Leucadia Blog: Open Space Purchase!

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Open Space Purchase!

Good news, bad news.

Part of this bluff at the corner of Piraeus and La Costa has been purchased by SANDAG for habitat mitigation. Although there is a majority on the Council who have made campaign promises of purchasing habitat for natural resource conservation and recreation, the current city council has a weak record of open space preservation.

5 comments:

AnonymousJanuary 31, 2010 5:33 PM
Hope no bad vibes come off this sale. What did SANDAG offer in return? What did Encinitas offer in return?
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AnonymousJanuary 31, 2010 8:09 PM
Three story along El Camino Real.... sounds like a good deal to me.
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Uncle JoeJanuary 31, 2010 10:46 PM
I heards da undagroun hunnycomb homes be cummin...
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AnonymousFebruary 01, 2010 3:37 PM
It will be "medium height" in the El Camino Real corridor. This will be 4 to 7 stories!! Three stories or less is considered "low." I had to struggled to get this information out of SANDAG when it held its open house in Encinitas.
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AnonymousFebruary 08, 2010 12:18 AM
What a great resource!
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About Leucadia

Leucadia is a funky little beach community located in North San Diego county in southern California. Leucadia is the north section of the city of Encinitas.

English spiritualists settled the small coastal community of Leucadia in 1870, and are reputed to have danced, in diaphanous white robes in the little Roadside Park (Leucadia Blvd and Hwy 101).

The spiritualists are the reason so many of the streets are named after Greek gods and goddesses. Leucadia is Greek for "a sheltered place." Heritage Eucalyptus trees, planted in the 1880s, still grace the highway. When President Roosevelt passed through Leucadia in an open car during the Depression, local children climbed the Eucalyptus trees to wave to him.

Change happens slowly in this nostalgic little California beach town. In lieu of fast food restaurants and franchise chain stores, Leucadia has two miles of Mom 'n Pop businesses, and that's the way everyone likes it. The town war cry is "Keep Leucadia Funky."

Leucadia played an active role in the rebirth of the classic Highway 101 shield, restored in 1997, and was part of the successful 101 Campaign to have Highway 101 declared an historic route.

Leucadia is experiencing growing pains and culture clash in these first decades of the 21st century...

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