PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE PAID ENCINITAS, CA 92024 PERMIT NO. 94
THE COAST NEWS
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VOL. 33, N0. 14
APRIL 5, 2019
SAN CityMARCOS approves -NEWS temporary design for streetscape
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By Aaron Burgin
Park Service because of a 1993 federal grant agreement that requires the park remain in perpetuity unless the agencies endorse a boundary change. That agreement requires the district to replace the lost park land with a corresponding amount of land. School district officials have proposed redrawing the boundary to include the school’s parking lot, which would double in size in the
ENCINITAS — Encinitas officials recently reached a compromise with regional agencies THE that will allow them to move forVISTA ward with their desired design of an NEWS overhaul of North Coast Highway 101 in Leucadia on a temporary basis. The City Council on March 27 approved the temporary design, which keeps the parking pods, which will include 176 spaces, on the Vulcan Avenue side of the rail corridor and a trail on the west side RANCHO of the rail corridor. SFNEWS Just a month earlier, a redesign was proffered by the San Diego Association of Governments, the North County Transit District and city staff that eliminated both elements, which were critical features of the streetscape plan. The City Council rejected the changes and asked staff to work with a council subcommittee to find a design that honored the approved plan. The temporary solution would allow for SANDAG to determine where it is going to propose the Leucadia leg of the Coastal Rail Trail. In February, the agencies said they had to place west of the tracks because drainage issues on the east side would make building it there unfeasible. Encinitas, meanwhile, will be able to conduct a drainage master plan in the area, which could yield a solution that could solve those drainage issues and allow SANDAG to use the
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DEL MAR ART SHOW
Artist Cathy Wessels paints “en plein air” during the Del Mar art show. The two-day event displayed the work of over 60 local artists, including that of Wessels. Photo by Lexy Brodt See story on B4.
CA State Parks ‘unlikely’ to endorse Cardiff school project By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — Officials with the Department of State Parks have informed Cardiff School District that they are unlikely to support the proposed campus redesign and companion boundary adjustment to George Berkich Park. They also signaled that the project would likely be subject to a more extensive environmental review process than previously foreseen, something that opponents to
the project have called for. In the email dated March 26, a supervisor from the state parks’ Office of Grants and Local Services outlined three concerns raised by the National Parks Service with the school district’s proposal, which calls for the construction of an open-air multi-purpose room and amphitheater on a section of the park, which the district owns. The district needs the approval of both the state and National
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