had 7 homes that sold. That does not count what went on the market and did not sell. And last year the average square footage for all homes sold, on and off the golf course was $356 per square foot. This year we have had 2 homes year to date sell (but they were not on the golf course and needed some TLC) and we have two in Escrow that are great quality homes that also are not on the course. The two homes that sold created a year to date average of a sales price of $370 A square foot which is considerably higher than last year. How does this happen when so many golf course homes sold in 2011? Well the two homes this year that sold were smaller, not on the golf course, and both buyers plan to upgrade the homes which will be wonderful for our neighborhood. The two pending homes will bring down our running average of sales per square average, but both homes will close for well over $1mil in my estimation.
In conclusion, it looks like we are on track for sales this year. By end of the first half of the year we will have sold half of what sold last year in Whispering Palms. However, what is developing is a shortage of homes available for sale and the good news of that will drive up the market prices (law of supply and demand) and transition us from a buyers market to a sellers market. Since I specialize in listing, marketing and selling properties, that pleases me! Please look at my tab “Sales Gallery” to see how I market homes and position them to get the most showings through visual presentation and the highest price. It is all about first impressions!

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The Biszantz Connection “Just Sold”

Two beautiful homes sold recently by Shannon Biszantz.  One in Rancho Santa Fe and one in Cardiff , so when 1 door shuts another one opens!

The Biszantz Connection “Just Listed” two homes in Rancho Santa Fe!

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So what happens now that we have submitted our comments regarding the Vacant Lot?

With over 200 concerned citizens who submitted letters to the Land Use/Environmental Planner Terry Powers, I began to wonder what the next step in this process of determining what will eventually be allowed to be built on the vacant lot. Does anyone actually read our comments and concerns? I contacted Terry Powers regarding this issue and he had Gig Conaughton walk me through the following steps that will occur. Below is the response to my questions on this subject:

May 22nd, 2009
Dear Ms. Biszantz,
My name is Gig Conaughton. I am the Public Affairs Officer for the County’s Department of Planning and Land Use. Terry Powers told me you contacted him and he sent me your questions about our environmental review process. We’re more than happy to tell you about that process. Just so you know, it is guided by California environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act, which you can find in California ’s Public Resources Code at: www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html.
Here are the answers to your questions!

1) Who reads the (comment) letters?
The DPLU and DPW Project Managers and subject area specialists read, review and respond to the letters.
2) How are they weighed in importance?
Under CE QA, we look for comments that identify an environmental impact that was not previously identified in the project analysis. County policy, based on CEQA guidelines, defines such comments as:

· Statements alleging inadequacies in the identification of environmental effects,
· Statements alleging inadequacies in the ability of Mitigation Measures or Design Considerations in clearly avoiding environmental effects,
· Statements alleging problems with the ND process.
· Statements alleging inaccuracies in the documentation.
· A recommendation for proposed changes to the project or proposed mitigation to reduce significant effects of the project.
· Substantive statements demanding that an EIR be completed support with facts.

3) How do we as writers see how your department responds to each letter?
Once we complete our review of the submitted comments and complete our responses, all responses and the original comments become part of the public record. Anyone can request to see this information which is available at our Project Processing Counter here in offices at the County Department of Planning and Land Use, 5201 Ruffin Road , Suite B.
4) Does your committee respond individually?

The County does not have a committee that reviews public comment. Project Managers and supervisory personnel from the various departments involved — generally DPW and DPLU — review the letters. Each letter is reviewed individually and is assigned an alphabetical letter and number for each comment.

5) Do you review them for a couple of months?

CEQA does not create a legal deadline for local jurisdictions to respond to comments. However, San Diego County DPLU’s goal is to respond to all comments within 13 days after the close of the public comment period. Having said that, our response can take longer or even be shorter, depending upon the number of comments and their content.
6) What is the factor that decides if you go ahead and issue a ND or conduct an environmental (Impact Report) study?

CEQA spells that out for local jurisdictions. If all potentially significant environmental impacts from a proposed project can be adequately mitigated, CEQA requires a Mitigated Negative Declaration to be prepared and made available for public comment. If any potentially significant environmental impact CAN NOT be adequately mitigated, or a fair argument based on substantial evidence is presented contending that a project may have a significant environmental impact, CEQA requires an Environmental Impact Report.

7) How can a project be approved when no one can even see what the final drawing and project is going to look like?
Discretionary projects can not. CEQA requires a public environmental review process. The proposed Pauma de la Reina project would have been allowed “by right” and been exempt from CEQA except for the fact they needed a grading permit because they proposed to do more grading than they could “by right.” That permit triggered this review. Under CEQA, the County has all the information it needs, including architectural renderings, to judge the proposed Pauma de la Reina project.

What is the average resident’s ability at this point to influence positive changes on the project for the community?
They are exercising that ability now under CEQA’s public comment process. The County renders land use decisions in compliance with CEQA and all pertinent regulations. To date staff has received 170 comment letters from the community.

9) Do we get to hear a response to all the questions raised in the letters from residents?
Again, once we complete our review of the submitted comments and complete our responses, all responses and the original comments become part of the public record. Anyone can request to see those. They are available at our Project Processing Counter here in offices at the County Department of Planning and Land Use, 5201 Ruffin Road , Suite B.

Thank you very much,
Gig Conaughton
Public Affairs Officer
Department of Planning and Land Use
County of San Diego
(858) 495-5481
gig.conaughton@sdcounty.ca.gov

I hope this is helpful for anyone who had the same questions that I did! I am not really sure what it all meant and I feel like I need a dictionary for all the terms they use. It sure confuses me!

I wrote in my newsletter that we should really create an email database for when we need to organize and meet quickly our council can email us. You can send your email to
whispering.palms@yahoo.com and it will be forwarded to the board.

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On June 13th, Whispering Palms residents Kimberly Sisneros and Terry O’Hara were wed in a beautiful ceremony at Morgan Run Club & Resort. The wedding ceremony was held on the lawn just below the Guest Terrace to which the reception moved immediately after the ceremony. Then, a magnificent dinner was held in the Ballroom accompanied by music performed by the Aubrey Fay Band. Friends and relatives from all over the world joined in the celebration and could be seen enjoying the Club and our neighborhood for several days before the wedding as well as several days thereafter.Kimberly and Terry were introduced eight years ago by mutual friends in their old neighborhood and have been good friends ever since. They became better acquainted through playing tennis together at Morgan Run, but didn’t begin dating until two years ago. Kimberly and Terry share so much in common: both having grown up within an hour of each other in Ohio; both having backgrounds in Electrical Engineering; and both having a love of the outdoors and being quite athletic.The couple plan to honeymoon in Italy and will continue to reside in Whispering Palms. Both are active in the Club where Terry presides as Chairman and Kimberly serves on the Social Committee. If you see them at the Club or walking their dogs, Nikki, London and Chanel, around the neighborhood, be sure to wish them well.

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