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UCSD's Rady hotspot for abuse
He deserved to be fired over his illegal actions against campus media (non-payment of Associated Student funds) because "The Koala" made fun of him. UCSD will probably need a purge in administration before 2022.— November 16, 2020 10:13 a.m.
Six-figure salaries marked Faulconer’s costly patronage
This comment was removed by the site staff.Audit hits lack of athletic admissions integrity at UC San Diego
".....In contrast, UCLA, and UC San Diego have established policies for verifying athletic talent that delegate that responsibility to their athletic departments. As a result, the staff performing the reviews may be subject to internal pressure to inappropriately approve a prospective student athlete's qualifications......" Of course they leave it up to the UCSD athletic department, it's not supposed to be a sports college, but a research university that also teaches undergraduates. It shouldn't have happened, I'm not condoning it, but "research first, everything else a distant second" seems to **me** to be the mentality of the La Jolla university. Maybe this will be the red flag that forces a restructuring in how they deal with athletic admissions in the UC system.— September 22, 2020 8:24 p.m.
12-story buildings sprinkled around San Diego
Sorry, they don't want to build a single house, at the bare minimum the developers want to put in 10-14 homes on a lot (look up the forthcoming Montemar Estates in Spring Valley, they are building 13 houses on an old horse paddock at the bottom of a sloping valley that will flood in the next gullywasher) or they build "townhome" condominiums like SETA in La Mesa (built on the old College Bowl/Coleman College lot, and still advertising that they have vacancies years after they opened.) They are tearing out viable commercial spaces like the Sweetwater Village strip mall on Austin Drive in Spring Valley to build "The Aventine", a forthcoming tract housing development that will probably devolve into a rental hellscape within fifteen years. I could also point at the Grove Lofts, which was built on the partial remaining space of an old gas station that was demolished when Broadway on the outskirts of Lemon Grove was realigned decades ago, and the site hangs over a twelve foot tall drainage ditch at the back. Local residents of Fairway Drive were unhappy with it, because the top story supposedly has a good view of most of their street. Do not fool yourself AlexClarke -- San Diego City and County are now mature areas, which means demolishing pre-existing houses or neighborhoods to build apartments and condos, or building on lots considered "sub-optimal" 20 years ago. You cannot granny flat your way out of this, real houses or condominiums or apartments are the only solution, but they have to allow for small commercial spaces so food stores can be put in so you don't suffer from "food deserts" (any developed area where you have to drive miles to hit a supermarket or any food store that has fresh produce.)— September 15, 2020 1:23 p.m.
Cisterra to build 241 units on G Street, downtown San Diego
(Originally I put down "a decade", then changed it to "fifteen years" with a question mark, didn't proofread my comment.)— September 15, 2020 12:15 p.m.
Cisterra to build 241 units on G Street, downtown San Diego
Yes, please. Destroy the past. Make the town further unrecognizable and a vague cartoon version of Los Angeles, so that County people who drive into the City get lost because all the landmarks changed. Being serious for a moment, but I've noticed that being put on the Register of Historical Places saves NOTHING. Anybody remember the 1911 Star Builder's Supply Company building on the corner of Kettner Blvd. and West Beech Street? It was on the list for a fifteen years (?), and then it was demolished in 2013. They spent money making it earthquake-proof in 1996, then the all-Republican Board of Supervisors made its decision in 2012. There is NO property in San Diego that they will not try to build on.— September 15, 2020 11:50 a.m.
It's back – Lilac Hills near Valley Center
That's why the business-y types in the County government changed the name from the Department of Planning and Land Use (DPLU) to Department of Planning and Development Services (DPDS) - they will bend over backward to develop whatever open, non-park land is left in San Diego or San Diego County even though it means more sewage line to run, more strain on the electrical grid, more garbage for the dumps. These clowns still have a website for the project (www.lilachillsranch.com), so they will fight for it to the bloody end - even though it is a luxury development and much of it will remain empty (permanent market houses, much like the luxury towers Downtown.)— June 2, 2020 11:52 p.m.
12-story buildings sprinkled around San Diego
San Diego is completely built out, so building bizarre 12-story apartments is the only way to construct more rental properties. The only trick is that many of these places burn through tenants - people living here would rather be homeowners than renters - and the buildings will have "Now Renting" on semi-permanent banners facing the freeway or the major road. The whole thing is a joke because nobody in SD real estate wants to admit that the city is mature now.— June 2, 2020 11:31 p.m.
San Diego city council quietly greenlights $525,000 harassment deal
"Here's what I fail to understand: she is a fire captain and has or had 18 years of service. Why is she now settling a lawsuit over things that happened years ago?" Because it takes FOREVER to get a decent lawsuit off the ground and it moves slowly even when it is going. ".....Every time you slam through a pothole in the street or read of a water main break and wonder why the city underfunds its infrastructure and maintenance, think of this and other settlements that could have funded proper care." The fools and cheapskates who run San Diego will never fix the mains or deal with the potholes because they can't somehow make a private profit off the thing somehow. As the San Diego government is so incompetent, I feel it should disincorporate and San Diego should become a suburb of Los Angeles. The cops run away to LA anyway because they pay better, why not join the monstrous tumor of Southern California, Los Angeles?— April 8, 2020 1:06 p.m.
Que Huong Vietnamese restaurant serves quail, wild boar, deer, and more
You and "AlexClarke" are peas of a very boring pod.— April 7, 2020 7:09 p.m.