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APRIL 20, 2018

Keystone project underway $16 million industrial park breaks ground By Christina Macone-Greene

projects are approved to contest them, so the failure of the signature drive means the Brookfield project can move forward, city officials said. “The window has passed for that particular legislative act,” City Clerk Phil Scollick said.

VISTA — Keystone Innovation Industrial Park, a new development, is making headway in Vista. Badiee Development Inc. recently broke ground on a project with an estimated $16 million completion cost. Executives anticipate that project values will swell to $20 million after the suites are leased at 1398 Keystone Way in Vista. Ben Badiee, CEO of Badiee Development, has worked on and developed properties in San Diego County for 30 years. According to Badiee, the Keystone property is a 10-acre parcel — the largest undeveloped property in the city of Vista. Civil engineers for the project were from Excel Engineering. Design plans by Smith Consulting Architects include two buildings at The Keystone Innovation Industrial Park. Building one is 47,000 square feet with four suites, and building two is 30,790 square feet with three suites. All suites range in size. TFW Construction will build Keystone Innovation Industrial Park. Badiee said San Diego is famous for growing small and mid-size companies, which is why the developer designed multi-tenant inno-

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San Marcos Mayor Jim Desmond speaks alongside Escondido Mayor Sam Abed, far right, conservative radio host Carl DeMaio and U.S. congressional candidate Diane Harkey at a news conference on Monday in San Diego to campaign for the federal lawsuit against California’s sanctuary city law. The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to file an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit. Photo by Shana Thompson

Supervisors back Trump ‘sanctuary city’ suit By Aaron Burgin

REGION — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 to throw its support behind a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration that challenges the state’s so-called sanctuary laws, despite a throng of protesters urging the board to reject it. With Supervisor Ron Roberts absent, the supervisors emerged from

closed session April 17 and announced their decision, which was to direct the County Counsel to file an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit at the earliest point possible, possibly when the lawsuit is appealed. Supervisor Dianne Jacob said that she expects the lawsuit to prevail, and they would file when the state appeals the decision.

Board Chairwoman Kristin Gaspar and Supervisor Bill Horn joined her in voting in support of the lawsuit, while Dist. 1 Supervisor Greg Cox voted against it. “The board’s vote is a largely symbolic move that will create fear and divisiveness in our region, waste taxpayer funds and create distrust of law enforcement and local government,” Cox told report-

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Jacob and Gaspar had differing views. “We’re talking about people who are crossing the border illegally, coming into this county and committing a crime and them being let loose probably to commit another crime,” said Jacob, whose district covers much of East San County. She had been the most vocal supporter of

the lawsuit. “That creates a public-safety issue and creates a problem in our neighborhoods.” She worried about terrorists crossing the border illegally, she said. “This is a different day than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago,” Jacob said. “That’s why it was important for us to stand up, as controverTURN TO SUPERVISORS ON 7

Referendum to halt San Marcos housing development fails By Aaron Burgin

SAN MARCOS — A petition drive failed to gather enough signatures to force City Council to overturn its approval of a 220home development. The group Friends of Discovery needed to collect 4,017 registered voters’ signatures to force a referendum on the project by

Brookfield Residential Properties, which would re-zone about 23 acres near the southwest corner of Twin Oaks Valley Road and Village Drive — just south of Cal State San Marcos — from commercial to residential to pave the way for the new homes. Friends of Discovery had more than 66 volunteers circulating pe-

titions. A group spokeswoman said the group isn’t opposed to growth, they just want it to be well planned. They submitted 4,880 signatures, but the Registrar of Voters invalidated 1,006 of them, leaving the group with 3,874 valid signatures, short of the number needed to force a referendum. Groups only have 30 days after

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