Comments on: Pinecones & Cute Puppies in Fawnskin http://www.fawnskinflyer.com/2008/03/pinecones-cute-puppies-in-fawnskin/ Fawnskin News & Musings from Big Bear, California Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: GG (Gossip Girl) http://www.fawnskinflyer.com/2008/03/pinecones-cute-puppies-in-fawnskin/#comment-568 GG (Gossip Girl) Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:38:45 +0000 http://www.fawnskinflyer.com/2008/03/pinecones-cute-puppies-in-fawnskin/#comment-568 @Uncle Bill: So, did you miss that the trees were illegally cut down? People are not against development just stupid development--such as Walgreens being built when there are many other pharmacies already servicing the valley...and the point is that this valley doesn't want to be like just another town--umm, see anything wrong with a resort promoting itself without any lake access on the South Shore? The point is if the whole economy is based on tourism...any connection to over development and plummeting per cap? Just recently I had a client tell me she wants to pave over all her backyard--but they moved up here for the environment. Also, I remember when the Castle Glen area was eagle habitat. I heard that it was traded to a developer by the forestry service. Today, big homes (that sit empty about 95% of the time) and cement and asphalt rule--any wonder why the eagle counts are down? Fawnskin folk live here because they don't want to live over on the other side. A lack of tax base here and red tape miles long keeps business owners from being able to move forward--such as Fawn Lodge. Changing ownership usually just means nightmares and excessive amounts of red tape. Look at the year long delay of the Fawnskin Market--hoops and more hoops--when the place was allowed to operate when it was a stinking mess. You probably have not talked to the Fawnskin Chamber whose members want to see more business activity and traffic. Then you have the local reps who advised that the street lights be taken out (instead of finding ways to fund them) because there wasn't enough funds to keep them on--makes you wonder. Finally, Friends of Fawnskin actually works to make sure the letter of the law is followed--so development is reasonable AND legal. We don't want trees slaughtered as happened for Walgreens...check back tomorrow for my comments on the eagle tree that was just dropped. @Uncle Bill: So, did you miss that the trees were illegally cut down? People are not against development just stupid development–such as Walgreens being built when there are many other pharmacies already servicing the valley…and the point is that this valley doesn’t want to be like just another town–umm, see anything wrong with a resort promoting itself without any lake access on the South Shore?
The point is if the whole economy is based on tourism…any connection to over development and plummeting per cap?
Just recently I had a client tell me she wants to pave over all her backyard–but they moved up here for the environment.
Also, I remember when the Castle Glen area was eagle habitat. I heard that it was traded to a developer by the forestry service. Today, big homes (that sit empty about 95% of the time) and cement and asphalt rule–any wonder why the eagle counts are down?
Fawnskin folk live here because they don’t want to live over on the other side. A lack of tax base here and red tape miles long keeps business owners from being able to move forward–such as Fawn Lodge.
Changing ownership usually just means nightmares and excessive amounts of red tape.
Look at the year long delay of the Fawnskin Market–hoops and more hoops–when the place was allowed to operate when it was a stinking mess.
You probably have not talked to the Fawnskin Chamber whose members want to see more business activity and traffic.
Then you have the local reps who advised that the street lights be taken out (instead of finding ways to fund them) because there wasn’t enough funds to keep them on–makes you wonder.
Finally, Friends of Fawnskin actually works to make sure the letter of the law is followed–so development is reasonable AND legal. We don’t want trees slaughtered as happened for Walgreens…check back tomorrow for my comments on the eagle tree that was just dropped.

]]> By: Uncle Bill http://www.fawnskinflyer.com/2008/03/pinecones-cute-puppies-in-fawnskin/#comment-564 Uncle Bill Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:12:21 +0000 http://www.fawnskinflyer.com/2008/03/pinecones-cute-puppies-in-fawnskin/#comment-564 Why all the silly whining about the loss of trees in the Moonridge Triangle area? Do folks think that there were no pretty trees at one time where their homes now sit? Or where other businesses are now located? Get over it. What disgusts me is that those trees have been replaced with a Walgreens. Then again, the only other option would have probably been another big real estate office. I notice that the whole crew from the only independent pharmacy in Big Bear is moving over to the new Walgreens operation. That's one way to win the hearts and minds of those who should be the most outraged. You folks in Fawnskin can still cling to the romantic notion of a 'pristine mountain community', but if you didn't have a lake to buffer you from the south side's train wreck of planning, there'd probably be a Walmart where the Fawn Lodge now rots away. Why all the silly whining about the loss of trees in the Moonridge Triangle area? Do folks think that there were no pretty trees at one time where their homes now sit? Or where other businesses are now located? Get over it. What disgusts me is that those trees have been replaced with a Walgreens. Then again, the only other option would have probably been another big real estate office.

I notice that the whole crew from the only independent pharmacy in Big Bear is moving over to the new Walgreens operation. That’s one way to win the hearts and minds of those who should be the most outraged.

You folks in Fawnskin can still cling to the romantic notion of a ‘pristine mountain community’, but if you didn’t have a lake to buffer you from the south side’s train wreck of planning, there’d probably be a Walmart where the Fawn Lodge now rots away.

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