Kranz, Blackwell propose high-density housing at Swami’s?

Coast News letter:

There’s only one word to describe the Affordable Housing Task Force: WEIRD.

What would citizens of Encinitas say to high density housing at the Self Realization Fellowship? In our parks? At the Pacific View Art Center? All three are included along with churches and schools on the “Consolidated Potential Sites List.”

The Affordable Housing Task Force was hastily created for unknown reasons, proposed by appointed (not elected) Deputy Mayor Allison Blackwell, District 1 candidate, and Mayor Tony Kranz, mayoral candidate. We have a state-compliant housing plan, so why were they in such a rush now to plan yet more high-density housing?

Can you imagine what those pumpkin fields would be worth if they were upzoned for 4-story condos lot line to lot line?

Solar hot dogs

 

9/25/24 City Council meeting open thread

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On those Destiny endorsements

From the Inbox:

Destiny has made the below post a few times on social media over the past couple of months. It includes a clip of Bruce praising her qualifications for appointment to a commission. Her post gives the impression that Bruce supports her for council.  He has gotten enough questions. He has gotten enough questions about his claimed support that he was prompted to make a corrective statement of his own, copied below hers. 


First Destiny's statement:

And Bruce's:

We're #1!

CBS 8:

Out of 11 cities in San Diego County, Encinitas ranked number one as having the highest rent, where one bedroom units can cost an average of $2,680.

9/18/24 City Council meeting open thread

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Full moon eclipse tonight

 Step outside. You can see it now.

9/11/24 City Council meeting open thread

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Kerfuffle over candidates' party registration

 From the Inbox:

Kranz/Blackwell/Preston's more rabid supporters are trying to make hay against D1 challenger Luke Shaffer for his mistake in thinking he had chosen NPP but instead registered as AIP (the word "independent" hooked him).  As it happens, according to a 2016 NPR news article, 73% of California voters registered AIP actually think they are registered NPP: Voters Often Confuse 'American Independent' With 'Independent' Party : NPR.

Here is Allison Blackwell, not new to politics - she is, after all, Deputy Mayor - "was surprised" that for 21 years, she was not a registered Democrat.  When she finally did register, it was just this past December.  How's that for the epitome of an opportunistic switch to get all the goodies the Democrat party has to offer in supporting her candidacy?

Scratch her being "actually surprised" she was not registered Dem all this time.  From January 2023, she advertises herself as NPP when she was going for the D1 council appointment: