Update: Encinitas Prop A Passes

Update: 4:40 p.m. Thursday

Proposition A received 51.85 percent of 12,867, according to the unofficial results from the San Diego County Registrar of Voters. 

A measure in Encinitas that would require voter approval for certain zoning law changes and would impose a citywide height limit of 30 feet is on track to pass in a special election held Tuesday.

Certification documents will tentatively be placed on the City Council agenda July 10, City Clerk Kathy Hollywood told councilmembers in an email.

Councilmembers opposed the measure, and Mayor Teresa Barth addressed the preliminary results in a statement.

“I am committed to supporting the voter's decision and working to bring the community together,” she stated. “I do believe we all really want the same thing...to keep Encinitas a wonderful place to live now and in the future.”

The unofficial count from the San Diego County Registrar of Voters shows that 51.52 percent of the 11,082 citizens who voted supported Proposition A.

"The voters have spoken and I think they were very clear they want to have the last word in increases in zoning and height—that simple," Bruce Ehlers, Encinitas Right to Vote spokesman told Patch from his Olivenhain home where he said some 30 people were celebrating the results. 

The measure has been criticized as being too complicated, as Councilman Mark Muir wrote in a recent opinion piece:

"While Prop A has a deceptively simple name — “right to vote” — the initiative does far more. It includes other faultily written provisions that will create confusion and legal nightmares for the city."

But Ehlers maintains that Prop A is simple.

"It's only three pages … part of that is normal legalese," he said. "The heart of the petition, we purposely kept very simple."

Editor's note: A previous version of this story did not account for the 1,800 remaining ballots to be counted. It has since been updated.