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
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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
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