Breaking news on EU – Beacons beach closed until further notice. Bluff slide on northern half of parking lot with scarf going underneath rental house on North all the way down to the bottom of the tow of slops.
The repair is going to be expensive and long.
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Beacon’s parking lot and access closed. The bluff has new structural changes. Not good.
It didn't look that bad to me but this is the excuse the city's been dreaming of to close the lot permanently. I saw signs they've sprayed the bluff with pesticides, which will go right into the ocean eventually.
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DeleteJust building another expensive stairs and or sea wall won’t stop this problem.This is a result of inland irrigation runoff , climate change and erosion from weather and increased massive human foot traffic. Combined with humans stopping the natural flow of sand down the coast from development of jetties and other structures. the natural flow of sand down the coast from the north has been stopped first by the landing jetties at Camp Pendleton ,SanDiego county has no public natural water supply .The unnatural design landscape uses are a big problem with this erosion with the constant flow of irrigation run off underground eating away at the soft sandstone. As last long as we are continuing our addiction to fossil fuels , temperatures will be rising and we will loose 6 inches of these soft sandstone bluffs every year.We are addicted parking lots, oil, gasoline guzzling automobiles and water slurping landscaping . Americans are only 2% of the world yet we are using 25-30% of the worlds oil making us dependent on foreign countries that use that money on war and Oppression of the weak.Our own oil companies supported by huge subsidies from the government ( our taxes) gouge us with huge profits now using the pandemic and inflation as an excuse. Until we stand up for ourselves and the environment nothing will change for the next generation our children
DeleteI hear Tony Kranz is behind the bluff collapse, and Blakespear may be involved as well. They love to destroy Encinitas.
ReplyDeleteWouldn’t surprise me. Everything else TONY does has been bad for Encinitas
DeleteBlake spear has been horrible for Leucadia vote her out June 6th!
DeleteHas the history been revised to say there was more than one beacon on the bluff there?
ReplyDeleteWhy don’t you go to city Council and try and get them to change the name to Beacon… :) while you’re at tell them to change the name to swami!! Ha ha haaaa!
Delete12:03 PM here: I'll take it back. Just saw the photo on Encinitas Votes and it looks like the party is over.
ReplyDeleteBeacon, Beacons. Nice try. The former is factually correct. The latter has been cemented into our hard heads for decades.
ReplyDeleteWhile I had no problem after decades of calling it Beacons, once I knew the story, it was no big deal to use the correct singular form. We all can call it what we want.
It might be time for Beacon[s] to acquire a new nickname after the collapse this weekend. So many saw this coming and it never mattered to our council to prevent the coming apocalypse collapse. haha There were some feeble attempts that went nowhere and now look at what the city's neglect has wrought. The rot was within the city for decades.
I was wondering how long it would take for some idiot to blame the city for something that was going to happen anyway. Perhaps (Mr. Fiske) you can sue the city for formalizing the name "Beacons". Bye the way, I was one of many who helped reconstruct the trail after the last bluff failure.
DeleteUntil the access is restored, we can get to the beach at Grandview's — or is it Grandviews?
DeleteGood one Doug…. I’ll meet you at stone step.
DeleteI'm surprised this didn't cave-in sooner. Soft sandstone, being under cut at the base by tidal action, with tons of foot traffic every day. The city needs to build a stairwell supported by pilings, if they are to maintain an access point at this location. That would be very expensive. Can't afford it, as the City Administrators prioritize their pension payments.
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ReplyDeleteDuring the late evening of May 1st or early morning of May 2nd, the northern portion of an existing historic landslide at Beacons Beach reactivated and moved downslope to the west. The movement created numerous visible cracks in the existing slope, as well as damage to the existing access trail from the Beacons parking lot downslope to the beach. There were no reported injuries.
Early inspection on May 2nd appears to indicate that the landslide movement was slow, and that the movement has stopped. In an abundance of caution, City geotechnical and engineering staff will monitor and evaluate the landslide area for potential future instability for the next 30 to 90 days. Effective immediately, the parking lot and the beach access trail will be temporarily closed to all persons until further notice.
The coastal bluff at Beacons Beach has experienced episodic instability associated with a large historic landslide. Landslide movement damaged previous beach access stairways during winter storms in 1982 and 1983. Since that time, access to the beach is via a switchback trail leading down from a public parking lot along the west side of Neptune Avenue. The coastal landslide encompasses virtually all the coastal bluff below the parking lot at Beacons. Additional movement of the landslide was experienced again in 1990. Other than the current landslide movement, the area has seen very little movement for the last approximately 30 years.
