During the noon hour Wednesday, the DMV website indicated that waits in Oceanside and Poway offices were more than two hours and 15 minutes.Tips for an excellent road test in San Marcos: The Oceanside and Poway offices have hefty wait times for people who show up without an appointment. The San Marcos office is about 17 miles from the agency’s Poway office, 11 miles from the Oceanside office and 31 miles from the Temecula branch. There are no plans to hire additional employees for the Rancheros site the 40 employees at the temporary site will move to the new offices. The Rancheros office will also have space to be a training site for DMV employees in the region. There are only 10 such DMV business centers throughout the state, including one in Rancho San Diego. The Rancheros site will initially provide only registration and industry services but will eventually include - as did the Escondido and temporary San Marcos locations - a separate industry business center, which is one-stop shop for customers such as car dealers and manufacturers, driving schools, sales people and dismantlers. The DMV will move its driver’s-license-related service to the new office when the temporary office closes. Gonzalez said the temporary office will remain open until March when the lease ends, but only for driver’s license services once the new site opens. Over the past year, that site served an average of 570 customers a day, according to the DMV.

10.Īfter closing the downtown Escondido site in 2013 - there had been a parking dispute with the landlord - the DMV opened a temporary office in San Marcos on Descanso Avenue near Rancho Santa Fe Road on the south side of state Route 78. With the expected increase in traffic, the city has also installed a stoplight at Rancheros Drive and Santar Place. “In this case, you spend the money building the building, but on the backside, you have a great tenant and it creates revenue,” she said. Payback in five years, she said, “is usually a pretty good investment.” San Marcos expects the money it spent on the project to be recouped within the first five years.Ĭouncilwoman Kristal Jabara said Wednesday the city takes an “entrepreneurial approach,” owning real estate to bring in funds.

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