Keith Harrison, the developer whose reported plans for a 3-story hotel near Moonlight Beach were thwarted by the passage of Prop A,
has bought an older Leucadia motel:
The 30-room Pacific Surf Inn at 1076 N. Coast Highway 101, Encinitas 92024, has been sold for $4.08 million.
The buyers were Keith B. and Sara S. Harrison (30 percent), P.O. Box 231594, Encinitas 92023, and James E. Harrison and Sharan K. Harrison, trustees of the Harrison Family Trust (70 percent).
Here's the kicker:
The property can be redeveloped into mixed use with 19 residential units over retail space.
Harrison also owns the property behind the CRC Thrift store and fire station downtown.
ReplyDeleteI believe that's where he was planning on putting the 3-story hotel.
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Harrison owns everything from 101 to Third St. on the north side of C St. above the Cottonwood Creek canyon except the two middle houses of the four facing Third St. across from the Moonlight parking lot. And, yes, that is where he wants or wanted to build a hotel. Prop A's height limits might have altered his plans. He's now building a huge house that fills the lot on the northeast corner of Third and C.
DeleteDoes Encinitas really need another Hotel???
ReplyDelete4:57 Does Encinitas care about what we need?
ReplyDeleteIf Mr. Harrison does to the Surf Inn what he did to the Long Board Grotto if will be a wonderful improvement for Leucadia. Hopefully the haters won't obstruct too much.
ReplyDeletewith all respect that we all have different likes-
ReplyDeleteI hate the surfy surfy crap and I loved the soul, originality, spirit and energy of the Longboard Grotto.
Surfy Surfy is a dimey dimey dozen- the Grotto was one of a kind
I have spent 0$ of my money at the new place- I spent over $15,000 over many years at the Longboard Grotto before it closed.
It's just a matter of time before that building too is destroyed and a mixed use structure with density bonus and bars with permits rise in it's place-
Once again WCV is the only true reporter in the breaking news on important subjects
surfy surfy is lamey lamey. And if you want really crummy coffee .....
DeleteSurfy Surfy is owned by real actual Leucadians who grew up here unlike you transplant wannabee kooks. The owner of the Longboard Grotto was a heroin dealer and a rip off artist. Wake up.
DeleteUntil a few months ago, Harrison owned the building on the north corner of Jupiter across from Just Peachy. The City site now gives the owner of that property as: 1697A La Costa Meadows LLC, 208 Pacific Avenue, Solana Beach.
ReplyDeleteIs what Harrison did at the north corner of Jasper really that big a deal? Cafe Ipe, Surfy Surfy, Art Gallery. How much was his doing and how much was the tenants'? They're three upgraded retail spaces. What might the alternative have been?
Calling people who care about and want to preserve Leucadia "haters" is as wooden-headed as saying "Love it or leave it" to people who want to hold America to its ideals.
Cafe Ipe, Surfy Surfy and Santos art gallery are a HUGE improvement over Long Board Crappy.
DeleteYup, haters want to keep it crappy.
Hey, you know what, 6:49? It sounds as if the true hater is you!
Delete7:02 see 7:43.
DeleteGotta love those weeds and dirt... Keep it crappy.
True, 7:02, pappy crappy, 6:49 and 7:45, is the real hater. Anybody objecting to his self-interested, strong-arm, bully agenda, he labels them with his defecation obsession, fecal fixation moniker.
DeleteYup Lynn,
DeleteYour the "biggest" hater of the group.
Later Hater!
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ReplyDeleteHard to beat what either the Harrisons did for the Independant Grocers of America Market building (a.k.a. The Rock Garden record store; Sex Wax Research; Longboard Grotto and now Surfy Surfy): THE most Art Deco building in town, or what the Marvins did for the 20's "shoe-horn" layout Las Vegas Motel (the Leucadia Beach Inn). And 3 story buildings are not always evil. But certailnly inadequate parking for tenants, workers and patrons is. Time will tell. There was one small business on that lot when we moved here in 61. "Fred Havey's Rock Shop". The place was torn down in 1966 along with many old growth Monterey Cypress evergreen trees. I remember because of how cool the snow looked on them as they laid on the ground when it snowed here for three hours one morning back in 1967 as the school bus I was on drove by them. Then the Pacific Surf Inn was built in June 1977. I remember that because when I was walking by it one night after it was all framed in, there was a particular large flying object above it that neither I nor a night watchman could identify. Funny how events can pinpoint a timeline sometimes.
