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Supervisors direct staff to develop marijuana dispensary ban ordinance
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Volume 21, Issue 7
Fallbrook Skatepark updates community on park plans
Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 Jan. 25 to direct county staff to return to the supervisors with an ordinance banning marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated San Diego County. Dianne Jacob, Kristin Gaspar, and Bill Horn voted in favor of a complete ban on both medical marijuana dispensaries and recreational dispensaries, including cultivation-only facilities and existing facilities which will be given a five-year amortization period. Greg Cox and Ron Roberts voted against the motion to ban the dispensaries. “I don’t believe that San Diego County can afford to intensity our situation in any way,” Gaspar said. “I don’t think we need to put in more storefronts,” Horn said. “I do not want to see San Diego County become the capital of cultivation or dispensing marijuana of any kind,” Jacob said. “If there is a medical use for it then the dispensaries should be drug stores and it should go through the process for any other drugs.” In November 1996, the state’s voters passed Proposition 215, which allows for the cultivation, possession, and use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. In June 2010, the Board of Supervisors adopted regulations to the county’s Zoning Ordinance to address medical marijuana dispensaries while also approving a regulatory ordinance for licensing and operating requirements.
see MARIJUANA, page A-6
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Fallbrook Skatepark Inc. board member Terry Newhouse, right, shares some of the design Shane Gibson photo features of the planned skatepark to Jose Gonzalez, 14, during a town meeting Feb. 11 at the Fallbrook Library to discuss the project. Andrea Verdin Staff Writer Fallbrook Skatepark Inc. (FSI) held a town meeting Feb. 11 to inform the community about the status of the much anticipated skatepark. Approximately 50 individuals gathered at the Fallbrook Library to hear what fundraising and special events FSI will use to gather funds needed for the park.
One of the highlights in regards to the skatepark’s layout was the fact that 50 percent of the park will include a street element. “We know that there is a large following of street skating in Fallbrook,” said FSI president Sean O’Callaghan. “We plan to have a concert, which we anticipate to be scheduled at the end of March. We also plan to have a golf tournament at the end of April.”
FSI must raise $750,000 in order to build the park, which would be built at the Ingold Sports Park. Depending on the timeline in which the finances are received, the park can be built in totality, or it can be built in sections, as funds are made available. “We have $250,000 granted from Park Lands Dedication Ordinance (PLDO) funds, and
see PARK, page A-3
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Jacob delivers State of the County address Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
County Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who gave the 2017 State of the County address Feb. 1 at the County Operations Center, was elected to her seventh term on the Board of Supervisors last year and chose to make “Seven in ‘17” the subject of her State of the County address. Jacob placed an emphasis on roads, parks, pension liability, the county’s aging population, technology, safety, and community relations. Jacob was initially elected to the Board of Supervisors in 1992, and the Jamul resident’s campaign emphasized the need for the county’s unincorporated communities to have representation on the Board of Supervisors. The number of supervisors living in unincorporated communities doubled after the 1994 election which included the addition of Valley Center resident Bill Horn to the board along with former San Diego City Council member Ron Roberts. That election also saw Supervisor Brian Bilbray elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, and former Chula Vista mayor Greg Cox was selected to replace Bilbray in early 1995. “The four of us teamed up more than two decades ago to build a better county government, and we just stuck to our guns,” Jacob said. “While we face new and emerging challenges, we have come a long way.” The newest member, Kristin Gaspar, was elected in November 2016. “One of the many benefits of having Kristin on the board is our average age just took a nosedive,” Jacob said. “But us seasoned hands up here aren’t ready to ride off into the sunset. Not yet. There’s still so much to do.” The County of San Diego has had AAA credit ratings for the past six years and the Board of Supervisors recently addressed such issues as Alzheimer’s, homelessness, severely emotionally disturbed
see JACOB, page A-7
Man convicted in attempted murder case Andrea Verdin Staff Writer
enrollment at that time to be approximately 500 students. “We’re building for the 500 that we need in the relatively near future,” said BUSD superintendent Justin Cunningham. “We’ll design it so that it will be able to hold more buildings there,” Cunningham said. “That could be 20, 30 years from now, but we do have to make sure that we’re looking out that far.” In November BUSD staff issued a request for proposals to perform the required California Environmental Quality Act services. “The CEQA is something we’re going to have to start preparing for,” Cunningham said. ESA and UltraSystems Environmental submitted proposals which were evaluated by school district staff. Interviews
One of two individuals arrested in 2014 for attempted murder was recently convicted by the court. Jason Samuel Hernandez, a 41-year-old formerly of Fallbrook, was found guilty of attempted murder for an incident that occurred at the Econo Lodge motel on the 1600 block of South Mission Road on the evening of Dec. 22, 2014. He and Korina Catherine Dean, 26, attacked a 27-year-old woman in a gang related incident as a way of “cleaning house” within the gang’s ranks, according to Sheriff deputy statements. According to Sheriff deputy testimony, the attack had not been random; Hernandez and Dean were gang associates that had specifically chosen the female due to internal gang politics. The identity of the woman was not released at the time of the attack, but she did recover from her injuries. Dean had already plead guilty. According to Zachary Harris, the San Diego Sheriff ’s lead detective on the case, Hernandez and his wife, Christi Kopp, tried to hire a hitman to kill one of the witnesses in the case within two months of Hernandez’ arrest. “Through various law enforcement means, we were able to intercept the information,” said Harris. “That made [the Hernandez case] a life case.”
see BUSD, page A-8
see MURDER, page A-8
Shane Gibson photo Fallbrook’s Sarah Draves sets up to take a shot during the varsity girls water polo match against Ramona, Feb. 9. The Lady Warriors won 10-7 to take the Valley League title. See story and more photos on page D-2.
BUSD approves contracts for environmental compliance, design work Joe Naiman Village News Correspondent
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The Bonsall Unified School District (BUSD) approved contracts for environmental compliance and design work for the planned Bonsall High School. Separate 3-1 BUSD board votes Jan. 19, with Sylvia Tucker voting in opposition and Erin English absent, approved a contract with Environmental Science Associates (ESA) for California Environmental Quality Act services and with Baker Nowicki Design Studio for design services. The district owns a 50-acre site off of Gird Road, and contingent upon the prerequisites including environmental approval and construction funding, a high school will be built on that land. In January 2015 the BUSD board awarded a contract to Baker Nowicki Design Studio
for architectural services for the new high school. In May 2016 the board approved a contract with Kunzman Associates, Inc., for a traffic impact analysis, and a change order expanding the number of possible students from 1,200 to 1,500 was approved in September 2016 and increased the number of intersections to be evaluated from seven to 10. In December the board approved a contract with Hernandez Environmental Services to provide focused biological surveys at the Gird Road property. Bonsall High School is currently on the Sullivan Middle School campus and opened in August 2014 with ninth-graders only. It has expanded by one grade a year and will have all four high school grades in 2017-18. The district anticipates the high school to open on its new site for the 201920 school year and anticipates