In the Press & More

“There’s no parking on Piraeus itself, there’s no parking on Skyloft Road, there’s no parking from La Costa Avenue in the north to Leucadia Boulevard to the south, no parking on Olympus for parents taking their kids up to (Capri Elementary) school,” Hill said. “So any parking generated by this project has to be on-site, and right now, it’s inadequately parked. What you end up with on this project is 500 people with 300 cars on 4 acres. It’s a gallon being dumped into a pint pot, a mass of concentrated humanity, and there’s no quality of life to go along with it.” 

“…Proposition A seeks to protect the natural resources of the City of Encinitas, maintain the character of the City’s five communities, ensure that infrastructure and public benefits are adequately planned and funded prior to any increase in zoning, and preserve the zoning and property rights of the voters.…”

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The mayor has said repeatedly “our hands are tied by state law.”  However, the judge did not agree:

“But nothing in these enumerated powers of enforcement allows state to require a jurisdiction to seek to invalidate a voter initiative, nor is there any provision for a jurisdiction to sue either private citizens or to invalidate a voter initiative.”

We are calling for the immediate review of estimated traffic resulting from development on a cumulative basis, with the expectation that traffic mitigation measures will follow.

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Except for the addition of a middle turn lane on La Costa Avenue for the Weston Project, there are no infrastructure changes planned to manage the traffic that each of the six projects above will bring to our community. At minimum, the projects will contribute an additional 3229 trips per day, or 22,609 trips per week.

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This lawsuit is not just an attack on the majority of citizens in Encinitas. It is an attack on the Democratic Process and on the US Constitution. It is hard to understand how the outgoing City attorney, Glenn Sabine, would have advised the Council to enter into this lawsuit.

“Local governments must approve housing developments that comply with ‘applicable, objective general plan, zoning, and subdivision standards and criteria’ unless they make certain findings,” Attorney General Rob Bonta stated in a letter to the Olivenhain Town Council Board of Directors.

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(Oh, and The Frenso Bee: 

California Assemblymember Mia Bonta will now help determine the budget for California Attorney General Rob Bonta. If that sounds suspicious to you, then you’re in good company.)