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VOL. 31, N0. 51
DEC. 22, 2017
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City faces ‘sobering’ reality on housing
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By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — Encinitas’ four-member housing element task force traveled to Sacramento last week to get clarity on questions they had from their latest attempt to create an affordable housing plan that will pass muster with voters. They returned to Encinitas with an outlook that they described as “sobering.” City officials said that officials with the state’s Housing and Community Development Department emphasized that not only will the city be required to adopt a housing plan, new rules are emphasizing that the affordable housing actually be built. “It drove home the difficulty of the work we have in front of us,” Deputy Mayor Tony Kranz said Dec. 16 at the beginning of the city’s four-hour joint council/ housing element subcommittee workshop. “Not only the fact that we are way behind, but now there is a greater emphasis on actual construction of these homes.” Barbara Kautz, an attorney with Goldfarb and Lipman who is advising the city on the housing element, said the new state laws require the city must pick sites that have “realistic and demonstrated potential” for development. In other words, the city can’t rezone commercial centers for mixed-use development, which was the crux of its last housing element attempt, Measure T. “It’s not just about zoning any-
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’TIS THE SEASON A surfer rides a wave in Oceanside last month as winter surfing season gets underway. This photo was taken during a Pacific Photographic Society meetup during which professional and amateur photographers shoot San Diego County people and places. Photo by Michael A. O’Connor
Beloved labor figure, a Leucadia resident, turns 80 By Aaron Burgin
REGION — One of the most influential labor leaders and civil rights activists in modern history stood in front of an audience at the Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club on Dec. 16. Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the powerful United Farm Workers union and worked side-byside with Cesar Chavez, was there TURN TO HOUSING ON A22 not to speak about the movement,
but about a white-haired Leucadia man whose quiet works proved critical to the movement. Huerta and others were there to celebrate the 80th birthday of Frank N. Denison, a former attorney who worked alongside Huerta and Chavez, writing the Farm Workers Union constitution, establishing the first medical plan for farmworkers, and later the first pension plan for agriculture.
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Small in stature, Huerta and others have praised Denison for being a giant not only in the farmworker labor movement, but in the lives of hundreds of people whom he quietly helped get a second chance in life over the years. “He is such a beautiful, wonderful person,” Huerta said in her toast at the octogenarian’s birthday. “He has such a wonderful, wonderful legacy, anyone who met
Frank knows how great of a person he is.” Denison got choked up when he talked about the Saturday celebration, which included a roast, his family and friend screaming “Viva Pancho Bigotes” and booing President Donald Trump — Denison’s not a fan. “I was teary eyed,” he said. TURN TO DENISON ON A22
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