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VOL. 31, N0. 34
AUG. 25, 2017
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City scraps proposed Beacon’s Beach fix
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ENCINITAS — Encinitas’ decades-long struggle to permanently stabilize a notoriously unstable coastal bluff at Beacon's Beach took another turn last week, as the City Council directed staff to work with state regulators to find a fix, aborting a previous attempt. The city for two years had tried to get the California Coastal Commission to sign off on its proposed method of stabilizing the bluff — using an erodible soil cement. But the Coastal Commission signaled in March that it wouldn’t approve the proposal because it would limit the amount of sand that would return to the beach. It raised additional questions about the project to city staff. Staff returned to the City Council at its Aug. 16 meeting with a request to authorize a $614,000 contract with an engineering firm to start preliminary engineering work and public outreach to address the Coastal Commission’s concerns, and move the project forward. The contract would not include permitting, construction documents and bidding services. The City Council instead directed staff to work directly with the Coastal Commission to come to a solution that the state agency would support. “Instead of approving the city staff's request for a $614,000 contract emphasizing ‘stakeholder coordination’ and ‘project scoping meetings,’ we asked staff to return with a preferred solution that the Coastal Commission could support and a proposed contract that would get us through the permitting stage,” Mayor Catherine Blakespear said. Several stakeholders, including a representative from the Surfrider Foundation, echoed the council’s
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nickname ‘ScoopDogg.’ “In San Diego, you get businesses that are trying to do that, but many of them are microbreweries, so it’s not totally a family environment, so we wanted to create something for the adults and the kids too.” But the explosion in popularity hasn’t been all sweet, especially for neighboring tenants in the Lofts, a residential and retail complex on the
CARLSBAD — A group of Carlsbad residents has filed a lawsuit against the city to overturn its approval of a 92-unit affordable housing complex in the Barrio neighborhood, which they called RANCHO a “waste of public funds and property.” SFNEWS The City Council narrowly approved the Pacific Wind Apartment complex July 11 by a 3-2 vote. The project calls for the developer, C&C Development and Innovative Housing Opportunities, to construct for five, three-story residential buildings and a two-story recreation center and the abandonment of quarter-mile section of Harding Street. The project dates back to 2012 when the City Council loaned the developer $7.4 million to acquire around 20 duplex properties along Harding Street, which will be demolished to make way for the project. Originally, the city required the developer to build 140 units but the city OK’d the reduction after the property owner was unable to secure several key parcels. A group that calls themselves Carlsbad Alliance for Responsible Development filed its suit Aug. 10, asking the courts to issue an injunction and require the city to do a more thorough
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It is not unusual to find a line at Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream Shop on the corner of Coast Highway 101 and Encinitas Boulevard, but the store doesn’t have a public bathroom, which is a source of friction with neighboring businesses. Store photo by Aaron Burgin; Ice cream stock photo
Ice cream shop’s sweet success leaves bad taste with some neighbors By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — Every day from 10 in the morning to 10 at night, a steady stream of people enter Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream Shop in the Lofts at Moonlight Beach, and leave with sticky hands and faces — and big smiles. Sometimes, as many as 50 people will be in line for the cones, ice cream sandwiches and other goodies. The Midwestern ice cream chain’s fourth California location in
Encinitas has been a success since the day it opened its doors June 4, 2016. Its popularity has only grown, co-owners Ken Schulenburg and longtime girlfriend Juliana Ortiz said. The couple attributes the shop’s popularity to the family-friendly atmosphere they’ve tried to foster. “Our vision was to create a family-friendly environment, and to create the memories that we had when we were kids going to ice cream shops,” said Schulenburg, who goes by the
North County cities to hone regional efforts to address homelessness By Promise Yee
REGION — The San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homelessness board of directors met last week and adopted a community plan framework to better coordinate efforts to end homelessness. Greg Anglea, board ad TURN TO BEACON’S ON A7 hoc committee chair and
North County Alliance for Regional Solutions board president, said the framework will provide a common database to coordinate regional efforts. This will help North County cities work together more effectively to solve the problem of homelessness. Anglea described the
framework as a crisis response system. He said it will help reduce homelessness in a dramatic way. “The plan will be strongly data‐informed and guided by best practices and evidence about what works,” Anglea said. “Analysis of San Diego’s local data will provide a road-
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