Like it or not, the Oceanside Boulevard Task Force is being dragged into the controversy over whether the San Diego Chargers will build a football stadium here.

Peter Katz, senior planner for the city, made a presentation of issues surrounding the Chargers' proposal to the task force at its second meeting yesterday.

The group's 15 members were appointed by the City Council to study ways to improve Oceanside Boulevard between Interstate 5 and El Camino Real, a section now lined with strip malls and auto-repair shops.

The Chargers are negotiating with the city to put a new stadium at the city-owned Center City Golf Course northeast of I-5 and Oceanside Boulevard. Recent talks have included whether to put an office complex next to the stadium, if it was built.

Two task force members, Nadine Scott and Rick Kratcoski, voiced strong objections to the stadium proposal. They also said they did not like Katz's presentation on a possible office complex, with or without a stadium.

But Katz said the task force couldn't ignore the proposed Chargers site, even if it didn't like the idea, because it is so close to Oceanside Boulevard.

Real estate brokers have told the city that the site could attract high-end, or Class A, office complexes because it is near I-5 and state Route 78 and 6 million people live within a one-hour commute.

Katz said a trip to the golf course would be included in a June 11 tour the task force will take along the boulevard.

The committee also complained yesterday about the unattractive appearance of a chain-link fence being installed by North County Transit District along the boulevard. The fence is to protect the Sprinter passenger rail line being built between Oceanside and Escondido.

The transit district is required by the California Public Utilities Commission to fence the rail, said Pete Aadland, the district's director of communications.

The type and location of the fencing can be adjusted, Aadland said, and the work has stopped while the district and the city discuss the alternatives.