Wax Research, not Sex Wax Research. It started as Surf Research across from Hansen's where the Union is now. Garth Murphy, Mike Doyle, Rusty Miller, Fred Ryan and John Baker were involved at one time or another. Eventually, it became only Baker, and that's when it was on the north corner of Jasper where Ipe is now.
DeleteThanks for the clarification.
DeleteI remember Wax Research . . . thanks for waxing nostalgic . . .
Deleteno one cares what haters remember!
DeletePeaceful Girl
70's Encinitas... boy was that an era! Only 60's Encinitas was possibly better. If ever there was a shangri-la on earth it was here, then.
Delete'60s Encinitas = greatest place on Earth. Too many people found out. Now all the suburbanites think they're living in a cool place. They shoulda been here 'yesterday'!
DeleteFred, would you care to go into more detail on your interplanetary wanderings, lol!
Delete-Mr Green Jeans
You are an oxymoron, PG. A hater calling others haters, without anything to back up that opinion, but hostility, all in the name of "peace." Right.
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ReplyDeleteThe alternative would have been half empty 3 story work/live lofts that a bank would now own with no parking and the absence of three exteremly cool businesses.
Maybe, but it sounds as if you're really talking about the crap next to your shop. If Harrison had wanted to go that route, he would have had to squeeze the development in before Prop A passed, and everybody would have hated him for it.
Delete5:57 sounds like Harrison's PR tool.
ReplyDeleteNo PR tool, just someone that knows "nice". I'm sure you prefer the empty trash covered lot where Solterra is located.
DeleteEasy to spot the haters, hey keep it crappy.
OK, 6:53, you've revealed you're small-minded and prejudiced, forming pre-cemented conclusions based on no knowledge.
DeleteThank you 6:59, I knew you'd see it my way....
DeleteCrappy Pappy is at it again. He's the real hater. Don't let him get under your skin, 6:59.
DeleteWhat ever the "biggest hater" …. hey lynn they could start a reality show about you.
DeleteLater Hater,
Peaceful Girl
"I hate the surfy surfy crap and I loved the soul, originality, spirit and energy of the Longboard Grotto."
ReplyDeleteThe run down and disrepair of the Longboard Grotto building was Crappy Crappy. Developers don't spend a ton of money restoring an old building inside and out so they can tear it down.
6:53, do you know that was all Harrison's money, with nothing from the tenants? In other words, Harrison did the renovation, then the tenants moved in?
DeleteIt sure doesn't look as if that was the route for Ipe.
Fred, please don't buy into Crappy Pappy's jive . . . you're already twisted up in his circular roundabout logic.
DeleteFred- you can have your opinions but you can't change the facts. The Longboard Grotto in Leucadia was a surfing historic icon- never to be replaced- Faux trendy coffee shops are a dime a dozen
DeleteWhen the numbers pencil out the building will be torn down- end of story. In the investment world Fred is is called buy and hold until the market improves (come to think of it that property was bought after it was rezoned - without a vote of the people
Biggest Hater,
Deleteyou know who I'm talking to and your the one with zero logic.
Later Hater,
Peaceful Girl
PG do you have a point? The Grotto was Iconic and historical. The building was rezoned without a vote of the people (contrary to untruths kranz told people during prop a) . And lastly all are entitled to their opinion. It's great if you like surfy surfy, let's hope we get to keep it when the math improves and developing the site makes more money then rents -
DeleteA developer buys a old building in a down market unsure of the future. Rather then build condos that might not sell the developer would be wise to invest a little money to fix the bldg up and get rent - then build condo's when the market improves
DeleteLol. "A little money to fix the bldg."
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DeleteMy point is the Grotto did not succeed with their business. YOu and your friends didn't spend enough money in the place to keep the doors open. You caused the closer.
I do like Surfy Surfy and spend my money there hopefully they do thrive. Both the Grotto and Surfy Surfy are only tenants in the building… the Grotto looked Crappy… Surfy Surfy looks awesome.
