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Why you should vote for Bruce Coons for San Diego mayor
Thank you for adding these little known efforts that Bruce has undertaken due to his understanding of the shared history and heritage of San Diego and Baja California.— September 26, 2013 11:33 p.m.
Civic San Diego wants permitting and processing responsibilities in former redevelopment areas
The suggestion of splitting the City's power to issue (or not issue) project permits like this is ridiculous! This is the responsibility of DSD, based on zoning and other development-related ordinances. We shouldn't farm out selective permitting decisions to an NGO or private enterprise which, to some extent, is a not unfair description of many of Civic San Diego's board members. I find myself thinking about the efforts by an out-of-town interest to obtain specialized amendments to the City's billboard ordinances in the so-called "Downtown Entertainment District", which has been described in their presentations as encompassing 52 city blocks of downtown. Of course, they've backed off of that largest number, if I recall, but that still would be a change resulting in huge changes in the ambiance of downtown San Diego, one that I don't think is worth the trade-off for the minor percentage of revenue from such signs going to Arts & Culture. Civic San Diego is an advocate for this change and would also be the permitting agency for these large digital billboards under the described scenario. Readers should refresh their memories by reading these Reader articles from 2012 & 2013: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker… http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker… http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/news-ticker…— September 23, 2013 3:06 p.m.
De Anza mobile homes pushed out of Mission Bay
This is a somewhat belated comment (2 years later) but you need to know that every owner of mobile home in the park (most of whom have bought since 1990) has been informed since 1981 (legally required real estate disclosure) that the residential us would end in November 2003. However, per someone who lived there in the 1990s told me that new buyers were informed at purchase but then reassured that it wouldn't really happen. Additionally, due to the city's failure to establish a process to ensure that owners would vacate in 2003 and a state law regarding conversion of mobilehome parks to another use (despite the illegality of continued residential use of this dedicated parkland), we're still struggling to reclaim our parkland and will have to pay these people a lot of money to move off of our parkland. This despite residents' enjoyment of our waterfront property for decades now and at substantially lower rents than anyone would pay at any other property adjacent to Mission Bay Park or the ocean. Oh, and the city allowed resale of the mobile home units well into 2003! Forget about the sublets that no one monitored.— September 1, 2013 4:21 p.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
And they still don't understand that we the taxpayers are *still* paying for the expanded football stadium (unless I missed news that the bonds are paid off), the baseball stadium and, I suspect, the initial convention center expansion, as well as repaying the pension system for the money borrowed to put on a Republic National Convention 16+ years ago! Plus, don't forget the money lost to the Chargers because of the idiotic ticket guarantee! All of these have a lot to do with the cuts to city services like library hours, public safety employees, park maintenance..... The recent recession just exacerbated the losses.— September 1, 2013 1:53 p.m.
Hueso, Emerald reconfirm statements on DeMaio behavior
KLoEditor: Bruce Coons has only recently (matter of days) declared his candidacy - I doubt that had entered his mind during the earlier exchanges with you on the recall effort. He isn not a one-issue candidate although his present broad name recognition is largely due to the course he & SOHO held to against the Jacobs plan for Balboa Park. Please pay attention to him during the campaign and ask him questions about other issues that are important to you. You'll find that he is very thoughtful, quite knowledgeable and just as firm when he has set a course as was Filner. He's just less bombastic about it.— August 31, 2013 6:30 p.m.
Aguirre wants secure water supply, lower electric rates, infrastructure upgrade
Thank you, Don. Rehftmann clearly has a bone to pick and a lack of knowledge about what SOHO (and the Coons) have accomplished on behalf of the many citizens who care about historic preservation and the quality of life in San Diego. I have not always agreed with Bruce Coons but he is honest about what he believes, and acts on it. He is extremely knowledgeable about CEQA, and planning, zoning & historic preservation laws in San Diego, and has fought to hold the City Council to these laws. He (SOHO) may not always prevail but there are a lot of people who know of and appreciate the huge fight and lawsuit by SOHO, led by Bruce Coons and working with many other organizations and individuals, that has preserved Balboa Park from a monster public works project that would put automobiles and the convenience of their drivers/passengers above the quality of the Central Mesa National Historic Landmark District. That fight may not be definitively won yet but at least, for the 2015 Celebration of the 1915 Panama-California Exposition, there won't be a two-lane off-ramp across the face of the most photographed and recognizable image of Balboa Park, the entry across Cabrillo Bridge. Elect Bruce Coons and that two-lane off-ramp (with attendant roads & impacts on much of the Central Mesa) will become no more than last year's nightmare.— August 31, 2013 6:17 p.m.
Big Fletcher campaign cash arrives from out-of-city fat cats
Matt - the repurification of water from sewage is no longer even close to controversial compared to the past. Earlier this year, City Council accepted the study done on the 1-yr. pilot project regarding "Indirect Potable Reuse" of the reclaimed water. Their vote was unanimous and the motion included a recommendation that the City should also look more closely on Direct Potable Reuse. Surveys over the past 7-8 years that I've been following water repurification in San Diego have show steady but fairly rapid increases in the percent approving of the process. I think the most recent number is in the vicinity of 63%. Consistently, as people have learned more detail about how the wastewater is treated and re-treated through multiple stages of greater purification, they shift from uninformed distaste to support for the concept. I've no doubt that concerns about increasing costs for imported water and about future availability of water for importation due to drought/climate change have contributed to that change.— August 30, 2013 4:28 p.m.
Just what authority will Council President Todd Gloria have after taking control of Mayor's Office?
There's a new candidate who just filed and we already know he stands for citizens not power brokers. If you want to preserve the Plaza de Panama from Irwin Jacobs' massive proposal (and not put taxpayers at risk through a $17.4 million General Fund-backed bond issue for the parking garage, vote for Bruce Coons. https://www.facebook.com/BruceCoonsforMayorofSanD…— August 30, 2013 12:35 p.m.
Irwin Jacobs Balboa Park tram operation proceeding full speed ahead
Good article though I disagree that acceptance of the tram system is a step toward reactivating the Jacobs plan. Whatever future parking solutions may be implemented, the tram itself is a service that is needed both now and in the future. And opposition to the Jacobs plan will not go away. In fact, inserting Bruce Coons - a true Democrat vs. the Fletcher chameleon - will energize voters who may otherwise feel the candidates so far identified leave us with no good choice. Bob Filner recognized that the tram system, ordered as an element of the Jacobs, is a much better solution for moving visitors from parking lots to the Plaza and, perhaps, from across the Cabrillo Bridge when the bridge is closed to cars. The new tram allows for ADA access, unlike the Old Town Trolley trollies; it has the ability to carry far more passengers than the existing trolley system; and it will run a much more useful route, from Inspiration Point parking and past the other parking lots en route to the Plaza, instead of being used solely to carry those who would be parking in the Organ Pavilion parking structure the very short distance between the parking structure and the Plaza de Panama.— August 29, 2013 1:04 p.m.
Filner, Goldsmith slated to meet tomorrow
Definition of Venial: 1. Easily excused or forgiven; pardonable: a venial offense. 2. Roman Catholic Church Minor, therefore warranting only temporal punishment.— August 20, 2013 11:24 a.m.