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Can't blame North Chapel plan on Corky
"Specious" is you trying to argue *ex cathedra*. Helpful hint: look up [straw man argument][1] before your next comment. You're embarrassing yourself. [1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/straw%…— March 8, 2018 8:16 p.m.
Can't blame North Chapel plan on Corky
Of course! Because everyone eating there will be seated in the meticulously restored hand-carved pews, with no tables in front of them, just happy to know they're sitting in a place specifically built to honor the dead of Pearl Harbor. Nice try *guessing* that this property has deferred maintenance that only destroying it will solve; but sadly for you, there's no structural reason to justify your animus. But most of all, thank you for finally admitting you "know little" about this issue you continue to pontificate about with such certitude.— March 8, 2018 7:50 p.m.
Can't blame North Chapel plan on Corky
Ah, so it appears that all this talk of economic viability and historic significance is simply a smokescreen for your personal anticlerical beliefs. I'm sorry if you're willing to use your prejudice to side with a sleazy developer in breaking the terms of their legal agreements, but at least now I know I needn't waste time considering your objections objective. I'm not in any way religious, but I believe a person should be as free to embrace a superstition as I am to reject it. Yet I have been to this chapel three times: twice for secular musical performances and once for a nondenominational wedding ceremony. But whether this structure is significant to me personally is irrelevant to its having a significance independent of my opinion. Which is why, even though I don't agree with the churchly motive of the petitioners to preserve this chapel, I'm going to [sign their petition][1], and encourage everyone who sees the big picture to sign it as well. [1]: https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/preserve-a-hi…— March 8, 2018 2:58 p.m.
Can't blame North Chapel plan on Corky
Yes, in fact the entire station is on the [National Register of Historic Places][1]. Which is why great care has to be taken with whatever is done to the buildings. Further, this chapel and the HQ building are the only structures [that were set aside for preservation as originally intended][2] (in the NTC Master Plan approved by the city council on 10/3/2000) to ensure the site's historical significance into the future. [1]: https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/000004… [2]: https://core.tdar.org/document/312203/naval-train…— March 8, 2018 2:09 p.m.
Can't blame North Chapel plan on Corky
I hope you're being sarcastic. The article makes clear not only that this church is of unique historic value, but already has been successfully adapted for reuse. (In developer-speak, the term "underutilized" simply means not making as much money as possible, not that it is losing money.) The only reason McMillin is looking to break their agreement is that they think they can get just a bit more money than they are now. And if that's the only criterion that matters, then let's just pack it in and hand over the keys to the city directly to the developers, since our elected officials are so "underutilized."— March 8, 2018 11:08 a.m.
Can't blame North Chapel plan on Corky
McMillin has [shamelessly defrauded][1] the public [from the beginning][2] on this project. So it's really saying something when they can find a new way to shock us with their naked greed. But this plan to desecrate the last sacred ground left at NTC manages to do it. [1]: http://legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/repor… [2]: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/sep/07/c…— March 8, 2018 11 a.m.
Mayor raises big money for One San Diego
How is this money-laundering operation allowed to continue as a "charity," yet alone considered "current," when [the last tax return reported was for 2015][1]? [1]: http://rct.doj.ca.gov/Verification/Web/Details.as…— March 7, 2018 3:15 p.m.
Airbnb forcing you out?
And here I was worried that the evidence of my senses and that of my friends from all over the city were accurate. But seriously, the one factor given shortest shrift is the most important: how much housing stock now put on the market is taken off [by investors rather than homeowners][1]. STVRs are a symptom not the cause of the hollowing out of the middle class and the elimination of homeownership as a means for building individual equity. [1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/21/homeownership-is-…— March 7, 2018 10:55 a.m.
Trump bump-restart reported for Peter Navarro
Congrats (I guess) to Navarro: he may be one of the last left in Trump's bunker.— March 6, 2018 10:33 p.m.
SDPD gets pricey mayoral PR makeover
Didn't you, JustWondering, and I [call this last May][1]? That's why I have this name: it's a curse being right when it never changes anything. [1]: https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2017/may/05/t…— March 6, 2018 4:04 p.m.