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.com The Carlsbad Planning Commission approves an agreement between the city, stakeholders and Lennar Homes to build a park at the Buena Vista Reservoir (pictured), add habitat to Veterans Park, connect Poinsettia Lane and allow Lennar Homes to construct 123 homes. Photo by Steve Puterski
Poinsettia 61 project passes RANCHO SFNEWS through Planning Commission
The time is meow A cat owner demonstrates to an audience just how playful her Somali breed of cat is while exhibiting at the San Diego Food & Water Bowl XXlll Cat Show last weekend at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. See more photos from the cat show on page A23. Photo by Pat Cubel
Community provides input on future housing element By Aaron Burgin
ENCINITAS — From “tiny homes” to granny flats, the ideas on how Encinitas can solve its affordable housing crisis and meet it state housing mandates flowed from residents Wednesday night. More than 300 residents attended the housing element workshop, the first public meeting in the city’s latest attempt to gain compliance with state housing law after the city’s proposed housing element update, Measure T, failed at the ballot box in November. Two community groups — one that included the opposition group to Measure More than 300 residents attend the housing element workshop on Feb. T and the other spearhead- 1, the first public meeting in the city’s latest attempt to gain compliance ed by longtime Encinitas with state housing law. Photo by Aaron Burgin
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CARLSBAD — Marathons are popular in the city this time of year. After the actual race and a four-hour city council discussion on Uptown Bressi last month, the Planning Commission engaged in its own marathon session and approved the Poinsettia 61 proposal Wednesday. The plan, if OK’d by the City Council and California Coastal Commission, will allow Lennar Homes to construct 123 condos, finish the Poinsettia Lane connection, add a 3.1-acre park at the Buena Vista Reservoir and add dozens of acres of open space to the city’s Habitat Management Plan at Veterans Park and off of Poinsettia Lane. The proposal was the
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result of a lawsuit filed by North County Advocates in 2015 over the General Plan, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the Climate Action Plan. The city, along with Lennar Homes, Friends of Aviara, Friends of the Buena Vista Reservoir, Preserve Calavera and the NCA came together to resolve their issues and conducted a public forum last week to introduce the plan. “I think it’s a fantastic project,” said Commissioner Kerry Siekmann. “Completing Poinsettia Lane is huge for connectivity.” Despite the unanimous vote, the commission also extended two recommendations to the City Council, and by extension city staff, in the form of traffic safety mitigation. Commissioner Marty
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resident Bob Bonde — presented their plans of how the city could achieve state compliance, and dozens of residents chimed in with their input in a more open and back-and-forth dialogue with the City Council and staff than is not often seen at council meetings. Council members and residents said they felt encouraged after the meeting that they could find a pathway to a publicly acceptable housing plan. “I think we are all on the same page,” recently appointed Councilman Joe Mosca said after the threehour workshop. Encinitas is the lone
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