But the cool thing about Encinitas is that not much has changed. Surf culture is relatively timeless in terms of its dress, daily rhythms and attitude. All of my favorite haunts are still there. I got to have my grilled-fish taco platter at Las Olas, Curry Panang at Siamese Basil, the Ahi Wrap at Ki’s, and a soy latte and gluten-free muffin at the Pannikin in Leucadia. I even took Ryan into Cardiff Seaside Market not to grocery shop but to browse, to see the sesame-encrusted seared ahi in the gourmet deli, the fresh flowers, the beautiful vegetables and the amazing baked goods that somehow taste good even though they’re this-free and that-free.See also Waves to Ride: A Better Mousetrap
Thursday, March 6, 2014
We love Encinitas the way it is
A love letter from Aspen:
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Did you stop by the Soylent Green Estates called Pacific Station?? Barth says this is the wave of the future. And don't forget one last view of Pacific View - soon to be Condo Ridge! Take a drive up by Quail Gardens (San Diego Gardens) say goodbye to open space....
ReplyDeleteI need a drink - I'm going downtown.....*******hic*******
I love the letter. I feel many of the same things the writer does. Not everything is going to be exactly the same, no matter where one lives, and with change comes uncertainty and sometimes fear. I will admit, I am not keen on some of the newer things coming down the pipeline, but I do know this is the best place I have ever lived, bar none.
ReplyDeletePacific station all sold all occupied oh but it's must be your way this is the new planning model GET USED TO IT
ReplyDeletePacific Station all sold, not all occupied. Apparently bought by absentee speculators and/or rich out-of-towners wanting a party pad.
DeleteThat helps global warming how?
Prop A is the new law. "Get used to it."
WCV
Maybe I'll open a speakeasy in
DeletePacific Station. I agree with dr. Lori, could be a lot worse. Look at Carlsbad.
-Mr Green Hovel
Carlsbad will end up better than us if Barth and Lisa have their way.
DeleteSounds as if that Aspen person is a foodie. Do most people rate the quality of life in any particular place by the food available there?
ReplyDeleteI have to say, it is nice to have some food options other than Chinatown and La Especial Norte. No disrespect to those 2 places, or to the Roadhouse or Calypso.
Delete-Mr Green Foodie
Mr. Green ---- Your a dick…. whether spin doctor or not.
DeleteF…. O...
Wow, for a comment on food! I have truly achieved. I'm not a spin doctor, I live in Leucadia and in that spirit I try to do something positive.
DeleteI know it's easy to just spew hate anonymously, but I try and add something to the dialogue.
So stick that in your hat!
-Mr Green Retort
8:26
DeleteTry visiting New Castle, Indiana and eating right. I think better food choice consciousness anywhere does raise the bar for of people's quality of life - so hat's off to other cities with orgainic juice bars! (And kudos to the first lady for her efforts to diminish pizza deliveries to our schools twice a week.)
Hi Fred: Lost your email address and have awesome pictures I think you'll love. They were sent to me by my mother so if I wanted to forward them to you, and you would like to see them, can you email me @lgreene98@aol.com. Then I can forward them onto you. I also forwarded them to WcV. They are truly awesome and a piece of history which I think you both will enjoy. Wc-Feel free to post any of them on your blog. I now many bloggers would love them, and put them in a better mood. And, no, I am not the City's spin doctor either. And the pics are not of Encinitas. So you could all enjoy them. They stem from 1800's forward.
DeleteBarth said last week she wants Enc, only better.
ReplyDeleteWatch out! She won't tell you what she wants to change. Watch out for her weasel and incomplete responses. Anyone want to bet she moves out of our dream city within 18months of getting kicked out of office? I will also betcha it is not to some new urbanism enclave. Takers?
DeleteI'll take that bet, she's not moving...
DeleteSo. Re: tonight's planning commission meeting re: the PRIVATE Leucadia Club. Palease
ReplyDeleteBest thing about pacific station it knocked stocks out. An atrocity that never needs repeating.
ReplyDeleteYes, a cruel blasphemer. But apparently PS is what that buyers want.
DeleteNot…. look at all the Commercial developments given back to the banks.
DeleteLets see where these dumps end up in 5 years. I say lower priced and bought by landlord for rentals like any other apartments or condos.
I do agree about knocking Stocks out.
