May 13: Coastal Commission Hearing on Quail Meadows Apartments

Posted on: May 5th, 2026

The California Coastal Commission on May 13 is set to consider appeals of the Encinitas City Council’s approval of a Coastal Development Permit for Quail Meadows Apartments. To refresh your memory, Quail Meadows Apartments will be a four story 448 unit apartment complex to be built just north of the Sunshine Apartment complex on Quail Gardens Drive. The development was approved by the city council under duress last year and was then appealed to the California Coastal Commission by a volunteer group called the Encinitas Citizens for Responsible Development (ECRD). This development will be over three times the size of Sunshine Apartments with the only entrance and exit on Quail Gardens Drive across from Kristen Court. This will obviously have a serious impact on traffic, safety and noise.

This email is being sent on behalf of ECRD who urges you to send written comment to the Commission in support of the appeal by Encinitas Citizens for Responsible Development. The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, May 8.

Please copy/paste this information into an email:

Address line: SanDiegoCoast@coastal.ca.gov

Subject line: Public Comment on May 13, 2026, Agenda Item 20a – Appeal No. A-6-ENC-25-0005 (Quail Meadows, LLC, Encinitas)

We urge you to find substantial issue with the Quail Meadows Apartments’ Coastal Development Permit. We support the findings presented in the Encinitas Citizens for Responsible Development appeal. To both protect critical coastal resources and provide affordable housing, the findings warrant further consideration.

Background

Filed in March 2025, the Encinitas Citizens for Responsible Development appeal to the Coastal Commission raises continued concerns that the proposed, 448-unit project on Quail Gardens Drive threatens coastal resources by impacting a tributary to Cottonwood Creek and allowing inadqueate drainage infrastructure to serve the project.

The Coastal Commission staff report concludes that “no substantial issue” could be found. We disagree. During the May 13 hearing, we will continue to justify that substantial issue exists within the project’s appeal jurisdictional boundary.