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VOL. 37, N0. 50
Dec. 15, 2023
Encinitas to bolster area bluff
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By Abigail Sourwine
The Encinitas Planning Commission approved a proposal at its Dec. 7 meeting to stabilize an eroding bluff to better protect a home located on Neptune Avenue. The project, located at 736-738 Neptune Avenue and south of Beacon’s Beach, will involve reinforcement and expansion of existing upper bluff post-and-board retaining walls. The existing wooden walls will be reinforced with shotcrete — concrete or mortar sprayed onto a surface at high velocity — and sculpted and colored to resemble natural bluffs. After construction, the new fortified retaining wall will be 56 feet long (extending the entire width of the property from north to south) and approximately 20 feet high. In late 2019, the bluff had begun to fail after heavy rains, prompting the property owners to seek an emergency permit from the California Coastal Commission to temporarily stabilize the slope with a mesh system. According to the project’s geotechnical report, the bluff is located within the “700 Block Landslide,” an event triggered by major rainstorms in March-April 2020. Since then, subsequent bluff failures and sloughing have endangered the existing duplex at 738 Neptune Avenue. In November 2020, emergency construction of “a temporary Tecco mesh wire fabric restraining system” was built to improve stability. Diane Langager, who has been working with applicant Patricia Burg and her family for years on a per-
Neptune duplex in danger from past landslides
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VISTA — A 34-yearold man was arrested at his Vista home on suspicion of child cruelty, possession of a controlled substance for sale, possession of a controlled substance while armed and cocaine possession, authorities said Dec. 13. At around 5 a.m. Tuesday, deputies from the Vista sheriff’s station served a search warrant at a home in the 700 block of North
Citrus Avenue, according to Sgt. Adam Milligan of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department. Gillermo Vargas, 34, was booked into the Vista Detention Facility and a bail enhancement was requested and granted, the sergeant said. Vargas was being held on $500,000 bail and was scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m Thursday in North DiviTURN TO FIREWORKS ON 17
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