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November 2010
Coto de Caza Refuses to Grow Up, Ladera Ranch Is Normal
Posted
by CotoBlogzz 10-12-2010
Coto de Caza, CA - The Coto de Caza demographics have been changing for the last ten years, with the average age rapidly increasing while the total population declines - and the number of visitors increase. That should be good news for traffic accidents and crime and vandalism - right? Wrong! We previously warned residents and visitors alike to drive in Coto at their own peril. We are renewing the call, based on the latest California Highway Patrol (CHP) statistics:
Consider that for close to a decade, we have consistently shown conclusive evidence that there is a direct correlation between the extent of the CHP traffic enforcement efforts and the number of traffic accidents in the community:
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When
in 2002, the CZ Master Association board
of directors fired the CHP without a suitable
alternative, the accident
rate climbed up significantly culminating
on a traffic fatality on December
7, 2005, the first traffic fatality in the
community. Eventually, the board was
coerced into bringing back the CHP, however, it
let road certification expire, neutralizing
the CHP effectiveness, as the CHP could not
issue citations, and the second traffic
fatality was recorded three months later.
With this background in mind, the CHP statistics for the quarter ending September 30, 2010 are a deja vue showing troubling danger signs. |
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Coto de Caza Traffic Accident/Fatalities Cause-Effect |
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By far, the number one reason for CHP citations in Coto is due to speeding. On the other hand, while the number of speeding citations issued by the CHP in 2009 was 63, the number of speeding tickets in 2010 is down to 37 - almost a 50% reduction.
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That is the good news. The bad news is that the number of traffic accidents has been climbing since the third quarter in 2009. Coincidentally, the number of CHP patrol hours decreased from an average of 100 hours per month in 2009, to merely 77 in 2010. The obvious message? Unless the number of CHP patrol hours start to increase, the community may not have to wait too long to experience its third traffic fatality in five years | |
| 3Q2010 - Coto de Caza Traffic Accidents Trending- Source: CHP SJC | The 3Q2010 traffic accidents include one DUI, one personal injury and five property damage. | |
Even more bad news is that residents of Coto de Caza refuse to grow up, as evidenced by the abnormal breakdown of citations by age group, with the age group of 40-years and older receiving almost half of the citations as all other age groups combined. This is not a surprise, as we have previously called Coto de Caza GRUP City
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A GRUP is someone who has failed to grow up. Intentionally. It is someone who has not just failed to put away childish things, but is happily tossing them around. Similar to the images conveyed by Michael Jackson’s Peter Pan, and perhaps to make it more appealing to the masses, New York magazine writer Adam Sternbergh came up with the term “Grup”: In Sternbergh’s words, a Grup “…. owns eleven pairs of sneakers, hasn’t worn anything but jeans in a year, and won’t shut up about the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD. But he is no kid. He is among the ascendant breed of grown-up who has redefined adulthood as we once knew it and killed off the generation gap” |
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Coto de Caza Citation Distribution by Age Group- Source: CHP SJC |
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The Ladera Ranch traffic accident trending is also very much predictable - when the CHP patrol hours were reduced due to manpower issues, the community raised a stink:
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during the 2007 CZ Master Association Candidate’s Night, incumbents Varo/Mezger insisted that because Ladera Ranch residents were making a public spectacle, CHP hours that otherwise might be allocated to Coto de Caza, were not. Since Coto residents have not taken the time nor the effort to make a public spectacle about public safety, ever since, Ladera Ranch residents have been the direct beneficiaries of a low and relatively stable accident rate. |
| 3Q2010 - Ladera Ranch, Traffic Accidents Trending- Source: CHP SJC |
The 3Q2010 traffic accidents for Ladera Ranch include two DUI, five personal injury and six property damage.
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The CHP, Best Return on Safety Buck for Coto, Ladera.
Coto
de Caza Crime & Vandalism at All Time High - A Tale of Two Cities
What does
it take to create a public spectacle? - In Coto de Caza
During
the 2007 CZ Master Association Candidate’s Nigh (in preparation
for the 2007 CZ board of directors' election), incumbents Varo/Mezger
insisted that because Ladera Ranch residents were making a public
spectacle, CHP hours that
otherwise might be allocated to Coto de Caza, were not.