DeletePlus Stocks unbelievable corrupt tax give away to employee pensions, when he voted to increase all the City Employees pensions including his own- 35% in one night.
this huge mistake is way your roads and other infrastructure needs look like shit today.
Find that council meeting on the City's website and see who else voted for the 35% increase.
DeleteLooks like Teresa and Maggie also voted for the pension increases! Can't blame it all on $tocks! Please don't cherry pick your information, it makes you look silly.
DeletePS looks even worse from the east side, from the train. Planning KNEW or should have known there would be inadequate parking, even before it ever should become "fully occupied," which is different than being "sold out."
DeletePS is another case of special interests "getting in good" with Council, getting exactly what they wanted, including tax "increments" to help them through tough times, before Whole Foods moved in.
I don't think DeWald had to pay the kind of in-lieu affordable housing fees that Moonlight Lofts did, which mixed use development ended up going bankrupt.
No. The corrupt 4 that supported it were Stocks leading the charge, Guerin (ex sherif pension receiver and wife of public pension receiver), Maggie (RIP) and Dalablabber (dumber than dirt)……. Jim Bond knew how outrageous it was and voted NO (like a responsible council person looking out for the public's best interest). He didn't rubber stamp the City Manager's request (who of course also benefited front the 35% increase…… you need to get your facts straight-
ReplyDeleteTerera was not in office at the time and had nothing to do with it.
Teresa's record of giving unnecessary salary increases to staff make the problem worse. Those pensions are based off Barth’s salary increases and are unsustainable. They are a social injustice. She loves to drive a financial humvee while handing out Gus Vina's kool-aid.
DeleteThink of all those politicians before the 60's that were cowards and would not speak up on, bring up, and vote up on civil rights. Today's elected cowards are afraid of voting for economic justice. Our grandchildren will pay the price.
Barth gave away teh farm during the last fire employee negotiations
DeleteEr, economic justice is more like getting people who work at McDonald's a raise on their minimum wage. What we're talking about is pension reform, and so far we haven't had anybody willing to really work on that....
Deleteahhhh, economic justice is letting eah individual earn his own income and keep what he earns-
Deleteyou are talking about what you call 'social justice' where it is not the individual but the government who decides who gets what.
Actually, I was just trying to define some terms as they're commonly used, not debate economic systems. I think we actually agree, the pensions at city hall are not sustainable...
DeleteDalablabber - hilarious name!!! It was great fun watching him blather incoherently at the pre-election debates trying to skirt around Kitchen and LoanGate - he made the proverbial deer in the headlights look like Einstein! Didn't someone mention that Guerin did marathons after retiring on a physical disability - isn't that fraud? I guess when "Just Pay Me Donations" Dumanis is in office, it is all a matter of perspective.
ReplyDeleteGuerin ran in relay races, including in the city formerly known as Hondo, Japan, where she and other employees and Council Members took junkets on the taxpayers' dime. I don't believe Christy every ran in a marathon; don't think she was up to that kind of feat.
DeleteRemember "kitten-gate" in Hondo? Maggie stopped to rescue a kitten (or was it two kittens?) during her segment of the relay race, and Christy was furious! Guerin came back to Encinitas exclaiming about how the Japanese clapped wherever the City entourage went, also complaining, bitterly, about Maggie, making fun of her. It was all written up in the Coast News and NCT, as I recall.
The whole time that Christy was running in races and working for Bilbray, and still, to this day, I'm sure, she has been getting $3,000 per month retirement disability from the Sheriff's Dept. for stress fractures. I don't know if her husband is now retired, but he got a one time settlement from Workers' Compensation, and went on, to continue working for the Sheriff's Dept., as a Colonel. When I objected that Christy had a conflict of interests, and should not be in on negotiations for wages for Sheriff's Deputies for Encinitas, I was "pooh-poohed" by both Guerin and her lap dogs, including Sabine.
I happened to spot Guerin's husband one day. He looked very heavy, dirty clothes and quite unhappy. Maybe she booted him out for Stocks.
DeleteWhat a corrupt bunch. Geurimis still an office at Olivenhain watermen District. Buildings her PERS every year.
ReplyDeleteA real DA will prosecute them all
For what?
