by The Editors on August 23, 2008
After a few words from Library Director Heather Pizzuto and comments from members of the City Council, at about 10:30 AM on August 23, 2008 Mayor Pro Tem Ann Kulchin cut the ribbon to officially open Carlsbad City Library’s newest addition: The Learning Center at 3368 Eureka Place.
Close to 200 people were on hand for the celebration and the tour of the facilities that followed.
The Library Learning Center is both the new home of the Centro de Información and the Adult Learning Program, as well as a warm, comfortable community gathering place where life-long learning is supported for all ages.
The Learning Center will provide public computer and Internet access, computer classes for adults and students, literacy tutoring for adults, Homework assistance for students, study rooms, space for special events and a Spanish, English and bilingual library collection including books, audiobooks, DVDs and CDs for people of all ages.
Everyone involved with this project (The City of Carlsbad Staff, The Library Board of Trustees, The Carlsbad Library & Arts Foundation, Friends of the Carlsbad Library, Manuel Oncina Architects, Inc, and Telacu Construction) should be extremely proud. The building is attractively designed on the outside and more importantly on the inside.
For a photo tour of the new facility, please follow the jump (and remember to click the images to see the full size).
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by The Editors on August 22, 2008
The Carlsbad Library will be hosting a grand opening party for the new Learning Center Saturday August 23, 2008 from 10 AM to 3 PM. The celebration will include tours, story times, and crafts for children, plus entertainment by the Mariachi Divas.
The 11,000-square-foot Library Learning Center will open for business on Monday, August 25 at 11am. It is located at 3368 Eureka Place, on the east side of Holiday Park. The Library Learning Center hours will be 11am to 6pm Monday through Thursday and 11am to 5pm on Friday, with additional literacy tutoring appointments available mornings and evenings.
[Link: City of Carlsbad]
by The Editors on August 22, 2008
Yesterday, at the Four Season Resort at Aviara The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual State of the City Address luncheon and video presentation.
The 25-minute video was mostly upbeat, extolling the city’s accomplishments during the past year, such as the adoption of a city charter, and construction of a new fire station on Rancho Santa Fe Road and a Library Learning Center that will open tomorrow on Eureka Place.
Sounds like a Carlsbad love-fest that we missed. There is hope, however, for all of us. The video will be viewed again on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 7 pm, at the Carlsbad City Library’s Ruby G. Schulman Auditorium, 1775 Dove Lane, on the City of Carlsbad website, or on “Time Warner Cable Channel 19, Monday at 8 pm and Tuesday at 9 am and 5:30 pm.”
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on August 21, 2008
Evan Delaney Rodger, the 18-year-old junior at Cal State San Marcos, is running for a seat on the Carlsbad City Council and she’s not taking campaign donations from anyone: no individuals, no special interest groups, no developers, no hospitals, no businesses. No one.
While other campaigns are bragging about how much money they’ve raised, Rodger is keeping it simple.
She is refusing all contributions to be free of all special-interest influence, confident she will not need tens of thousands of dollars to run. She has embraced a “lean and green” online and grassroots word-of-mouth campaign as a viable alternative to landfill-destined roadside signs. . . . “Scaling things down makes sense in this economy, for the environment and most importantly in terms of rebuilding the community’s trust. It’s easy for the average person to become cynical and apathetic when big donations and campaign spending are spiraling out of control.”
The more we hear, the more sure we become that Evan is right for Carlsbad. Follow the jump for Evan’s entire press release.
[Editors’ Note: The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Logan Jenkins featured Evan in his column today.]
[Link: CleanCarlsbad.com]
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by The Editors on August 16, 2008
A Superior Court judge has sided with the City of Encinitas in the battle over who is going to pay for all the upgrades that La Costa Avenue will need for the increase traffic that the proposed Ponto hotel and resort development will cause, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Judge Robert P. Dahlquist said the Ponto plan’s environmental impact report, required under the California Environmental Quality Act as a step before anything can be built, is inadequate and should be set aside. . . . . . . . “At this time, the city is very pleased with the ruling,” Encinitas City Attorney Glenn Sabine said yesterday.
