Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Port of L.A. paying to restore Batiquitos Lagoon
Making up for San Pedro havoc
Dear Matthew Alice: I was driving up PCH the other day, just south of Carlsbad State Beach, where a new bridge is being built. Out of idle curiosity, I read the “Your Tax Dollars at Work” sign and was shocked to see that funding for the bridge is coming from federal highway funds and the PORT OF LOS ANGELES! What’s the deal? Is this L.A. ’s way of getting their foot in our door? Should we put the Marines at Pendleton on alert? — Dwight Lada, Vista
Just keep driving, Dwight. The Marines are alert enough already, and old Smogfoot isn’t any pushier than usual. Actually, the sign means the Port of Los Angeles is paying us for the right to further foul its own nest. It’s a complicated and controversial program called mitigation. If you plan to screw with nature by dredging a harbor or building one of those instant cities, you must “mitigate” that destruction by financing the preservation or restoration of an equal habitat somewhere else. Scientists call it bad science, businessmen call it bad business. And project approvals seem to require debate and paper-pushing by virtually every board, commission, committee, agency, service, and department at every level of government. So bureaucrats are happier than light-footed clapper rails in a wetland or California gnatcatchers in coastal sage scrub. The booming Port of L.A. showered $55 million on us to restore the Batiquitos Lagoon area. Having paid for their transgressions in advance, the port can now get even boomier by dredging new ship channels or something. The restoration of fish habitat in Carlsbad “mitigates” the destruction of same in San Pedro. Or so the logic goes.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Port of L.A. paying to restore Batiquitos Lagoon
Making up for San Pedro havoc
Port of L.A. paying to restore Batiquitos Lagoon
Making up for San Pedro havoc
Dear Matthew Alice: I was driving up PCH the other day, just south of Carlsbad State Beach, where a new bridge is being built. Out of idle curiosity, I read the “Your Tax Dollars at Work” sign and was shocked to see that funding for the bridge is coming from federal highway funds and the PORT OF LOS ANGELES! What’s the deal? Is this L.A. ’s way of getting their foot in our door? Should we put the Marines at Pendleton on alert? — Dwight Lada, Vista
Just keep driving, Dwight. The Marines are alert enough already, and old Smogfoot isn’t any pushier than usual. Actually, the sign means the Port of Los Angeles is paying us for the right to further foul its own nest. It’s a complicated and controversial program called mitigation. If you plan to screw with nature by dredging a harbor or building one of those instant cities, you must “mitigate” that destruction by financing the preservation or restoration of an equal habitat somewhere else. Scientists call it bad science, businessmen call it bad business. And project approvals seem to require debate and paper-pushing by virtually every board, commission, committee, agency, service, and department at every level of government. So bureaucrats are happier than light-footed clapper rails in a wetland or California gnatcatchers in coastal sage scrub. The booming Port of L.A. showered $55 million on us to restore the Batiquitos Lagoon area. Having paid for their transgressions in advance, the port can now get even boomier by dredging new ship channels or something. The restoration of fish habitat in Carlsbad “mitigates” the destruction of same in San Pedro. Or so the logic goes.
Comments