The South Carlsbad Coastline Project is stirring a lot of interest from people at the prospect of transforming 60 acres of city-owned land along the 101 Coast Highway. City planners held a virtual public meeting Monday to discuss the vision and hear ideas from people who live in Carlsbad.
“We really want to start with, ‘What’s the overall vision?’ We want to let people imagine what they want this space to be,” said Kristina Ray, spokesperson for the City of Carlsbad.
In May of 2020, the City of Carlsbad acquired grant funding for over $500,000 from the California State Coastal Conservancy to design a plan that would increase resilience to rising sea levels. Part of this effort would involve relocating South Carlsbad Boulevard further away from the coastline.
“We want to create more space for people, move the road over to the east a little bit, and you would free up like 60 acres worth of land,” said Ray.
The year 2021 will be remembered as the year they tore down the Murph.
It opened in 1967 as San Diego Stadium, and then re-named Jack Murphy Stadium after the local sportswriter who helped build support for its construction. The surrounding area was fairly innocent at the time – for a short time in the 1980’s, I lived where homes were built in the bottom right, and used to walk to Padres games:
It was the only stadium ever to host both the Super Bowl and the World Series in the same year (1998), and it was one of three stadiums to host the World Series, the MLB All-Star Game, and the Super Bowl (along with the Metrodome in Minneapolis and Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles).
This shot of the 1992 All-Star Game became one of the most iconic photos in local history, and ended up in the Baseball Hall of Fame:
The 2021 view from the same spot:
My favorite demo photograph – the scoreboard standing alone in an appropriately-unnamed stadium:
Here is epic drone footage of the final days:
The big-time concerts held at the Murph were legendary – we were there for the Eagles, and the last two:
The stadium hosted the Chargers and Padres, Holiday and Poinsettia Bowl games, SDSU football, rugby, high-school football championships, soccer, motocross, car races, the Super Trucks, used-car sales, American Idol, Billy Graham, and the Boy Scouts for their annual Scout Fair!
HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who joined us in giving back this year through Mama’s Pies! Our team raised over $2,300, which allows Mama’s Kitchen to prepare, make, and deliver over 900 meals to those in need in San Diego!
I hope this email finds you and your loved ones well and that everyone was able to enjoy a Happy Thanksgiving.
Thank you for your patience as we finalized our calculations to the Mama’s Pies Thanksgiving Bake Sale numbers, and to just say THANK YOU for all your support!
Here’s a breakdown of the impact that each of you made in raising funds for our critically ill neighbors:
# of pies sold: 2,925
# of Holiday Feasts donated: 1,005
General donations: $26,572
Sponsorship: $29,000
Total Raised: $169,247
This has been our most successful Mama’s Pies yet! CONGRATULATIONS for making this happen!
We sold out of pies before sales ended which is remarkable considering the amount of pies we sold, which is also a record-breaking number! Thank you all for your time and dedication to our community members.
Congratulations to the top ten Teams and Individual Sellers!
Individuals:
Kelly Sherlock (Mama’s Kitchen Director of Administration and Finance)
Adam Ritch (General Manager, WorldMark Mission Valley Resort)
Scott Walls (Mama’s Kitchen Board President)
KariLorraine Scott
Cheli Mohamed
Patricia Pasquill
Andrew Rosenberg
Leo Meltvedt/Chiropractic Life Center
Michelle and Lisa Burkart
Steve Carnes
Teams
True Chiropractic
Jack in the Box
Neda Nourani and Associates at Compass
Qualcomm Black Inclusion Group
The Kube Team/Fairway Mortgage
ScrippsAssists at Scripps Research
Candis Kolb and Associates at Compass
Klinge Realty Group
Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health at UC San Diego
Team SAIC
Our top three individual and team sellers will receive a small token of our appreciation.
Heck, just follow my red line, and add some houses while you’re at it!
CARLSBAD — The city is preparing for sea-level rise by partnering with a prominent local research organization to perform a realignment study on a portion of Carlsbad Boulevard to help mitigate any future structural damage due to climate change.
The South Carlsbad Boulevard Climate Adaptation Project marks the first major review of the city’s infrastructure in relation to sea-level rise, according to Mike Grim, the city’s senior program manager.
The study is expected to take about 16 months and return to the council in Feb. 2023, according to Grim.
“It’s doing a little more detailed analysis of bluff erosion and flooding impacts would be due to sea-level rise or extreme storms,” Grim said. “And then analyzing the realignment of the boulevard and then what to do with that intervening space. We are going to move that as far east as we can.”
The Carlsbad City Council approved a $498,075 grant during its Sept. 14 meeting from the California State Coastal Conservancy for Scripps Institute of Oceanography to conduct studies on sea-level rise and how to move the road’s southbound lane eastward, away from the ocean, between Palomar Airport Road and Island Way.
The city will begin its public outreach to residents and businesses in January.
More about our local water situation – an excerpt from nytimes.com:
LAKESIDE, Calif. — In many parts of California, reminders abound that the American West is running out of water. “Bathtub rings” mark the shrinking of the state’s biggest reservoirs to some of their lowest recorded levels. Fields lie fallow, as farmers grapple with an uncertain future. A bed-and-breakfast owner spends $5 whenever a tourist showers.
But not in San Diego County.
In this coastal desert metropolis, life has stayed mostly the same for residents already accustomed to conserving what they have long treated as a precious resource.
On a recent afternoon, boats sped over the silvery surface of San Vicente Reservoir, a key water storage site for the county about 25 miles northeast of downtown San Diego. It was about as full as usual, cutting a sharp contrast with the desiccated lake beds where state officials have appeared in recent months, pleading with Californians to save water. The San Diego County Water Authority estimated that it would have sustainable water supplies through 2045, even if dry conditions persisted for years.
Now, with San Diego facing the prospect of orders to use even less water, its relative water plenty has become a case study in the uneven ways that the Western drought is affecting the nation’s most populous state. And the county’s try-everything approach to getting water has emerged as a model for cities — including Denver and Albuquerque — where leaders are dealing with one of climate change’s most dire effects.
