Mark Wells Endorses Ponte Vista Community concept

¤ Mark Wells Endorses Ponte Vista Community concept

After all this time, it is heartening to see that even the most obtuse, fanatical opponents of Ponte Vista are finally seeing the light.

Way back in one of my very first posts on May 29, 2007 I went into great detail about how we could no longer environmentally afford R1 homes in a major metropolitan area. I wrote about the wasted time in commuting, the wasted gasoline and oil, the wasted water in maintaining their scaled-down versions of a vast prairie homestead, right here in an urban area. That it just is not feasible any longer. We needed to look to our European roots and look to their cities. Why should one house have a lawn the size of a park which is rarely used, instead of the homes having no lawns and having extensive use of the parks?

So what do we have just 7 months later? All sorts of positioning by politicians like Dennis Zine and Nancy Sutley regarding the use of water and recycling programs. No one really wants to stop building because of the housing shortage. So "water footprints" and "recycling" have become the causes de jour. Mark Wells wrote about it extensively in his post of Monday, January 7, 2008 - Will We Be Able To Drink To That?

The great thing is, the Ponte Vista community has been LEEDS certified. This means it complies with all sorts of environmentally friendly standards. One of the most important of which is water recycling. Points for qualification are awarded based upon various aspects of the project which comply to LEEDS standards. To read more about the standards you can go to: http://www.usgbc.org/ShowFile.aspx?DocumentID=2846

Therefore since Ponte Vista is environmentally friendly in so many ways and conserves our precious resources, then by supporting the currently politically correct positions espoused by the politicians, Mark Wells derivatively supports the Ponte Vista Community plan. Good for him. I'm glad he finally sees the light. Maybe there is hope for the rest of the R1 gang also.


¤ Opposed To Everything

As evidenced in his post of Friday, January 18, 2008 titled "A Request to Visit Another Blog" Now Mark Wells is opposed to new single-family homes. Is there anything this guy doesn't oppose? Is it merely because no one consulted him before they came up with the project? Perhaps he doesn't want a single old blighted building torn down? Whatever his reasons, they make no logical sense! In any case, either he is for R1 or not. It seems in this case he opposes R1 just because there might be condos built next door, yet in regards to Ponte Vista he favors their Specific Plan. Plus he opposes any proposed condos even though the site is already zoned for them. I guess property rights, like first amendment rights, mean nothing to Wells. What's up with this guy? Somebody check his meds!


¤ 6 months ago I couldn't spell "urban planner" now I are one!

There he goes again!! Mark Wells and his damned calculator. Trying to figure out numbers for which he has no basis, no experience, and no knowledge of the components which go into the cost of building.

On Thursday, January 17, 2008 and again on Sunday, January 20, 2008 he writes about construction costs. Yet he has not demonstrated any credentials which show he has any credibility, knowledge, or training in how the process works. Anyone with any experience at all will tell you that you cannot simply use a calculator to arrive at accurate cost per square foot numbers.

So now the telephone repairman cable-splicer, is also a construction expert in addition to being a traffic expert, and a demographics expert. Wow! Did he take some fancy on-line internet course or something? Where do I sign up?

I still don't understand why he gets to bitch about costs, and HOA fees, for a place he'll never buy or live in anyway. Why doesn't he just shut up and write about subjects for which he is qualified? Like picking up dog crap from his yard.


¤ First Amendment rights

Back when Janice Hahn's CAC was still running, Mark Wells was screaming like a stuck pig when asked by Victor Griego to stop blogging (at least for the time he was sitting on the committee). "First Amendment rights" was his cry as he eventually resigned from the committee. Why he can still in good conscience claim service on the committee, even though he couldn't finish out his tenure, I will never understand. I guess some people have no integrity.

Especially since Mark Wells himself has been trying desperately for several months to silence the First Amendment rights of others. Stakeholders talking to other stakeholders about the goings-on of public meetings. Imagine that... citizens actually discussing current affairs with other citizens. Sounds fairly innocuous and in line with the Bill of Rights and everyone's right to free speech.

Well, not to Mark Wells. For months he has been threatening to "expose" individuals as really being me (Tom Field) if they did not stop exercising their rights to free speech. Many individuals have been named in conversation and in writing as possibly being the "true" Tom Field: Luis Dominguez, Mark Majestic, Mark Waronek, Tom Tomlin, Joe Donato, etc..

In a comment made to this blog on December 24, 2007 Mark Wells states:
"... Well I guess he must be ready to see his name, job, and some background information placed on at least one other blog.

What's do you think I should do? It appears I have been able to keep my promises so far, but you and/or Mark seem to have decided that Bob Bisno is more important to you than your own reputation(s)...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!..."

Of course he posted under the name of "Mack Panoramic". But the comment was saved and logged along with the IP address. According to pacbell.net it belongs to Mark Wells.

The next day, on Christmas of all days, (didn't he have anything better to do on Christmas Day?) Wells sent an email to Mark Majestic threatening that he had "...written a draft letter that I will have an attorney go over to see if it could be considered libel or slander..." The gist of the email is that unless Majestic stops communicating with me, the letter will be mailed to Bisno's attorney (to what end, I have no idea). This email was also saved and logged and the IP traced to pacbell.net and Mark Wells.

These events prove beyond any doubt that Mark Wells is indeed the thug Luis Dominguez wrote about in his letter to the Daily Breeze. If someone does not agree with his position, or takes any action, however reasonable and legal, he attempts to make them pay with every punitive measure he can think of. These are the type of thug tactics people can expect if they dare disagree with Wells.

Evidently he has not learned you can ask 6 different attorneys their opinion about a matter and get 6 differing opinions. Just because an attorney says your letter might not constitute libel or slander does not mean a court of law would not be willing to consider the case that it is.

These are the types of smear tactics Wells resorts to. He doesn't care whose name he drags through the mud, or who he damages. He must have taken too many pills and doesn't remember that he mailed me a "Ranting Elitist" button to my home on Stonewood Court. Oh well. When these others who are accused of being me have had enough, perhaps they will get attorneys of their own also.