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Encinitas Votes:

10/28/20 City Council meeting open thread

 Please use the comments to record your observations.

Marco Gonzalez's fair-weather friendship makes for hilarious political ad

Marco Gonzalez, who heckles Julie Thunder for having formerly been a Republican and now being an independent, has some shifting allegiances of his own.

Republican registration drops 6 percent in Encinitas

From the Secretary of State’s web site:

	Democratic	Republican	Minor Parties	No Party Preference
September 2020	43.11%	25.95%	5.83%	25.10%
March 2016	36.46%	31.96%	5.64%	25.95%

San Diego County data here.

Is the Strong Towns grid really an appropriate model for a Leucadia 101 lane reduction?

The city council incumbents seem to be relying on this “stroad” concept to justify the removal of traffic lanes from Leucadia 101.

Strong Towns:

But when a road diet—removing lanes and shrinking the stroad to the more appropriate dimensions and design of an urban street—is proposed, the same objection universally arises from concerned citizens:

“What will happen to all the traffic?”

In fact, the answer reveals a fundamental paradox of traffic flow: removing the highest-capacity leg in a network may actually make the network as a whole function better, with less congestion and smoother travel.

 

Are Neptune and Vulcan really equipped to handle all the traffic from a constricted 101?

Turney responds to Michael Verdu hit piece

Facebook:

Lies are what you resort to when you can't or won't discuss the issues. It's where you go when you're on the wrong side of too many issues.

I want to set the record straight on these lies:

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UPDATE: Two of the four dubious allegations were made by Verdu, the others by someone else.

Tasha vs. Prop 13

 From the Inbox:

Regular voters, unaffiliated to any campaign or party, we have been researching Proposition 19 to understand its impacts to us and other families. We realized that:

• Prop 19 has multiple unrelated parts, most of which are not mentioned in ballot summary and ballot that are incomplete and misleading as to key provisions of the underlying legislation (ACA 11);

• Is backed by $41M misinformation campaign financed by special interest groups.

In our research, we discovered Tasha Boerner Horvath (along with many CA Democrats) are guilty of the same unacceptable anti-democratic conduct we’re seeing nationally.

More at the link.