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and was shocked. “When we moved in, they didn’t tell us,” Campos said, noting the apartment is conveniently close to her job at UC San Diego and her grandkids’ three schools. “I look around at other apartments, and they have a long waiting list, like a Santa Claus list. It's not going to be so easy to go and rent another place.” The H.G. Fenton Company purchased the property at Nardo and Stevens avenues in 1998, fostering plans to redevelop the Solana Highlands Apartments for years. In 2018, the Solana Beach City Council approved the proposed demolition of the existing building and the construction of 260 new units, which is now set to take place next year. To ease the transition for residents, H.G. Fenton is providing relocation assistance equal to one month’s rent for residents
ENCINITAS — The San Dieguito Union High School District will soon be without a designated superintendent once again. Interim SuperintenRANCHO dent Tina Douglas, who SFNEWS was appointed to the position in April following the dismissal of Cheryl J a m e s Ward, notified the district board of trustees last Friday that she would be DOUGLAS resigning as superintendent and returning to her former position as Associate Superintendent of Business Services effective next month. Her decision comes the day after the board failed to approve a motion to appoint John Addelman to take over Douglas’s business services role on an interim basis, a request intended to alleviate the double workload on Douglas and fill holes in the district’s executive cabinet. While the district has been using a consultant to help with the business services role, Douglas said it hasn’t been enough. Other members of the district’s executive leadership are similarly overwhelmed, she added. “I can’t do both jobs. In essence, that’s why the request is here,” Douglas told the board at their Thursday meeting. “Without this, I honestly don’t know what I would do, because I just can’t.” Trustee Katrina
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A YOUNGSTER dressed as an oven-roasted turkey joined thousands of participants on Thanksgiving Day for the 17th O’side Turkey Trot. Area residents flocked to turkey trots in Encinitas and Oceanside for fun and exercise before a traditional holiday feast. Story on 11. Photo by Rich Cruse
Solana Highlands residents face displacement Large overhaul project will push many families out By Laura Place
SOLANA BEACH — When Alicia Campos moved with her mother, daughter and three grandchildren into the Solana Highlands Apartments earlier this year, she hoped it would be somewhere her family could call a long-term home. She had no idea at the time, back in March, that the owners of the complex were planning to demolish the building in the coming years and replace it newer, more expensive apartments that she and other residents would no longer be able to afford, essentially removing their chances of living in Solana Beach. Now, Campos and her family are among hundreds of residents set to be pushed out of Solana Highlands by mid-2023 for a massive ren-
ALICIA CAMPOS, right, and her mother, Maria Cardenas, are scrambling to find new housing after learning the Solana Highlands Apartments will undergo a massive renovation project next year. Photo by Laura Place
ovation project that will do away with the 198 existing units, which many describe as “naturally affordable,” and replace them with a 260-unit complex with 32
designated affordable units for seniors. Residents began receiving notice in June of 2022 that they would need to move out within the year,
with the demolition of the building and construction expected around next fall. Campos said she heard about the planned demolition through the grapevine
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