The Encinitas City Council has appointed Leucadia resident Allison Blackwell to fill the body’s vacant District 1 seat at the Jan. 18 meeting.
The council voted 3-1 to appoint Blackwell to fill the vacant seat left by Mayor Tony Kranz, who was elected mayor in November. Kranz was previously reelected to the District 1 seat in 2020, meaning Blackwell will serve the remaining two years of his term until the 2024 election.
A resident of Leucadia since 2013, Blackwell pointed to her experience as a lawyer, human resources executive, diversity and inclusion leader and volunteerism as reasons why she was right for the role.
Sunday, January 29, 2023
Council appoints lawyer Allison Blackwell to create supermajority
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Rather than banning appointments altogether, I’d support a ballot initiative to make it so any appointee cannot run for re-election in the next cycle.
ReplyDeleteThere are legitimate reasons to appoint, like saving election costs, and not leaving citizens un-represented for months. But bestowing the advantage of incumbency by edict is a distortion of democratic principles.
I could agree with this for sure. It works well for Carlsbad elections. I also see the points to the below argument for no appointments. That can be part of peoples desicion to run for a midterm bump up to Mayor like Kranz did and a consideration to the voters on their selection.
DeleteWe all know Kranz is the Town Dunce so he did not give it one thought to what his running for Mayor at this time would do to the budget and financial implications of Encinitas.
He is always thinking of himself, and to his credit, it truly is pretty amazing that The Town Dunce was elected as your Mayor. Amazing and pretty damn funny!
While Encinitas sure has some nice coastline, your City Council has been the joke of the county for quite awhile and now with the Dunce at the lead, you make Oceanside City Council look like an efficient well run City. 😂
- Only in Encinitas could crazy shit like Kranz happen.
Worked for Mosca - wonder why he bailed?
DeletePersonally I think we should always vote, even if a Council member or Mayor leaves before their term is up, like Kranz has done.We are talking about 1 district and it would cost about $250.,000 for mail in ballots. THAT is what Democracy looks like. All the appointments are in line with exactly the same group of folks and it's getting old. But I would certainly not oppose 5:47's ideas.
ReplyDeletehat can be part of peoples decision to run for a midterm bump up to Mayor like Kranz did and a consideration to the voters on their selection.
DeleteWe all know Kranz is the Town Dunce so he did not give it one thought to what his running for Mayor at this time would do to the budget and financial implications of Encinitas.
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DeleteVote?? C’ Mon man. She’s an attny. Strike one. She’s been here just long enough to be a newcadian strike 2. She list “inclusion” as one of her strong points!!!!! Yea, by who? We all feel pretty included in this dog and pony show. Strike 3. I just wonder if she can get on important things like abortion and ghost guns-or the insane drug issues with our local kids, the bums over running downtown and the retardation that is the city planning? Im guessing drugs, street crimes will be solved by money grifting errrrrrrrr license plate readers. So funky!!
ReplyDeleteBlackensplooge sure hoisted her sign in that last commercial of hers. She is so f’ing tone def she preached abortion IN FRONT OF THE KIDS PLAYGROUND!! seriously. We are a dumb nation that her only pledge was to keep abortion legal in a state where it’s always been and always will be “legal”. She won. That’s all it took. Does ANYONE see what that lame hooman did to our beaches and the 101. In a informed , engaged community she would of been ran out of town just for that.
DeleteDid Blakespear will her SANDAG credit card to her? $2.5 million in fraudulent charges and no investigation - legal embezzlement.
DeleteTake a look a the Encinitas Modal Alternative Project (MAP) ATP Implementation Plan. This is where money is going to be spent, and maybe occupy a good portion of the Infrastructure Task Force time. The Appendix A survey results has the goods.
ReplyDeleteThis agenda item was already pushed back. Maybe twice because the commission appointments are scheduled to be on the agenda. Takes a lot of time to go through the applicants...
https://encinitasca.prod.govaccess.org/home/showdocument?id=5725
To me, it looks like some of the projects exist so the city can say they have some specifically named types of projects, allowing the city to qualify for certain types of state/federal funding. Please correct me.
NowLeucadia is posting signs all over advertising the rail crossing meeting on Monday at city hall, 6:00.
