Coast Highway hearing June 10

Today’s Planning Commission hearing on the Coast Highway Corridor (road diet and incentive district) is postponed to June 10. From an email this afternoon to those on their mailing list:

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Highway Corridor Study:  Status Update

Three components of the Final EIR for the Coast Highway Corridor Study – the Mitigation, Monitoring, and Reporting Program (MMRP), Findings of Fact, and Statement of Overriding Considerations – were inadvertently not included in the online posting for this project. Consequently, the Planning Commission public hearing on the Corridor Study will be continued from May 20th to June 10th in order to afford both the Planning Commission and the general public sufficient time to review these materials. The Final EIR and associated materials can be accessed here. The MMRP, Findings of Fact, and Statement of Overriding Considerations will be posted to this link by Wednesday, May 22nd. Questions regarding these materials and their role in the environmental review process can be directed to Principal Planner Russ Cunningham at rcunningham@oceansideca.org. Public Hearing Schedule    1. Planning Commission (RESCHEDULED): Monday, June 10, 2019 at 6pm 2. City Council: Wednesday, August 14, 2019 at 2pm Both meetings will take place in the City Council Chambers at 300 North Coast Highway.

Additionally, the Fact Sheet is included again with this announcement to help answer continuing questions on the proposed Incentive District along Coast Highway. Please click on the image to the right for a copy of the fact sheet.

For more information on the Incentive District, please contact Russ Cunningham, Principal Planner at 760-435-3525 or you can send an e-mail to RCunningham@oceansideca.org.

If you have any questions, please contact John Amberson, Transportation Planner, City of Oceanside, 760-435-5091 or you can send an e-mail to Jamberson@oceansideca.org.

 

Coast Highway hearing delayed

The May 20 Planning Commission hearing on the Coast Highway Corridor project has been delayed. We will update you when we have the revised date.

Urgent: Fight Coast Highway Road Diet in next five days

On Monday at 6pm, the Planning Commission hearing will consider the revised Coast Highway Plan. Residents need to

• Testify against the road diet at the May 20 hearing
• Email the Planning Commission to express your opposition.

The city staff recommendation ignores three years of opposition from South O:

• It imposes the Road Diet citywide, shrinking Coast Highway from 4 lanes to 2
• It imposes the Density Incentives citywide, including the maximum density “transit Node” replacing the North County Times building at the NE corner of Cassidy and Coast Highway with something 55′ tall (with parts up to 65′ tall).

South O opposition has included

• An overwhelmingly negative response (90+%) in January to the latest EIR.
• A strong turnout of South O opposition at the January community meeting.
• Impassioned public testimony before the 2016 city election
• A petition of opposition signed by more than 400 Oceanside residents that was submitted to the city council

Save South O — working with and through other community groups such as the South Oceanside Business District — is working to instead present a positive vision of how to improve the Coast Highway corridor in South O.

As residents, merchants and visitors will tell you, South O is not downtown, and so South O needs a development strategy that reflects this reality — not one that imposes a one-size-fits all mandate from City Hall in defiance of the community’s clearly articulated wishes.