Encinitas: Our History and People

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• The Lumberyard Center (700-1000 blocks of Coast Highway 101) in
downtown Encinitas is built using a railroad-style architecture.
• Downtown Encinitas Merchants Association is formed to aid and promote
businesses along Coast Highway 101 in downtown Encinitas. In 1988 the
organization is granted the National Mainstreet Association status. It later
becomes known as Downtown Encinitas Mainstreet Association “DEMA.”
Currently nicknamed as E-101, they also manage the street fairs twice a year.
• San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy (2710 Manchester Ave.) started by a small group
of concerned citizens to save the lagoon, is formally dedicated to the public. This
important lagoon is one of the few remaining coastal wetlands in the state as it is
the terminus of the Escondido Creek. The lagoon is 915 acres with over seven
miles of hiking trails and a 5,600-square-foot Nature Center. Prior to the 1970s,
developers were proposing to replace the lagoon with condominiums, a marina
and a water park. It is now jointly managed by the San Diego County Department
of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Fish and Wildlife and supported by
the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy who bought the land in 2012.
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Above: Citizens of all five districts
vote to create one city: Encinitas, on
October 1, 1986. The first Encinitas
City Council members to be elected
are, (from left to right): Greg Luke,
Marjorie Gaines, Rick Shea, Gerald
Steel, and Anne Omsted.
Bottom, right: The Lumberyard
Shopping Center was built in 1982
in a railroad-style architecture as
this area was literally the lumber
yard during the early boom years,
as well as the site of the Mid-Winter
Flower Festival.
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