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FEB. 4, 2022
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Del Mar council extends COVID relief deadline. A3 Student arrested for racist graffiti at SDA. A5 Council, residents tangle over Sheriff’s contract. A7
DAA awards THE VISTA midway deal amid NEWS corruption claims
Carlsbad clamps down on auto part thefts. A7 O’side Unified launches ‘community’ initiative. A10 San Marcos breaks ground on Alora housing project. A11 SDA boys’ soccer in pursuit of first league title. A17
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ity to bus and rail public transportation, only 139 are required. Per the state density bonus law, 12 units (10% of units) will be reserved as affordable housing for low-income residents. This law allows the development to have one incentive or concession — in this case, underground parking — and an unlimited amount of development standard waivers. The developer requested eight waivers: one for setback requirements, open space requirements, landscaping minimums, parking width next to columns, compact spaces instead of standard parking spaces, garage aisle widths, building height and required facade modulation. Last fall, Oceanside’s Downtown Advisory Committee approved the project through a 5-2 vote with a few exceptions: the project must restrict shortterm rental usages, com-
DEL MAR — The 22nd District Agricultural Association awarded a midway contract on Monday for this year’s county fair to Ray Cammack Shows, just days after a former fairgrounds contracts manager testified RANCHO that CEO Carlene Moore had SFNEWS twice fraudulently changed applicants’ scores during a previous bid process. Due to the alleged change of scores during last year’s bid selection proceedings, Talley Amusements, a Texas-based carnival operator expected to win the midway contract, lost to Ray Cammack Shows, or RCS. Michael Ceragioli, a retired fairgrounds administrator, was subpoenaed on Jan. 27 for a deposition in an ongoing lawsuit filed by Talley Amusements against the fairgrounds over allegations of corruption, favoritism and bid-rigging. In his testimony under oath, Ceragioli testified that after completing the bid’s technical and financial scores, Talley Amusements had actually won the bid, not RCS. Ceragioli detailed the process in which Jean Flournoy, who worked for the 22nd DAA for 26 years, calculated the scores and determined Talley had won the contract Ceragioli said he double-checked the scores and also determined Talley was the winner. Ceragioli said he went into Moore’s office to inform her of the final results and Moore allegedly told him: “I need to go back and talk to everybody. We might have to change some score.” Ceragioli then described overhearing a process in which the score sheet was changed, but Talley still emerged as the winner. Then, the score sheet was changed again, and this
TURN TO SEAGAZE ON A7
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Comedy duo launch new statewide pot delivery biz. B1
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CARLSBAD NATIVE and snowboard wunderkind Tessa Maud, 18, will represent the U.S. at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. “I’m just trying to be present and stay in the moment through this because it’s my first one, so I just want to soak it in, but it’s a dream come true.” Story on A16. Photo via Instagram
Oceanside approves eight-story Seagaze project City officials: ‘Hands are tied’ in narrow vote By Samantha Nelson
OCEANSIDE — The Oceanside City Council recently approved a controversial eight-story, mixeduse studio apartment and hotel project despite a lack of enthusiasm from elected officials and residents. The 147,060-squarefoot project will take over an unused 15,589-square foot parking lot at 712 Seagaze Drive with eight stories of 115 studio apartments and 64 hotel rooms at the northwest corner of Seagaze and North Nevada Street. At just under 90 feet, the building’s top two floors will be reserved for the hotel portion of the mixed-use development. A total of 153 parking spaces with 97 standardand 49 compact-size will be provided in the project’s
A PROJECT rendering of a recently approved eight-story mixed-use development at the corner of Seagaze and Nevada Street in Oceanside. Some residents feel the building will be out of place. Courtesy rendering
parking garage, along with an additional seven spaces on Seagaze Drive adjacent to the project’s boundary. Of those garage spaces, 25 will be reserved for electric vehicles, with 12 of
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those providing charging stations. An additional 59 bicycle racks will be included and five bicycle lockers for residents as well as a loading space for commercial purposes.
Normally a project this size would require about 186 parking spaces, however, because the project is located in the Downtown Transit Oriented District, or TOD, with close proxim-
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