I hope the best for NowLeucadia, but when they posted incorrect campaign info last fall and I questioned them about getting their facts correct about certain candidates running, it was crickets in a non-response. My intention was to have them be correct in their public postings and welcome them to the campaign. The more the, maybe not merrier, but at least, not give out false campaign [dis] information, especially at that point in time when the true facts were already known. It led me to believe they had their own agenda and it appeared to be just another tool for the incumbent's to sway public opinion their way. I welcome any correction, but in my opinion they had a rough start in getting the facts straight that did not have to be with a little research on their part. Heck, I knew better just by reading posts here and on EV. My criticism before the elections was meant as constructive. I am still not so sure about their motivation at that time to post inaccurate info, but am open to them coming clean about why they were so off at the time.
ReplyDeleteLook who decided to join us so he could trash Encinitas, it's Darryl Dupre (Erik Es)!
ReplyDeleteWhat does Encinitas Now stand for? And who is Daryl Dupe (Erik S.)?
ReplyDeleteCitizens cut out of the process - there is no democracy in this city.
ReplyDeleteTo all of us smart Democrats, please contact the San Diego Democratic Party and politely, but firmly request them to get 100% behind Terry Gaasterland.
ReplyDeleteIn my humble opinion, Terry is by far the smartest Democrat in San Diego and she has my complete support.
watch the conversations between Terry Gassyerland and your town dunce Tony Kranz. Terry is highly intelligent and educated. She speaks logical points and has logical recommendations.
Your Town dunce, not so much. He is actually rude and talks down to Terry Gaasterland.
Yet your town dunce continues to waste tax dollars every chance he gets.
Listen to the dunce shut down other board members comments when they are making common sense suggestions that Kranz does not appreciate, then watch probably the smartest Democrat in San Diego, Terry Gaasterdand absolutely school Kranz and point out what a complete fool he really is.
Watch 8 minutes of NCTD meeting Min 1:23:00 through 1:31.
https://www.youtube.com/live/FhuaLlaxfeA?feature=share&t=4959
• Kranz manages to explain that north county residents are entitled to their TRANSNET tax dollars, yet he then voted against his own comments earlier this month at SANDAG and completely against the smart logical comments from Terry Gaasterland.
• Kranz neglect his duties as chair and the brown act and rudely and unprofessionally shuts down other board members comments when they are making common sense suggestions that Kranz does not agree,
• then watch probably the smartest Democrat in San Diego, Terry Gaasterdand absolutely school Kranz and point out what a complete fool Encinitas Councilmember really is.
- this is why 53% of Encinitas are against this Dunce
2:08, you’re not a smart democrat so why should we listen to you.
DeleteGo back to crying room, your safe space. Seems to me you’re always on the losing team. Kranz is your daddy now!
4:34 - Kranz will never be anything to me but he is your Town Dunce. 🤣
Delete4:36, so why are you on here if you don't live here, "Your Town Dunce".
DeleteFYI Terry Gaasterland is an idiot, no one takes her seriously, just like you 🤣😂
4:34- if you don’t agree with TerryGaasterland, then you definitely are not a smart Democrat. I called you a loser.
Delete*4:36
Delete4:49- I’m on here because this blog is pretty damn interesting and there’s quite a few people around the county that check in.
DeleteEncinitas is the joke of the county.
Keep up the great work nitwits. 👍🙏
Terry Gaasterland is an idiot, I watched the video, she sounded like one. Just like you!
DeleteBut here you are on another city's blog posting away at all hours and attacking certain individuals who have no skin in the game while your at it. What a sad life for you.
Buy hey, you just keep doing you.
Meanwhile I'll keep voting for Kranz so we can have public transportation and affordable housing.
Hey look it's Willow Hannington from Encinitas Uncensored!
Delete5:03- you could’ve shorten your message alot by just saying;
Delete“ I like having a dunce asmayor. It makes me feel a tiny bit smarter.”
Eric S and Daryl Dupre are two different people. Daryl Dupre grew up in Encinitas and now lives in another state. Eric "Es" is not an Encinitas resident, but got riled up when Steve Golden kept trolling people in groups like Vista Votes, Oceanside Votes, ect, so Eric started commenting on EV.
