Encinitas, California Workshop On Housing Development Gets Good Turn Out.

Encinitas, California Workshop On Housing Development Gets Good Turn Out.

About 200 people participated Monday night in an Encinitas city mapping exercise designed to identify places where high-density housing might be build in the decades to come. Some participants agonized over their advisory decisions, trying to create a way for all five communities of Encinitas to absorb the same amount of future growth. Participants deliberated over where they should place the blue "growth" stickers on the maps that they had each been given as part of the exercise. Others didn't want the growth near their homes.

Another man said that none of his sticker was going to go anywhere near the Leucadia portion of Vulcan Avenue saying that the road cannot handle the traffic congestion it already has. The housing exercise on Monday night was the first of two free public workshops city officials are hosting as they continue their multi year effort to overhaul the city's general plan. A massive state-required document that spell out how Encinitas will handle everything from traffic congestion to low-income housing needs in the decades to come. The most contentious part of the project has been updating the city's housing element-a plan that details where new apartments and sing-family homes will go.

Courtesy of: Crescent Moon Realty, Inc.
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