The Coast News, December 13, 2019

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CARLSBAD — And then there were three. The filing deadline came and went as Carlsbad City Councilwoman Cori Schumacher, Simon Angel and Tracy Carmichael are all set to run for the vacant District 1 council seat in a special election on March 3, 2020, which is also the RANCHO California primary. SFNEWS The seat has been open since Oct. 9 after Barbara Hamilton resigned citing family health reasons. The City Council enMARCH: More than 100 students and parents marched outside of Cardiff Elementary on Wednesday, Dec. 11, calling for construction to resume on the gaged in debate for weeks campus. A judge halted construction earlier this month after a lawsuit from a group of residents who oppose the plans to build over green space in the over whether to appoint a representative or call for a adjacent George Berkich Park. Photo by Sean Buffini special election; although residents gathered signatures for the election after the council voted to start the appointment process. By the time one of the By Tawny McCray the grant funding unless with CEQA, the California I know to be supportive of they’ve delayed that.” candidates is seated, the Quality (Save the Park’s) efforts … ENCINITAS — Parents Save the Park and the state and federal agen- Environmental seat will have been vacant everyone is satisfied with Act, and taxpayer waste. are fired up over a recent Build the School have op- cies sign off on a change. for six months. On Dec. 2, an ex parte the court’s ruling to the exThe lawsuit states that court decision that halted posed the proposed redeSchumacher is an atconstruction of the Cardiff sign since drawings were the EIR failed to adequate- hearing was held after both tent it validates the legal large councilwoman, as she Elementary School rebuild made public in 2017. This ly address the impact of parties requested clarifica- positions that the group has was elected in 2016 before after a judge ruled in favor past March, the group filed the rebuild project, which tion on the November rul- asserted from the outset,” the city moved to district of the project’s longtime a lawsuit against the Car- “completely overhauls the ing. At the hearing, Judge Eleanor Musick of Save the elections in 2018. Her atopponents. diff School District to sus- design and appearance Maas confirmed all aspects Park and Build the School large term expires in 2020; Families, students and pend the project until the of George Berkich Park, of the ruling, claiming that said in an interview last however, the District 1 neighbors gathered at the district performs a more which is an important and the district had "breached week. “Many people in the term runs through 2022. site Dec. 11 in support of thorough assessment of its well-loved community re- the accountability require- community view the disSchumacher has also ments set forth in Measure trict’s behavior as a sort of restarting the school build. environmental impact re- source.” already formed a commitOn Nov. 18, San Diego GG by constructing im- defiant entitlement — that “What that leaves us port (EIR). tee for another mayoral with is a mud pit for our At the heart of the County Superior Court provements not authorized they seem to hold thembid in 2022. She lost the selves above the law.” school,” Cardiff mom Lisa lawsuit is a 1993 funding Judge Earl H. Maas III by Measure GG." race for mayor in 2018 to Musick said since the Funding for the rebuild Hoeck, who has four kids agreement between the granted a preliminary inMatt Hall. at the school, said Dec. 10. city, district, Department junction, and made certain comes from Measure GG, a lawsuit was filed in March, Schumacher has raised “It’s a total construction of State Parks and National other legal findings, re- $22 million bond measure Save the Park has several more than $20,000 for her nightmare and it was sup- Parks Service that requires quested by Save the Park, approved by nearly 66% of times proposed compromisnext campaign, according es that the district would posed to be for one year and the land to remain a park in regarding its claims of the Cardiff voters in 2016. “Among those people because of (Save the Park) perpetuity in exchange for district’s non-compliance

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