DeleteObviously Blakespear has supporters or she wouldn't keep winning. So why is it every time you encounter one online, and then encounter more, you assume they are all the same people? Or fake? She wins a majority every time. Ok, maybe it's been a slim majority, but those are still invididual supporters. The law of averages says some of them must post online?
Daryl Dupree lives in the State of Washington. Who is paying him to post here? He is not relevant. Another tool for the council majority to use is all he is these days. He and the pompous one must get along fine. Sure, he lived here for years, Big whoop.
ReplyDeleteDon’t forget about Erik Es and Dupre’s brother Jon Du Pre.
DeleteThese people don’t even live here, yet they continue to hold Kranz (not Ehlers) and his appointed stooges on a pedestal.
These asshats continue to defend SANDAG, Biden, Pelosi, Blakespear, anything progressive that moves.
Why are they even commenting in a town they don’t live in? They’re all over EV!
It’s because the politics in Encinitas has gone at least to a state level if not in National considering the shenanigans and joker clown characters you have.
DeleteI used to think Oceanside and San Diego were bad.
Encinitas is at a whole new level. Congratulations! 🤪
Come on Willow Hannington you can do better than that! 🤣
Delete5:02 now come on, don't be so harsh. Just think how brilliant these locals are (minus Bruce of course as he seems to be the only one with logic) that would spend millions on a defunct school building for finger painting classes. Instead, the genius' change zoning in Historic Olivenhain to build ghetto apartments.
DeleteBrought to you by "randy the rat goodson" and more stupid people
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Delete4:57,
DeleteI’ve asked this in the past, and never got a straight answer.
If the Goodson location isn’t acceptable, then where is the better spot in O’hain?
O’hain already has less than its fair share of the state mandated density, so your answer better not be in someone else’s neighborhood.
It’s a zero sum game. Every unit that’s not in O’hain has to be put in someone else’s neighborhood.
If O’hain residents are so selfish that they think their fair share is zero, then I for one say Fuck that. It makes me want to shove 100% of it into O’hain next cycle.
BIA, the Dunce and the Clowns should not be so eager to gobble up and even over develop more of Encinitas and turn our surf town into another shitty LA beach shit hole.
DeleteThere are plenty of land options that make much more sense but our clowns would not think of that now would they?
But you jump ahead. Please define the problem, so we can focus on a solution. The problem is affordable rent. right?
OK. affordable rent for who? Encinitas residents or the world's homeless, or every poor person in the world?
Without answering the questions, the State's affordable housing program is a developers and dumb liberals wet dream nothing more.
Developer's get to spew their shitty stack'n pack everywhere for maximum profit, and dumb liberals get to think they are actually making a dent in rent prices of an area.
I define dumb liberals as those who do not understand free enterprise and supply and demand curves (market forces). Examples of dumb liberals would be Tony Kranz, John Gjada, and Kathleen Kees. Examples of some smarter liberals that are dumb for supporting their party line on housing would be Marco and probably (I hope) Clown Blackwell.
So what is affordable housing?
Home prices are falling off a cliff, and we are just heading into an economic correction of historic magnitude as a result of money for zero cost since 2008 and 1% following 9/11/2001 except a breif period during of 2005 until the 2008 "Great Recession" . This correction will make the Great Recession look like the good times. the FEDs shot their wad and not inflation is out of control and if the FEDs continue to digitize fiat curreny, the US dollar will collapse. That is why Biden's 1.7 trillion DEBT will do nothing. The world market forces already factored that new digitized funding and corrected by more inflation. The FEDs have no more moves. Watch. I guarantee they will drop interest to 0 again under pressure from the current Admin. which will just mean the end of the US dollar as world currency that much sooner. But back to the issue.
Is a 20% correction enough to provide "affordable housing"? 30%? 50%?
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-26/san-diegos-median-home-price-has-nearly-dropped-100k-in-8-months
and here is some fun reading to help with you predictions.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-06/san-diego-in-23-experts-predict-home-prices-gas-jobs-and-more
I can hear the answer now - its not the cost of market rate homes that matters. Its what people can afford. yet they do not define the people.
The State always try and use the buzz words that register a positive response from the marketing world. Affordable housing, Smart Growth, Sustainable living.... next it will be "healthy living"..... "mind provoking growth"..... "happy housing".