The saving of the building had everything to the owner. Keith could have kept it crappy, but he didn't. He kept it and renewed the old building.
What property have you preserved or renovated? My observation is that some of you haters can not even care for your own personal maintenance and let your own body, mind and lives get crappy. With that kind of mentally, why would I respect your opinion about what you see as acceptable? Before judging others, make sure your own life is in order.
I think we should all focus more on within, and take care of our own business first, and the world would be a much better place.
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DeleteI call BS-
The building was sold AFTER the land was rezoned changing it from commerical to residential and increasing the value of the land not by the hard work of the owner but by the clever inside upzoning of 5 council members.
AFTER the land was rezoned the owner knew more money was to be made selling the handout/bailout granted by the government called the upzone-
The new owner paid a premium for the upzone. When the numbers pencil out the building will be torn down and density bonus will be applied to maximize 'units' on the site.
The Grotto was fine before the upzone- the change in landuse led to it's demise.
My observation is you are bully trying to shout down anyone with an opposing view. Your facts for the Grotto closing are untrue. All one needs to do is look at when the upzoning happened and when the property was sold.
The cost to remodel a building cosmetically is far less then the cost to scrape a building and new construction-
DeleteWhen the numbers make sense the old building will be scraped and new ' units' will be built.
The rezone to mixed use and residential along the entire strip of N. Coast Hwy 101 happened at least 10 years before the Longboard Grotto location was purchased. And yes, that rezone only happened with a vote of the council, not the public. The current owner was not lying in wait, "snapping it up" as soon as the zoning changed like some vulture as seems to be your analogy. Some people actually want to improve themselves and their community.
DeleteWith all respect The Longbaord Grotto was sold just after the first peak of new high density mixed use development was taking off along the rezoned 101. After Pacific Station and Moonlight Lofts had begun the planning process - showing teh way- then the Grotto was sold. The Grotto was sold after the property price increase from the upzoning had been baked in - then the market went south and a buying opportunity presented itself to buy and hold-
DeleteWhen the numbers pencil out the building will be scraped and high density 'units' will be built. The people who would prefer to see Encinitas remain a small town also wish to improve themselves and their community -
Three stories of mixed use were approved the lenght of N 101 when the city council finalized Leucadia Specific Plan back around 1999. Five years later in 2004 Swarzenegger adopted SB 1818 the California bonus density law. Not sure when the Longboard Grotto was purchased but I think it was years later.
Delete"Peaceful Girl" is NOT peaceful, and is most likely not a female at all. Nice try, master hater baiter.
DeleteHarrison had PLENTY of time to tear down the Longboard Grotto and sail through Planning with a 3 story wonder, and don't think he didn't know it. And since when has what naysayers feel about a project make a developer loose any sleep? They're obvioulsly damned by some regarless of what they build. That's why most people appreciate the restoration of the property and others like 6:19 complain. The Longboard Grotto was a great place to shop, but the building itself was crumbling and no one cared about that except Keith Harrison.
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Delete6:19 isn't complaining- they share whatever thought they have- in this instance that surfy surfy looks like any other faux coffee shop trying to be cool- and that the Grotto happened to have more soul and character- I agree-
The point also the poster 6:19 makes of not spending money at surfy surfy but having spent money at the Grotto is also a valid one- I myself spent more money at the Grotto -
I also disagree with your contention that the building won't be torn down and replaced with high density condo's condo's as they will, as soon as the numbers pencil out.
I don't see your opinion Fred as complaining- it's your opinion. I don't see 6:19 as complaining either- they liked the Grotto better, I have to agree - It's unfortunate to paint those who disagree with us as 'complainers' it does little good and often weakens the arguments of those making such claims
Right.. When you don't agree with someone's opinions you tend to not respect their intelligence and wisdom. I for one do not respect the Haters Club members and don't like focusing on Keeping things Crappy!
Delete5:45 you might like new shiny penny's - that's cool. I like the soul and history of things original - the quarter with the red mustache - where has it been, how did it get here?
DeleteIt is unfortunate you don't respect the opinions of others and feel the need to be intolerant and hate those with opposing views- they have a word for that - fascist
5:45, the baffling thing is that you conclude there are "haters" and their purpose is to "keep things crappy." Facts and logic don't support your conclusions. Having opinions is everybody's right and privilege. But a requirement goes along with the right and privilege: The opinions must be informed by facts and logic. When opinions are ignorant rants, they have no value.
