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AUG. 27, 2021
SAN Norby to fill MARCOS -NEWS Carlsbad’s D1 . seat council
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Small aircraft makes emergency landing on I-5. A3 State bills could change housing in California . A5 Tensions flare in recall effort of trustee. A5 City planners deny waivers for Goodson Project. A6
Consultant THE eager to ‘play VISTA NEWS his part’ for city
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Congress may help local newspapers. A6 Cardiff woman recounts incident with transient. A13 Encinitas looks to tighten electrification ordinance. A11
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posal in February 2021 due to the applicant’s difficulty in finding a site for a tattoo parlor that met all the buffer requirements. Then, in March 2021, the city received another business license application for a tattoo parlor at 3753 Mission Avenue, which was subsequently granted in April. After Freddie V’s American Tattoo opened on June 3, owners Freddy and Jacque Von Musser were dismayed to hear from the city which informed the married couple that the regulated use permit that was previously issued to the site was rescinded after The Arcade tattoo shop located at 604 Mission Avenue was approved. Now, Freddy V’s owners must apply for an administrative regulated use permit to be able to continue operating, but the permit can’t be issued with
CARLSBAD — The Carlsbad City Council unanimously appointed Peder Norby to the vacant District 1 seat during its Aug. 24 meeting. Norby becomes the third D1 representative since RANCHO 2018 after the city moved SFNEWS to district elections in 2017. Norby was on all four of the council’s ballots, while former Councilman Mark Packard and resident Ryan Vaughn were on two ballots each. A total of 13 residents submitted applications and 12 were interviewed for about 10 minutes during the meeting. Each also submitted resumés attached to their applications. Norby said he is on the backside of his career, but after a personal tragedy — the death of his father this summer — he decided to apply for the position. “When you lose a patriarch, there’s some … readjustment and re-evaluation of what you are doing,” Norby said of his father. “This was totally unexpected.” Norby told The Coast News he is “playing his part” until the district elects a new representative in November 2022. Much of Norby’s career was spent as a consultant with the public sector, along with an appointment to the County of San Diego Planning Commission. Norby consulted for the City of Encinitas for 21 years in capacities such as the downtown executive director, Coast Highway 101 corridor coordinator, general plan update facilitator and rail and streetscape consultant. Norby also consulted with the City of Carlsbad for four years and serving on committees such as Housing & Redevelopment
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CYCLISTS RIDE along Coast Highway 101 on Aug. 24 in Encinitas. Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner Horvath (D-Encinitas) is championing her bill to allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs, which has raised safety concerns from local groups and residents. Story on A7. Photo by Jordan P. Ingram
Oceanside eases zoning rules for tattoo parlors City’s mistake prompts changes to municipal code By Samantha Nelson
UNLIKE CANNABIS businesses, which can obtain location waivers, there are no provisions currently in place for tattoo shops to receive location waivers, prompting changes to zoning requirements in the city of Oceanside. File photo
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safety requirements and limits parlors to one for every 50,000 residents. The city hasn’t been applying Chapter 33’s rules since 2016 after the city approved a zoning amendment regulating
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The change would also delete Chapter 33 of the city’s tattoo parlor regulations, which dictates that parlors must obtain a permit from the city’s police chief, meet certain additional public health and
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OCEANSIDE — The city is changing some of its zoning rules for tattoo establishments after a new tattoo parlor was mistakenly granted a business license and another potential shop owner struggled to find a site that met city requirements. The Oceanside City Council unanimously approved introducing an ordinance at its Aug. 18 meeting that would change some zoning rules on tattoo establishments. The changes including removing the 500-foot separation requirement for tattoo parlors from residential districts as long as a freeway like Interstate 5 or state highways like Routes 76 and 78 are located in between.