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Del Mar housing blunder
June 14, 2024
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Pro snowboarder and Finnish Olympian Jussi THE Oksanen recently opened Studio Upea, a pet portrait VISTA studio in Leucadia. Story onNEWS 16.
Wrong job data skews city’s quota
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By Laura Place
DEL MAR — Frustrated leaders in Del Mar continue to seek a path forward to revise the city’s allocation of required housing units by SANDAG, which incorrectly calculated usWhat ing job data SANDAG that includhas done to ed seasonal and part-time Del Mar is Fa i r g r o u n d s a travesty. workers. If we don’t The small do anything coastal city has been inabout this, in a it’s an even volved multi-year batgreater tle with SANDAG over the travesty.” 6th cycle Regional Housing Needs Allocation process completed a few years ago, which designated 163 units for the city to construct by 2029. City leaders said they have long suspected the city’s allocation to be overinflated but struggled to receive clarification on how job data was analyzed to calculate these numbers. After years of back-and-forth with SANDAG and the state Employment Development Department, the city learned last year that nearly half of the 4,484 jobs included in the calculation were for part-time or seasonal employees of the Del Mar Fairgrounds. “This allowed for part-time and seasonal employment at the Fairgrounds related to one-time TURN TO HOUSING ON 21
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9th Circuit upholds gun, ammo sales ban By City News Service
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REGION — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals this week upheld California laws barring gun and ammo sales on state property such as the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Tuesday’s decision stems from litigation filed by numerous pro-gun plaintiffs, including B&L Productions Inc., which operated gun shows at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and other locations. One such lawsuit over gun sales prohibitions at
the Del Mar Fairgrounds was dismissed by a judge. On appeal, the plaintiffs argued those laws — AB 893, SB 264 and SB 915 — are unconstitutional on First and Second Amendment grounds. Justice Richard Clifton, who wrote Tuesday’s opinion on behalf of the 9th Circuit, argued the challenged laws “do not directly or inevitably restrict any expressive activity,” and thus “do not implicate TURN TO GUN SALES ON 7
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