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Great news.— September 22, 2011 8:16 p.m.
O.B. Rag Takes Stand on Publishing Location of Dumanis Fundraiser
http://tinyurl.com/20110625a Dumanis is mean and incompetent, and does not serve the general public. Other Mayoral candidates need to get their messages out, instead of talking about Dumanis. The public is here to help. DUMANIS ISSUE 1 – DIANA GONZALEZ’ SUPPOSED LACK OF EVIDENCE. http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/10/diana_gonz… DUMANIS ISSUE 2 – Former Police Officer Anthony AREVALOS – CURRENT CASE. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/data-drive/article… DUMANIS ISSUE 3 – CYNTHIA SOMMER – Petty Behavior to a wrongly accused Marine widow . http://www.freecynthia.com DUMANIS ISSUE 4 – Prosecutors and DA’s Petty Boycotting of Superior Court Judges and Violations of Constitutional Separation of Powers Doctrine. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/government/article… DUMANIS ISSUE 5 – Superior Court Judge Einhorn – Boycott by Dumanis’ Peremptory Challenge. Dumanis and her office of Prosecutors Boycotted Superior Court Judge Einhorn because he refused to agree with Dumanis that the La Jolla Bird Rock Bandits are legally considered a gang under the law. Judge Einhorn did not allow Dumanis to prosecute for extra charges of murder during gang activity. DUMANIS ISSUE 6 – MEDICAL MARIJUANA RAIDS. Intimidation. No Trust for Non-Profits Collectives . http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09/n1155/a07.html COUNTY ISSUES MEDICAL MARIJUANA IDS. Advocates Say Fear, Cost Keep Many From Applying.— September 22, 2011 9:46 a.m.
Dumanis Campaign Draws New Supporters
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2520140014… Protest of Bonnie Dumanis-- FOR DIANA. Wednesday, September 21 · 9:30am - 12:30pm. Saville Theater at San Diego City College. 1313 Park Blvd. San Diego, California. "Thank you everyone for your support! Today we received amazing news...DA Bonnie Dumanis has cancelled her appearance at City College:) We are so proud of the students, faculty, staff and community members who called her office over and over again asking her not to come! We will likely be hosting an open mic/information session about Diana's case at the same time and place...stay tuned!"— September 19, 2011 5:08 p.m.
New Calif. redevelopment law could stop Chargers stadium
http://www.lao.ca.gov/reports/2011/stadm/letters/… State Report on Financial public benefits/risks of AEG's LA Farmers Field.— August 28, 2011 11:27 p.m.
New Calif. redevelopment law could stop Chargers stadium
Not only do the Chargers want to get all the money from the sale of Qualcomm Stadium, they are also pushing the concurrent sale of the Sports Arena at the to pay for a $500 million public contribution to their $800 million stadium. Thankfully, our City Charter requries that large public land sales (greater than 80 acres) can only be sold by a vote of the people. Therefore our public land is safe.— August 22, 2011 7:17 p.m.
New Calif. redevelopment law could stop Chargers stadium
Costs are Approximately $31.2 to $50 million per year. Solving our Urban Storm Water Runoff problem would only save General Fund money. The money saved could be used for other General purposes such as public safety. There is no new source of Revenue, only a huge drop in Expenses. The City of San Diego subsidizes our public Storm Water Fees according to Mayor Sanders Revenue Review and Economic Competitiveness report "Starting a New Path for Sucess" dated December 1, 2010. www.tinyurl.com/20110124a https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&c… A Major Top Competitiveness Priority includes Significantly improvements for storm water runofff programs to stop man-made pollution from entering the Pacific Ocean or San Diego Bay. This Year the City of San Diego's General Fund is paying $31.2 million dollars, with future annual costs of $50 million per year. Its big and should pay for itself.— August 18, 2011 10:34 p.m.
