The Coast News, June 25, 2010

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Officer convicted of taking sex bribe

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By Randy Kalp

SAN DIEGO — A former California Highway Patrol officer was convicted June 21 of dismissing a female motorist’s speeding ticket in exchange for sex. A downtown San Diego jury found Abram Anthony Carabajal, a retired Oceanside CHP officer, guilty of perjury, receipt of a bribe and conspiracy to obstruct justice — all felonies. The woman, Shirin Zarrindej of Encino, was acquitted of one felony count each of subordination of perjury, bribery of a witness and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Zarrindej and Carabajal, who is married with five children, developed a sexual relationship after he pulled her over

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The Food Network’s celebrity chef Guy Fieri, host of several popular TV shows such as “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives,” “Guy’s Big Bite,” “Ultimate Recipe Showdown,” and the NBC game show “Minute to Win It!” brought his traveling road show to the San Diego County Fair on June 19. The show was billed as part cooking demonstration, part rock ‘n’ roll, part comedy, and 100 percent entertainment. Thousands of fans packed the Grandstand Stage as part of the Toyota Summer Concert Series and were treated to an evening of unique entertainment as the host shared humorous stories from his personal life and his profession as a TV chef. As winner of a version of Fieri’s show “Minute to Win it!” Encinitas resident Caitlin Johnson, right, is awarded a chef’s knife from Fieri’s soon-to-be-released Knuckle Sandwich Series collection.

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Encinitas seeks fix for ‘mini-dorms’ By Promise Yee

Photos by Daniel Knighton

City planning process clouded by confusion By Bianca Kaplanek

DEL MAR — “Uncertainty is the only certainty there is.” When Temple University mathematics professor John Allen Paulos made that comment he could very well have been referring to form-based code. When the concept was proposed in early 2009 as a means to help revitalize downtown Del Mar, City Council members and residents weren’t quite sure about the process. The nine volunteers selected to serve on an ad hoc committee charged with developing a plan were also unclear.

Thirteen months and 26 meetings later, when the committee made its first public presentation at the June 14 council meeting, residents remained uncertain about the planning process. Most of the 20 or so speakers at that meeting, including past mayors, said they supported revitalization but not necessarily form-based code, mainly because they mistakenly assumed the Design Review Board, or DRB, would not be part of the process and the final plan would not be put to a vote. Council and ad hoc committee members all agreed the

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DRB should be involved in revitalization, although its role has not yet been determined. They also said any final decisions on form-based code would be subject to voter approval even though it is not required. After that two-and-a-half hour discussion, council asked staff to return the following week with a detailed community outreach program to educate residents and encourage public input. But even that caused skepticism among some council members. “I’m sorry to be a contrarian but I think it’s important to draw a distinction between

what form-based codes are and what they are not,” Councilman Carl Hilliard said. “In reading the staff report I get the sinking sense that they are proposing a sales job and that’s not going to work in Del Mar.” Many structures in the downtown area have become “physically and functionally obsolete,” according to a report on the city website. They are also legally nonconforming, which means property owners would have to spend a significant amount of money to make

ENCINITAS — City Council heard citizens’ concerns June 16 about multi-residence, single-family homes or “mini-dorms” that allow rooms of a house to be rented out to multiple individuals with separate leases. Concerns ranged from limited neighborhood parking to excess noise and health concerns. In some neighborhoods the problem has gone on for years. “There were 11 cars for that one house on average,” a resident of Encinitas Estates, who requested his name be withheld, said. “There’s trash, drinking, old cars that don’t run.” Mayor Maggie Houlihan cited a mini-dorm in her neighborhood that houses

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