You will gain my respect when you call it what it is. - Selling out Encinitas to the developers for them to maximize profit at the existing resident's expense.
for our smarter followers here is some good reference-
Deletehttps://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/frbslreview/pages/1965-1969/62472_1965-1969.pdf
Tony you get a pass.... please continue work on your blues today in your finger painting therapy session.
Affordable housing is anything below the median new home price, which is $1.8M in Encinitas.
DeleteBy definition, the more units you build below that number, the lower the median becomes in the future. Housing becomes more affordable.
So...6:04 just let everyone ruin Historic areas, that's what you want me to comment on? The city wants to allow the rat goodson to build multi story (is it 5 stories) in the middle of Olivenhain where there is a height limit? Just ruin the area is fine with you?
DeleteOf course it is.
8:01, If your preferred alternative is your neighborhood takes zero, and put it all in my neighborhood, then GFY.
DeleteHey SD tracks their infrastructure gap. There's is at $20 billion.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/politics/story/2023-01-27/san-diego-infrastructure-funding-gap-surges-past-5-billion
Whats Encinitas gap and do all the law suits like the forthcoming Worley settlement payment factored in?
Right. who knows? They don't like to talk about real costs like on going operation of staff and long term maintenance costs of putting new facilities at the beach like the new finger painting at PV.
What is the finger painting plan? Will there be City staff, or are they just spending $30 million on a clubhouse for 20 of Tony's finger painting friends and only they can attend sessions? Whats the long term maintenance costs? Where is that in the budget?
Sorry. I know those are pesky questions that Tony didn't think about. But others may want to know these answers to see what the true cost of the finger painting verses other needed safety projects. The true finger painting costs are preventing their projects from being built that help with people walking without getting killed.
What do you think of PV Ms. June and Ms. Nunez?
No new news this week folks. Same old, same old, same poster endlessly posting his morning dump worthy same old, same old.
ReplyDeleteWe really like your repetitive post. Very enlightening. Thank you..
DeleteThe city has insurance, can you not read?
ReplyDeleteOh yeah. Insurance is free, right?
DeleteDo you think an $11 million payout followed by a $20 million plus payout will have any impacts on the cities annual premium or if the JPA members will elect to throw out the city because it’s too unstable and an unknown excessive liability?
That’s right. Excessive liability due to bad leadership decisions regarding risk issues.
Sorry. I can not read.
Probably not. What JPA insurance is the city part of? Be specific. Running your mouth on here about the railroad endlessly won't make anything change.....
Delete8:19- look it up yourself.
Delete7:39- we are sorry all of that information flew over your head. 🤣
ReplyDelete8:10am. Not even close. Your often repeated ad nauseam info was understood many times, weeks and months ago. I do understand your personal need to try to be relevant. Aren't you special?
ReplyDelete11:11- you comments do not make sense.
DeleteThe comments you referenced were from an article from todays San Diego UT.
You are just a mindless Dunce supporter. 👎
Anyone who has or needs to announce they had/have "Diversity and Inclusion" in any aspect of their life experience is a complete dead giveaway that the person is 100% unqualified for the job.
ReplyDeleteMeritocracy be dammed.
These are not serious human beings.
I’d bet my left nut that 12:50 has uttered the words “I don’t see color,” and “some of my best friends are ______.”
DeleteIs there a prerequisite for the super majority to be alcoholics?
ReplyDelete?? Please elaborate
DeleteThis wacko CANNOT back up anything they have to say. They can’t because they are cut from the same MTG and Lauren Bobert cloth. Trolling to troll and trying to fill the EMPTY VOID that is a truly meaningless life. “Look at me!” They sheik. Meh.
DeleteWhat? Please explain.
Delete12:56 can’t explain. Because if he gets any more detailed, he’s going to get his ass sued off.
DeleteIt sounds like 541 knows. Interesting.
Delete12:56- OK hints are good. Are you referring to the existing city Council?
Several alcoholics aye?
Anything of late?
There’s nothing to know.
DeleteIf it was true, then it would be stated clearly, because truth is a defense against defamation.
The only reason to be opaque and cagey is when lying and trying to avoid a lawsuit.