DeleteCrappy Pappy has a new Modus Operandi; because I have called him and his ilk haters for labeling everyone and everything of which he does not approve, everyone whom disagrees with his roundabout agenda, he is doing the classic copycat MO of now calling us haters.
DeleteDon't you know it won't work to project your own self-loathing onto us RSPB, Crappy Pappy? You are only soiling yourself, more. Time to change your MO and your Crappy Pappy pants, Roadside Park Bum. We know exactly who you are, and who you pretend to be.
Good morning Lynn I hope you had a nice sleep. Wow it's early for you the sin is still out.
DeleteWe appreciated the Longboard Grotto. Crumbling buildings can be preserved. The economy, including the City's budget, and true infrastructure needs can't be constantly expanding, without a resultant contraction. Just like our breath, lungs expand, contract. Just like our hearts, expand, contract. Just like the universe, expand, contract, explode, implode . . . Expansion cannot remain constant. Change is constant.
ReplyDeleteListen to your own comments Hater.
DeleteBreath,
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So some have physically "expanded", when will they "retract"?
Deletemaybe we all so get outside this morning and go on a nice walk. Get some fresh air in our lungs.
It helps cure the haters disease.
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PG,
DeleteDid you really just make a reference to someone's weight while steadily opining about people being hateful? Let's up the dialogue and keep it "above the belt".
9:26 nails it. The new configuration of Café Ipe/Smurfy Smurfy looks great and is a great addition to the community. I rarely go into either one, whereas I frequented Longboard Grotto many times. Different strokes for different folks, and different times.
Methinks the owner of the grotto saw it was time to get out of the biz. That and a crushing recession didn't help their cause. But short of seeing their books, or their inner thoughts, we'll never know why they closed.
As for Harrison, developers develop, that's what they do. We have to go project by project, and hope for the best, some developers keep the community in mind and keep the scale down. Others don't and build out of scale, out of character mass like that next to the Caldwells..
-Mr Green Jeans
I contract, every time I exhale. And with every beat of my heart.
DeleteYou can try to wrap your hateful comments in "Peace," PG, but we know you are still being hateful, attacking commentators for our physical characteristics, rather than discussing our comments, or the topics posted by WC on this blog.
We know you are Crappy Pappy. We know your MO.
Now, I'm out of here, to enjoy the sunshine. Thanks Mr. Green Jeans, for being a voice of reason, and to all other anon's who have been, as well.
1:33, Anytime.
DeletePG- Vina's new tool of hate and intolerance up and at them early. Communist countries and dictators from Cuba have long used bullies and facists to intimidate and seek to silence free speech and alternative thought
ReplyDeleteIs PG such a tool?
Also below the belt, Vina is an American, like the rest of us. Agree to dislike him on his merits, not some fantasy in your addled mind...
DeleteSo someone that presents an opposing point of view is a communist?? Wow!! More deep thoughts from Jack Handey.
Deleteno one called anyone a communist. It is a fact that communist countries and dictators from Cuba use the tactics of bullies and fascists to limit free speech and silence opposing views. Reading comprehension is an important part of rational thinking.
ReplyDelete11:20 no one said anything about Vina- you reached your own conclusion
11:46 The exact same tactics have been used by capitalist elites and their payed-off govt. thugs. Historical comprehension is an important part of rational thinking.
DeleteFor all you developer trolls: Define crappy and not crappy,Then drive hwy 101 from Long Beach to Leucadia and tell me what's crappy about Leucadia.
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Horsesh&&. Why would you use that example if you didn't want to make that comparison, especially when even a casual reader of this blog would know that Vina has Cuban roots.
DeleteMy point remains the same, comments about Vina's pay, ability, behavior at meetings is all above board, comments about his heritage, ethnicity, weight, family or other personal info is a low blow. That goes for any of the comments about any person on this blog...Grow up people...
12:48 please direct me to the post where someone said city mnasegr Vina was a communist or a cuban? I can't find it- thanks
ReplyDeleteVina's new tool of hate and intolerance up and at them early.
ReplyDeleteSee, here you mention Vina in the Ist sentence.