DeleteI don't think it should be legal for someone who is still able to work and able to run in races to get retirement disability for stress fractures. Dumanis has the discretion to bring officers to court, or not. She very rarely brings public officers to court on charges, and does NOTHING when she receives complaints about Brown Act Violations. Jerome Stocks used to brag about the fact that no public officer in the state had ever been convicted of a misdemeanor Brown Act Violation. That is because it's next to impossible to prove intent, and also because these Council Members, etc., are insulated by a hierarchy of privilege; they consider that they are all part of the "State," and answer to a higher authority. The Attorney General simply refers people to our local District Attorneys, who have "sole jurisdiction" over violations of Government Code, apparently.
DeleteAnd Dumanis is still in office - amazing!
DeleteMayor Barth in the most recent negotiatins was instrumental in imposing a no rise contract for administrative employees and manegers also they are required to pay 100% of there pension contribution.
ReplyDelete6:46 your statement is a lie or politics
No raise? Do you have a link to document that?
DeleteI was under the impression that employees were getting pay raises to cover their contributions, which of course increases their eventual pension payouts.
WCV
Mayor Barth voted to give the fire unions pay raises, then she hid this fact as pension reform by claiming the fire employees were going to pay more for pension- of course all Barth did was increase their salaries to cover the costs of the contributions and then spike their final pensions. See how it works in the land of Barth, Muir and Gaspar-
Deletetaking money from you the private workers and rewarding their friends.
Barth is absolutley no different than Jerome Stocks when it comes to failed leadership, failed policies, destruction of community character and rewarding city employees- Vina and Sabien get glowing endorsements from Barth- just as Stocks would have done-
Barth apologist hoping to spin her way to Mayor in 2014?
DeleteBarth will be creamed in a landslide- few of the residents who supported her in 2010 will work on her behalf- Barth is so detached from reality she does not know how the hard work of her supporters in 2010 got her elected - she barely beat out a sitting mayor under indictment from the DA and Phony Tony Kranz and his angry Obama Hitler rant broacast on youtube-
It wasn't Barth that got her elected but the residents who worked for her, that won't happen this time. Maybe she thinks she can buy the election - just like Ol Jerome Stocks- Stocks and Barth - two of a kind
I'd still vote for her against Kristin, but that ain't saying much. I would prefer new blood on all 5 seats, including the mayor's role.
DeleteThe Tony rant you describe was some dude who was basically paid to provoke him, a total Harry Eiler dirty pool stunt. Comparing that to Hitler shows your total lack of intellect.
Here's a real question, instead of the usual hate fest. Who's going to step up and run in the two available seats? Everything else is just hot air.
-Mr Green Jeans
Green Jeans-
DeleteTony had an altercation with a man holding an Obama sign comparing Obama to Hitler- FYI
Why would I vote for Barth over Gaspar?
Gaspar has showed a backbone to stand up to Vina, Barth has not. Gaspar has shown a willingness to listen to residents like Bob Bonde and Lynn Marr- Barth treats Bonde and Marr like the plague.
Barth has been a complete failure- if Gaspar is seeking a Congresional Run in 2016 she would be more likley to sho some restraint. Barth on the other hand has nothing but disdain for the people who worked to get her elected. She is hoping 'the business community; will elect her but they won't - she has proven she has no characther , all the more interesting because Barth seems intent on destroying the characther we do have-
no hate fest here, just the way it is.
Mr. Green Jeans,
DeleteLet me correct something there. The Hitler guy was Roger Ogden, who has been seen all over San Diego with his Obama-Hitler sign. The initial encounter was by chance, as Tony was down in North Park or Hillcrest somewhere at a coffee shop or something, and happened upon Ogden's offensive sign-waving.
The political stunt stuff was long afterward, when local political operatives heard about it and tracked down Ogden to come to Encinitas and tell his poor victim story.
WCV
I took the the point or opinion of the post being to show that Barth winning the election in 2010 had more to do with
Delete1. Her supporters working for her by handing out flyers, walking neighborhoods, etc.
2. Her opponents were flawed - Dalager with his DA problems for Kitchengate and Kranz saddled by being a first time candidate and the video that went viral showing him in some type of alteraction with the man above you reference.
I took the point of the post to be that Barth won't be able to count on her supporters in 2014 or her opponents shooting themselves in the foot. Both scenario's above seem true to me.
Thank you, Kathleen: how is your pension by the way?
DeleteTaking a trip to the atols anytime soon?