For instance, notice there is no specific name mentioned. If you wanted to smear people and walk right up to the line of defamation like a lying turd, you’d avoid any names. Leave it ambiguous and vague, so you can put out the smear, and no one can claim they were the target of your smear.
It’s what dirty lying turds do.
Losers gonna lose. Perfect example of the republicants. Cant win so make up shit to smear the ones who keep giving you an ass whopping. Newsom and Kranz are your daddy. You got nothing, no wins, no plan, no platform, nada. The whole party is like Don Jr’s wife, Newsom’s sloppy seconds.
DeleteGavin called, he wants he 7th Step back
ReplyDeleteWhat?
DeleteDo you mean this step?
DeleteMy Creator, I am now willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen." We have then completed
You people need to get out of the house more than once a month. That goes for the 733pm troll in his moms basement
ReplyDeleteSo I see reference to alcoholics,, Gavin and seven step. Did Newsom go on a Binger?
ReplyDeleteAny heads or details?
The Dunce has many of those traits as well.
Damn…. Never read this before Newscum is much more accurate…. What a scumbag bonkin’ your compadre’s wife. That’s a character flaw you cannot change. Loser. No wonder Marco supports him so well.
ReplyDeleteI bet all BIA is wearing her how my little higher. Trying to get some action from the alcohol club. 🤣
Monday’s revelation came less than a week after Newsom publicly apologized for his affair with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, 34, his former appointments secretary and the wife of his campaign manager.
Alex Tourk, 39, also the mayor’s former chief of staff, resigned Wednesday after confronting the mayor about the relationship. Newsom is running for a second term in November.
Great Guy… ppppff🤣
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/us/02newsom.html
I bet all BIA is wearing her hemline a little higher. Trying to get some action from the alcohol club. 🤣
ReplyDeleteSeems like Marco would be going up to Sacramento more now.
Let the stories role….
This Gavin? Mocking people who have overcome alcoholism thru 12 step programs not a good look for Gov Grifter
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1619809860052480000?s=20&t=ZIjYCzGwiTOvZkHDPlDuoQ
12 step people are lame. Oooh look at me, i accomplished being sober. Most people dont need any steps to not be an idiot.
Delete12:36-🖕
DeleteFrom the feed of a covid denier who loves Tucker Carlson, so worthless....
ReplyDeleteI like Tucker. Funny how leftists get so angry when truths are presented to them. Notice instead of arguing the point, they call everyone names and make reference to the truth teller as a liar, racist and how gullible warming will kill everyone. A convoluted mentally hamstringed leftist is quite amusing and indeed something to laugh at.
DeleteThe raising seas will kill everyone ooohhh gawd nooo
Of course you like Tucker..You know.. the guy who won a case against him because the judge determined that any reasonably intelligent person could not possibly believe the bullshit coming out of his mouth. Of course you like Tucker you stupid motherfucking idiot.
Delete7:18- you should not talk about your mother’s boyfriend like that…. Rude.
DeleteI find it interesting that 6:01 sounds posted like the woman who runs the FB page Encinitas Undercover. Is that you Willow?
Delete11:16 pm...no, I'm ex-Army and love to kill. Got any more questions.
Delete11:16-
DeleteRule 5: no, posting while binging.
5:04- 🥰❤️
DeleteI also like Tuckers straight shooter approach. And ironically, 7:18 just proved 6:01 right in reference to how the Looney Leftists start calling everyone names when they don’t get their way. They should be making reasonable dialogue, and refrain from swearing!
ReplyDeleteTucker thinks MAGA are a bunch of stupid rubes. He’s glad they aren’t allowed into his country club.
DeleteHe’ll take the money, but he sure won’t “straight shooter” talk about the time he begged Hunter Biden to help get his son into college.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tucker-carlson-hunter-biden-son-college/
I like the look of Tucker's face. You know , the one where he looks like a dog tying to figure out how a doorknob works.
DeleteThe BIA has its cabal in place - it'll be mass development as usual.
ReplyDeleteNo surprise the lefty clown comments all portray a low IQ community.
ReplyDeleteEquity and inclusion forever!
The steamroller is coming
POP! Damn That was loud!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning!
