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VOL. 33, N0. 25
JUNE 28, 2019
Carlsbad gives green light to Tesla
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By Steve Puterski
CARLSBAD — Auto giant Tesla is coming to town. The City Council granted approval June 25 for the Carlsbad Raceway Specific Plan allowing the Carlsbad Industrial Park a conditional use permit for Tesla, an electric vehicle company, to develop a dealership and repair shop at 3248 Lionshead Ave. The site is 125 acres and includes all 28 lots with a 54,00-square-foot building, which includes 35,000 square feet for an electric vehicle repair shop. As part of the specific plan, only electric vehicle sales are permitted. Sales of hybrid vehicles are not allowed. Carlsbad will be the fifth location for Tesla in San Diego County, according to the company’s website. There are two service centers, one in Oceanside and the other in Kearny Mesa, while there are two stores and galleries at San Diego UTC and Mission Valley. The Carlsbad location will be part showroom and service center. Angie Prowse, Tesla’s lead architectural manager in North America, said the showroom will consist of all Tesla models, although customers have the option of ordering their vehicles either on site or through the company’s website. Delivery of the vehicles will take place at the TURN TO TESLA ON A16
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‘IT’S REALLY LIKE THE MECCA OF SKATING’
The first-ever USA Skateboarding Team announced this year has a distinctly North County flavor. Including Encinitas resident Tom Schaar, above, five members of the 16-skater squad are based in North County. Brighton Zeuner, Bryce Wettstein and Jordyn Barratt also live in Encinitas, and Nicole Hause resides in Oceanside. The five will compete in the coming months to determine who will represent the U.S. at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. STORY ON PAGE A8. Courtesy photo
Hwy. 56 stakeholders join transit debate Amid SANDAG talk, MTS proposal could also affect busy east-west corridor By Steve Horn
HAPPY 4TH OF JULY Yet to make plans for Independence Day? Check Page A5 for events in North County
REGION — A new proposal in the works by the San Diego Association of Governments has spawned a fierce debate over the future of regional transit in North County. That debate has mostly centered around the use of SANDAG dollars to bolster mass transit under its new “5 Big Moves” proposal. That has been juxtaposed with highway expansions and improvements now part of a list under the banner
of a 2004 ballot initiative, Proposition A, which extended a half-cent sales tax to go into the TransNet fund through 2048. Yet, while the traffic-packed 78 — which runs in North County from Oceanside in the west to Escondido in the east — has gobbled up “5 Big Moves” headlines, another key, crowded North County eastto-west highway corridor has gotten less discussion so far. That highway, State
Route 56 — which runs from Del Mar and Carmel Valley in the west to Rancho Peñasquitos in the east — could potentially be impacted not only by the SANDAG proposal, but by another currently being floated by the San Diego Metropolitan Transit Center (MTS). Calling itself Elevate SD 2020, the MTS proposal could potentially put another half-cent sales tax on the ballot as a referendum for the November 2020 election as a means to raise money
to beef up public transit. MTS is currently holding community meetings across the city of San Diego on Elevate SD 2020, including one on June 11 at the Carmel Valley Community Center and another on the other end of the 56 at the Poway Library on June 26. Like the “5 Big Moves,” MTS says it supports the ballot initiative on the grounds of meeting state-mandated Climate Action Plan goals. TURN TO HIGHWAY 56 ON A16
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