Residents and visitors that typically access the beach via the switchback trail are prohibited from using the trail until both the landslide monitoring is complete and access is granted again by the City of Encinitas. Beach goers are encouraged to use Stonesteps or Grandview beach access until the Beacons trail is reopened.
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Who wrote 6:11? Must be a newcomer. Everybody who has lived here awhile knows it's Stone Steps.
DeleteI think it's from the city website.
Deletehttps://encinitasca.gov/Home/City-News
The lifeguards should make the public maintain a 10 to 15 foot distance from the base of the bluffs. On any average day, people are packed up against these fragile bluffs, which can collapse suddenly with considerable volume coming down. Memories are short or non-existent about the 3 women killed in Leucadia a few years ago. The City does nothing to assure the public safety.
ReplyDeleteIn general...people are dumb. The lifeguard has more to do than run fools away from the base of the cliff.
DeletePut up some signs and call it good. That is "all that can done" Or, "you" can keep them from camping out at the base. It'll give you somethin' to do.
I agree. Put up a few signs and call it good. Lifeguards have nothing to do because they do nothing. They are like our own City staff welfare project just like the Feds have the Border Patrol (meaning federal welfare recipients with guns).... and we have our lifeguards ( meaning City welfare recipients with lifeguard jackets)......
DeleteOhhh' noooo...it must be gullible warming.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting. Surfrider was against the City proposing coastal armoring the base of Beacons all the back to 2003 they have stayed silent on building huge seawall along 1/2 of Del Mar and championed by Tony Kranz when he was Boardmember for 10 years and Chair of the Board of NCTD.
ReplyDeleteWhat gives?
https://sandiego.surfrider.org/state-park-general-plan-prohibited-seawall-in-1983-city-complains-in-2010/
Surfriders are a bunch of self-righteous hypocrites that profess conservation of the coastline, yet oppose reasonable measures to preserve the fragile bluffs. They wear petroleum based geek suits and ride environmentally unfriendly styrofoam plastic ironing boards and act as tho they own the coastline. Their "science" of wave action and sand deposition s flawed and not backed by facts; the bluffs contribute very little to the sand of the beaches. Years of building marinas and blocking river flows are the reason that the sand is gone. I like the name one person attributed to this group - the Surfnazis".
Delete8:22 While I agree that damming up our rivers by the Railroad, PCH, and I5 and the dams like Hodges, Calavara and the many other smaller dams, have the largest impacts of natural sand migration, bluff erosion is a huge source of sand. Locally, go look at the sand coming off the new slide area. Perfect sand.
DeleteSecondly, go look at the beaches below Torrey pines and in the very north of San Diego from the Trails south through through Camp Pendleton.
While I acknowledge seawalls are essential for protecting homes on top of seaside bluffs. There is no denying the truth, seawalls are very bad for beaches.
On the east coast, no walls are allowed and houses need to be built on pilings above sea level. Let the natural coast line live.
Where the tidal action reaches the base of the bluffs, what little deposition of bluff sand is present is swept to sea. It may be part of the beach sand replenishment process, but is not the main source. Locational variations are anomalies in the overall phenomenon.
DeleteSo Tony, a self proclaimed local, should have known how important Beacons access is to Leucadia yet when he was first elected to City Council, he focused on paying $10 million dollars of tax dollars for an an old school that was for sale at asking price of $9 million dollars. Thats right Tony gave an extra million. waisting tax payers money.
ReplyDeleteThe City has long know about the slide issue at Beacons. Many articles have been written and endless conversations almost as many as the sunsets over Beacons.
In 2001, the City receives a $2.9 million dollar grant to fix Beacons. Surfrider squashes approval at CCC and in 2009, the City moves the money to Moonlight to build more ridiculous buildings on the beach that require millions to maintain each year in perpetuity. At the time, the City council committed to backfilling the Beacons access capital project budget but like so many things our City, the promise was unkept.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-encinitas-city-seeks-money-transfer-from-beacons-2010jun12-story.html
Hence Kranz comes along and instead of fixing real problems in Leucadia like trenching the RR, quiet zones, improved pedestrian crossings, and fixing Beacons beach, Tony focus's on buying a art complex for seventeen of his water coloring Janet friends who demand they do not like doing water colors at a room in the City's huge community center, but instead need their own multimillion dollar facility that will require millions of dollars a year to maintain and operate the facility forever.
Thats our boy Tony. Spending in millions so that 18 Janets can get their nice $20 million art complex by the sea, as locals deal with the mind sickening train noise, fenced of coastal access led by Kranz, and no more coastal access closed because Tony can not address real City needs like crumbling road, train noise and access, failing beach access.