From a sprint to a crawl’: San Diego home price dropping faster than other cities!
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-31/from-a-sprint-to-a-crawl-san-diego-home-price-dropping-faster-than-other-cities
Amazon to trim 100 tech jobs in San Diego as part of corporate headcount reduction
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-30/amazon-to-trim-100-tech-jobs-in-san-diego-as-part-of-corporate-headcount-reduction
And
Amazon axes charity program amid wider cost-cutting moves
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/nation/story/2023-01-19/amazon-axes-charity-program-amid-wider-cost-cutting-moves
So, we can keep talking about the deaths on our streets, the City spending tens of millions on finger-painting for an art club, and the local characters including stan, Larri and Marco. BUT 2023 is shaping up to be an exciting game changer.
All you Elderly retired folk, may want to dust off your suit and see if you can get a job as a greeter at Walmart. When Amazon (Largest Retailer) is focused on major cost reductions, inflation spiking, home prices correcting over 12% in well less than one year, and many many families with money are leaving the state, you should know this one is going to cut DEEP.
Hold on because the next 5 years+ are going to head spinning.
The FEDS cannot save the day by creating another 3 trillion dollars and pumping it into checking accounts, because the markets called BS, and it will instantaneously be erased by inflation.
Think of it this way. The are exciting times. You get to live through one of America's greatest economic resets. Whooooo! Stoked 😂
For my friends that have not given away their guns. Mend your fences and get ammo, there will be scavengers that come crawling, and they are not thinking of good things for you and your family.
😊🙏🏾
West Coast markets are showing the quickest declines. San Francisco has now erased all annual gains and is down 1.6 percent in a year. Other markets that once had double-digit annual gains a few months ago are scraping the bottom of the index: Los Angeles, up 4.4 percent in a year; Portland, up 3.9 percent; and Seattle, up 1.5 percent.
ReplyDeleteHell yeah. Those cities that welcome the homeless are fairing great!
.....Oh shit, thats right ...the Dunce put out the call, Encinitas is a "Welcoming City"
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2023-01-31/from-a-sprint-to-a-crawl-san-diego-home-price-dropping-faster-than-other-cities
😡
“Faring,” not “fairing.”
ReplyDeleteThank you, grandma. 🥰😘
DeleteThat's grandpa to you. Now sit up straight and listen to your elders.
DeleteWait,….Did ‘Grammar Grandma’ transition into a Grandpa?😳 They’re teaching us this weird transgender stuff in school, and it’s gross. Can I please just have my Mr. And Mrs. Potato Head back? Ohh, and can I please have my Grandma back?😩 Because even though she gets on me about my Grammar, I really just want adults to stop being creepy and let me read regular kids books like Dr. Seuss. I don’t like the transgender and CRT ones. Can I please have my Dr. Seuss books back.
ReplyDeleteSigned,
Sad, Lost, and Lonely kid in La La Land
Let's be honest. If you're going to call someone a dunce, don't be one! "Faring" is the correct word.
ReplyDeleteAnd "thank you" is the correct response.
DeleteLet’s be honest. You're slow like a dunce. This was already covered by grandpa dumb ass.
Delete😘
Oooh, what a burn! Not.
DeleteI love all this chatter about spelling faring as your home prices dropped a half million dollars in the last three months. 🤣
ReplyDelete9:57 what kind of response do you want? What do you think folks should do? Sell low and cry? Or wait for the market to return as it always has. But seriously, what are you looking for? Validation that you know how to read the paper? Not understanding, help me out here.
ReplyDeleteDo what you always do grandpa, look for spelling errors. 😘
Delete11:06 what response are you looking for? Why can't you answer that?
Delete10:03- your lost…. Nothing for you.
ReplyDeleteFor other considering or having to sell in the next 5 to 10 years, better sell now, only 12% drop this first 6 months and free falling. Much bigger drop these next few years.
Another response may be associated with the city spending tens of millions on a finger-painting clubhouse near the beach… IDK. Is that good use of your public tax dollars?
Are there other projects regarding safety that need those funds? I heard a lot of needs from June and Ms. Nunez. Are there other needs?
How is the city going to pay the increased insurance premium after another recorded $20 million plus payout on the Worely settlement?
