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City updates Monroe Street Pool, Carlsbad Boulevard beach-access repairs and synthetic field work
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Staff reported progress on Monroe Street Pool construction, described beach-access repairs on Carlsbad Boulevard (with a Memorial Day–Labor Day moratorium), and said the Poinsettia synthetic turf replacement reopened March 20 after a project delivered within budget and on schedule.
Department staff provided commissioners with a progress report on several capital projects, including Monroe Street Pool, beach-access repairs along Carlsbad Boulevard, a Poinsettia Park synthetic-field replacement and plans for outdoor pickleball courts.
Director Lancaster summarized Monroe Street Pool construction: "the pool is in your foreground" and crews have completed excavation, underground plumbing, electrical conduit and concrete shell work; plumbing and masonry are complete on the administration and locker-room building and the project includes upgraded solar thermal heating, new bleachers and shade structures. Lancaster said staff expect the facility to open in a matter of months.
On beach-access repairs, Lancaster said the project—administered by Public Works with Transportation and construction-inspection staff—involves widening the walkway from roughly 6 feet to nearly 10 feet, installing switchback staircases and using a colored lithocrete mix to match other Ocean Street beach-access materials. He noted the area is technically owned by the State of California Department of Parks and Recreation but the city maintains the site under a multi-year joint-powers agreement; Lancaster said construction will pause for a moratorium from Memorial Day through Labor Day and continue in the fall.
Todd Reese, Park Services Manager, briefed the commission on Veterans Memorial Park (master plan actions and recent contract awards), outdoor pickleball court design and permitting at Calavera Hills and Stagecoach, and the Poinsettia Park synthetic-field replacement. Reese said the Poinsettia field project was delivered within budget and reopened to the public on March 20, 2026, and that similar turf replacements at Alga Norte and Aviara parks are planned for 2026–27.
Reese also noted a second year of council-funded fire-mitigation and canopy-pruning work ($300,000 in the prior year and an additional $300,000 this year) and recent infield renovations at joint-use school sites. Staff will bring resubmitted design documents for pickleball courts back for review later in the month.
No formal project approvals or new contracts were executed during the meeting; staff asked commissioners to observe the projects on the July site tour.