-Recall Kranz Now
Not only that, but Tony just voted to spend over $6 million dollar of new City funds to help build the PV water coloring complex that could be used to fix Beacons. Lets go to the next City Council meeting and tell them that Beacons is a much higher priority than water colors and playing with clay, and those fun art classes can be held at the City's existing community center which will pay huge amount of tax payers per year to maintain. WTF?
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ReplyDeleteIt's sandstone...it crumbles. Been the same for hundreds of thousands of years "all over the world". You people act like it is some mystery.
ReplyDeleteWake up and die right...
Forget Dalablabber, how about the newest narcissist on the block? Definition for the Compton Kid:
ReplyDelete>Grandiosity. Exaggerated sense of self-importance ✅
>Excessive need for admiration. ✅
>Identity disturbance. ✅
>Chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom. ✅
>Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special treatment ✅
>Have significant interpersonal problems and easily feel
slighted ✅
>React with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make themselves appear superior ✅
>Have difficulty regulating emotions and behavior ✅
>They require constant admiration and adoration. ✅
>Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change ✅
>They believe they are superior ✅
Just what Encinitas needs - another self involved saviour!
Those are some sweet green checkmarks. You are pretty damn fancy. Good job!
ReplyDeleteWith all the train noise and loss of sleep, loss of coastal access, dropping quality of life, and the LA style development approved by Tony, rents and property values are dropping daily in Leucadia which I guess is good for Cardiff. Nicely done Kranz.
ReplyDeleteA house on the bluff just sold for $6 million cash overnight. That's falling property values?
Delete$6 million is peanuts. That is the equivalent of $500,000 last year. It’s all relative and with Tony aiming to lower quiet life like Oxnard California. No one will wanna live here anymore and as a result property values and rents will drop.
DeleteDon’t worry we know TONY doesn’t understand anf could never understand economic principles and supply and demand
5:53 You are a broken-record idiot. If you want to get rid of Kranz, start the recall process after he loses the mayoral election. In the meantime, stop posting your idiocy here.
DeleteRents are going down? Property values going down? In Leucadia? I must have missed that. Show me. If you can.
ReplyDeleteThey cannot show you anything going down in value except the value of the U.S Currency thanks to the America hating left and their Alzheimer's riddled old buffoon biden. How to ruin a country in 18 short months.
DeleteGod bless everything that has been done with our governments blessing. Mass killings of blacks,natives,incarcerating U.S. citizens in internment camps because of their race,creating wars because other countries didn't give our corporations what they wanted, Death, death, death. I hope you're a proud American idiot. I hope that mommy made you a good meat loaf tonight.
DeleteHey can I hang around you on Fourth of July. You sound like a real appreciative fun loving American. 😘
DeleteNice deflection 8:16-
ReplyDeleteTony, a self proclaimed local, should have known the importance of Beacons access is to Leucadia yet when he was first elected to City Council ten years ago, yet instead of real issues he focused on paying $10 million dollars of tax dollars for an an old school that was for sale at asking price of $9 million dollars. Thats right Tony gave an extra million starting a long chain of waisting tax payers money.
The City has long know about the slide issue at Beacons. Many articles have been written and endless conversations almost as many as the sunsets over Beacons.
In 2001, the City receives a $2.9 million dollar grant to fix Beacons. Surfrider squashes approval of a fix at CCC and in 2009 claiming seawalls are bad for the beach. The City then moves the $3 milliion to Moonlight to build more ridiculous buildings on the beach that require millions to maintain each year in perpetuity. At the time, the City council committed to backfilling the Beacons access project budget but like so many things with our City, the promise was unkept.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-encinitas-city-seeks-money-transfer-from-beacons-2010jun12-story.html
Hence Kranz comes along and instead of fixing real problems in Leucadia like trenching the RR, quiet zones, improved pedestrian crossings, and fixing Beacons beach, Tony focus's on buying a art complex for seventeen of his water coloring Karen friends who demand they do not like doing water colors at a room in the City's huge community center, but instead need their own multimillion dollar facility that will require millions of dollars a year to maintain and operate the facility in perpetuity.
Thats our boy Tony. Spending millions so that 17 Karens can get their nice $20 million art complex by the sea, as locals deal with the mind sickening train noise, fenced of coastal access led by Kranz, and no more coastal access because Tony can not address real City needs like crumbling road, train noise and access, and failing beach access points.
Not only that, but Tony just voted to spend over $6 million dollar of new City funds to help build the PV water coloring complex that could be used to fix Beacons. Please g o to the next City Council meeting and tell them that Beacons is a much higher priority than water colors and playing with clay, and suggest that those fun art classes can be held at the City's existing community center which will pay huge amount of tax payers per year to maintain. Let them invite in our new homeless neighbors. I am sure they would like a distraction from their normal daily routine.
