The North County Transit District and SANDAG, with the support of Encinitas's mayor, want to make a temporary construction road near the San Elijo Lagoon permanent, and they quietly took the request to the California Coastal Commission last week – after SANDAG stalled on releasing documents about the change, according to concerned residents.
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The neighbors up on the bluff are living through the construction with the complaints you’d expect to hear: noise, traffic back-ups and congestion, dust. But they didn’t expect to see the temporary road become permanent. They fear the road will allow for illegal fishing in the lagoon, for trash dumping, parking for partying and vice, as an off-road bike access and even for using the land as an unofficial off-leash dog park, residents said in the half dozen letters that came in too late to be added to the coastal commission report.
Ellen Burr said she was astonished to learn the road would become permanent – especially since there was no notice to the neighboring homes. She went to Encinitas city hall on Nov. 29, and couldn’t get any information. “They said the road isn’t theirs, it belongs to SANDAG,” Burr says. Mayor Blakespear wrote to the NCTD the same day that Burr, who lives on the bluff above the lagoon, went to the city to try to get whatever documents the city has on the decision to make the road permanent.
Monday, March 18, 2019
NCTD wants permanent maintenance road at San Elijo construction site
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Blakespear a big government elitist, what else would you expect? BTW how is all of that cement looking beneath her home along the bluff just south of Swami's... stealing land and parking spaces from those who enjoy pulling up for a quick view of the ocean for the last 50 years and maybe eating their sandwiches for lunch.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the rationale for making a construction road permanent?
ReplyDeleteAs Cardiff resident, I believe Blakespear ruined our community character along the tracks and their's no going back. Know she wants to stack and pack development in our city by going against the votes of Measure U.
ReplyDeleteI live in another part of the city, but residents from all over Encinitas used to enjoy parking near the tracks and enjoying the ocean. I am also sad that SANDAG has sheared off the corner of the cliffs off of Manchester. In the I-5 studies leading up to the road expansion, the ONLY feature along the corridor that was mentioned as a feature to preserve were these limestone cliffs. I agree with the poster that Cardiff is being ruined with these changes.
ReplyDeleteStart a recall on Blakespear and the rest of the Council.
ReplyDeleteThe 5 need to go. They're selling the town out from under us.
DeleteThree of the five have proven themselves to be at the developers' beck and call. Two of the five are falling in line as prearranged and voting in lockstep with Blakespear.
Residents need to wake the hell up and take back our town in 2020.
They had to modify the cliffs there to add the retaining wall for the new bridge and 2nd track. That work was done by NCTD and Sandag, and would've happened no matter who was in office.
ReplyDeleteNO! We want to direct our anger at the current council! Rabble, rabble, rabble...
Delete8:39 AM
DeleteWrong. Someone in the Encinitas government volunteered for the early construction that wasn't scheduled until closer to 2030. That SANDAG construction money was aimed towards south San Diego. The early project stared when Teresa Barth was on Council. It could have still been stopped after that.
South San Diego had/has more important projects that won't be built because of SANDAG's lack of money. Blakespear and her council are still very dangerous in destroy the city's general plan as in the housing element. Write to HCD and ask them to deny the Housing Element Update 2019 which was never presented in workshops to the 5 communities. Blakespear is a dictator.
11:07 AM
DeleteYou couldn't be more mistaken. The double tracking over the lagoon was a major priority to not only replace an aging trestle but to improve tidal flow for the lagoon restoration. Show us where this is documented.
I watched the last council meeting at home and listened to the articulate residents who spoke against the Housing Element actions that the council supports.
ReplyDeleteI was surprised when Blakespear congratulated herself for having Bruce Ehlers involved in the process. This was disturbing since I was listening to a different meeting when Ehlers was sharing residents' and commissioners' concerns, and Blakespear called a break then laid into Ehlers. She had turned off her own microphone, but Ehlers' mike was still on. A lot of poeple heard the threatening mean side of Blakespear.
It takes a special type to put a positive spin on something like that!
Is it true that 85% of Encinitas voted against Blakespear in the last election?
ReplyDeleteI heard she simply ignored the results and physically took her chair at the dais by way of rear naked choke, then had the body of her former rival chopped into pieces and incinerated. The ashes are supposed to be mixed into the concrete used in the Leucadia Streetscape.
Speaking of Streetscape, I heard from one supoorter that the only reason he supports it is because Blakespear knocked on his door at 2am and said it would be a shame if something were to happen to that house one night while everyone was sleeping.
I also heard that Mayor Blakespear only ran for office so she could push through a 40-story office tower / oil rig on her family property in Rossini Canyon. Apparently the master plan is to do nothing about it for her first ten years in office, and then push it through all by herself without the other council members or citizens knowing anything.
I heard all of these things from very reliable sources. Very reliable.
I don’t think this is the kind of leadership want.
Finally.......something funny. Thank you
DeleteThis is 2:36. I’m not stating that all of this is true, but surely if my reliable sources are saying it, then some of it must be true.
DeleteThe mere fact that it’s being discussed here in a public forum is damning evidence against Ms. Blakespear. The fact that we’re talkig about it should be enough to disqualify Mayor Blakespear as a legitimate elected official.
The developers put in their candidates and they subsequently
Deletedo their bidding. Most voters are ambivalent about politics, so it is usually a slam-dunk to stack the council. Thus, a minority decides the community's fate.
We could have had this plan passed long ago had our council insisted upon more than 15% affordable housing and other favors for developers. This has been a classic bait and switch scheme.
ReplyDeleteMost of the people who have opposed this plan have done so because it does not address the actual need for affordable housing in Encinitas.
I have to agree with those who have placed blame on the Mayor since she wanted to cap the affordable housing at 15% and conducted secret meetings with "stakeholders" that were not open to all citizens.