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Plans to demolish aging Cardiff Elementary School classrooms and rebuild much of the campus can move forward despite a legal battle over a school parkland area, the Encinitas Planning Commission has decided.
The vote Thursday, April 18, to support the school district’s coastal development permit request was 3-0, with Commissioner Bruce Ehlers absent and Commissioner Brett Farrow recusing himself because he lives near the Montgomery Avenue school site. Commission approval can be appealed to the City Council, and the permit also needs state Coastal Commission approval.
Plans call for the demolition of five one-story buildings and three relocatable classroom structures; construction of 10 buildings, including a multipurpose auditorium; realignment of the parking lot; the addition of perimeter fencing around the site; and reconstruction of the playing fields and playground equipment.