According to the San Diego Union Tribune there has been a “voluntary evacuation for all Carlsbad residents south of Palomar Airport Road,” according to the Sheriff’s Department. According to the reports:
Residents were notified by a Reverse 911 call from authorities at about 3:30 p.m.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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Carlsbadistan awoke this morning to a billowing wall of smoke on the south side. The surf was still rolling in clean, yet backed off a little, and the Eastern Front was in the process of being evacuated. The San Diego Union Tribune has the latest updates on all the San Diego fires on their Fireblog. The latest on road closures is here.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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When the Carlsbad City Council meets on Tuesday October 23, 2007 Mayor Bud Lewis is expecting a large crowd to be on hand to voice their concerns about what is being called the Ponto Vision Plan, according to the North County Times.
Victor Ramirez, who lives in the Hanover Beach neighborhood, said Friday that the council can expect to hear from just as many public speakers as the planning commission did last month. . . “I think maybe even more,” he said, noting that his community has a Ponto meeting coordinator who is encouraging people to come. “I think they’ll have a full room and maybe overflowing.”
The mayor says the council will go until 10 PM and if they’re not finished it will be put off until next week. That sounds like a plan.
[Link: North County Times]
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Jim Courtney and Michael Pfankuch would like to take the one-acre lot that houses old Carlsbad Boat Club on the north shore of the Agua Hedionda Lagoon and put in a 26-unit, 40,500-square-foot time-share condominium complex, but according to a North County Times story they’re the only ones excited about the project.
Neighbors say they think a three-story condo complex would be completely out of character for the quiet community made up of luxurious single-family homes. . . .The city’s Planning Department appears to agree. Staff members are recommending that the Planning Commission deny the permit that the project will need to proceed.
Courtney and Pfankuch have an uphill battle. If they get past the Planning Commission and the City Council they still must have their plans approved by the Costal Commission.
[Link: North County Times]
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According to the San Diego Union Tribune a 31-year-old “San Diego Gas & Electric Co. worker suffered a severe electrical shock” while working on an “electricity distribution tower at Cannon Road and Faraday Avenue” at 10 AM yesterday.
The man was flown by helicopter to the burn unit of UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest, Carlsbad fire Battalion Chief Mike Kennedy said. . . The man was in stable condition when taken to the hospital, Kennedy said.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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Last night the heart of Carlsbadistan was getting all shook up thanks to what appeared to be test bombing at Camp Pendleton. You know the blasts are pretty heavy stuff when you’re sitting on the couch watching TV and you can feel the rumble right up through the floor. There were no media reports of increased activity on base, but we could certainly here the thunder and feel the blasts. Did you feel anything? If so, let us know in the comments.
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From a business perspective this probably isn’t the greatest news in world, but according to a story in the North County Times Carlsbad office space vacancy rate is soaring.
Leasable office vacancy rates in the posh coastal city have risen to 24.2 percent in the third quarter, the report stated. That’s up from 21.2 percent in the second quarter and just 10.2 percent in the third quarter of 2006. “Leasable” refers to empty space that is on the market and leased space that is unused and could be rented to someone else. . . “Vacancy has continued to shoot up as construction has been outpacing absorption,” said John Hoffmann, a senior vice president at Burnham, a real estate research firm in San Diego.
Looks like this may have something to do with the recent softening of the real estate market in general. Sadly, we’re going to guess this vacancy number will go even higher in the short term.
[Link: North County Times]
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A memorial service for Sean Carter, the teenager who went missing after a PWC crash last week will be held Saturday at 2 PM at the Elk’s Lodge according to a notice in the North County Times. Though an “intense rescue effort” from Oceanside to Carlsbad was made the boy’s body has still not been found.
Carter is presumed dead seven days after he and Doug Carter, his 21-year-old brother, crashed head-on into each other while riding Sea-Doos just south of the Oceanside Pier last Wednesday. Doug Carter reached his unconscious brother in the minutes after the crash, but could not save him from sinking. Although wearing wetsuits, neither brother was wearing a life jacket as required by California law.
[Link: North County Times]
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While local government and other groups are well behind the proposed Carlsbad Desalination Plant the Surfrider Foundation is still asking people to do all they can to stop it.
This project would be the largest and most damaging ocean desalination facility in the western hemisphere and should not move forward if we want to improve the health of our coastal areas and ocean water quality. Though there is never a good reason to destroy public coastal property, this project is especially threatening because it will cause the destruction of marine life and ecosystems of one of Southern California’s last remaining coastal lagoons, and exacerbate global warming.
They’ve posted a form letter on their website that will allow people to send email to Coastal Commission Chair Patrick Kruer and Lt. Gov. John Garamendi asking that they vote no on the project. If you’re against this project, please click the link to take action.
[Link: Surfrider Foundation]
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (yeah, remember him?) was in Solana Beach yesterday kicking off plans for his $42 billion campaign to “rebuild the state’s aging infrastructure.” His first project? Adding diamond lanes to Interstate 5 all the way to Cannon Rd in Carlsbad.
Schwarzenegger said the $66 million project to extend car-pool lanes on Interstate 5 from Via de la Valle in the Del Mar area to Manchester Avenue in Encinitas. . . Getting under way this week, the two-mile-long car-pool project is expected to be completed by March 2010. The project is the first leg of a $1 billion effort that ultimately will extend diamond lanes north to Cannon Road in Carlsbad by the middle of next decade, transportation officials said.
Wow. When you think of all the cool public transportation ideas that could use $1 billion, it seems like a crime to spend it making an already gigantic freeway one lane wider. Talk about a lack of vision.
[Link: North County Times]
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