The downtown Encinitas sign. (Charlie Neuman / For The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Encinitas will take out all of its remaining U-shaped, concrete seating spaces along Coast Highway 101 in downtown because of complaints about them becoming trash-filled, “public nuisances.”
Sheriff’s deputies have told her that it’s difficult to supervise what goes on inside the bench area from the street because the benches have high backs, she said. They’re even being used as unofficial bathrooms, city employees said Wednesday. Jim O’Hara, a running event company owner who’s seeking election to the council as a District 2 candidate, said he thought the bench removal was pointless.Instead of yanking out benches, the council needs to do more to control unruly homeless people, who are behaving badly and scaring other people downtown, he said.
If this is the justification for removing downtown’s seating, then what about Moonlight Beach or other places, Ehlers asked, adding, “Are we going to remove every bench? That’s ridiculous.” Out of the five, two in the 600 block of S. Coast Highway 101 are already gone. They were eliminated with the construction of the Pacific Station and Compass building projects, a city staff report notes. The three that remain are located at 552 S. Coast Highway , 553 S. Coast Highway and 628 S. Coast Highway .
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