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namely, larger multifamily developments — the state generally associates with housing affordability. Numerous private landowners, including but not only developers, wrote to city council at the time expressing their desire to redevelop at higher densities. But for many other residents, the circumvention of Encinitas’ normal political process and the resultant up-zoning were, and remain, extremely unpopular. Now cities are preparing their Housing Element updates for the period

ESCONDIDO — Dozens of current and former students of The THE Classical Academies, a publicly fundVISTA ed charter school organization, have recently come NEWS forward with stories of discrimination they experienced while in school. The Classical Academies is a public charter school organization with campuses throughout North County. The organization has been around since 1999. In early July, an Instagram account called RANCHO “Discrimination @TCA” (@ SFNEWSapdiscrimination.at.tca) peared and began posting anonymous experiences of discrimination from current and former students of The Classical Academies. The account also includes posts from students alleging sexual harassment, body shaming, bullying and a lack of adequate counseling resources among other issues experienced in the school. Many of the posts claim that students were openly racist and homophobic yet were not punished for their actions. “At my time at CAHS (Classical Academy High School) I witnessed several white students use the n-word,” one post reads. “When asked to stop, they said it was too fun to stop and that they enjoyed saying it.” In the same post, the former student explains they were afraid to tell the administration what they witnessed at the time. When the student finally did reach out, they were disappointed by the response. Some posts also claim

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COCO LEADS AVIATORS PAST BREAKERS

COCO VANDEWEGHE, of Rancho Santa Fe, helped guide the San Diego Aviators past the Orange County Breakers 20-14 on July 19 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. In Women’s Doubles, Vandeweghe and Nicole Melichar would land the plane for the Aviators with a dominating 5-0 final set victory over Gabby Dabrowski and Andreja Klepac. See page A18. Courtesy photo/Getty

Encinitas may need more up-zoning after all By Dan Brendel

ENCINITAS — The City of Encinitas says it doesn’t need to “up-zone” any parcels to get its state-mandated eight-year affordable housing plan approved at the outset. But the city may need to up-zone sooner or later during that period in order to maintain its state certification. Local jurisdictions must periodically, to the state government’s satisfaction, update the Housing Element (or chapter) of their General Plans. These updates — though unenESPERANZA GARDEN Apartments in Encinitas. The city has forceable and only marginsaid its 2021-29 Housing Element won’t require any additional ally effectual — mean to up-zoning of its proposed affordable housing sites. File photo ensure that cities’ land use

policies reasonably enable private sector housing production to satisfy forecasted demand affordably at all income levels. Encinitas failed to adopt its 2013-2021 plan by the statutory deadline. In 2019, a court ordered the city to update its Housing Element, temporarily overruling the city’s otherwise deadlocked process of zoning-by-referendum. To meet the state’s requirements and the court’s deadline, the city up-zoned — increased residential density allowances — on several parcels citywide. This up-zoning would allow the kind of denser residential construction —

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