Communist countries and dictators from Cuba have long used bullies and facists to intimidate
Then you make an implicit comparison between Vina, who has Cuban heritage, and Communism. Knowing that Vina is Cuban, wouldn't you use another comparison a.) with less hyperbole b.) one that doesn't make a connection between his heritage and facism or communism.
Let me give you an example, Glen Beck is a Mormon. So I would say "Glen Beck is up early going after someone" Followed by "Mormons and other people from Utah have long used their position in the state to intimidate others". See how that works, the clever juxtaposition?
Isn't hate speech a glorious tool when unimpeded by reason, thought or judgment? Isn't it great to hide behind anonymity online?
There's enough on Vina's record to cover without ever bringing in his family, ethnicity, anything outside his job.....
4:42 wow- with all respect you appear to me to have a very vivid imagination- how would anyone, except city hall insiders- know of - Mr, Vina's race? Where is his family mentioned?
DeleteWIth all respect you are the only one talking about race (You do know Fidel Castro is a communist, and Fidel Castro lives in Cuba-right?)
Mr. Vina has done an effective job silencing commuity participation- if you are interested in the facts ask why there are so many MIG survey's unprocessed?
Or maybe ask why Vina cancelled a city council meeting- when he has no authority to do so-
or heck we mgiht even ask why Vina decided to hold last nights meeting away from city hall and the tv stations-
oh yea, and how about Vina telling the public the city was in good shape financially, only to find out it isn't.
Oh right- how about Vina controlling what city employees say to the council-that according to city employees who sound to me like they have been bullied by Gus
Oh yea, and how about Vina belittling LEucadia residents who took the time to go to city hall as not being 'representative' of the community?
You seem to me obsessed with race, Youy are are the only making an issue of Vina's race - no one else is talking about race - Communism and Cuba go hand and hand - it is what it is.
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DeleteHey, we agree about Vina, just not about using low grade slurs to describe him. I am not a fan of Vina.
Delete7:41 please show me where the racial slur post is? I can't find it? Where is the post saying Vina is a cuban? Where is the post saying Cuban's are bad? I seem to be missing something in this thread.
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DeleteA man, a plan a canal, Panama.
ReplyDeletePalidroning on again.
DeleteSort of a roundabout sentence if you will....
DeleteSam Ryan owned the Longboard Grotto for almost 20 years. He begged Keith Harrison to buy the building from him in 2008 so he could retire.
ReplyDeleteAny other developer on Earth would have torn that building down and built a generic mixed use structure like the ones on Phoebe St and Hwy 101 next to Caldwell's Antiques.
It's comical this blog crowd would criticize Keith Harrison and the local surfer JP, the current owner of Surfy Surfy who grew up 1 mile from there and has 25 years experience making surfboards.
The Grotto was fun and quirky but in truth was more of a drug den than a real surf shop.
Maybe a corporate surf shop like Sun Diego would more to your liking which is what the historic Ocean House building in Carlsbad is getting this year?
The coffee shop next to Surfy Surfy (the unfortunate named Cafe Ipe) has high quality fresh roasted coffee with a vintage roaster on site by local Dan Schiebe who went to San Dieguito High School.
Any developer on Earth? Really?
Delete10:13, well put. There is no year or moment in the life of a town when everything is perfect, and should be frozen forever. Some development and redevelopment will always happen. The coolest towns I know are a mix of old, updated, and new. In my mind, a reflexive objection to anything new just makes people tired and dilutes the impact of moments when we need to band together to protect a truly important piece of our collective history. The trick is to come together on exactly what those important, iconic pieces of architecture are, and defend them strongly.
DeleteAlso, when a a parcel is to be redeveloped, is the plan in character with it's surroundings? Again, if the natives object to everything on this basis, then no one will listen when it really matters. If everything is equally important, than nothing is important.
I agree with you. Longboard Grotto, as a business, was a great place, but the building itself wasn't really special. The new stuff isn't the same, but it's not bad, and it could certainly be worse.
--The New Guy.
A drug den, really? As in you could go there and score something because someone was dealing out of there? I never saw that.
DeletePersonally, I loved the mix of vintage stuff they had in there, but I would have to agree that the business wasn't real tight. Still, it reminded me of the old neighborhood place you would find before corporate America took over.
