Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Auction looms for Encinitas' Pacific View school
Residents aim to stop sale of parcel that was donated in 1883
Pacific View Elementary School
Recently, Leucadia resident Scott Chatfield woke up one morning at 3:00 a.m. and realized he had to do something to save the old Pacific View Elementary School. The 2.8-acre property comes up for public auction on March 25.
Perched on Encinitas’ bluff top at the corner of E & Third streets since the 1950s, the school has been shuttered since 2003.
The Encinitas Union School District determined there were not enough students residing west of I-5 to support keeping the school open. In the nine-school district, now the Paul Ecke Central Elementary School, west of I-5 in Leucadia, takes those students residing west of I-5.
A music-industry producer and manager, Chatfield is best known in local activism circles as the guy who saved the 760 area code. Six years ago, he organized the “Save 760” campaign, which resulted in the first-ever reversal of the California Public Utilities Commission’s decision to change an area code.
Chatfield has now established savepacificview.org. The website’s stated intent is to get the school district to “halt the auction and reach a compromise before this irreplaceable property is lost to the public forever.”
According to the school district, it failed in sales negotiations with various entities over the past ten years. The district recently rejected a $4.3 million offer from the City of Encinitas.
The bidding will start $9.5 million, even though the district had two appraisals done on the property: one came in at $3.3 million, another at $7.3 million.
Other community activists say the district is trying to hoodwink out-of-town developers by suggesting a rezoning for ocean-view, multistory apartments or condos. The activists hope that any request to change the zoning from public use to residential would come under the city’s Proposition A, requiring approval of the voters.
The school district maintains it has an active rezone permit from several years ago, when it considered building a mixed-use commercial and residential development along with district offices. The public resoundingly rejected the plan and the district withdrew its proposal. Glenn Sabine, the city’s attorney, says the district’s permit has expired.
The district may have another problem. Activists have found a copy of the 1883 deed by Mr. J. Pitcher, donating the original parcel that became Pacific View. They believe Mr. Pitcher’s intent was for the land to always remain for the “public good.”
In just a few days, the website has gathered a long list of supporters, including city councilman Tony Kranz and district boardmember Mo Muir, who cast the board’s only dissenting vote against the auction.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Auction looms for Encinitas' Pacific View school
Residents aim to stop sale of parcel that was donated in 1883
Auction looms for Encinitas' Pacific View school
Residents aim to stop sale of parcel that was donated in 1883
Pacific View Elementary School
Recently, Leucadia resident Scott Chatfield woke up one morning at 3:00 a.m. and realized he had to do something to save the old Pacific View Elementary School. The 2.8-acre property comes up for public auction on March 25.
Perched on Encinitas’ bluff top at the corner of E & Third streets since the 1950s, the school has been shuttered since 2003.
The Encinitas Union School District determined there were not enough students residing west of I-5 to support keeping the school open. In the nine-school district, now the Paul Ecke Central Elementary School, west of I-5 in Leucadia, takes those students residing west of I-5.
A music-industry producer and manager, Chatfield is best known in local activism circles as the guy who saved the 760 area code. Six years ago, he organized the “Save 760” campaign, which resulted in the first-ever reversal of the California Public Utilities Commission’s decision to change an area code.
Chatfield has now established savepacificview.org. The website’s stated intent is to get the school district to “halt the auction and reach a compromise before this irreplaceable property is lost to the public forever.”
According to the school district, it failed in sales negotiations with various entities over the past ten years. The district recently rejected a $4.3 million offer from the City of Encinitas.
The bidding will start $9.5 million, even though the district had two appraisals done on the property: one came in at $3.3 million, another at $7.3 million.
Other community activists say the district is trying to hoodwink out-of-town developers by suggesting a rezoning for ocean-view, multistory apartments or condos. The activists hope that any request to change the zoning from public use to residential would come under the city’s Proposition A, requiring approval of the voters.
The school district maintains it has an active rezone permit from several years ago, when it considered building a mixed-use commercial and residential development along with district offices. The public resoundingly rejected the plan and the district withdrew its proposal. Glenn Sabine, the city’s attorney, says the district’s permit has expired.
The district may have another problem. Activists have found a copy of the 1883 deed by Mr. J. Pitcher, donating the original parcel that became Pacific View. They believe Mr. Pitcher’s intent was for the land to always remain for the “public good.”
In just a few days, the website has gathered a long list of supporters, including city councilman Tony Kranz and district boardmember Mo Muir, who cast the board’s only dissenting vote against the auction.
Comments