{"id":1495,"date":"2007-11-14T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2007-11-14T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T17:51:21","slug":"city-council-approves-ponto-vision-plan-eir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1495","title":{"rendered":"City Council Approves Ponto Vision Plan EIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ponto430-tm.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ponto430-tm.jpg','popup','width=425,height=196,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/ponto430-tm-tm.jpg\" height=\"198\" width=\"430\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ponto430-Tm\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It came as no real surprise to anyone, but last night the Carlsbad City Council voted unanimously (as the seemingly do for most development plans) to approve the environmental impact report on the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?s=ponto+vision+plan\" target=\"_blank\">Ponto Village Beachfront Vision Plan<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071114-0510-bn13carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It envisions 180 hotel rooms and 126 time-share units in an upscale resort overlooking the lagoon; a 215-room Hilton at Poinsettia Lane and Carlsbad Boulevard; and a 269-room hotel on Ponto Drive. . . . The plan also projects 128 condominium units, shops, restaurants, a wetland interpretive park and trails.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looks like it&#8217;s all downhill from here.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is a very special place in our community,&#8221; Councilwoman Julie Nygaard said before voting for the plan. &#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of increased amenities. In the end we&#8217;re going to come out with a really nice place for our community.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, special like Main Street in Huntington Beach. Wahoo!<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071114-0510-bn13carls.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came as no real surprise to anyone, but last night the Carlsbad City Council voted unanimously (as the seemingly do for most development plans) to approve the environmental impact report on the Ponto Village Beachfront Vision Plan, according to a story in the San Diego Union Tribune. It envisions 180 hotel rooms and 126 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}