I hope to see you at the May 11 City Council meeting. Please email council@encinitasca.gov Council members and tell them to remove the new fence at Beacons and along Vulcan Avenue and restore Coastal access NOW!!
Preserve Coastal Access - Recall Kranz
The Beacons sand trail can't be restored - that access point is done for. "Illegal" access will now take place and further erode that bluff.
ReplyDeleteThat’s bullshit. It’s been redone at least three times and surfers can always make a new trill down a bluff. You’re looking at it from how to say no standpoint. You sound like a control freak like BIA and TONY.
ReplyDeleteTake the $6 mil in discretionary funding and put it towards designing and permitting the Beacons stairway repair.
ReplyDeleteThen , rezone PV to the surrounding residenal land use zoning and sell the property to pay for the much higher priority of coastal access for Leucadia.
Without Beacons, you are killing Leucadia!
The $6 million In Beacons funding that you can approve in next year‘s budget will also be a large portion of the construction funding.
ReplyDeleteThis is Encinitas highest priority followed closely by the polluting public health hazard Coaster.
Top city priority for next years budget:
ReplyDelete1. Fully fund the design permitting and construction of Beacons beach access.
2. Implement a quiet zone through all of Encinitas. Not just the mayor’s neighborhood.
You left out fighting the lawsuits against these buffoons.
DeleteEspecially the one where the City of Encinitas is attempting to ruin Olivenhain with ghetto low rent apartments. But they don't care and it's as simple as that. Historic areas mean nothing to them.
The left ruins everything they do
Working with Tucker, Putin puppets on the right aim to destroy America. WTFU, morons.
DeleteWell at least you have TONY acting like he cars about Olivenhain. He fricken approved every ghetto development in Leucadia and then instead of building a nice trail like in Cardiff, he built a parking lot for all the adjacent private apartment owners. TONY has some weird hangup, he hates Leucadia, and want to keep it as dumpy as possible.
DeleteTONY is a hazardous waste in Encinitas. ☠️☠️☢️☢️🪦🪦
ReplyDeleteLet’s remove our hazardous waste ASAP. It’s killing us.
- let’s save Encinitas and Recall Kranz 😍
The Goodson project is a ghetto low rent project with such a low number of affordable units?
ReplyDeleteWe can agree Randy's project is low minded, however his units are not low rent prices.
Blakespear's gift to the developers - Encinitas. She is toxic - stop her from getting into the State Senate.
ReplyDeleteIt would help everyone's well being when we have a garden variety 45% real estate correction.
ReplyDeletePlease gods happen fast!
I agree with you, but the correction will look different this time due to stagflation.
DeleteThe during the next correction home prices will drop in "sales price" maybe 10 to 15%, however, the big correction will be in the buying power of the ol US greenback.
With inflation spiking, you will see people freaking at $10 /gallon gas in a year of or two. Beer $20 bucks a 6 pack. Average homes $3 million dollars. Minimum wage - $55/ per hour. If you'r not getting over 10% raises per year in your net income you, my friend, are going backwards.
And thats the good times. Waiting to watch the pure panic when the world recognizes the old greenback has no real net worth no more than monopoly money and it's buying power goes to zero. That will make the COVID panic look like child's play.
- Making popcorn
The current administration and the fed should just create another $10 trillion and put $10,000 in every US Bank account in the country. It’s all just digital currency at this point anyway. There’s nothing behind the fiat
ReplyDeletecurrency.
Yep...
DeleteBring back the gold standard. Everything else is B.S
And keep giving Ukraine billions and next to zero for our Southern border...make perfect sense.
bring back full pay for no work.... Its awesome that no one needs to work any more!!
ReplyDeleteI remember back in 1989 Beacons did this same thing, slid and shifted, but a lot of us gave our own time and finances to rebuild the bluff to make it work again so we could go surf. This is our local gem for surfing and socializing and worth at least speculating getting it up and running safely again. I remember when looking to buy on Neptune the realtor told me I would have to come up with an additional $70,000 for a sea wall on my slope 😳 I ended up buying across the highway but that was 1993-94 and not one person at city hall or elsewhere has set aside funding to help place some steps,railing and sea wall protection! What’s it going to take to entertain a new wooden or vinyl trail to the beach? This was the attraction to live in Leucadia this little gem of a surf spot 🙏🏽
ReplyDeleteSuggestions?
1.) Get rid of Blakespear
I think it is time to let some bluff areas simply erode as intended.
ReplyDeleteYou mean as Surfrider intended.
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