Ventura County Star
Organizers of an effort to repeal a tax cut for oil companies expect to collect enough signatures before Saturday’s deadline to put a referendum before voters.
Pat Lavin, a leader of “Vote Yes - Repeal the Giveaway, estimates his group has collected 35,000 signatures and will get more before the deadline, the Anchorage Daily News reported (http://bit.ly/12oPRPL ).
“We’re feeling very good about where we are, numbers-wise,” he said.
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A ballot initiative to remove newly installed parking meters in downtown Ventura has enough signatures to go before voters, Ventura City Clerk Elaine Preston said today. The initiative’s authors submitted 10,459 signatures backing their proposal in May. Of those, some 80 percent, or about 8,000, were deemed valid signatures, under a random sample conducted by county elections, the clerk said.
A proposed initiative setting term limits on Thousand Oaks City Council members has gained enough voters’ support to qualify for the November 2012 general election ballot. A petition submitted by initiative backers was found to have 7,752 valid signatures from registered voters out of the 11,535 signatures submitted. To qualify, supporters needed 7,655 to be verified.
Measure C on the Nov. 3 ballot in Ventura never mentions Wal-Mart by name, but social justice advocates, unions and other proponents began crafting the initiative with one goal in mind: keeping the world’s largest retailer out of town. The measure, created in response to Wal-Mart’s plans to take over the former Kmart on Victoria Avenue, would ban any new store selling groceries that is larger than 90,000 square feet. A Walmart without groceries, however, would be allowed.
While Wal-Mart has submitted new plans to renovate and move into a shuttered Kmart in Ventura, opponents have vowed to intensify promotion of a November ballot measure to block the proposal. This is the third time Wal-Mart has submitted conceptual drawings to replace the former Kmart on Victoria Avenue, and each proposal has progressively gotten smaller. The latest plan shows a 98,000-square-foot store with food sales, which would comply with new city rules that restrict stores along the busy Victoria corridor to no more than 100,000 square feet.
An initiative that would establish rent control and offer ownership of condo conversions at El Dorado Mobile Estates will go before Fillmore voters in a special election Nov. 3. At an emotional City Council meeting earlier this month in which several members of the public denounced the Fair Rent and Homeownership Initiative, the council again rejected a request by the measure’s proponents to adopt it as a city ordinance. Instead, the council voted unanimously to place the measure on the ballot.
The Fillmore City Council has refused a request to adopt a mobile-home initiative as a city ordinance. The freshly certified ballot initiative would establish rent control and offer ownership of condo conversions at El Dorado Mobile Estates, a 302-unit park for seniors. The initiative is sponsored by Nancy Watkins, principal owner of the mobile home park.
One of two rival proposed ballot initiatives that would establish rent control at El Dorado Mobile Estates in Fillmore has been declared invalid by the city attorney for failing to follow state law.
Voters in Oxnard may decide on whether 2,500 moderate- and low-income homes are built on 165 acres of strawberry fields north of the city.