What is the Downtown Encinitas Specific Plan Document?
With easy access to a major freeway built in the 1960s, the historic downtown Encinitas area has experienced tremendous growth that continues today. Accompanying this increase in prosperity, however, came the pressures and impacts of growth. The older, established communities of Encinitas are now experiencing transition, redevelopment and redefinition of use and community function.
In 1986, Encinitas incorporated forming five diverse and unique communities: Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Leucadia, New Encinitas, Old Encinitas, and Olivenhain. The City's General Plan was adopted in 1989, which called for the preparation and implementation of this specific plan as part of the City's long-term land-use and development strategy.
The purpose of the specific plan is to treat the unique aspects, problems, and opportunities of the Downtown Encinitas area; to maintain its identity, community character, and scale, while fostering rehabilitation and successful economic restructuring.
Because of file-size constraints, we have divided the plan into chapters for you to download in PDF format.