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VOLUME 28 NUMBER 5
Planners push for bridge safety
Feb. 2, 2012
Family Fun Bingo Night
High school district considers bond measure San Dieguito Union considers three contracts this week BY MARSHA SUTTON The San Dieguito Union High School District will consider contracts related to placing a general obligation bond on an upcoming ballot, at the district’s Feb. 2 board meeting. Three items will be presented to SDUHSD trustees Thursday night. All recommended contracts were selected from published Requests for Proposals. The first item is to award a contract to the Dolinka Group of Irvine for financial advisory services. Dolinka was selected out of seven candidates. The board report states that the district is recommending that the board ap-
Board votes for multi-use trail separated from the roadway BY KAREN BILLING Anyone who has driven on the El Camino Real bridge with a cyclist alongside knows that sharing the road can be a tight squeeze. While the new bridge with the future re-alignment and widening of El Camino Real will afford a little more room, the San Diego River Park Joint Powers Authority wants to ensure a safe crossing for all users over the riverbed. Last week the Carmel Valley Community Planning Board voted 9-4 in support of the river park’s efforts to make sure the bridge design includes a multi-use trail separated from the roadway. The widening of El Camino Real, from San Dieguito Road to Via de la Valle will also involve realigning the road to the east and removing the old, 1920s bridge. Original plans included saving the old bridge to use as a trail connection, but the JPA has acknowledged that it cannot take responsibility for maintaining that bridge and it will be demolished. As the planning for the widening has been going on See BRIDGE, Page 6
Sarah and Sean Kono have a blast Jan. 25 at Solana Highlands Elementary School’s Family Fun Bingo Night. See page B11 for more. PHOTOS: JON CLARK
Police advise caution as burglaries continue BY KAREN BILLING The burglary series that affected Carmel Valley and Del Mar Heights area homes late last year has continued into the new year, according to Carmel Valley Northwestern Division’s Sergeant Ernesto Servin. “The burglary series has become a much bigger problem than we initially anticipated back in October,” said Servin at the Jan. 26 Carmel Valley Community Planning Board meeting.
The series has now stretched to include 38 crimes all over the county from Carmel Valley to La Mesa, linked by similar methods used to break into and steal from the home. Sometimes homeowners don’t even discover the crime right away because of the methodical nature of the suspects, taking jewelry and valuables that are left in the open and disturbing little else in the See BURGLARIES, Page 6
prove Dolinka “to provide financial advisory services related to placing the GO bond measure on the June 5, 2012 or November 6, 2012 ballot.” This is Phase 1. If the GO bond is approved by voters, Dolinka will then provide “financial advisory services regarding the issuance of the bonds” from “the period January 20, 2012 until completion of bond authorizations.” This is Phase 2. The fee would be $20,000 for Phase 1 and $65,000 for Phase 2. Funding for this is listed as “campaign donations and future See BOND, Page 6
Flower Hill upgrade on schedule BY JOE TASH A $25 million expansion and renovation of the Flower Hill Promenade shopping center on Via De La Valle is moving forward on schedule, and a new Whole Foods market and other businesses could be open by the end of the year. The mall on Via De La Valle, just east of Interstate 5, will be expanded from its existing 112,000 square feet to 173,000 square feet with the addition of new retail and office space and a fourlevel parking garage at the
Renovation work at Flower Hill Promenade. west end of the property. An Ultra Star cinema was demolished to make way for the new buildings. The center is within
the city limits of San Diego, although it is advertised as “Del Mar’s premier shopSee FLOWER, Page 6
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