To build a long-imagined South Coast Highway 101 pedestrian crosswalk, Encinitas officials are leaning towards a road diet and median, while not ruling out options that include two travel lanes in each direction.The Encinitas city …
Articles by Sheila Pell
It isn’t just plastic bags, butts and balloons littering the coast. Dock bumpers, debris booms and sandbags shed plastic, too.The California Coastal Commission will vote this week on new guidance cities can use in their coastal development …
San Diegans are being hit with all kinds of fees just to rent a home, and the city wants to lay down some laws. “These fees may be arbitrary, excessive, and opaque,” a recent report …
Despite rising fears about rising sea levels, some bayside communities are trying to attract more shoreline development. Imperial Beach, which may face some of the region’s greatest risks from sea-level rise, is tackling coastal adaptation …
Paradise Point Resort in Mission Bay is facing more scrutiny of its latest proposed remodel, which includes over 100 modifications.In a letter to the coastal commission, which postponed a vote on a coastal development permit …
A chicken factory farm in Ramona is being ordered by regulators to manage its waste better. To some of its neighbors, the new plan amounts to an expansion of operations at Pine Hill Egg Ranch, …
A Hindu temple in northeastern Escondido, 25 years in the works, is one step closer to approval. The planning commission last week voted 4-1 to recommend it to the city council. It’s a smaller version …
It’s the twilight years for tobacco stores in National City, where the city council narrowly approved an ordinance last week that bans new permits for such businesses within 1,000 feet of schools.In the small city, …
Kids like bikes and kids like tech, so it stands to reason that kids would love e-bikes. But as the accidents pile up, it's becoming clear that grownups don't love kids on e-bikes. They fume …