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Surf Cup pursues complex
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Youth soccer group proposes sports facility near Del Mar polo fields
The Encinitas City Council is targeting the recent influx of stolen and discarded shopping RANCHO carts citywide by shiftSFNEWS ing more responsibility and costs onto local retailers. But some store owners say the city’s approach is “absurd” and further punishes victims of property theft. Story on 3.
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DEL MAR — Youth soccer organizer Surf Cup Sports is seeking approval from the city of San Diego to construct a two-story sports complex on a vacant parcel at Via de la Valle and El Camino Real, adjacent to Surf Cup Sports Park. Surf Cup submitted an application for a conditional use permit and site development permit on Sept. 29. The BRIAN ENGE CEO, Surf Cup Sports organization purchased the 24-acre site at 3975 Via de la Valle last spring, as it lies directly north of the sports park where Surf hosts thousands of youth soccer players each year under a lease with the city of San Diego. The application proposes a 48,000-square-foot multi-purpose building containing basketball and indoor volleyball courts, locker rooms, a lounge, and offices, along with two outdoor soccer fields, 17 pickleball courts, and around 340 parking spaces. Officials with Atlantis Group Land Use Consultants, a firm working with Surf Cup on the project, said the development’s size will be less apparent since the land is at the bottom of a valley. “The project site is substantially below the Via de La Valle roadbed, so it will visually read as more of a one-story building,” said Atlantis Principal Environmental Consultant Anna McPherTURN TO SURF CUP ON 35
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Driver dead after minivan strikes wall By Laura Place
Escondido opens up site to develop A city-owned parking lot is once again open for development proposals after the city recently settled a lawsuit with the developer over a failed project. 5
ENCINITAS — A female driver was killed on Tuesday night after her minivan collided with a retaining wall in the 500 block of Via Cantebria. A preliminary investigation found that the woman was driving north on Via Cantebria just after 11:30 p.m. when her minivan left the road, collided with a pole or streetlight and then crashed into a retaining wall, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department.
Deputies from the North Coastal Sheriff’s Station and paramedics rushed to help the driver, but she was found deceased in the driver’s seat, law enforcement said. According to Lt. Ryan Wisniewski, the Sheriff’s Department traffic accident reconstruction team will work to re-create the path of the collision to determine what happened. The woman’s identity has not been released pending notification of kin.
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Former San Marcos City Councilmember Pia Harris-Ebert stands by a plaque on the new Via Vera Cruz bridge named in her honor during a Dec. 15 celebration. The bridge is expected to fully open before next week. Story on 7. Courtesy photo/City of San Marcos
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