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VOL. 25, NO. 29

JULY 29, 2011

Dispensaries shut down for lack of licenses

THISWEEK

By Promise Yee

GARDENERS People around the county are getting into gardening with plants that don’t require a lot B1 of watering.

VOICED CONCERNS Residents of Oceanside’s Eastside neighborhood worry about a crime increase after two people were shot and A3 killed this year.

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t’s another dash to the finish line now that the Del Mar racing season has begun. Opening Day brought out the pomp and circumstance, the hats and the thrill of the stretch run. Races will run through the summer, ending Sept. 7, with the track going dark every Monday (except Labor Day) and every Tuesday. For a full schedule of events, including free Friday and Saturday concerts, visit dmtc.com. Photo by Daniel Knighton

City adopts abbreviated environment plan By Wehtahnah Tucker

ENCINITAS — City Council voted to adopt most of the recommendations for an amended citywide environmental action plan July 20. Five months after the first comprehensive plan from the environmental advisory commission received a lukewarm response from the council, the revised plan was more acceptable. In a Feb. 16 presentation to the council, the commission was both praised and chastised as its then-chairwoman, Elizabeth Taylor, presented the group’s comprehensive environmental action plan.

The plan outlined more than 100 recommendations that the city could implement to increase environmental sustainability. Taylor was not reappointed to the commission. Rather than table the report altogether, the council unanimously voted 4-0, with Mayor James Bond absent, to revisit the issue in a series of meetings. Josef Prola, current chair of the committee, received a warmer reception when the council received the new, less ambitious plan. According to Prola’s report, the council approved the city’s first Environmental

Policy on Oct. 8, 2008. “The policy specifies that the Environmental Commission will develop an annual Environmental Work/Action Plan for the city that adheres to the principles outlined in the policy and identifies specific city activities that will lead to achieving the environmental vision of the policy,” according to city documents. In fact, the action plan is a culmination of input from city staff, public workshops and council members. Several of the recommendations include environmentally oriented efforts being implemented by city departments.

Staff reviewed the final document and gave the commission feedback that was incorporated into the final plan. “Essentially most all of the items stayed, though some have revisions,” said Jacy Bolden, the city’s Environmental Commission coordinator. “We’ll be looking at the broader impacts of all leaf blowers rather than just 2-stroke.” Several items were added to the original plan during the meeting such as inclusion of community gardens, evaluating codes for home food production and TURN TO ENVIRONMENTAL ON A17

OCEANSIDE — Four medical marijuana dispensaries were served notices to close their doors because each lacked a business license. Business operators said city-zoning rules that do not list medical marijuana dispensaries as viable businesses make their businesses ineligible to exist. The city was in ongoing negotiations with the North County Collective when, in what many consider bad faith, it served notices to the medical marijuana dispensaries to close immediately. Businesses and property owners can face fines of up to $25,000 a day if they do not comply. One of the four dispensaries has already shut its doors. The other businesses have the chance to appeal the notice. Assistant city attorney Annie Perrigo said a business that is given notice to close could request a zoning text amendment and petition for a business license, but none of the marijuana dispensaries have done so. The city is concerned marijuana dispensaries are not playing by the rules. “It’s a good idea to try to go through legal steps before opening a business,” Perrigo said. Attorney Philip Ganong, who represents ABACA Medical Collective that formerly operated in Oceanside, said the business was stonewalled at every turn when it tried to obtain a license. A two-year moratorium for the city to look into the matter of how to best regulate medical marijuana dispensaries recently expired. No practices were recommended. “Since the moratorium expired the city refused to issue any business licenses within the city limits of Oceanside,” Ganong said. The option to request a zoning text amendment in order to obtain a business TURN TO DISPENSARIES ON A17

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