Carlsbad’s City Attorney Ron Ball is hoping to convince the judge otherwise. Apparently, the City of Carlsbad would like to get out of as much of the $5.3 million improvement costs as possible.
The judge agreed with Encinitas that Carlsbad’s methodology for calculating how much developers would pay without addressing who would make up the difference “is inadequate as a matter of law and is not supported by substantial evidence,” the ruling says.
We’d have to say we agree with Judge Dahlquist. The Carlsbad City Council really doesn’t seem too skilled at math.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on August 13, 2008
Last night the Carlsbad City Council approved a plan from Strategic Property Services Advisers for a PF Chang’s Chinese Bistro and a two-story, 44,000 square foot “complex of boutique clothing shops” (including H&M) across the street from the Carlsbad Premium Outlet stores on Paseo del Norte, according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
“That area has been waiting for a good (project) … and it seems that they have found something,” Councilman Mark Packard said before the council’s 4-0 vote, with Councilwoman Julie Nygaard absent.
If we’re going to have another mall in Carlsbad, it might as well be there.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on August 10, 2008
Logan Jenkins, the sometimes cranky San Diego Union-Tribune columnist, has a nice profile on Carlsbad City Council candidate Farrah Douglas telling her action-filled story of escaping Iran in 1979 after the fall of the Shah’s administration.
“I was crying all the time,” Farrah said. “We were stuck. Everybody else had left.” Finally, the U.S. Embassy, which had not yet been invaded, contacted Farrah with a scheme to get the family out of Iran. . . . They would take a special Pan American flight operated by volunteers. They would fly separately, not as husband and wife. Farrah would say she was visiting a sick sister in the United States.
Now, if we could just read a little about Farrah’s thoughts on the Alga Norte Park. Just by looking at Farrah’s list of establishment endorsements (including Mayor Bud Lewis) we’re guessing we already disagree with her.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on August 7, 2008
We just got an email today from Carlsbad City Council Candidate Evan Rodgers letting us know that her paperwork has been accepted.
I just heard from the City Clerk that my forms and signatures were verified by the Registrar of Voters. I am now an official candidate and will be on the Nov 4 ballot. . . . My website is CleanCarlsbad.com.
Any candidate that has a website with a skateboarder at the top of the page is getting our vote. Plain and simple. Stay tuned for our continuing coverage of Evan’s City Council bid.
[Link: CleanCarlsbad.com]
by The Editors on August 2, 2008
The days of gathering petitions and then expecting to win a seat on Carlsbadistan’s City Council seem to be over, as running for office in our Village by the sea is now big business. Councilwoman Ann Kulchin has $57,300 to spend saving her seat, but she is not alone in this money race.
Leading the challengers in the money race is Farrah Douglas, who has $14,800 in cash out of $26,000 she had collected by June 30. Douglas, who owns a printing business, had collected $12,400 last year, bringing her total contributions to $38,400. . . .Keith Blackburn, a Carlsbad police sergeant, has $12,800 in the bank after collecting $15,400. Blackburn also collected $32,100 last year, including $10,000 from himself, giving him $47,500 in donations for his council bid. . . . Thomas K. Arnold, a writer and editor, has collected $10,525, including a $7,500 loan to his own campaign.
Evan Rodgers, the 18-year-old Cal State San Marcos student, along with two other potential candidates, has yet to return her nominating papers to the city clerk. It will be interesting to see how finances play out in this year’s elections.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
by The Editors on July 25, 2008
The corner of Roosevelt Street and Oak Avenue in Carlsbadistan’s downtown is getting an upgrade, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The proposed building, on the northwest corner of Roosevelt Street and Oak Avenue, is planned to have 2,400 square feet of shops on the ground floor and six condominiums on the upper two stories. . . . The property is one block south of Carlsbad Village Drive, the city’s downtown commercial artery. It is occupied by a business and four one-story residences, which will be torn down to make way for the new project.
Let’s hope they look good. You never know when the City Council approves of it.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune]
Close to 200 people were on hand for the celebration and the tour of the facilities that followed.
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