All good discussion points.
But again you, nothing. Keep your blinds closed and go tack your nap.
10:58 FYI, before Grammar Gramps, Grammar Grandma, gets on you, OR…it, they/there’s, she/her/hers, he/him/ get’s on you, I wanted to save you a tongue lashing:
ReplyDeleteit’s ‘take’ a nap, NOT “tak” your nap.
🙏
Delete“Tack” your nap. 🤣
DeleteIt's gets, you idiot.
DeleteThank you, grandpa. You sound kinda depressed and cranky. I hope you have a good nap. 🙏😘
DeleteCould a scavenging predatory realtor be behind these suggestions to sell now?
ReplyDeleteSure…. They also say now is a great time to buy. Buy buy buy.
DeleteThat is not contradictory in the real estate world. Heads I win. Tails you lose,
ReplyDeleteO.K.
DeleteIs Grammar Grandpa a retired English teacher by any chance? I mean who else would be so anal? No one expects literary masterpieces when people are trying to type quick texts. Plus auto correct often spells things wrong, or inserts punctuation, etc, in the wrong spots. I hope for the kids sake he wasn’t. Calling people “idiots” over a typo is just plain mean! I sure hope this ‘Grumpy Grammar Grandpa’ was not teaching our children!
ReplyDeleteOh, I can’t wait. He will find something wrong with your post.
DeleteCheck this out it’s spelled Beacons. You know like the beach. Beacons Beach.
It’s his life. You gotta have something. Pretty interesting how little that something can become.
Delete11:03- 💯👌👍
DeleteMaybe a B level fiction writer living locally and Encinitas and possibly Leucadia. 🤣
DeleteIt is Beacon Beach. Historically correct but little if ever used.
ReplyDelete11:03, who would "be so anal?" Anyone who bothers to pay attention. Cue the "elitist" slam, always a sad attempt to cover for a substandard command of the English language.
ReplyDelete9:21 So true. It’s all they got, so they always lead w/ grammar, swearing, or name calling, instead of having anything of actual substance to say.
ReplyDeleteYeah, substance like. Hey, you spell that wrong. That kinda deep substance. 🤣
Delete…so true that they’re “anal.” They have nothing intelligent to say, so they act “elitist.” it’s a defense mechanism that’s sneaky, counterproductive, and very elementary. Most of us can see right through it. And I t just shows they aren’t capable of having a meaningful and intelligent discussion.
ReplyDeleteHahaha so predictable.
DeleteHey you spelled that wrong.
DeleteMissing a comma there, bub.
DeleteThank you.
DeleteIf someone is going to publicly post, do one simple thing before you push send. Read it. Don't give the grammar police anything to complain about. Imagine EU with no need for grammatical corrections. We can do it. We all have been educated. That may be a stretch sometimes as evidenced by a few who don't read their posts before sending. Oh well, it was worth a try.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteThank you, grandpa🥰😘
DeleteThank you Gramps. Have you been to Beacons lately? The sand is really low. ☺️
DeleteWhat sand?
ReplyDeleteHuh?
ReplyDeleteYour annual focus on spelling shows there’s not much else in your life.
ReplyDeleteRight, let's all focus on spelling yearly.
Delete👌 now we only need to hear from grammar grandpa once a year and hear that repetitious story about Beacons Beach hopefully only twice a year.
DeleteCarpe diem! ☺️
Beacon.
DeleteI will add my Beacon too. Historically correct matters little to many with alternative facts in the public sphere. Tony knew better years ago, but rejected being correct. That has become his signature all these years later.
ReplyDeleteOK grammar grandpa that’s two corrections about Beacons. That’s your limit. You agreed.
ReplyDeleteNo, but you can keep up your end of limiting yourself to two pokes and stop calling it by the wrong name. Agreed?
DeleteOK I’ll hold up my end. I’ll try not to poke you anymore about Bacons. ☺️
DeleteI can recognize the history and honor it. For some reason, my fifty years of surfing Beacon, or Beacons, never had an issue with calling it Beacon when a treasured local author brought it forward a few years ago. Beacons appear to be easier to say than Beacon. So be it. It is no skin off my back. Knowing history has a value, whether it is respected or not. Beacons does appear more comfortable to express?
