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VOL. 33, N0. 33
AUG. 16, 2019
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Bluff work to begin . in Del Mar
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Railroad safeguards THE set to be put in place VISTA
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By Lexy Brodt
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The assessment rate amounts could increase on an annual basis by no more than 3%. With those charges, the district will have an annual budget of $370,757. Of that amount, 41% will go toward maintenance, 33% to safety, 13% to capital improvement, 11% to
DEL MAR — With bluff collapses in coastal North County increasing, North County Transit District and the city of Del Mar are gearing up for another round of bluff stabilization efforts. Such efforts are meant to safeguard the railroad corridor in Del Mar, which RANCHO runs directly through the city’s SFNEWS 1.6-mile stretch of beachside bluffs. Set to break ground in early September and be completed in May of 2020, the project — termed DMB4 — will involve repairing three seawalls on the beach below the tracks, removing concrete debris from aging infrastructure, stabilizing areas where bluffs are failing and repairing stormwater drainage facilities. The City Council approved an encroachment permit on Aug. 5 that will allow NCTD and the San Diego Association of Governments to conduct a portion of its efforts in the city’s right of way, specifically across the beach and south bluff from 6th to 17th street. Repairing retaining structures and storm drains is meant to “help mitigate surface irrigation and stormwater runoff away from the bluffs,” and further divert it to the ocean, wrote NCTD Communications Officer Kimy Wall in an email to The Coast News.
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CELEBRATING ‘WOOFSTOCK’ AT DOG DAYS
A 14-year-old Yorkie named Bailey, dressed to honor the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, won first place in the Best Dressed competition during the 14th Annual Cardiff Dog Days of Summer at Encinitas Community Park on Aug. 11. The free event offered on-site adoptions from rescue groups and included a host of dog-related vendors and attractions. Photo by Abraham Jewett
Assessment district formed to ‘enhance’ downtown By Samantha Taylor
OCEANSIDE — Downtown property owners voted Aug. 7 to form an improvement district that would collect money from downtown business and property owners to fund enhanced safety and cleanliness projects. Business and property owners gathered at City Council’s Aug. 7
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meeting to vote on whether or not they wanted to establish a Downtown Oceanside Property and Business Improvement District (PBID). A PBID is a self-imposed, self-governed, private-sector benefit assessment district that is meant to provide a “special benefit” to assessed parcels above what the city already provides.
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Funds are collected on property tax bills and forwarded to a non-profit owners association — MainStreet Oceanside in this case — and must be spent in accordance to the district management plan created when a PBID is formed. The assessment rate is based on parcel size and type: commercial parcels
are charged $0.25 per square feet, public parcels are charged $0.1875 per square feet and religious parcels are charged $0.1250 per square feet. Condos were originally to be charged the same amount as religious parcels, but Main Street Oceanside reduced that amount by 50% for condo owners.
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