New Calif. redevelopment law could stop Chargers stadium
What about our great plan for taxpayers to fund the preparation of the foundation for a new stadium through a 4 percent County-wide TOT; with the private Chargers, NFL, and AEG paying for the actual stadium structure and ongoing maintenance? www.tinyurl.com/20110518 Mayor Sanders, Maas, Fabiani, and the Chargers plan is based upon selling off both the publically owned Qualcomm stadium and Sports Arena sites to pay for the Chargers new stadium. Luckily selling these large parcels could only be accomplished through a public vote. Having a pre-approved, shovel ready, CEQA compliant project site, takes lots more time than finding a potential funding solution. Ed Roski's site in the City of Industry has already been pre-approved for CEQA and shovel ready for a few years now. AEG Farmers Field in Los Angeles have already started their Environmental Review for CEQA. Once approved LA will have Leverage over the City of San Diego who has yet to start the long CEQA analysis. Mayor Sanders' preferred site in the East Village of downtown San Diego would be expensive to acquire. Considering a different site than the East Village would save $150 million off the top that CCDC does not have to clean up the contaminated soils at the MTS Bus Maintenance Yard. The $3 million publically financed Draft EIR for the Convention Center Expansion is currently being written. To analyze a dual multi-purpose Stadium and Convention Center Expansion as an Alternative Project will not add much costs to the Draft EIR document. All that is needed is more seismic and hazardous waste investigations. Additional taxpayers costs $200,000. According to CALTRANS Earthquake Engineering maps, the original convention center was built over an active fault. That may be the reason why the original underground parking garages leaked, and requires constant pumping. San Diego has to find a way to collect and clean our urban storm water runoff. Creation of structural cistern foundations would get rid of the Seismic Hazards of liquefaction, and create stable foundations for any future project. Plus the bulkhead configuration would create ongoing jobs for the ship building industry, while reclaiming public space currently underwater. Since San Diego got burned with the original Convention Center's leaky parking structure and lack of engineering design, no one wants to build cisterns. Just Analyzing a waterfront stadium project forces the City to finally address outstanding Seismic concerns.— August 18, 2011 2:07 p.m.
Court Settlement in Favor of Mission Valley Mobile-Home Owners
Great news. Now the seniors can move on or stay with dignity, and know they have guaranteed rights. Archstone should not have listened to their lawyers, and instead just follow the contract they made with the City Council during the hearing.— June 1, 2011 8:39 p.m.
Our Lady of Peace Bullies City Council
The City Council stood up to the intimidation of the Catholic Church playing the religion card on a local San Diego Historic and Land Use issue. When will the City Council have to guts and Leadership to challenge the unwanted Cabrillo Bypass bridge and the tax-payer subsidized paid parking structure for the primary benefit of the Balboa Park museums, the fabulous Prado Restaurant, the internationally-acclaimed, Tony® Award-winning Old Globe Theatre, and Valet parking for the rich? Qualcomm is a great local cutting edge technology company. Someone should tell Qualcomm that fighting with the local Historical Community on a San Diego Historical and Land Use issue is a losing battle that will result in a multi-year CEQA litigation on both sides. This other unnecessary Land Use legal conflict should also be resolved between our City Council leaders, and Mayor Sanders in time for the 2015 Balboa Park Centennial Celebration. This Bypass bridge and paid parking structure is turning to be a boondoggle for Mayor Sanders’ developer, construction, and land use consulting friends who invented the new bypass bridge and paid parking option in our beautiful Balboa Park, primarily for the rich. Therefore time and energy is being spent on a Master Plan and Precise Plan Amendment CEQA process that will not solve Balboa Park’s parking and circulation problems, or unify the community. http://la.streetsblog.org/2010/05/11/park-101s-fr… If the public pays for a new parking structure, the new public building should serve both downtown San Diego and Balboa Park. A new ambitious Decking Project consisting of a Multi-Level Parking structure and Circulation Plan could be part of the CCDC idea to put Freeway Lids on Interstate 5 at Cortez Hill and the East Village for new park land. Thus creating parking for a walkable community like the Park 101's Freeway Lid for a Walkable downtown Los Angeles. Parking structures within existing public transit corridors that could be used 24/7 and 365 days a year, located on the edge of downtown would fit SANDAG’s transportation goals. Therefore instead of a $35 million dollar project paid with new taxes, San Diego could use CCDC Redevelopment Tax Increment funds, SANDAG regional dollars, and free grants from Caltrans and the Federal Highway Administration for a new regional public asset that would serve multi functions.— April 23, 2011 12:38 a.m.
Our Lady of Peace Bullies City Council
The neighbors should put forth alternative design options for OLP's project of a new library founded on a two-level underground parking structure. There are so many solutions that are not being discussed. OLP could be shown the great historically sensitive alternatives so they know all of us can have everything we want without conflict. The only people getting rich with OLP legal attitude is their hired gun lawyer, who tells them they have a chance. OLP should fire their overpriced lawyer and work with neighbors to achieve Peace in this Easter season by a simple redesign.— April 22, 2011 11:44 p.m.