North County
The Paul Ecke family has dropped its bid to build a 50-acre floral trade center on unincorporated land between Encinitas and Carlsbad due to strong objections from officials of the two cities, family representatives said.
“When the project was first announced we stated that it should only proceed if all the communities affected were in agreement that it should proceed,” family spokesman Christopher Calkins said in a statement released Tuesday.
“That agreement clearly doesn’t exist.”
City council members from both Carlsbad and Encinitas had adopted resolutions opposing the floral center, stating potential traffic problems among their objections.
Calkins said there are no plans to proceed with the floral trade center plan through annexation to Encinitas, as officials from that city had proposed.
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