Wednesday, December 18, 2019



Facts About Leucadia 101 Streetscape

• One lane in each direction for 85 percent of the 2.4-mile corridor.

• Four one-lane roundabouts: Sea Bluff, Grandview, Jupiter, El Portal. The first is a private driveway. The first three are in a half-mile stretch at the north end. The fourth is 1.2 miles from the third.

• Of the 22 intersections where left turns from the west onto 101 are allowed, 15 will remain as they are now.

• 176 parking spaces in 10 pods in the railroad right-of-way. That’s fewer than now.

• At least 90 mature trees will be removed; 839 saplings will be planted; NCTD will not let any trees in the right-of-way get big enough to form a canopy over 101.

• No new crossings between east and west of tracks.

• Per the 2008-9 traffic study, up to 7,100 car trips will be diverted from 101 to the freeway, Vulcan and Neptune. Yet the city and the Main Street merchants’ association say business will increase.

• The city gives the merchants’ association $30,000 of taxpayer funds per year. Fewer than 20 percent of the merchants with corridor addresses are members of the association.

• Two Leucadia women independently calculated the total cost of the project will be $55 million.

Letter to Coastal Commission Objecting to Latest Streetscape Amendments

December 15, 2019

Dear CCC Personnel,

In late July 2018, the San Diego district CCC staff issued its analysis of the Leucadia 101 Streetscape project and stated conditions the city of Encinitas would have to meet to comply with the California Coastal Act of 1976. Two commissioners and several residents submitted appeals. The appeals essentially agreed with the staff report. A fundamental point was that the proposed project would restrict access to the Leucadia coastal corridor and the beaches west of it. That judgment was unquestionably correct.

In late September 2018, the staff reversed its July position. The full commission unanimously approved the project in October. The various appeals were ignored. 

As approved, the project violates the Coastal Act. The amendments now proposed continue that violation.

The staff has not revealed what justified the reversal of its position between late July and late September 2018. The position went from legal to illegal. The commission went along with the illegality.

The staff and commission have failed to fulfill their mandate. The public demands and deserves an explanation.

Doug Fiske
Leucadia