Good News Bad News for Coto de Caza Public Safety
COTO
DE CAZA - CZ ASSOCIATION BOD COMPLAINT- I am writing on behalf of Coto
De Caza Concerned Citizens and as a former Board Member of the CZ Master
Association, a 3,500 member homeowners association located in Orange
County, California. This letter constitutes a formal complaint
against the CZ Master Board of Directors, and their agents CJ Klug at
Keystone Pacific Property Management, 29883 Santa Margarita Parkway,
Rancho Santa Margarita, California 92688 and James Harkin, representative
attorney at Caine, Walker and Harkins, 17821 East 17th Street,
Suite 140, Tustin, California 92780. The current CZ Master Board of
Directors and their agents have consistently acted in violation of their
fiduciary responsibility, our governing documents and laws of the state of
California specific to homeowner and corporate governance codes and
statutes as follows
The
Audacity of Coto de Caza Stupidity In
covering public safety in the community for the last six years, I have
learned that the GRUP Syndrome aka Michael Jackson’s Syndrome – where
adults refuse to grow up, is not only alive and well in Coto de Caza, but
is also thriving
REQUEST
TO RENEW CHP CONTRACTI understand that the
CZ Master Association board of directors is seriously considering
terminating the CHP contract for pro-active traffic control by the end of
the year. As you may know, my father, Mr. Morteza Manian was
tragically killed in March 2006. I strongly urge you to renew the
CHP contract without hesitation
Second
Coto de Caza Traffic Fatality In Three Months- Coto de Caza recorded
its first traffic accident fatality in ten years in December of 2005.
In less than three months, the second fatality has occurred.
CHP
DOES ITS JOB – CZ BOARD PLEASE DO YOURS!
Despite the public abuse the CHP has received from the Coto de Caza board
of directors ever since the board was coerced into bringing the CHP back
for pro-active traffic patrol, figures indicate that the CHP is doing its
job: Trend for accident rate is...
Coto
de Caza Traffic Citations – Trading Places- We have often referred
to the GRUP, Peter Pan and even Michael Jackson Syndrome – where adults
refuse to grow up - and usually associated with traffic citations.
This time is no different. Looking at snap shots of citations
throughout 2008:
Drive
In Coto de Caza At Your Own Peril
The
Varo anti-CHP Sentiment continues: CHP GO HOME, KEEP OUT OF OUR DUIs!
The Coto de Caza gates, including the automated ones are as reliable as
the public utilities in the outskirts of Baghdad, yet the association
continues paying for services barely-rendered, no questions asked.
The
CotoBuzz Journal March 2007
Public Safety - A Job For the Gendarmerie Royale Du Coto de Caza! A
Tribute to Mr. Morteza Manian On the First Anniversary of His Tragic Death
The
CotoBuzz Journal February 2007
The Enemy Within Coto Caza: The CHP - CZ BODs
CHP
DOES ITS JOB – CZ BOARD PLEASE DO YOURS!
- Despite the public abuse the CHP has received from the Coto de
Caza board of directors ever since the board was coerced into bringing the
CHP back for pro-active traffic patrol, figures indicate that the CHP is
doing its job: Trend for accident rate is down and close to
pre-firing levels. Just as important, the number of Coto
residents arrested for DUI is down. See
chart below for actual accident rate.
Who
Shot the OC Sheriff? - OCBOS!
In a vote reminiscent of the CZ Master Association Board of Directors
calling the CHP extortionists during open board meetings, the Orange
County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 today to develop a plan for a plan
to form a civilian review panel to oversee...
Coto's
Dads Take Matters Into Own Hands, Get A+: CHP Collision Report, 3Q2007-
Kudos Coto Moms & Dads for doing what the CZ BOD refused to even
consider!
The 3Q2007 CHP collision figures just received from the CHP show a
quarterly collision level (on an annualized basis) comparable to the
levels the Coto de Caza community experienced prior to expulsion of the
CHP by the CZ Master Association board of...
From
Safety Committee to Committee to Turn Coto de Caza Into a City - Overview
This brief starts with the firing of a volunteer (early 2006) Public
Safety Chairperson for her refusal to give up her free speech rights and
promote Coto for city, before public safety.The president of the CZ Master
Association board promises to fire...
Orange
County Crime Down, Nation's Crime Up -
While the FBI is
expected to report a 1.3 percent rise in violent crime nationwide in 2006
— an increase for the second straight year, Sheriff Michael Carona
today announced that criminal homicide, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated
assault, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft decreased by 3.7%
in jurisdictions served by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department in
2006. “This is great news for Orange County. Violent crimes decreased by
7.72% and property crimes decreased by 3.76% as compared to 2005. The men
and women of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, in partnership with
our residents, community leaders, and business owners, continue to make
law enforcement a top priority. We are, once again, one of the safest
communities in the nation,” said Sheriff Carona.
