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code is explicit and detailed in its rules on signage in the city on different types of property. The city desk has an online map with the boundary lines. In general, it says you cannot place signage on city-owned property, which includes sidewalks and street median landscaping — plants, trees and flowers. There are also strict limits on signage size in context of zoning rules. You need permissions for signage on private property. “We are fortunate to have many choices of candidates running for our various local and regional offices,” Blakespear said in a statement to The Coast News on Jan. 8. “However, it is never legal to place campaign signs in our city
al major traffic corridors in the city are on track for major improvements to address deficient streets according to the city’s Growth Management Plan. The City Council approved several staff recommendations Dec. 17 regarding eight street deficiencies. Paz Gomez, deputy RANCHO city manager for public works, SFNEWS said College Boulevard from Aston Avenue to Palomar Airport Road and Melrose Drive from the Vista city limits to Palomar Airport Road will be expedited within the Capital Improvement Program project schedule. Others, though, are exempted for several reasons, according to Hossein Ajideh, the city’s engineering manager. The cost estimates range between $565,000 to $600,000, although those projections may change once staff returns later this year with a full scope of the projects, according to the staff report. “We did want to look at future performance standards because we see a growing number of deficient streets,” Vice Chair Traffic and Mobility Commission Jonnie Johnson said of her commissions review of the staff report. As for the exempted streets, Gomez said the GMP Monitoring Report collects data and will analyze and present to the council. The city monitors
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CAMPAIGN SIGNS were illegally placed around Encinitas beginning in December. City law states that signs cannot be placed on city-owned property, including sidewalks and street median landscaping. Photos by Jeremy Kron
Illegally placed campaign signs removed in Encinitas By Tawny McCray
ENCINITAS — Encinitas resident Jeremy Kron is fed up with seeing election signs illegally displayed across the city — and he’s making a case for change. Just before the Christmas holiday, Kron began emailing a host of leaders in the community — including Mayor Catherine Blakespear and all the Encinitas council members — expressing his displeasure with the signs and pleading for their help in cracking down on offenders. Kron, who in 2016 volunteered for Blakespear’s campaign and learned the rules regarding signage when he helped distribute her yard signs, said he regularly checks for sign violators as he travels around the city by bike. In his emails, he reported seeing the first violation along Leucadia Boulevard
on Dec. 19 — signs for Kristin Gaspar, who’s running for re-election in the San Diego County Supervisor District 3 race. He said the signs he spotted were paid for and placed by the Deputy Sheriff’s Association of San Diego County. “Shortly after reporting the first pair and getting permission that day from City Hall’s code enforcement desk, we checked the map to confirm illegality of placement, they permitted me to uproot them and deliver them to City Hall. I did so,” Kron said Jan. 7. Kron reported seeing illegally placed Gaspar signs again on Dec. 22 and Dec. 24. “There are multiple new pro-Gaspar signs on public property along Leucadia Blvd right now which will not be enforced until the city resumes its regu-
lar business after the holidays,” Kron wrote in his emails. “These will get thousands of views and grow in number over time, overtaking medians, sidewalks, and other public territories. It is truly a blight and a shameful indulgence by the offenders to pollute this fine city.” Kron said other cur-
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rent offenses he’s seen include signs from two candidates running for Superior Court Judge. Candidates who are backed by associations such as the Deputy Sheriff’s Association have no control over the placement of signs posted by the associations. Kron said that city
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