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MARCH 2, 2018
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The banners for the 19th annual Encinitas Arts Alive Exhibit will be unveiled from noon to 2 p.m. March 10 at the Pacific View School, 608 Third St., Encinitas. Presented by the 101 Artists’ Colony and Leucadia 101 Main Street, this year’s unveiling is hosted by the Encinitas Arts Culture and Ecology Alliance. The 2018 collection includes 82 artists. The banners will be displayed on light poles along Historic Coast Highway 101 soon after the unveiling, until the final auction on May 20. Photo by Tony Cagala
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Mixed-use project OK’d for Carlsbad Village By Steve Puterski
CARLSBAD — Another mixed-use development got the green light from the City Council during its Feb. 27 meeting. This time, though, the project, dubbed the Six on Madison, won unanimous support in a 4-0 vote. Mayor Matt Hall recused himself with a conflict of interest as he owns property in the notice area. The four-story project will include 943 square
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SOLANA BEACH — Solana VISTA Beach is likely the next city that will be forced to abandon its atNEWS large voting system and create districts from which council members will be elected. Attorneys from a Malibu-based law firm sent the city clerk a letter, on behalf of Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, claiming “voting within Solana Beach is racially polarized, resulting in minority vote dilution.” RANCHO As such, it violates the California VotingSFNEWS rights Act (CVRA) of 2001, according to the letter, dated Feb. 14. It goes on to state that the CVRA “disfavors” at-large voting, which allows all registered voters in a city to elect candidates to each open seat, because the system gives a bare majority of voters the ability to control every seat. According to the letter, voting rights advocates have targeted at-large elections for decades because they often result in vote dilution, which is defined in the letter as “the impairment of minority groups’ ability to elect their preferred candidates or influence the outcome of elections.” California law does not require that a minority group demonstrates it is sufficiently large and geographically compact enough to create a majority-minority district. According to the 2010 census, about 2,000 people, or 16 percent of the 12,867 residents living in Solana Beach, were Hispanic or Latino. As of 2016, the city’s estimated population was 13,500, with about 8,750 registered voters. Solana Beach and Del Mar — the county’s smallest city with approximately 4,100 residents — are
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Belmont Village resident Fred Schneider rides in a 1927 Ford Model T as part of his 103rd birthday celebration on Feb. 28. Schneider, born in 1915 in Kansas, moved to California in 1936 and to Encinitas in 1979. Story on Page A5
feet of commercial space and six condos on the site, which sits at the corner of Madison Street and Oak Avenue. In addition, six parking lifts, similar to the two proposed for the Carlsbad Village Center, are also included in the plans. Twelve of the 13 parking spaces will use the lifts, while the applicant, Oak & Madison, LLC, was also granted to include four
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