My campaign for re-election to continue serving as your Mayor got a great boost the other day when the Encinitas Firefighters Association gave me their formal endorsement! The firefighters’ support, along with Western States Carpenters Union Local 619, San Diego County’s Building Trades Unions, San Diego & Imperial Counties Labor Council – AFL-CIO, and organizations like […]

Kranz, who was a council member for about 10 years before he was elected mayor in 2022, said he wants to build on the work he and the council have already done. But he also doesn’t want Encinitas to become Huntington Beach, where battles against the state over issues such as new housing have led […]

“I was part of a council that voted to fight the state density bonus law, we were sued and we got beat bad,” Kranz said in his opening statement. “And the notion that we can fight the laws coming out of Sacramento is faulty — it will be expensive. We spent $3 million already getting […]

“The moment I thought would never get here has finally arrived,” Mayor Tony Kranz declared at the start of the ribbon-cutting, before launching into his prepared remarks. Kranz, one of the first people pushing for the city’s purchase of the land in 2014, described the complex process to buy the property from the Encinitas Union […]

Our years-long efforts to acquire and transform the former Pacific View Elementary School into the first-class Pacific View Arts Center have come to fruition! Plus, my re-election campaign is officially underway…

I’m enthused to invite you to my Campaign Kickoff event from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. this Saturday, July 20. The official start of my campaign for re-election as your Mayor looks to be a relaxing afternoon at Blodgett Homestead, an Urban Farm in Leucadia.  Fresh food will be served, some of which has been home-grown […]