Ghetto bird over Cardiff

Multiple sheriff’s vehicles around Santa Fe Drive and Sunset, coincidentally near the Cowan murder house.

Encinitas characters run for GOP county committee

There are some familiar names on the ballot this year.

Garvin Walsh, a recent arrival on the city council scene known for buddying up to several Encinitas politicians, is running for the Republican County Central Committee.

And look who else is there: Mark and Maureen Muir. We thought they were gone for good after getting shunned by the county party for their dirty tricks robocall, dropping out of the school board race, and selling their house.

Quail Gardens stack & pack

Encinitas Advocate:

A revised version of the hugely controversial Quail Meadows housing plan, which now calls for putting the previously proposed 485 apartments into two massive buildings instead of four, will go back before the Planning Commission in two weeks.

Considered to be the biggest apartment development in the city’s history, the project put forward by Baldwin & Sons is proposed to go on a 12-acre site on Quail Gardens Drive, just north of the Encinitas Boulevard intersection. The two apartment complexes would be six stories and top out at 68.6 feet tall, while their accompanying parking garages would be seven stories, including an underground area, and would be 74.6 feet in height.