Thanks WC, my point on that remains the same. Invoking Hitler shows a lack of any intellectual or moral capability. As I recall, they exchanged words, then the guy got in his face, and Tony flipped him the bird.
DeleteI'd of done the same thing. Then it was dredged up by the evil empire locally as a sign "Tony Couldn't be Trusted". That's the kind of garbage Stocks and his crew pulled every time. I guess it was better than running on their record.
Gaspar is still a put up. She's bought and paid for by Team Stocks, team developer etc. She has no backbone. How many times do we have to see her having lunch with Mike Andreen to figure out where she stands. Her abstaining on the one Pacific View vote is all I need to know. Even Bond gave her crap at the time. We have to do better.
I have to tell you, I campaigned for Teresa, and she's never shown me any disdain. Maybe others have a different experience. I just don't see that she's been very effective this term.
It happens, it's not personal. But the question as always remains, who will run? I voted for Maggie the last time, and I would have preferred she not run again. Why, there was no one else, other than the Doug Longs of the world.
Someone on this board who has time, means and ability, let's see some hands in the air on who is willing to step up..
-Mr Green Jeans.
Hey Green Jeans- the Impeach Obama team is in front of Seaside mkt tonite and they have the Hitler mustache on 'El Presidente'' don't you believe in being tolerant of their free speech, even if you don't agree with it?
DeleteThey can say whatever they want, but invoking Hitler is for morons. How about that?
DeleteAnd just FYI, I voted for Gary Johnson for president, lest we have to cover that terrain. What does any of this have to do with Encinitas, BTW?
-Mr Greenjeans
Before the negotiations, the fire dept. employees, "safety workers" were paying NOTHING into their pension and health benefits, right? Then they were required to pay SOMETHING, and were given a raise in that same amount. Then all the "non-represented" (by the Employees' Union) city officers got equal raises, like Gus Vina, because he had to pay for his life insurance policy, as I recall? For EUSD, Baird gets his life insurance policy paid for by the taxpayers. Mo Muir voted no on that, too, the only one to do so.
DeleteCheck out todays UT article on Peak Performance. Encinitas will be the first in So. Cal to try it. I won't be participating, but have a look.
ReplyDeleteBetter find a candidate soon then. Time is of the essence.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the list, Long Beach has already implemented it:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.peakdemocracy.com/about_us?side_menu_item=clients
The word on the street Muir and Gaspar are bickering about who will run against Teresa. Muir has a safe seat on the council ,Gaspar does not.
ReplyDeleteThe money is on Muir to run .Think about that Barth or Muir
I'd still prefer neither. Where's Dennis Holz when you need him?
Delete-Mr. Green Jeans
None of the above!
DeleteWhere is Holz when you need him?? Still trying to fix the traffic.
DeleteMemories are short - Dennis Holz got kicked out of office, just like Sheila and Danny.
DeleteHe was not re-elected, you are correct. But then again, we got stuck with Christy, so which was better?
DeleteHolz has more brains in his left toe than Dalablabber has in his whole body. Danny was another put up by team developer, at least Sheila and Dennis worked for the electorate.
And gave refunds to developers and relatives: you can look it up.
DeleteWhere, exactly? Andreen's rag blog?
DeleteWho specifically, Holz or Sheila? Put up a link, mon frer, or you're just whistling in the graveyard...
DeleteLOL, crickets. Classic.
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DeleteReposting, to correct a typo:
DeleteStocks was not reelected either; we won't forget that. A lot of dirty politics went on when Dalager was running, for the first time, that time against Holz.
When someone says, "look it up," that person could provide a link, if one actually exists. People are given refunds when they overpay. For instance, many of us got refunds because Council wrongly had us paying taxes, which were charged on our trash bills, for a project on which we had not been allowed to vote. When we finally did get to vote, as in Prop C, we said NO new taxes, and we got a refund for monies already paid.
The only exception to our being allowed to vote on new taxes are water and sewer taxes and fees, which are set by Council, and which almost automatically go up, year after year. Water rates are set to go up a minimum of 30%, probably more, over the next five years. That is much more than the rate of inflation. The water meter fee is a regressive tax, because it is not based on water usage.
Puke.... I hope we get some better candidates.
ReplyDeleteIf u love Encinitas the way it is, get council to fire Vina.
