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Tow-truck yard to lose ocean view
Time to beat it — arts center development takes priority
Gate at the leased tow yard at 601 Santa Fe Drive
Encinitas’ AAA tow-truck operation, Leucadia Towing, is losing its tow yard at the closed Pacific View Elementary School, which will soon become a city-owned arts center. The City of Encinitas has a fairly unused storage yard at 601 Santa Fe Drive, on the southeast corner of the I-5 interchange.
However, on December 17, the Encinitas planning commission concurred with a group for seven residents and 50 petition signers that the plan to rent half of the storage yard to Leucadia Towing was not an appropriate use. Leucadia Towing’s owner, Joe Reddick, said he’s been looking for an appropriate site for over four years.
The city is still in the process of spending $1.4 million to improve the 600 block of Santa Fe Drive; adding new curbs and gutters, sidewalks, palm trees, undergrounding utilities, and installing village-style streetlights in the mostly residential neighborhood.
Leucadia Towing appealed the decision to the city council on January 27. Residents in the Cardiff by the Sea and Encinitas neighborhoods that surround the Santa Fe Drive yard showed up to oppose the project that would allow for up to 9 tow trucks and 20 stored vehicles to operate 24 hours a day; they assert that the trucks dropping chains and their loud back-up warning beeps would add to noise. The group said traffic congestion on Santa Fe Drive, the main route to several area schools, would increase.
Five Encinitas garage owners told the council that Leucadia Towing needs a local yard in order to be able to respond quickly to their customers and AAA members, and that Reddick has been a good community citizen.
After almost an hour of testimony and questions from the council, councilpersons Muir and Blakespear and mayor Gaspar voted against the project but directed staff to work with Leucadia Towing to find an appropriate site.
Gaspar suggested as a possible site the city’s large maintenance yard off I-5 at Encinitas Boulevard, where, she said, “I see a lot of empty asphalt.”
Here's something you might be interested in.
Tow-truck yard to lose ocean view
Time to beat it — arts center development takes priority
Tow-truck yard to lose ocean view
Time to beat it — arts center development takes priority
Gate at the leased tow yard at 601 Santa Fe Drive
Encinitas’ AAA tow-truck operation, Leucadia Towing, is losing its tow yard at the closed Pacific View Elementary School, which will soon become a city-owned arts center. The City of Encinitas has a fairly unused storage yard at 601 Santa Fe Drive, on the southeast corner of the I-5 interchange.
However, on December 17, the Encinitas planning commission concurred with a group for seven residents and 50 petition signers that the plan to rent half of the storage yard to Leucadia Towing was not an appropriate use. Leucadia Towing’s owner, Joe Reddick, said he’s been looking for an appropriate site for over four years.
The city is still in the process of spending $1.4 million to improve the 600 block of Santa Fe Drive; adding new curbs and gutters, sidewalks, palm trees, undergrounding utilities, and installing village-style streetlights in the mostly residential neighborhood.
Leucadia Towing appealed the decision to the city council on January 27. Residents in the Cardiff by the Sea and Encinitas neighborhoods that surround the Santa Fe Drive yard showed up to oppose the project that would allow for up to 9 tow trucks and 20 stored vehicles to operate 24 hours a day; they assert that the trucks dropping chains and their loud back-up warning beeps would add to noise. The group said traffic congestion on Santa Fe Drive, the main route to several area schools, would increase.
Five Encinitas garage owners told the council that Leucadia Towing needs a local yard in order to be able to respond quickly to their customers and AAA members, and that Reddick has been a good community citizen.
After almost an hour of testimony and questions from the council, councilpersons Muir and Blakespear and mayor Gaspar voted against the project but directed staff to work with Leucadia Towing to find an appropriate site.
Gaspar suggested as a possible site the city’s large maintenance yard off I-5 at Encinitas Boulevard, where, she said, “I see a lot of empty asphalt.”
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