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.com The winning bid Gene Hunner places a bid during the live auction portion of the art banner event on Sunday in Cardiff. Hunner has attended the auction for five years, purchasing several banners each time. The live auction was the culmination of the several-months-long annual Encinitas Arts Alive art banner project. See more photos on page A22. Photo by Tony Cagala
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Mark West, left, and Tom Cook of the Surfrider Foundation lead a walking tour of seawalls in Encinitas on Monday. Photo by Aaron Burgin
Housing is part of a five-city effort to end family homelessness Surfrider Foundation throws support behind Coastal Commission By Promise Yee
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Oceanside City Council gives the green light to a development agreement for affordable apartments on Weitzel Street. Groundbreaking is two years off. Photo by Promise Yee
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REGION — Oceanside City Council gave the green light to a development agreement for the Weitzel Street apartments June 3, which moves the affordable housing project one step closer to breaking ground. The housing is part of a five-city effort by Vista, Oceanside, Carlsbad, San Marcos and Escondido, and headed by Solutions for Change to solve family homelessness. “Oceanside, Escondido, Carlsbad all have housing developments in the pipeline,” Chris Megison, Solutions for Change president and executive director, said. Solutions for Change has worked with homeless families for close to 20 years. The nonprofit’s 1,000-day program trains parents in service leadership so they can lead their families and serve as leaders in the community. Parents, including veterans, go through rigorous leadership training that instills hope and compassion, provides opportunity and demands
ENCINITAS — San Diego’s largest coastal advocacy group threw its weight behind the California Coastal Commission in its legal fight to maintain its regulatory authority over private seawalls, even as some residents questioned them over their stance. The San Diego Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation at a news conference on Monday announced its support of the Coastal Commission in the landmark case Lynch v California Coastal Commission, which will ultimately determine whether
the Coastal Commission has the authority to impose time limits on seawall permits, a decision that will have reverberations up and down the state’s coastline. “This case has huge precedent-setting value,” said Angela Howe, Surfrider’s legal director. “I think it makes it all the more so important to step in and voice our support at this time.” The news conference coincided with the Coastal Commission’s filing of its legal brief to the state Supreme Court. Surfrider TURN TO SEAWALLS ON A21
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