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How Hillcrest sidestepped Uptown planners
Other communities, get ready! Efforts to bypass elected planning boards with rules, like bylaws and the Brown act, are coming your way.— July 22, 2016 1:36 p.m.
How Hillcrest sidestepped Uptown planners
This is only the first of many. The City of San Diego has recently modified the rules for forming Maintenance Assessment Districts to be less restrictive. Mr. Nichols was at the City Council meeting to support the change. These districts are run by "owner's associations" with no real definition of what that is, but the fees are collected by the San Diego County Tax Collector's office as part of a property tax bill.— July 21, 2016 8:26 a.m.
Biker accident victims win $375K settlement
The picture doesn't make it entirely clear. Perhaps what the Walmart customer viewed as the driveway looked like the street to through traffic. There is a solid white line and an arrow going across what looks like a traffic lane, two cars in two other lanes, both going in the same direction, no signs. The city must not have predicted victory, as they agreed to settle after two years of litigation, it never went to court, where we must assume the settlement would have been expected to be higher.— July 17, 2016 7:20 p.m.
Brewed in Ocean Beach
How tall is it? Presumably umbrellas that you can see don't count as being there.— July 11, 2016 11:35 a.m.
Ocean Beach may sacrifice high-traffic grass
This isn't exactly a memorial, which might imply a deceased veteran. Any veteran with honorable credentials can obtain a name-plate for the $250 registration fee, priority given to OB addresses. This will give the OB CDC a $375,000 war-chest to get started, local government grants soon to follow.— June 30, 2016 8:30 a.m.
Ocean Beach may sacrifice high-traffic grass
This park was given to the City of San Diego for recreational use by the State of California. The legal transfer stipulates the conditions for its use. If the conditions are not met, the property reverts to the State of California. Welcome to Ocean Beach State Park!— June 29, 2016 9:03 p.m.
Hillcrest historical district plan wiped out
Speaking at meetings is speaking to the air. For comments to go forward through the approval process, people who want to protest need to know where to send their comments and how they will be included in the package that goes forward for approval. Getting the word out in the Reader is a VERY good beginning. More work ahead for an uncertain outcome, I'm afraid.— June 17, 2016 8:50 a.m.
San Diego council guilty of limiting access?
I am not quite sure I follow this - is it: A citizen's group (The Center for Local Government Accountability) sued the City. The Superior Court dismissed the citizen's group suit, so the citizen's group appealed, and the Appeal Court said that the suit should not have been dismissed by the Superior Court and that the trial can proceed as originally filed in 2014. Thank you for reporting on this very important issue.— June 7, 2016 9:25 a.m.
Widow sues city over preservation of 57-year-old tree
The City's sidewalk policy is one of the most convoluted ever imagined. A "right-of-way" is an easement granted by one party to another. So Mrs. Oswald owns the property, but has granted rights to the City of San Diego. This makes it difficult to know who is responsible when something goes wrong. Mrs. Oswald could be the person sued when someone trips, falls, and files a suit; this may or may not be the city's responsibility. However, since the city gets to make the rules, they may have also defined their rights to be more extensive than Mrs. Oswald has thought. Perhaps someone can enlighten us in more detail here on these rights and responsibilities.— May 18, 2016 12:04 p.m.
Cell-phone companies want more antennae in parks
It is a little known fact that there are TWO types of city parks: dedicated and designated. Dedicated parks are protected by the city charter and formed by city council resolution. Designated parks have no protection. They are simply pieces of land owned by the city which they have chosen to use as a park at this point in time, but could make a different decision, such as build a cell tower or a building tomorrow. Recent parks are all designated. Earlier parks are dedicated, restricting park use. Cliffridge Park is dedicated by city council. It is protected. The city does not provide a list of which parks are protected and which are designated so it takes a little research. I should add that Mission Bay Park is a special case within the city charter, and obviously, its use is less restricted, with hotels, bars, and other commercial uses, but its uses are still defined in the city charter and enforceable. .— May 4, 2016 12:55 p.m.