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SDUHSD changes course on special ed housing By Aaron Burgin
SOLANA BEACH — The San Dieguito Union High School District has reversed course on a plan to house a special education program in two modular buildings on the Earl Warren Middle School Campus. Late last week, School District Superintendent Eric Dill announced that the district’s adult transition program would be moved to three classrooms on the La Costa Canyon STORY ON PAGE A7: Sky watchers from around the country are flocking to states in the path of totality on Aug. 21 to High School campus. view the first total solar eclipse visible from the United States since 1979. San Diegans will see what’s called a partial “Based on the feedback solar eclipse, where the moon covers part of the sun. Stock images from last Friday’s parent meeting, we will be moving the entire program to La Costa Canyon High School beginning this school year into three permanent classrooms,” Dill wrote in an email to the school board. “I will send a message to By Aaron Burgin half mile to the entrance of Seaside ATP families today and also ENCINITAS — Plans for a net- Reef State beach west of the highinform them of the action work of sand dunes to protect Coast way. the board will consider to Highway 101 in south Cardiff are The project’s goal is to protect a create a Special Education now waiting to be heard by the Cal- low-lying section of Coast Highway Task Force.” ifornia Coastal Commission. 101, which is prone to flooding and The decision comes afA notice of pending permit re- erosion during storm events that ter parents of the students cently appeared on Cardiff State thrust the tide onto the highway. in the program — a fourBeach near the Chart House restau- The city has had to close the stretch year program that educates rant, alerting visitors that the city’s of road — which supports more than students with special needs project application was pending be- 20,000 motorists daily — more than until the age of 22 — railed fore the state agency. 50 times in recent years. against the district for what The notice coincides with the But unlike most protective barrithey called “separate and Encinitas Planning Commission’s ap- ers such as seawalls and large boulunequal” conditions. proval of the project in June. ders known as rip-rap, which accelerParents noted the conCrews would erect a series of ate sand depletion along the shores trast of the district spendsand dunes covered with native they protect, these “living dunes” ing $37 million on the ren- A notice alerts visitors that the project is pendplants stretching from just south of are a considered to be a more enviing before the California Coastal Commission. Chart House restaurant and the rest TURN TO SCHOOLS ON A6 Photo by Aaron Burgin of Cardiff’s “restaurant row” for a TURN TO SAND DUNES ON A6
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ENCINITAS — Will Encinitas finally craft a housing plan that passes muster with voters, or will a court decide the fate of the city's affordable housing zoning? How swiftly will the RANCHO City Council act to respond to a Malibu attorney’s deSFNEWS mands to change the city’s voting system from a citywide election to one where voters elect officials by district? These are the two issues that loom largest on the Encinitas City Council agenda as it returns from a monthlong summer recess. The Coast News reached out to each of the five council members and asked them to give their top three issues facing the city following the break. Each listed coming into compliance with the housing element as the city’s top post-recess priority, followed by resolving the demand sent by attorney Kevin Shenkman, who has successfully threatened several other cities in North County into changing the way voters will elect future council members. The council members also named the looming issue of whether the city will allow commercial farming of cannabis and ongoing projects that will improve
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