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Democrat Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer doesn’t share a lot in common with her District 3 seat challenger, Republican Kevin Faulconer. Except perhaps his views on battery storage in the county.

Both Lawson-Remer and Faulconer believe in building battery storage that enables California’s transition away from fossil fuels toward green energy on county land, our MacKenize Elmer reports in a new story. They both oppose a ban on batteries – a notion that the current Board of Supervisors already turned down.

But neither would comment on a controversial project being planned just outside the city of Escondido that the election winner would probably have a chance to vote on.

Read the full story here.

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San Diego County supervisors won’t consider a homeless camping ban for unincorporated areas until sometime next year.

A county official notified supervisors earlier this week that staffers will not return to the board with proposed options for an unsafe camping ordinance next Tuesday as planned. Instead, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Brian Albright wrote, staffers will return to the board early next year to seek direction from supervisors before scheduling a future vote.

An extended timeline: A year ago, county supervisors voted unanimously to have county staff draft an ordinance allowing the county to clear homeless camps in unincorporated areas where there are concerns about fires or other safety hazards. Now county staff are postponing a board review of the politically divisive topic a few weeks before the election. County staff previously postponed a review of a draft ordinance in September.

Since supervisors directed county staff to pursue a camping ban, multiple cities throughout the county have approved their own policies.

What’s happening: Albright wrote that staffers “continue to refine proposed options for the ordinance” that touch on issues including enforcement, shelter, encampment-clearing procedures and fire risks after receiving feedback from the community and multiple supervisors’ offices.

Related: 10 News reported that National City’s camping ban took effect Thursday.

The Morning Report was written by MacKenize Elmer, Lisa Halverstadt and Scott Lewis. It was edited by Andrea Lopez-Villafaña.

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