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Candidate Ochylski Is Out of Touch

By Aaron, on March 16th, 2010

This week, Los Osos Community Services District President Marshall Ochylski announced that he was running for San Luis Obispo County 2nd District, which is currently being represented by Bruce Gibson. Not even serving half of his first term as LOCSD board member, Ochylski decided that he had enough political capital to run against the incumbent representative. After former Alaska governor Sarah Palin left her post on July 26 last year, early estimated costs of her resignation were in the ballpark of $40,000 and Alaskan taxpayers picked up the tab. The district would have to pay at least $30,000 to hold a special election — and that cost would be incurred while the district continues to resolve its bankruptcy, that is if Ochylski were to win both the June 8, 2010 primary election and the November 2, 2010 consolidated general election against Gibson.

Ochylski, who once said that he wasn’t involved in Los Osos politics, decided to apply for the Los Osos Technical Advisory Committee because he felt that his experience gave him a “unique perspective to evaluating the multiple issues involved in the proposed wastewater system.” Ochylski was accepted into the Environmental ad-hoc committee because he was an attorney-at-law who specialized in CEQA compliance and he’s a licensed Landcape Architect. One of Ochylski’s corporate clients included Tri W Enterprises Inc. (in conjunction with the Williams Brothers), which originally owned the Tri-W site. He did not include that factoid in his TAC application. Ochylski worked with Tri W Enterprises Inc. to move forward with the contentious 2005 Los Osos wastewater project. Ochylski, who first appeared in public to ask that the defunct Tri-W site be henceforth referred to as the “Mid-Town” site, openly discussed the possibility of having a sewer located there even though the majority of the community voted against the project’s location in September 2005 (with the passing of Measure B).

After serving on TAC, Ochylski ran for a seat on the Los Osos Community Services District and won. Months after promising a plan for district solvency, Ochylski submitted no plan to the board. After pledging to cut administrative costs in the budget, Ochylski supported the hiring of LOCSD General Manager Dan Gilmore for $90,000 a year. Before he could put any of his LOCSD campaign promises in motion, he decided to run for the 2nd District supervisor seat.

Meanwhile, Ochylski represents Franco DeCicco, a developer who proposed a controversial motel-condo strip that runs parallel to Highway 1 in Cayucos. Like the 2005 Los Osos wastewater project, the DeCicco project is opposed by many of the town’s citizens. Last November, the California Coastal Commission unanimously voted to hear the appeal from the Concerned Citizens of Cayucos after finding merit and dismissing the points made by Ochylski in an August 7, 2009 letter to the CC on DeCicco’s behalf.

It seems like every local project that Ochylski is involved in results in community-wide rejection. Is Ochylski experiencing a string of really bad luck or is he simply out of touch with the people he wants to serve?

My crystal ball tells me that the voters will tell Ochylski “No!” one more time.

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  • Ru4REAL

    The CSD has not been effective in it’s representation of Los Osos. We don’t have the infrastructure in place at this time that we can even AFFORD to have a CSD. The County needs to be held responsible for all the damage they have caused the property owners of Los Osos. We have paid property taxes for years, what have we gotten in return for payment of those tax dollars? We have 1 small park, a few poorly paved streets, no street lights, except in Cabrillo. Where did all our tax dollars go prior to having a CSD? And now the County is forcing the MOST expensive sewer system in the country on the backs of a mere 4500 property owners! They claim this is to clean up the water! If that is true, then that will benefit EVERYONE & EVERYONE should pay their fair share, including the county, state & yes, the rest of the community of Los Osos. The county should have put sewers in years ago. I’m tired of the County & the RWQCB passing the buck & putting the blame on the citizens who can least afford the big bill. They’re dictating what they want, what firms that want to do the job, but it’s we the citizens who must pay for their stupidity. Ochylski would just be more of the same, but even more inept.

  • Ru4REAL

    The CSD has not been effective in it’s representation of Los Osos. We don’t have the infrastructure in place at this time that we can even AFFORD to have a CSD. The County needs to be held responsible for all the damage they have caused the property owners of Los Osos. We have paid property taxes for years, what have we gotten in return for payment of those tax dollars? We have 1 small park, a few poorly paved streets, no street lights, except in Cabrillo. Where did all our tax dollars go prior to having a CSD? And now the County is forcing the MOST expensive sewer system in the country on the backs of a mere 4500 property owners! They claim this is to clean up the water! If that is true, then that will benefit EVERYONE & EVERYONE should pay their fair share, including the county, state & yes, the rest of the community of Los Osos. The county should have put sewers in years ago. I’m tired of the County & the RWQCB passing the buck & putting the blame on the citizens who can least afford the big bill. They’re dictating what they want, what firms that want to do the job, but it’s we the citizens who must pay for their stupidity. Ochylski would just be more of the same, but even more inept.

  • Steve Paige

    Ochylski Rex……

    It sounds like a Dinosaur. It is a Dinosaur! I have been writing an article with an environmentalist in New Caledonia on ” Lies and Self Deception as a meme set that encourages the entropic process and social collapse. The second law of thermodynamics will separate reality from fiction. Both Bruce Gibson and Ochyski are cut from the same cloth of deception and crony governance. Time is up. Kings X. Our zero borrowing future will meet up wit our zero net energy future and if we dont get our act together Los Osos will look like Detroit.

  • Steve Paige

    Ochylski Rex……

    It sounds like a Dinosaur. It is a Dinosaur! I have been writing an article with an environmentalist in New Caledonia on ” Lies and Self Deception as a meme set that encourages the entropic process and social collapse. The second law of thermodynamics will separate reality from fiction. Both Bruce Gibson and Ochyski are cut from the same cloth of deception and crony governance. Time is up. Kings X. Our zero borrowing future will meet up wit our zero net energy future and if we dont get our act together Los Osos will look like Detroit.

  • julie

    Aaron, you forgot to mention that Marshall also represents another large fenced property on the corner of LOVR and Pine. What an eyesore that has become.
    The low income folks were evicted abruptly in early 2006.
    The Spanish Revival architecture idea was sure met with disdain by LOCAC, I guess tey’ve backed off that, but what will the final out come be?
    What’s taking so long? That project doesn’t need to wait for the sewer.

  • http://xx julie

    Aaron, you forgot to mention that Marshall also represents another large fenced property on the corner of LOVR and Pine. What an eyesore that has become.
    The low income folks were evicted abruptly in early 2006.
    The Spanish Revival architecture idea was sure met with disdain by LOCAC, I guess tey’ve backed off that, but what will the final out come be?
    What’s taking so long? That project doesn’t need to wait for the sewer.

  • Robert Spradling

    Marshall Ochylski will make a great supervisor. Have you ever asked yourself why a high density apartment structure would be legal in any of the unincorporated areas of SLO County. It is because Bruce Gibson, Patterson and Hill pushed throught a growth plan that has gapping holes in it. Holes that allow for forced high density housing units to be force fed to all of us in the unincorporated areas of the county. I for one am glad that we have someone like Marshall running against the status quo of unethical politicians like Gibson. If you disagree come and vote your choice but come and vote don’t sit at home.

  • Robert Spradling

    Marshall Ochylski will make a great supervisor. Have you ever asked yourself why a high density apartment structure would be legal in any of the unincorporated areas of SLO County. It is because Bruce Gibson, Patterson and Hill pushed throught a growth plan that has gapping holes in it. Holes that allow for forced high density housing units to be force fed to all of us in the unincorporated areas of the county. I for one am glad that we have someone like Marshall running against the status quo of unethical politicians like Gibson. If you disagree come and vote your choice but come and vote don’t sit at home.

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