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County officials say the plan to update Carlsbad’s airport will make it quieter and safer, but many residents doubt that, saying the proposed improvements will bring more noise and traffic.
The county is nearing the end of a four-year process to rewrite the 20-year-old master plan, a document that guides development at McClellan-Palomar Airport. The latest draft of an environmental impact report for the plan was presented at a community meeting Tuesday at a Holiday Inn near the airport.
The airport, built by the county in 1959, has gradually transitioned over the years from serving mostly small, propeller-driven private aircraft to one that now serves mostly mid-sized corporate jets. Overall air traffic peaked in 1999 with 285,122 takeoffs and landings, but dropped to 149,029 in 2016 with the decreasing use of personal aircraft, according to the draft EIR.
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It was just before 6 p.m. on Nov. 30, the long Thanksgiving weekend over, and on South 45th Street near Newton Avenue, the month was about to end with a sound that has become increasingly common across San Diego this year: gunshots.
Two men standing on the sidewalk in the Skyline neighborhood were shot when a light-colored sedan drove by, stopped momentarily, and someone inside opened fire. One 44-year-old man was hit in his head; another, 29, hit in the arm. Both survived.
Those were the final gunshots in a month that saw a shooting somewhere in the city about once every three days. The incident on South 45th Street was not unusual, but was part of a larger phenomenon in San Diego this year.
State awards $106 million for San Diego County rail projects
Workers repair the site of a bluff collapse next to the railroad tracks in Del Mar after heavy rains in November 2019.
(The Union-Tribune)
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The California Transportation Commission has allocated $106 million for San Diego County rail projects, including $36 million for future phases of the ongoing efforts to stabilize the Del Mar bluffs.
Work is underway on the fourth phase of a six-part effort begun in 2003 to shore up the 1.7-mile stretch of eroding coastal cliffs. The current construction, budgeted at $5.8 million, includes repairing and replacing a concrete storm-water channel and other drainage structures and installing more concrete-and-steel support columns.
EL CAJON
The El Cajon City Council last month gave the go-ahead to a project called “Main Street Green Street.” It is intended to make the area near the El Cajon Transit Center greener, more accessible and safer for bike riders and pedestrians and encourage public transit use.
Tony Mendoza, associate engineer for El Cajon, said that while there is not a large number of cyclists frequenting the area, the thought is that if the city makes areas safer and more accommodating, it will encourage more activity.
The project is one of the first steps in the city’s Transit District Specific Plan, adopted by the City Council in 2018. The plan laid out a blueprint for redeveloping about 260 acres surrounding the El Cajon Transit Center at 352 S. Marshall Ave.