Items of interest on the agenda: the budget, increasing fines for code violations, and proclaiming Friday May 15 "Bike to Work Day in the City of Encinitas."
Please use the comments to record your observations.
Post-meeting media coverage:
Seaside Courier: Encinitas aims to regulate sober living homes.
Encinitas Advocate: Council decides to write a letter on density bonus
Union-Trib: Intrepid Theatre Company gets OK to move ahead on theater in Encinitas Ranch shopping center. Funny how they weren't interested in Encinitas' new $10 million crown jewel Pacific View arts center.
Don't miss discussion on the AB744 agenda item. Mathis is the one where staff was asleep at the wheel (I know - shocking) and residents had to alert the a city to proposed and scary changes to density bonus law
ReplyDeleteMeant "this is" - autocorrect run amok.
DeleteGaspar acts like a game show host, going for the big yuks.
DeleteGaspar likes the Wheel of Fortune. That's her level of competence.
DeleteGaspar is too childish and completely immature. She needs to start acting and taking issues seriously, rather than "I'm so funny, look at me" attitude.
DeleteI wish she would start representing Encinitas in a way that is reflective of a good mayor. She may want to take lessons from surrounding cities that are stellar in the way they conduct business.
Get with it Gaspar, or get out. You will never make it as a comedian no matter how hard you try. In a government environment, please act like you have a brain. At this point, I can honestly say you embarrass me.
Leechtag buys off the city.
ReplyDeleteLeichtag's "cluster" donating money for traffic calming...the first step in their grand plan TBA. What on earth is a "cluster??". Ugh.
ReplyDelete"Cluster" is often followed by a four-letter word that starts with an "f."
ReplyDeleteDude wants regulations relaxed on inclusionary housing requirements so the poor building industry can make higher profits...wants a workshop with "affordable housing advocates" as "stakeholders."
ReplyDeleteHe means he wants restrictions off so all housing goes to market rate. Where true affordable housing occurs woukd no doubt be "not at all."
Ironic we live in an age when the a stakeholder is the vampire.
Delete- Sylvia
Shame on you for smearing Liechtag Foundation.
ReplyDeleteHahaha, riiiight. Now I'm curious: what is this cluster business? I tend to agree with the f-word assessment.
DeleteSomebody smeared Leichtag, so it became Liechtag.
ReplyDeleteThe cluster I think you may be referring to is called E Cluster, aka, the non profit that Teresa Barth, Tiffany Fox and Mim Micheove put together. It's also known as Engage Encinitas, and there is a couple opt more groups in the E Cluster (I think 3). Leichtag seems to have become a very powerful player in our little community. They are having Eco Fest, formerly known as Encinitas Environment Day, started by the late Bob Nanninga, at Leichtag this year instead of at Cottonwood Park. WOnder if they got a free permit since they are not using a city facility, or are they? The E3 group puts out such things as 3rd Thursday at the Encinitas Library where one can learn all sorts of things on how to bike to work, living in smaller spaces, etc. They also started Ride to Work one day a week, and Meatless Mondays.
ReplyDeleteIn a word: creepy.
DeleteTheresa Barth's Engage Encinitas is the same as the E3 cluster?
DeleteSo much talking. So much confidence, so little listening and understanding.
Here's an idea: in half the time it took to write your 4:27 opinions, you could have used Google to learn what it really is.
http://www.leichtag.org/2014/04/encinitas-cluster-becomes-hub-environmental-education/
Here is the scoop on the E3 Cluster:
Delete“People are hardwired to connect with plants and nature, and there are many different ways to forge that connection,” said Julian Duval, President/CEO of San Diego Botanic Garden. “Partnering with the other Cluster members, especially with the benefit of our future Education and Events Pavilion, will enable us to offer a greater number and variety of environmentally-based learning opportunities to the community. In fact, we have already benefited from the input of Encinitas Union School District leadership to inform the design of the Pavilion for just that purpose.”
The E3 Cluster Partners are neighboring 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations or government entities framed east-west by Quail Gardens Drive and Saxony Road, and north-south by Leucadia and Encinitas Boulevards. The group anticipates robust collaboration with additional entities from all sectors, to be known as “Cluster Affiliates.”
Goals of the E3 Cluster include:
Preserving and encouraging access to nature;
Supporting environmental education, health and well-being for people of all age, background and ability;
Developing educational, experiential learning and multigenerational programs including those around the nexus of agriculture, horticulture, nutrition, science, sustainability, community building, local history, and agricultural traditions of Encinitas;
Working together on issues that affect the Saxony and Quail Gardens Drive corridors and
Leveraging the programs and resources of each Partner to achieve Cluster mutual goals.
