Eight years ago, a March 2016 article in the Del Mar Times by veteran local reporter, Karen Billing, announced that Surf Cup Sports had won the proposal from the City of San Diego to take over the lease of the San Diego Polo Fields. Jim Madaffer, a Surf Cup Sports representative, was quoted extensively throughout the piece as he outlined Surf’s plans for the property and the community.
Not all the facts and figures reported in the story were correct and few of the many promises made before the Carmel Valley Community Planning group have been kept; the most glaring of which was Surf Cup’s plans to “adhere” to the use limitations under the grant deed as well as the type of events permitted.
Although the article has been available on the Coalition website for some time, it represents the kind of misinformation the Coalition must constantly counter. And it’s worth reviewing today in light of what has happened over the past eight years, how the City of San Diego’s failure to enforce the lease and grant deed restrictions led to the complaint filed last April against the City, and why there now is a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds in support of that lawsuit. Click on this link to go to the annotated article.