Not to make too big a point, because I like the building and the way it was preserved, but it in the past stores were part of the community, they sold a product but knew the people in the community. Now it seems like stores are there to sell or celebrate a lifestyle like surfing, and sell it back to you at much higher prices...
10:13- Who criticized JP? Please show me the post?
DeleteI can understand some people might not like Surfy Surfy- that is their right, and if they have that opinion they can voice it.
I didn't see anyone criticize JP or his right to have a busienss and his right to think and feel and say whatever it is he would like. Shouldn't you afford that same consideration to others? Whats comical is making claims you can't back up.
8:23. Take a chill pill, you have persecution complex. People are on here referring to the guy's shop as Lamey Lamey, which is kind of uncool. Someone chose to come on and defend it, probably a little too much.
DeleteIt's getting too personal on here, a discussion on development has become a personal attack on stores. The café Ipe and Surfy Surfy spaces are cool, you can go there or not, but local people own them and employee people in the community.
The Longboard Grotto was cool, but is now gone. Someone owned it, now he sold it, to Keith Harrison. He did good on that one, hopefully he will do a nice job with the hotel, and keep the scale and vibe within what works.
Talking about that is fair, getting personal on someone's shop, calling their product crappy is troll city to me, just don't speak if that's all you have to say.
-Mr Green Jeans
This city is starting to remind of one of those younger women who have a lot of natural beauty but decides to go bananas with a ton of plastic surgery and ends up looking like a beast. She was fine the way she was, her problem was her self image. Common sense would dictate so much development all at once it not a good idea. Why are we being assaulted by so much development all at once??
ReplyDeleteAn empty storefront or a vacant lot with weeds is blight? Blight is downtown Detroit, not downtown Leucadia, get real. Obviously there is another agenda. And yes Vina is in fact bad news, esp. if you end up on the business end of a witch hunt in this town.
ReplyDeleteYes a trash strewn empty lot is blight. Solterra is a huge addition to Leucadia, it's a good addition as 800 people at the TOL found out last night.
DeleteWeeds and dirt are a shame on the community, and it's OK'ed by the city. In fact encouraged by the city.
Solterra is a decent enough place - but not for me. I think it is overpriced, and the food is nothing special, the wine is ok but the place is way too loud for my taste. I liked Leucadia when it was a beach town, it is fast attempting to become Laguna Beach with the accompanyng posers- we now have the man on man LA stare downs as insecure wannabe dudes gotto stare at each other cause their so hard cuz- laughable
DeleteIt's my opinion and I am entitled to have it. I miss my quiet town-
Alot changed with the upzoning and government hand-out to a lucky few - it will be interesting to see how the council sells their high density overlay zones to the public.
Name one place in Enc where the food is special?? When the Souplantation is the #1 restaurant in town by sales, we aren't saying much about the sofistication of the Enc palate.
DeleteMayberry by the Sea.... Mmmm good, mayor Barth sure do make a good rhubarb pie!!
that is very interesting Soup Plantation - now I have been there and I have to say that given the price point the food is excellent!
DeleteOne of the things I do not like about Solterra and other new places is they charge alot for a plate of food and then- in my opinion- the food is nothing great- so i walk out feeling like I got ripped.
Eddie V's in La Jolla I think has great food and location. IT is expensive so a treat to go there, but I feel like it is worth it.
Does Eddie's serve rhubarb pie?? I guess not, LaJollans being so much more sofisticated then Mayberry by the Sae.
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DeleteQuantity doesn't equal quality. Try Thai Pan sometime. It was good enough for the King and Queen of Thailand.
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Charles Marvin and Peder Norby supported declaring Leucadia blighted, so a redevelopment agency, to benefit developers, could be established here. JP's Leucadia Blog helped defeat that. I believe the vote required to start up an RDA was 4 out of 5. After getting so many e-mails, letters and calls, especially from those participating on JP's blog, Christy Guerin changed her mind. Dalager, Stocks and Bond were all set to set up the RDA, which was what Charles Marvin, Peder Norby and other development interests wanted.
DeleteMaggie was not for declaring Leucadia blighted. Neither was JP. That was one time when Christy Guerin did the right thing, and put an end to that plan. Oh, development special interests were drooling over that prospect.