ReplyDeleteThey both work for their own reasons. Peace out.
The sign and the city have it as Beacon's.
ReplyDeleteNot exactly a ringing endorsement in support of the correct spelling ROTFL.
DeleteI heard someone tried to write a book about the spelling of Beacon/Beacons Beach. Anyone have any idea who it is?
ReplyDeleteBill Cleary and David Stern?
Deletehttps://www.amazon.com/Surfing-Guide-Southern-California-David/dp/091144906X
$31 bucks. Thats a waste of paper. 1/2 an yearly subscription to surfline. I'm out.
DeleteI bought one. Great book. Way better than Surfline, and it's permanent. Buy it once, no repeat subscriptions.
DeleteMe too. As useful today as it was when first published 60 years ago!
DeleteIt’s Bacon’s beach.
ReplyDeleteThe old man who used to live in the beacon would come down to the beach to make breakfast burritos.
Some say if you go down there on dawn patrol and close your eyes, you can still smell the bacon. And if you hold a shell from that beach to your ear you’ll hear the sizzle.
If you want good waves, bring a breakfast burrito down there as an offering.
I want my 12 seconds back
DeleteIf any odor makes its way up to the parking lot, one could only hope it was from the smell of bacon. I believe it will not be so.
ReplyDeleteI’m pretty sure they’ll be smelling more than bacon once the pot dispensary takes over the Just A Little More Breakfast ‘joint.’ Pun intended.
ReplyDeletePartaking on the premises is specifically forbidden, as it is with every other state permitted licensed dispensary.
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard that we have a licensed pot smoking bar in the plans yet and don't know how that would work unless everyone was walking home. I don't think that will be a worry for years to come, around here anyway.
11:11 We just ate at Just A Little More Breakfast, and they confirmed that they’re being forced to close down after all these years of being a favorite spot for locals.
ReplyDeleteIt’s very disturbing, but not at all surprising that our corrupt city council would approve a Pot Dispensary on coast hey 101 of all places. If we have to have one, it should be in an industrial area where tons of junior high aged kids and H.S. Kids walk by every day. I could just see some kids coaxing their piers and egging on each other to go in there and get pot.
The property owner made the choice after his location won the raffle bs. The business owners have as much rights as any renter does, which is not much. Blame the city for adhering to what he voters wanted. The did hire the worst company to enact the voters will. Other towns had previously fired them for their incompetence. Encinitas? Of course not. What is $600,000 of the taxpayers money to any of them? The city did make out by charging non-refundable fees to every applicant that amounted around 1.5 million$. The process was delayed as long as possible which is precisely why they were hired in the first place.
ReplyDelete10:40 I agree. A huge pot dispensary shouldn’t be on Coast hwy 101. It leaves a bad impression after you pass the ‘Welcome to Leucadia’ sign. Like 10:40 says, it should be in a industrial area that doesn’t get so much visibility.
ReplyDeleteNOT where kids are walking by being dared by there friends w/peer pressure. If people want it, they will drive a few blocks away for it.
Our City Council has really poor judgement.
Why would they not want a classy coastal town? I don’t see Laguna Beach, San Clemente, NewPort, Solana Beach, Del Mar, and many other nice coastal towns crapping down their towns and inviting transients and druggies. You know where Pot is being sold, there will be drug dealers hanging out hoping to sell people the harder stuff. What’s our City Councils motive, for crapping down our town and throwing us under the bus?
8:29pm Imagination can be a wonderful thing at times, but not always, as you just made evident.
ReplyDeleteThere are well reviewed studies that prove you wrong about dispensaries in fact not increasing criminal behavior but mitigating it. The Reefer Madness syndrome is alive and well 90 years after it became the joke that it still is.
11:03 So how do you explain the increase in drug sales, especially fentany, since Blakespear, Kranz and company brought all the transients here w/their parking lot and motel voucher programs?
ReplyDeleteAssociating the fentanyl crisis with cannabis? You definitely have the reefer madness syndrome going on.
ReplyDeleteMost of the fentanyl came from or comes from China. China has never been held accountable for how many lives lost by now? I bet you can help with that number of fentanyl deaths in the US the last few years. If it is not a million by now, I would surprised.