“Our schools are seeing the impact of Environmental Education,” said Dr. Timothy Baird, Superintendent of Encinitas Union School District. “Partnering with our neighbors allows us to expand these programs and create new forms of experiential learning.”
Initial collaborations between the E3 Cluster Partners include:
SDBG, Seacrest, YMCA, Heritage Museum, and Leichtag Foundation routinely share their parking areas to accommodate each other’s events
San Diego Botanic Gardens leases space from Leichtag Foundation for horticultural research.
The San Dieguito Heritage Museum is working with Encinitas Union School District on curricular programs in the elementary schools.
“We’re excited to continue and expand collaboration with our neighbors in a more formal way,” said Susan Hight, Executive Director of the Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA. “This partnership will provide resources for the youth we serve to enhance their learning of our environment and gain educational tools to better preserve nature.
Thanks, but the creepy feeling remains. The "sustainability" jargon is just too too.
DeleteRide your bike to work on Friday - in the rain. It'll keep the fire department busy tho, doing the emergency calls.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if City Hall is closed on Friday, May 15.
DeleteCity Hall is open this Friday. Rain is predicted. I doubt anyone will be riding a bicycle to work.
DeleteLast night, one of the three of the evil triumvirate developers, worst of the worst, spoke before the council and threatened this whole community to bend to his will and stop fighting developments. Doug Harwood. I thought it sounded just like Marco from a few months ago, who stood at the podium and threatened all who opposed density bonus projects. The gaul of these people is unfathomable and there is no depth to which they will not sink to chase their fortunes at the expense of our community character. What a complete POS! If only he and his kind would ply their trade elsewhere, we would all be better off. There also in camera range was the BIA's McSweeney to cap it off. We certainly have all types around here.
ReplyDeleteLast weeks Courier featured this same character with a full page ad on the back page, so don't doubt where the Couriers allegiance lies. Also within that same issue was a full page ad for Gaspar Medical and a smaller ad from Stocks Insurance. How wonderful that they have an outlet to spread their type of stuff and where they are all so welcomed.
Bravo to the neighbors of these scam 'sober' houses for alerting us all to what can suddenly show up next door to anyone, anywhere. How these for profit operators are not strictly regulated by the state is shameful. That neighbor on Neptune who was approached in his driveway about buying drugs was rightfully outrages and the former user himself who runs this sober home? had no answer. This, sadly, is all money driven, no matter how sincere some of these operators try to come off.
Thanks to these affected neighbors for bringing to light what is going on. Hopefully our council will do a better job protecting us from this practice than they have from Harwood and his ilk.
Harwood has done more for Encinitas than you or any others of your ilk.
DeleteDidn't see you up there last night; back hurt?
Harwood has done more for City coffers and business partners than anyone else. The guy is reviled for the mockery he makes of true affordable housing and for him to claim to uphold the "spirit" was rich coming from him, to say the least.
DeleteAn ex-Leucadian, he now lives in RSF. Remember his mug on the full-page "No on A" flier the week before the election? What a gift to the "Yes on A" proponents.
Amen to that… I heard Vina and harwood had a special kind of relationship…. how swwwweet!
DeleteYou people are losing your touch.
ReplyDeleteNot one snarky comment linking the downtown bars to the addiction treatment centers?
They go together like a horse and carriage
This I tell you brother
You can't have one without the other
Ask the local gentry
And they will say it's elementary
Try, try, try to separate them
It's an illusion
How disappointing for you. Slow day at the City?
DeleteSoon the Tsunami Committee will wash all you down-towners away!
ReplyDeleteno water. Stop issuing water meters. Let people more where there is water. Oregon or Washington.
ReplyDeleteI agree. We should already have a moratorium on issuing new water meters. An ongoing state of emergency drought conditions should preclude new development until we can work out some kind of process to protect the water supply, the health and safety, of existing residents.
DeleteIt used to be that Level 2 drought in Encinitas mandated no new water meters. When and why did that change under our "new" council?
Anyone know the stats on how many rode their bikes to work yesterday? It always gets proclaimed as a day to do it, but we never hear any results.
ReplyDeleteDid our council and city staff ride their bikes to work. I didn't see any one peddling.
Anyone know the stats on how often Shaffer rode her bike to work at UCSD? You could knock me over with a feather if she did it once.
ReplyDeleteFYI, Intrepid was initially interested in the school site. If you read their original proposal in December, it was for Pacific View. They changed it after staff made them aware of the Town Center pad, which is ready to build, as opposed to the school site, which as we know will take a while before it is developed.
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