If the Carlsbad City Council gives the Ponto Vision Plan (a development that could include “a 215-room Hilton resort; a 269-room hotel; a 161-unit condominium and live-work complex; and a 180-room hotel and 126 time shares”) the thumbs up it’s going to greatly increase traffic on La Costa Avenue. That means the road will have to be upgraded. But exactly who is going to pay for that has become a point of contention between the cities of Carlsbad and Encinitas.
Carlsbad estimated that the improvements would cost $5.34 million and determined that Ponto developers should pay 27 percent, with Encinitas paying the rest, Encinitas officials said. . . . Encinitas Planning Director Pat Murphy said Ponto’s developers should pay 70 percent of the improvements. His staff based its calculations on the developers’ share of the additional traffic that would be using La Costa Avenue, yielding a much higher share for the developers.
We have an easy solution: don’t build out Ponto.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
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