Brady Aiken Kook

Encinitas' Brady Aiken was the #1 draft pick in last week's Major League Baseball draft.

Density Bonus!

... again in Leucadia, the city's favorite dumping ground.

From the Inbox:

Currently there are two tiny cottages and they want to build five three-bedroom apartments and two two-bedroom. They are seeking a density bonus and variance for the set backs. Though the address is on Vulcan, the project really is on East Jason which is predominately small single family homes. With so many bedrooms there's a potential for adding dozens of people and their cars, traffic, noise etc. to a small street.

The sad thing is is that my wife and I "fled" living in North Park because the City of San Diego was handing out liquor licenses and approving large density projects in an area that was originally a nice mix of single family homes and small shops. Now we live in Encinitas where the city council is bent on the same destructive path. By contrast look at Laguna Beach. No infill, strict design requirements for businesses and it is a thriving and beautiful area.

There's a neighborhood meeting this Wednesday evening at 6PM at the site at 1265 Vulcan (corner of Vulcan and Jason).

The old double-scheduling trick

From the Inbox:

I am not sure if you heard about what happened last night, but they want to restart the Housing Element. Of course, they scheduled this topic at the same time as the Leucadia 101 Streetscape making it impossible to attend both important meetings at once.

They did the same thing when they had scheduled another important meeting on the General Plan Update at the same time that the main roll out of the I-5 widening was presented at the Senior Center.

The document that they released for Planning Commission consideration last night spoke about 5 communities and "5 hearts." Naturally, they want to inflict their definition of what the 5 community hearts are without asking the residents. The Planning Commission decided to cut it back to an outline without reviewing what will be sent on to the Council. According to [friends in the know], this is not legal, but they are doing it anyway.

Olivenhain Crop Circles

These have been appearing with some regularity this past month on Rancho Santa Fe Road.



In tangentially related news, a woman described as "very drunk" reportedly drove down Lone Jack on Saturday night smashing into various things including signs, fences, and a fire hydrant. She ended up broke down on 13th near Rancho Santa Fe Road when her car just wouldn't go any more, and got a ride to the pokey.

Mayor Poll

Fact Thrower brings up lots of legitimate points in the comments about the records of candidates.

But in a world of limited and imperfect choices, what are you going to do?

Please vote in the poll in the left sidebar below, and leave your comments here.

UPDATE: OK, not sure what the problem is with Blogger polls. Let's try SurveyMonkey.

And yes, I know SurveyMonkey is as insecure and manipulable as the city's idiotic new Peak Democracy software. So you're on your honor to vote only once.

Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey , the world's leading questionnaire tool.

Not sure how to display the write-ins, but here's the count so far:

Julie Graboi 5
Catherine Blakespear 2
Al Rodbell 2
Bill Rodewald 1
Sheila 1
Donna (if Julie isn't running for mayor) 1
Michael Vilkin 1
Richard Dreyfuss 1
Judge Brandenburg 1
Leucadia Strange Thing 1
Gus Vina 1
"As yet undeclared" 1

Purple panties and Hello Kitty slippers Kook

Whatever floats your boat...

Two columnists in one! Logan Jenkins on Reconsider-gate

Logan Jenkins, May 31:

A raspberry — the Unnecessary Nuclear Option award — to Encinitas Mayor-To-Be-Very-Soon Kristin Gaspar for turning a transparently dumb council meeting in which she had every reason to be annoyed into an almost unprecedented family full-court press.

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Yes, the correct result was reached. I suspect, however, it would have been reached without the extraordinary emotional appeals from Gaspar’s family. The drama was not required.

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Gaspar had plenty of good cards to play. Most important, she had her own generally persuasive voice. She didn’t have to play her family.

Logan Jenkins, May 25:

It appears all but certain that Kranz, Barth and Councilwoman Lisa Shaffer will vote Wednesday to strip Gaspar of her title unless she promises not to run for mayor.

We suppose you could say Jenkins "reconsidered."