The Coast News, April 30, 2010

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APRIL 30, 2010

School board leader resigns

THISWEEK OVER UTILITY UNDERGROUNDING After much back and forth about utility undergrounding in Del Mar, a vote puts the issue to bed once and A2 for all

HELP TO FIND MISSING TEEN A search is scheduled this weekend for San Marcos teen Mickey Guidry, who has been missing since November 2009. Find out how you B5 can help

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By Bianca Kaplanek

My Fair Lady

DEL MAR — Saying she has been “isolated” and “marginalized” by her colleagues, Comischell Rodriguez resigned as president of the Del Mar Union School District board of trustees, but will remain in office, she said in an April 26 statement. Rodriguez said board members have attempted to exclude her from conversations during closed-session. She also said they have signed documents and met with legal counsel without her knowledge, “assuming

The 27th annual Encinitas Street Fair was held April 24 and April 25 on South Coast Highway 101 between D and J streets. Food, arts and crafts vendors, four live music stages, a children’s ride, a beer garden and more kept the crowd of thousands busy during the two-day event. Right, Encinitas resident Eve Weeks dances in front of the stage while members of the CCMA perfom. Below, Cardiff resident Kaili Agyagos, daughter of DEMA President James Agyagos, and Murrieta resident Alexa Butts, enjoy a ride. Photos by Daniel Knighton

TURN TO SCHOOL ON A17

Carlsbad teacher sentenced to prison By Randy Kalp

limits landscape height or blocks views. Lola Larsen, a longtime Encinitas resident,said she was concerned about fire safety in Cardiff. She said the prevalence of off-street parking reduces the ability of fire engines to travel down narrow residential streets. “Go and look, go and see what the situation is,” she told the council. Larsen warned of a tragedy in the making if cars were allowed to continue to park on the street and a fire occurred. John Spencer, a Carlsbad

CARLSBAD — A Superior Court judge sentenced a former Carlsbad elementary school teacher to prison April 26 relating to the molestation of several students in his classroom. Dressed in a two-piece suit, Raymond Firth stood emotionless as Judge Daniel Goldstein addressed the former teacher in a Vista courtroom about the ramifications his actions have had on the victims and their families. “When a teacher does this to a child, it changes their whole life,” said Goldstein, adding that the emotional injuries to the children may not be revealed for at least another decade. “They will question their worth, they’ll question authority, they will

TURN TO CARDIFF ON A18

TURN TO PRISON ON A21

Cardiff specific plan sent back to drawing board By Wehtahnah Tucker

ENCINITAS — City Council voted 3-1 on April 21 to send the Cardiff-by-the-Sea specific plan back to staff for further revisions. Councilwoman Teresa Barth recused herself from the deliberations because she owns property within 500 feet of the commercial district addressed in the specific plan document. Before being elected to public office, Barth served as co-chair of the Cardiff Consensus Conference, a group of citizens who convened over two weekends in 2001 to hammer out the details of a zoning plan.

The plan presented to council called for the sixsquare-block district of residential and commercial properties north of Orinda Drive, south of Mozart Avenue, east of San Elijo Avenue and west of the alley between Newcastle and Manchester avenues to be separated into four zoning areas. The first draft of the plan crafted by the San Diego-based M.W. Steel Group was rejected outright by the council in March 2007. The consultant veered too far from the goals of the conference held years earlier and in subsequent public workshops.

As a result, the council called for the creation of a citizen advisory committee facilitated by Peder Norby, Coast Highway 101 corridor coordinator. The group met several times for a year. A second draft was reviewed by the Planning Commission earlier this year. The height limit on buildings and the proximity of residences and businesses to each other and the street was a major focus for the citizen review panel in 2001. Landscape height limits were also discussed. However, the commission recommended eliminating any language that


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