ReplyDeleteOne of you blow hards should run instead of running your big mouth
ReplyDeleteI would like to add one point about running for Council. I considered it, actually more than once, however, here's the thing. Your life will be picked and pulled apart, and every possible thing you may have ever done wrong will come out, especially if you are a serious contender. That is politics, plain and simple. So many of us old folks who do have the time and means to run. would rather not have our lives investigated in that depth. Me, I marched in hundreds of protests during Vietnam. I would probably be called a "commie". When one reaches a certain age, and has lived and loved, their lives are filled with great things, and not so great things. Personally, I think I am intelligent enough to be a Councilmemebr. I think I know enough psychology to possibly be a step ahead of what the people wanted. But, I do NOT want to sit up on that dais 3 Weds. a month and take the publics comments, that were once favorable, and are now not. I do not have that thick of a skin. There have been many people who have run, and when others got angry at me for saying I don't think he or she would make a good council member, it was for the sake of that person, because I knew if they had done anything halfway noble in their lives, there would be those that used it against. them. So, please my dear EU friends, of which there may be none after this rant, let's talk rationally and reasonably. We are an amazing bunch of citizens. If there is a person out there that can run and feel that he or she could improve this City, PLEASE RUN. I will give you the first campaign check. So, now that my rant has ended, please continue. Pay no attention to the white rabbit.
ReplyDeleteGood. Because some fine Encinitas citizen will run, and we will all vote for them.
ReplyDeleteOnce they are elected, they will focus on cleaning up City Hall!
Gods work is not easy, but it is rewarding!!!!
Yes, they'll run and win and then we'll hate their first, second or third vote and then tear them apart! My only advise to the candidates is to get out in the hot, dry weather and thicken up that soft, moist skin of yours.
DeleteOnly if they turn on their base. I'd heard many Lisa and Tony supporters say while campaigning "we know we won't always agree, but they'll be sooo much better, we can finally relax and not worry so much about the state of the city."
Delete9:30, you are dead wrong. Look at how Lisa and Tony did a 100% 180. Who wouldn't complain from the rooftops, having given time, money, energy to get them elected, only to have them vote as Stocks would have? And Teresa?? Her big chance came and she likewise turned her back.
Signed,
Fellow cesspool-dweller.
Barth is a cry baby- read her latest newsletter
DeleteBarth is more than a cry baby - she lies in her newsletter.
DeleteDump Barth - the lame $tock$ clone.
DeleteI read Barth's news letter. I liked what she wrote. what point did she lye or was a cry baby…..
DeleteShe made sense and was logical. Please explain…...
"I was disappointed" whh, whh, whh -
DeleteBarth voted to spend taxpayer money of a program the city does not need - and can not afford -
Barth voted - after tthe fact- to support Vian, who once again went around the councul and decided before ever presenting the program to the city council that he would sign for it -
so why did Vina present it as new, and why was the council asked to vote, it had already been decided-
Barth plays the self-pity, poor me- whh, whh whh
Barth wants to know why citizens don't go to city hall? Becuase Barth is a two face- she say she supports community characther then spreads untruths about Prop A- she syas she supports residents - then votes against them on Desert Rose-
I will be walking neighborhoods telling residents to Dump Barth in 2014- in 2010 I supported her-
Bath will NOT be getting my vote if she runs again.
DeleteI mean "Barth"
Delete8:21 - they're called "lies," not "untruths," and with the way Bath treats most speakers, it's amazing anyone bothers going to take or just even witness her abuse.
DeleteShe's living in a bubble where she still thinks the voters love her...she needs to wake up to the self-inflicted fact that her former base will work against her in the fall election...not merely not vote for her, but work against her. She's going to need to convince a brand-new army of blind followers to get just a few votes come November.
Yep, BaRth - even spell-check doesn't want to know her, lol.
DeleteBarf. My spellcheck got it right.
Delete9:30-
ReplyDeleteWrong. Hopefully they use their mind and vote in favor of bettering our City and not rubber-stamping lame recommendations from a self serving City Manager that could care less about Encinitas and is selling it out every chance he has.
Since the 2005 council voted 4-1 to pass a 35% City employee pension increase, can a majority vote of the 2014 or future council rescind the increase?
ReplyDeleteYes.... I would encourage council to drop all employees retirements to 2%at 62.
ReplyDeleteThat would also be a great way to clear all the dead wood from city hall...