DeleteYou can bet that comments about Leucadia being blighted, crappy, full of weeds and dirt, comes from part of that pro-development crew. Same old spin used to promote their self-serving agenda.
And they believe roundabouts could be used as mitigation to get even higher density projects through, because the road obstructions would be counted as "traffic calming," rather than what they would actually be: traffic causing, as in causing gridlock during peak seasonal periods, and when I-5 is slowed down, including during construction on the planned freeway expansion.
You have one weird way off looking at things lady. How about roundabouts work better than traffic signals.
DeleteYou do not have the ability to understand.
We are not looking at an alternative between stop signals and roundabouts, 8:13, although those were the only two choices in the bogus Peltz and Associate survey, at the Community Center, and dragged on, for days, to a select few, at City Hall, in 2009. The questions for that survey were changed; the questions were slanted and biased, making the results statistically insignificant.
DeleteThe previous survey, in October of 2008, through Peltz and Associates, and handed out by Senior Planner Diane Langager, indicated that well over 60% of those answering did NOT want the City to go forward with a plan for the streetscape that included roundabouts and lane elimination on Highway 101 through Leucadia.
The alternative in the previous, much more legit 2008 survey, was between roundabouts and NO roundabouts. More traffic signals were not "on the table," and should not have been, subsequently, in 2009. But the next year, after more lobbying and "open houses" with no opportunity for public input, stop lights were thrown into the mix to stack the questions, in an obvious attempt to try to invalidate the previous survey, taken at City Hall, during the most widely attended workshop, in 2008.
Harrison may be the model of good taste for some of you, but he wasn't above a desperate attempt against Prop A when he showed the bogus 30-foot trellis drawing at a council meeting. Lisa asked about his "fact" when writing the equally bogus Prop A ballot statement and the head planner in the room told her "that gentleman was incorrect."
ReplyDeleteGood guy, that Keith.
Yesterday the planning commission approved the demolition of the 16 room motel in downtown Encinitas. It will be replaced by a mixed-use 4 residential condos, on top of a small commercial 1st floor. The four large trees will be cut down and replace with 36 inch planter trees. It will be underground parking. The developer does infill projects in San Diego.
ReplyDeleteThe planning commissioners didn't bat an eye when they all approved the project.
Now four mature trees will be destroyed. The 16 room motel that served visitors will be destroyed. The TOT will be gone. One commissioner really liked the box ugly design of the new condo project.
The total planning commission could be eliminated tomorrow because all they do is rubber stamp anything that comes before them.
Corner of 101 and I Street?
Deletewow 12:27 great job reporting on the destruction of existing community charachter - it of course is all legal brought about by the bailout by our city council in handing special interests property rights they did not have before the 101 upzone that happened without a vote of the people-
ReplyDeleteOne planning commissioner is the wife of a former Shea Homes Executive VP who tried to gain approval for the disasterous infill project in Solana Beach that residents there shot down. We should not be surprised the planning commission rubber stamps all infill high density projects.
THE GREAT BABY BOOMER DIE OFF HAS ALREADY BEGUN. ENJOY YOUR FINAL 20 YEARS FREAKS.
ReplyDelete6:22 sadly freedom and liberty are going with them. Enjoy living in the millenial 250 sq ft micro-units, riding your bikes under government control, and dining on farm raised talapia and meatless monday's-
Deleteforget about families as they are now being discoruaged and all the neutered feminized ball less men can hang out and stare each other down at whole foods cause they got no self-esteem and no self-confidence - depending on government and google will do that to you.
6:22: You must be a very miserable person to wish death on people you don't even know. How sad for you. When you get old, I hope that people don't say that about you. In fact, they probably already call you a freak even if you're not a boomer.
ReplyDeletePipe down, Grandpa....
ReplyDelete6:22 sounds like a head case who misplaced his/her meds. "Next."
ReplyDeletedoes anybody know who bought 1560 coast hwy?? it is listed as being owned by B & M On Leucadia 101 LLC
ReplyDeletedoes anybody know who actually bought 1560 coast hwy, encinitas, 92024.
ReplyDeleterealist has the title holder as B & M On Leucadia 101 LLC.
thanks