‘You can’t fight city hall’: Leucadia Streetscape edition
The headline is a cliché because it’s a fact, here in Encinitas and probably everywhere else. Our fine city has about 240 generously compensated employees....
Doug Fiske
An open challenge to Encinitas city government
Few people like the Leucadia 101 corridor as it is. But the Streetscape plan described in the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) the city released...
Mired in a bureaucratic morass
Among the many bonehead moves Encinitas City Councils have made since 2005: Raised employee pensions 35 percent, hired a weasel city manager,...
Encinitas density bonus project facts and figures
The state density bonus law encourages developers to build more units per acre than local zoning allows, ostensibly for the sake of including one or...
Now is the time to trench the tracks through Encinitas
The Don Breazeale and Associates study commissioned and shelved by the city of Encinitas in 2000 gives $152 million (2014 dollars) as the added cost...
Trenching tracks would solve big problems
The first thing most people say when they read the headline or hear those words is, “It would be too expensive.”...
Hey locals, it’s Beacon!
In 1963, Dave Stern and Bill Cleary published “Surfing Guide to Southern California.”...
Trench the tracks
The North County Transit District’s Coaster and Sprinter rail lines transport riders within North San Diego County and between North County and San Diego....
The folly and fallacy of Leucadia Streetscape
Leucadia Streetscape started out on the wrong foot and hasn’t been in step since....
Streetscape: The wrong plan for north Highway 101
Most locals agree that the North Coast Highway 101 corridor needs a facelift....