Editing Encinitas, California (section)

=== Local government ===
[[File:D street.jpg|thumb|right|The D Street overlook]]
The city is currently governed by a five-member city council, with a [[mayor]] and four [[Municipal council|council]] members. The mayor is elected citywide and the council members are elected by district to staggered four-year terms at two-year intervals. The [[deputy mayor]] is chosen by the city council members from among themselves.

In elections held in November 2012, Encinitas voted yes on [[referendum|ballot measures]] to allow them to directly elect its mayor, with term lengths of two years, rather than the mayor being chosen by members of the city council for one-year terms. The first such direct election for mayor took place in 2014.

The city has been repeatedly sued over policies that are allegedly aimed at undermining state [[affordable housing]] laws.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/government/years-of-defying-state-affordable-housing-law-gets-encinitas-sued-again|title=Encinitas Sued for Defying Affordable Housing Law, Again|date=March 9, 2016|website=voiceofsandiego.org|access-date=March 29, 2018}}</ref>