Comments on: Knight and Mikulaco go another round

By: Betty January

Betty January — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:14:20 +0000

Let’s see…Mik claims he is an ordinary person, a man of the people, unlike John who is a career politician. John’s “political career is the last 3 and a half years. Is he younger than I thought? Prior to his “career” he received his degree in finance and economics and went into banking and real estate. Which might account for his “fiscal responsibility” approach to this county. It may be a surprise to many but EDC is within it’s budget unlike our state and many other counties. County departments, BOS and employees “cut to the bone” to balance the budget including John who didn’t accept many of the entitlements he could have received.
John and his family have lived in EDH for over 30 years. He knows our area and has done and is doing much community work. He believes in the “process”. I heard “Mik” say he was going to fight for lower water rates and better schools. Clearly, Mik doesn’t know or thinks you may not know that these are separate areas not controlled by the BOS. And as a ‘footnote’ we have some of the best schools and it is why some families move here…
What we need is not an ordinary man but an experienced, community savvy, family and extra ordinary man..John in my opinion is that man. Look up his service to the community [john4eldorado.com] and his qualifications..then look up Miks….
John is for cityhood, and WE would have control over our own issues. The vote failed when we tried years back..maybe we should try again!! John knows the law and what we can do unlike Mik who doesn’t seem aware that we have to comply with the law.

By: Betty January

Betty January — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:36:43 +0000

M. Dixon, Are you a relation to Lillian Dixon? I am assuming that you will go to the June 7th zoning meeting..

By: M. Dixon

M. Dixon — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:52:17 +0000

Ms. January, I am not speaking for “Mik” as he can speak for himself. You and I agree on a lot of things I am sure, good books, local history, Friends of the Library, the Library, good schools and a good community. But when I talk about what people have had to go through to preserve the zoning in place North of Green Valley road, this is as real as it gets. We have had to organize and fight terrible unsound dangerous developments supported by Mr. Knight, this is public safety, not “Smart Growth” but favors to developers assisted by the county planning dept. and their quid-pro-quos to unleash hundreds of cars a day, perhaps thousands a day onto Green Valley Road and Salmon Falls is very unsafe and unwarranted when all the residents asked to do was to keep the existing zoning in place and not grant the continual small-parcel rezones and bonus density to increase the profit to the developer. Knight ignored us the voting people who live there, and we will vote him out for it, it is that simple. His statement about eminent domain alone proves all we need to know as to who he works for and who he doesn’t, the people.

By: Betty January

Betty January — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:52:38 +0000

Here we go again using that dirty word “developer”. Lindsey was the first “developer’ transforming the dying town of Clarksville into his dream of a “village concept” and named it El Dorado Hills. At that time we had a Folsom address and zip code and the real place to live was Cameron Park. So “El Dorado Hills drifted along…until..omg, more developers arrived! The Promontory and Serrano were started and you all flocked here. From just 3,000 population it has soared to 44,000. None of you would have come if it was not a desirable place to live and heaven forbid it was built by developers. The key to developers is smart building and growth. I hear all the time that those that have come here want to stop growth since they arrived.
We have a beautiful community. We owe a great deal to the foresight of smart developers. We are at the county line, growth was bound to happen just because of where we are and the beauty of living in the foothills. We have been lucky that the “developers” had a grand design for El Dorado Hills. When “developers” started to come in I dreaded the intrusion but knew it would happen when I moved here in 1973..but as I saw what they did for our community I wholeheartedly approved. If growth was coming and it most certainly was, I can see no better “developers than Parker, McDougal and Mansour.
Mik, instead of demonizing developers watch for smart and productive growth.
The developers put El Dorado Hills “on the map” and made it a desirable place to live..isn’t that why you are here?

By: M. Dixon

M. Dixon — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:31:43 +0000

Now we know why Knight answered a simple question the way he did. He never said he works for the people and that eminent domain shouldn’t be used by Govt. unless it is an emergency, in fact he stated he took an oath to “defend the constitution” to use eminent domain if just compensation is given. This is the most concerning statement made by a candidate locally this year. This EM process apparently has been being used by the BOS and Knight voted for it to take private property for a developer. If you combine this with Knight ignoring concerns of people here in his district who had to band together, hire attornies, go to BOS meetings and fight Mr. Knight for their neighborhoods and the zoning in place as Knight ignored them and kept voting yes for the dangerous developments and developers who likely are his campaign contributors, see the dangerous conflict of interest pattern. Then there is the county railroad Knight wanted to destroy against the will of the people and history of the county. Knight needs to go, sooner the better.