North County Real Estate News February 2014 Issue Vol.1

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North County - A new report has just been
released which reveals seven costly mistakes
that most homeowners make when selling their
home, and a Nine-Step System that can help you
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of money. This industry report shows clearly
how the traditional ways of selling homes have
become increasingly less and less effective in
today’s market. The fact of the matter is that fully
three-quarters of homesellers don’t get what they
want for their homes and become disillusioned
and—worse—financially disadvantaged when
they put their homes on the market.
As this report uncovers, most homesellers
make seven deadly mistakes that cost them literally thousands of dollars. The good news is that
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Encina Power Station
After Six Years of Opposition
City Looks for Compromise
by Rebecca Austin
Carlsbad - In response to
the unexpected closure of the
San Onofre Nuclear Power
Station in June, utility companies have gone back to the
drawing board to figure out
the most efficient routes to
Southern California’s Power
Grid.
When it was active, the San
Onofre Plant provided more
than 20% of San Diego’s electricity—enough power for
over 1.4 million homes. This
has opened up discussions
between SDG&E & NRG
Energy about the proposed
Carlsbad
Energy Center,
which is a 558 Megawatt addition to the current, 60 year
old, Encina Power Station.
One of the biggest hurdles
for NRG has been finding a
customer who will buy the
energy that the new plant
would produce. SDG&E
has advised the Carlsbad City
Council that it will consider
buying energy from NRG if
the plant is re-designed as a
“peaker plant”, which runs
less and is more inconspicuous than the original plant
design.
The City Council has long
opposed the building of the

additional plant, with hundreds of local residents in
union on the opposition,
stating concerns about safety,
air pollution, and destruction of coastline views.
However, with the closure
of San Onofre, City Officials
recently voted unanimously
to begin negotiations on a
compromise with SDGE &
NRG Energy over the project.
It will take over 16 months
to obtain new permits for
the building of the re-designed plant and in order for

NRG to meet their timeline
of beginning construction on
the site in 2015, with opening
of the site in 2017, Carlsbad’s
cooperation is essential.
City Officials have stated
that final approval of the deal
is contingent on the shutdown and demolition of the
current Encina site.
Mayor Matt Hall stated,
“Our driving motive is to get
the site as clean as possible”.
The current Encina plant
utilizes a “once-through seawater cooling system”, which
has been declared as a haz-

ard to marine life, and environmental regulations could
require portions of the current plant to phase out and
shut down by 2017.
The new plant would be
called “The Carlsbad Energy
Center” and would utilize an
“air cooling system”, rather
than the dated, water-cooling
system. NRG officials have
said that the new plant would
be more efficient, reduce pollution, and meet the increased
demand for electricity, since
the San Onofre shutdown. n

Brand New Ice Arena
Coming to Town
by Rebecca Austin
Carlsbad - All though
San Diego is known
for it’s beautiful, sunny
weather, there is a cooling trend on the horizon—yet, it has nothing
to do with cloudy skies
and drenching rain.
The Carlsbad Planning
Commission recently
voted, unanimously, to
approve a brand new
Ice Arena to be built
on Cosmos Ct., near El
Camino Real.
Matt Dunaev and
his partners, who have
owned and operated a similar
rink for the past 17 years, Ice
Town in Riverside, are building the arena.
Dunaev said that in San
Diego, there is a growing interest in hockey and

ice skating, which creates a
growing demand for another
rink, especially in the North
County.
He said, “It’s the one area
that isn’t served at all. There’s
nothing on the coast from La
Jolla to Anaheim. We have a

great model in Riverside that
we are looking to replicate.”
The arena will be the second in North County, with
the Escondido Iceoplex in
North County Inland.
Dunaev said plans for the
grand opening will be in June
2014, after he and his partners complete renovations
that will cost between $7 million to $8 million.
The 31,000-square-foot
building will include a rink
surrounded by tempered
glass, changing rooms, classrooms, a full-service pro shop
and a snack bar. The rink will
have
about 30 full-time employees, plus many coaches and
referees that will work there
occasionally.
Carolina Cardenas, a local
Escondido resident whose 12
year old son took up hockey 6

years ago, added that the local
skating community would
welcome the new arena.
“You wouldn’t think it
based on our climate, but
the hockey community in San
Diego is pretty large. The
iceoplex in Escondido has two
rinks and it is always packed.
There are so many people
from San Marcos, Vista, the
coast and also