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VOL. 33, N0. 37
SEPT. 13, 2019
SAN Psych facility MARCOS -NEWS coming back to.Tri-City
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By Samantha Taylor
gion’s smallest cities. They were joined by countless residents from Coronado, Imperial Beach and Lemon Grove. “(The seven smallest SANDAG cities) received 8% of the RHNA allocation; but have less than 2% of the habitable land area,” said Del Mar City Councilwoman Terry Gaasterland. The methodology meted units based on a 65% weight on job density and
REGION — After spending a summer in neTHE gotiations, county leaders VISTA and health care officials NEWS have officially reached an agreement to bring back inpatient psychiatric care to North County together. On Sept. 10, the County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the county and Tri-City Healthcare District to buildRANCHO a new 16-bed inpatient psychiatric health SFNEWS facility. The Tri-City board of directors previously approved the MOU during a special meeting on Aug. 29. Both the county and Tri-City, which consider themselves partners in this agreement, had to approve of the MOU before it could become official. The MOU dictates that an approximately $10 million, 16-bed facility will be constructed on land owned by the hospital. Additionally, the hospital will be responsible for staffing and running the facility. The MOU also established that both Tri-City and the county would evenly split the capital costs to build the psychiatric facility. The county is contributing a no-interest loan to Tri-City, which will pay the loan through cash and inkind services. Tri-City is also offering land it owns to build the facility as part of the evenly split costs, which will be appraised to determine the value of that par-
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HARBOR DAYS SAILING INTO VIEW
Teams race across the Oceanside Harbor in self-built boats during the 2018 Harbor Days Nail ’N Sail competition. Harbor Days, Oceanside’s largest annual community event, returns to the Oceanside Harbor on Saturday-Sunday, Sept. 21-22. FULL STORY ON PAGE A15. Photo courtesy Oceanside Chamber of Commerce
Del Mar to see sizable increase in housing allocations By Lexy Brodt
DEL MAR — As San Diego county moves to finalize its countywide distribution of state-mandated housing units, Del Mar is likely to receive 163 units in the upcoming housing cycle. The allocation for the 2021-2029 housing cycle is almost three times what the nearly built-out city was allocated for its current cycle. At a Sept. 6 San Diego Association of Governments meeting, representatives from the county’s 19 juris-
dictions voted to approve a methodology that essentially solidifies the distribution of housing units in the county for the next nine-year housing cycle. The state apportioned 171,685 housing units to San Diego based on its regional housing needs assessment (RHNA). The methodology was opposed by most of the region’s small cities — except for Del Mar, by far the smallest of the bunch. Del Mar Councilwoman Ellie Haviland, who
represents Del Mar on the SANDAG board and voted in favor of the methodology, said it aligns with Del Mar’s goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve the county’s transportation system. “If we don’t change the way we think about housing, then we are not going to make the changes we need to get people out of these crushing commutes, improve our environment and have better living standards for future generations … we
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have to start somewhere,” she said at the meeting. Haviland told The Coast News that approving the methodology is consistent with the city’s support of SANDAG’s “5 Big Moves” — a multi-faceted plan to help improve San Diego’s traffic and transit woes. Several officials from Del Mar and Solana Beach spoke out at the Sept. 6 meeting against the methodology, which substantially increases the number of units allocated to the re-
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