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VOL. 30, N0. 27
JULY 1, 2016
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Blakespear delivers Encinitas’ density bonus message to state .lawmakers
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By Aaron Burgin
Down the last stretch
The San Diego County Fair draws to a close July 4, but until then the pigs from Swifty Swine Racing Pigs keep on running. The Fair pulls out all the stops on closing day, including hosting a number of Fourth of July-themed events and a fireworks show at 9 p.m. Photo by Tony Cagala
One Paseo project approved — again By Bianca Kaplanek
CARMEL VALLEY — For the second time in a little more than a year, a controversial mixed-use project in Carmel Valley was approved by the San Diego City Council. But this time around, based on public input at the June 27 meeting, One Paseo will not likely suffer the same plight it did last year, when a successful citizen referendum prompted council members to rescind their vote and sent developer Kilroy Realty Corporation back to the drawing board — again. When first proposed about eight years, the project called for about 1.8 million square feet of develop-
ment with retail and office buildings, a 150-room hotel and more than 600 multifamily residential units. Some buildings were proposed to be 10 stories high. Strong opposition to the size of the project — the 23.6-acre lot was initially zoned for a 500,000-squarefoot complex — prompted local residents Bob Fuchs and Ken Farinsky to form a citizens group called What Price Main Street? Their efforts paid off — sort of. After meeting with the organization, residents and planning groups, Kilroy reduced the overall A reduced-sized One Paseo project gets approval from the San Diego City Council on June 22. President Sherri Lightner, in whose district the square footage by about 30 project will be located, cast the lone dissenting vote, saying the 1.18 percent — to approximatemillion-square-foot mixed-use complex still has too many unmitigable impacts. Courtesy rendering
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ENCINITAS — For the first time since her election to the Encinitas City Council in 2014, Catherine Blakespear found herself off the dais, speaking to a body of elected officials. Her remarks were two minutes, much like the speakers who speak before her and the City Council. Blakespear was speaking before the State Senate Housing and Transportation Committee, voicing Encinitas’ opposition to Assembly Bill 2501, which would, among other things, strip cities of the ability to require developers to prepare additional reports or studies as a condition of their projects and would require cities to “round up” in the event the number of units proposed on a site of the number of allowable units is a fraction. “I came up here today from Southern California because the city of Encinitas is so opposed to AB 2501 that we thought it was important to send a representative to speak against it,” Blakespear said to the elected body. Encinitas, where developers have built a proportionally large amount of density bonus projects, has been at the forefront of the fight against the proliferation of such developments, which their residents said have created projects that are inconsistent with character of the communities sur-
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Encinitas City Council member Catherine Blakespear visits Sacramento to voice concerns with state legislators over density bonus development. Courtesy photo
rounding them. Blakespear’s two-minute speech was one of a dozen both in favor of and opposed to the assembly bill, which has a lot of momentum and experts believe is headed toward passage. The Assembly in May passed it out of its hall with a 45-7 vote and Gov. Jerry Brown, in his May revised budget, specifically called out the bill as an important piece of the state’s ability to increase its housing stock to meet increasing demands. Blakespear offered the strongest opposition to the bill, which she said does not meet the legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown’s goal of creating more affordable housing. “At base this law does TURN TO BLAKESPEAR ON A36
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