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VOL. 31, N0. 44
NOV. 10, 2017
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Encinitas bans marijuana sales
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Surprise throws election in limbo By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — Encinitas might not pursue an election that would ask voters whether to allow commercial cultivation of cannabis, after the flower grower who has been the driving force behind the effort proposed a housing plan on his property that would eliminate cannabis from the equation. The Nov. 8 Encinitas City Council meeting began with a surprise announcement from Bob Echter, the owner of Dramm and Echter, the city’s last large-scale flower grower.
DEL MAR — Despite pleas from almost 30 people during another marathon, 90-minute public hearing to rethink the adoption of an ordinance that will limit short-term rentals in nearly all residential zones, council members at the Nov. 6 meeting approved the new rules 4-1, with Mayor Terry Sinnott opposed. The action requires a minimum stay of seven consecutive days for a maximum of 28 days per year for rentals of less than 30 days. The second reading of the ordinance was the final step before presenting it to the California Coastal Commission by the end of the year
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Council approves curbs on short-term rentals By Bianca Kaplanek
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Echter unveiled a proposal to create an “agrihood” on his property, a single-family or multi-family community built with a working farm as a focus. The plan would divide the 21-acre property into residential and agriculturally zoned parcels, and would take cannabis cultivation off the table. Echter made the announcement in connection with the city’s discussion of its housing element update, offering the property up as
for possible certification in 2018. Council members also agreed the forbearance period — a time during which enforcement against existing short-term rentals will be delayed — will end the day the Coastal Commission makes a final decision or in two years, on Nov. 6, 2019, whichever occurs first. Councilman Dave Druker said his colleagues previously agreed to give short-term rental property owners at least one year to adjust to the new rules. Should the commission approve the local coastal plan amendment quickly TURN TO RENTALS ON A25
Alexander Simone, who grew up in Carmel Valley and graduated from local schools, pitches his invention, ProntoBev, to financiers Lorie Greiner and Kevin O’Leary on the set of ABC’s “Shark Tank.” The episode featuring Simone airs Sunday, Nov. 12. Courtesy photo
Local man in the ‘Shark Tank’ By Patty McCormac
CARMEL VALLEY — Alexander Simone says he will no longer allow himself to be nervous about public speaking after appearing on the television show “Shark Tank.” “Oh man,” he said. “It was a different experience I will never forget. I told myself I am not allowed to be nervous again about public speaking. Nothing will ever compete with that.” Simone was pitching his product ProntoBev, which chills wine in 30 seconds. And while he cannot discuss his outcome, the segment will air this Sunday Nov. 12
at 10 p.m. on ABC. “I was a little intimidated going in there because my company is on the line here and I have never even talked to a celebrity before — any kind of celebrity — and here I am talking to people I have seen on television for years,” he said. While viewers hear music when the entrepreneur approaches the doors to the Shark Tank, there is none during the actual taping. No sound at all. “I wish there were,” he said. But in the end, he said he felt the set was designed to make a person more com-
fortable. “I never saw a camera,” he said. He said he is not sure, but he felt he was on the set for between 20 and 40 minutes. Simone said he believes that “Shark Tank” is the most realistic reality show on television. “They (the Sharks) knew nothing about me other than my first name,” he said. A former resident of Carmel Valley and a graduate of Canyon Crest Academy, he now lives in San Francisco. Growing up, becoming an inventor was his goal. “All I can remember since I was a child, the only
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job I ever wanted was to be an inventor,” said Simone, 25. “Making Rube Goldberg machines was my idea of a good time.” As he got older, he started logging ideas as they came to him. Every time something caused even a mild annoyance to him, he would ask himself, “Is there an invention to fix this?” And this is how his ProntoBev was born. “I was in college at the time, in a fraternity house trying to have a bottle of wine with a girl,” he said. “The wine was warm.” TURN TO SHARK TANK ON A25
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