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New police trailer rolls into O.B. Pier parking lot
The police aren't there. It's locked all the time. Supposedly they go there to write reports or go to the bathroom or something. Nobody says when or for what it is used.— April 10, 2014 8:12 p.m.
What the emails tell us
Why did these people sign these petitions? Did the city actually validate these signatures against voter records? The signature gatherer's must get paid per signature. This would incentivize them to be persuasive.— April 3, 2014 8:05 p.m.
Atkins pushes bill so 30% of your neighbors can redevelop you
These "districts" are composed of people who first pay themselves and then pay their friends. Millions of dollars translate to banners on street corners. And the city of San Diego monitors it all. What's not to like?— April 2, 2014 7:37 a.m.
Handwriting on the wall for city’s anti-graffiti bid
The Urban Corps knows how to keep graffiti off their mostly blank monthly billings, usually a one-liner. The city can easily solve this problem by requiring all contract billings to list number of hours worked and totals by labor category, and number of projects completed. It's not just the Urban Corps. How many of those hours go to teenagers the Urban Corps hires, how many to full-time labor, and how much to management? What are the costs per hour in each category? Not something the people who are paying for it (all of us) will ever know.— March 7, 2014 8:35 a.m.
Improper payment for Barrio Logan maintenance district?
How many people who feel strongly about the MADs decided not to go to the polls on election day fo mayor? Many people thought David Alvarez was the next Donna Frye, and they were disillusioned. The Maintenance Assessment Districts, as run by the city of San Diego, have been declared illegal in court. But each one must be challenged separately. Even when the city loses, it wins. Life goes on as before. Dorian Hargrove is the voice of the press who has brought these issues to light - he and the Reader are very important assets to the communities.— February 26, 2014 6:24 p.m.
Balboa Golf Course clubhouse to expand?
The gentrification contingent has always wanted to tear the lovely old clubhouse down in favor of what you have shown us. If any building deserves the historical designation, this is it. But it has no champion. Stop by and say goodbye to it before it goes. This has been in the making a long time. The maintenance effort tells the story of planned demolition.— February 18, 2014 3:48 p.m.
City attorney considers conflict of interest
That is a parking lot for boats, right?— February 1, 2014 2:37 p.m.
Councilmember Lightner mum on One Paseo development
Builders are building everywhere. Investors are investing. Politicians get funded by contributors. This is the San Diego way. This is everywhere, not just One Paseo. I was just in Kensington. Looked like the North side of Adams Avenue (except for one block, which had already been mixed-usified) had been totally torn down. Now Kensington can look like One Paseo. We won't know what is what anymore.— January 21, 2014 5:59 p.m.
San Diego's Code Monitoring Team: Foxes guard the henhouse
And who do you think actually writers the "draft" of all of the municipal code changes?— December 22, 2013 11:57 p.m.
City to pay in full for illegal maintenance assessment districts
Now it looks like Bario Logan is headed down the same path. The Bario Logan Association forgot to get their corporation in place. So the Urban Corps is doing the work anyhow. What part of the "not legal" Golden Hill MAD comes to mind? Maintenance Districts were designed to performe physical maintenance, like retaining walls, for example. They weren't really designed to pick up trash. The criteria of "Special benfit" must be met. Again.— December 6, 2013 10:49 a.m.