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Worth their salt
Pro surfer and longtime Cardiff-by-the-Sea resident Rob Machado, far right, greets friends at the grand opening celebration of his wife Sophie’s new clothing store SALT Collection in Encinitas last Saturday evening. The store features signature men’s and women’s clothing as well as some of Sophie’s favorite brands including home goods. SALT Collection is at 930 S. Coast Highway 101. Photo by Pat Cubel
MARCH 10, 2017
City officials are describing a situation occurring earlier this month on Lone Jack Road in Encinitas as a “pavement failure,” after a process of liquefaction, when groundwater rises and mixes with the soil, caused the ground to become fluid and shifted the asphalt road. Photo by Aaron Burgin
‘Pavement failure’ in Olivenhain closes Appeal filed against commission ruling on vacation rentals Lone Jack Road By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — Nearly two-dozen property owners are seeking an appeal of a Feb. 14 Planning Commission ruling on short-term rentals. In a letter to city council members submitted with the appeal request, Ralph DeMarco alleges three of the five members of the advisory panel “unreasonably and arbitrarily abandoned their quasi-judicial duty to consider legislative intent as required by law in determining whether” shortterm rentals are an allowed use by ruling the code had to be unambiguous. “We would like them to affirm the original motion made by Don Countryman and Nate McCay that short-
By Aaron Burgin
City Council members are scheduled to rule on an appeal of a Feb. 14 Planning Commission ruling on short-
TURN TO APPEAL ON A14 term rentals March 20. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
ENCINITAS — The drive down Lone Jack Road is one of the more scenic routes you’ll find in Encinitas. Horses trot on pathways on a pepper treelined side of the road, all as cars jaunt up and down and to and from large, gated equestrian estates. But this week, the road to paradise was closed. Orange detour signs routed motorists through one of the estates whose gates are usually closed to everyone except for homeowners and visitors. And at the center of the closure, two large steel plates cover the reason for the street closure. City public works crews call it a “pavement
It isn’t something that we see everyday around here.” Ed Deane Deputy Public Works Director
failure,” one likened it to a smaller-scale version of an underground landslide that occurred 30 years ago in Norway. The road failure could cost the city more than $100,000 to repair and take weeks to fix, city staff TURN TO ROAD ON A14
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