Coto
de Caza, 2Q2007 CHP Collision Summary
The newly elected CZ Master Association Board of directors? president has
vowed to improve the relationship between the board and CHP management, a
minimum requirement in order to increase the CHP traffic patrol to at
least 2006 levels. We think that...
Coto
CHP Pro-active Traffic Patrol Cause-EffectMay
The CHP enforcement hours for March 2007 are 60% below the monthly
enforcement hours since the Varo/Mezger board was coerced intro bringing
back the CHP (after 2005 traffic fatality). This significant drop in
enforcement hours just happens to coincide...
1Q2007
Coto de Caza Crime and Vandalism Report
A comparison between the 1Q2006 and 1Q2007 Crime and Vandalism reports
shows that a favorite Coto de Caza crime is fraud, that the Peter Pan
Syndrome continues to be alive and well (crime is evenly distributed
between kids and adults) and a criminal...
WHAT
COTO DE CAZA NEEDS FROM SUPERVISOR BATES
The reality is that we need just two things from Supervisor Pat Bates that
should justifiably be funded by the county given the tax dollars that we
pay. They are about $240,000 a year of pro-active Sheriff and/or CHP
traffic patrols in Coto to deal with...
CHP
in Coto - Big Mouth CZ Bob- By Joseph Morabito, former member CZ Master
Association Board of Directors
Hello All: I have heard that CHP officers are not volunteering to work in
Coto even for the time and a half pay they would earn. So, we are not even
getting the 40 hours a week that was the original deal under Glisson/Rose.
It would seem that Bob...
How
many times must the CZ safety committee be formed before it can be called
an association committee?
A 2006 CZ newsletter proudly announces that the ?CZ Master Association
Champions Public Safety Committee?, During 2006 general CZ board meetings,
the board appoints a chairman and various public safety committee
members.A 2007 CZ stupid lawyer letter...
CHP
DOES ITS JOB – CZ BOARD PLEASE DO YOURS! Despite
the public abuse the CHP has received from the Coto de Caza board of
directors ever since the board was coerced into bringing the CHP back for
pro-active traffic patrol, figures indicate that the CHP is doing its job:
Trend for accident rate is down and close to pre-firing levels.
Just as important, the number of Coto residents arrested for DUI is down. See
chart below for actual accident rate.
With more than a few data points under Coto’s belt, we can officially
declare that there is a positive downward trend in the number of Coto
residents arrested by the CHP since we started this report!
Coto
de Caza Truth Or Consequences
Earlier this morning we spent close to two hours with Mayor of the City of
Laguna Nigel Cathryn DeYoung & Candidate for Orange County Supervisor,
Fifth District and Lt. Col. Bill Kogerman.
Coto
de Caza Supplier Performance Management Performance
Given Keystone’s, private security company and the myriad of
consultant’s track record, we repeatedly asked the board to use our
supplier performance metrics or come up with their own.
Finally the board’s response was: “If...
Caza
Board of Directors and Pat Bates Make a GREAT TEAM! - The South Orange
County Welfare Services Leadership Board
The Coto de Caza subsidizes the Estates and the Villages at the tune of
over $1,000,000/year.Pat Bates voted to raise pensions to public employees
by a whopping 50% (SB 400). This Bill set the stage for the 3% at 50
benefit package that...
Coto
de Caza's Robert Varo For Mayor, The OCR and Pat Bates Common Denominator?
Pat Bates' (Candidadate for Orange County Board of Supervisors) claim to
fame according to her website is that "She was the driving force
behind Laguna Niguel's cityhood campaign and became the first Mayor upon
the city's incorporation in 1989."
Invitation
to Attend the Coto de Caza Pat Bates Celebration September 28, 2006
In preparation for Pat Bates’ appearance in Coto de Caza, September 28,
2006, CotoBuzz is preparing a list of questions we plan to ask her. The
questions below have been sent to her office for review.
If you are planning to attend the reception,...
CHP
PUBLIC ARREST RECORD FOR WEEK ENDING 9-10-2006
At the risk of pulling an OCR’s Sickler (attempting to impersonate a
reporter by presenting “news” with no factual information to support
these news), we are starting to see what appears to be a trend: A
reduction in Coto residents...
These (see email below from former Coto de Caza board of directors, Joe Morabito) are clear indications of an out of control board:Generally, the rights of homeowners include the right to participate in meetings of the board of directors and to be heard,...
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