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VOL. 32, N0. 8
FEB. 23, 2018
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Encinitas to hold district elections
Airport . com vote is debated
Council rejects plan to put issue on June ballot
THE VISTA NEWS By Steve Puterski
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By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — Encinitas will proceed with its first district-based City Council election in November, after a majority of the council voted against a plan to place the issue of district elections on the ballot in June. The City Council voted 3-2 against Councilman Tony Kranz’s motion to have voters decide whether they wanted a four-district map with a citywide elected mayor, or a five-district map with a rotating mayor. Kranz and Councilman Mark Muir voted for the proposal. Muir said that voters should have a chance to weigh in on what he said was the most important issue facing the community. “I think the conversation has to do with what do we consider an important vote that needs to go to the public,” Muir said. “And for me, I can’t think of a more important issue than this that we take to the voters.” Muir said that if the council is willing to take the issue of cannabis cultivation to the voters, district elections should be no different. The divided council voted 3-2 on Nov. 15, 2017, to approve the transition to district elections, as well as the four-district map and sequence of the district elections. Districts 3 and 4 — curTURN TO ELECTIONS ON A3
CARLSBAD — The debate over a public vote continues to rage on regarding the McClellan-Palomar Airport Master Plan update. Over nearly four hours, the City Council listened to presentations from San Diego County and independent legal counsel and RANCHO comments from residents on Feb.SFNEWS 20. There was no action taken and the item will return before the council on March 13 for direction or action. Still, many residents remained unconvinced saying the county’s proposal to extend the runway several hundred feet equates to an expansion of the airport, despite no calls for the boundaries to be moved. “The city in no way has accepted the county analysis,” Carlsbad City Attorney Celia Brewer said. “What I asked for is an objective legal analysis (from outside counsel) about the scope of the city’s authority over the proposed master plan. I do believe the analysis paints a realistic picture of the legal and regulatory landscape for this project. Attorneys Peter Kirsch and Sarah Rockwell, from the Denver law firm Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell, have decades of experience regarding airport law. The two reported that their interpretation of the Carlsbad
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It’s a Dog Eat Peanut Butter World
Parker Bonfanti, 8, of Oceanside, competes in the peanut butter spoon challenge with Rudy, a papillon, at the 5k Paw Walk on Feb. 17 at the San Diego Botanic Garden, which drew about 500 dogs and their owners. In this event, dogs raced to lick peanut butter off the end of a spoon. More photos on Page B2. Photo by Promise Yee
Local records fall as temperatures drop City News Service
REGION — A cold snap that settled over Southern California last weekend delivered a few record low temperatures in the San Diego area on Feb. 20, the National Weather Service reported. The extra-cold winter conditions led to minimum readings of 23 degrees in Ramona, replacing the
former low for the date of 26, set in 2006; and 29 degrees in Vista, down from the former Feb. 20 milestone of 33 degrees, established in 1971. In Oceanside, the morning’s low-temperature mark of 35 de-
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grees tied the prevailing record for the date, set in 1945. Temperatures will remain below average at least through the end of the month, according to forecasters.
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