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Civic San Diego sued by Little Italy restaurant
Any possibility of outsourcing the City Council?— September 1, 2016 3:23 p.m.
San Diego High land-lease ballot measure discredited
To clarify, the City Charter has a special section permitting commercial use of parkland for Mission Bay park property, so I was not specifically referring to the height limit. In any case we agree, Vote NO and be careful with our Charter and our public properties, which turn into condos in a blink.— August 30, 2016 12:40 p.m.
San Diego High land-lease ballot measure discredited
The school district has a notorious reputation for selling school sites for development. Think Mission Beach and Bernard elementary. The old Bernard site was developed with 190 units. Once the charter protection is lost, it is lost forever. I only know what is in the article about this deal, but we can guess that this site will ultimately become a part of downtown redevelopment if this goes through. The opposition is not being excessive in their predictions.— August 27, 2016 7:53 a.m.
San Diego High land-lease ballot measure discredited
Open space and public parkland were sacred to the framers of the city charter. We do have an example to compare - Mission Bay, which removed that protection for Sea World and hotels from the charter by vote. Not to mention restaurants. The lease is up, guys. Maybe there will be room for the students in the new library. Part of it is an International baccalaureate magnet program. So Alvarez's local kids are only a part of it; numbers not known.— August 26, 2016 8:01 p.m.
Puppy-mill protesters vs. Escondido Fire Department
Or, Pease is a credit to his profession, who acts on his beliefs and defends the rights of animals who cannot speak for themselves.— August 12, 2016 3:37 p.m.
Encinitas' one-man beach-renaming lobby
The apostrophe in the possessive used as a place name is traditionally dropped, so that names of places do become ambiguous. That is Beacons Beach actually represent Beacon's Beach. Old English location names were named for the owner. Chunns Cove was named for Samuel Chunn. So it wouldn't be Beacons' Beach either. I read that this was a standard fairly recently; not sure if I can come up with the reference.— August 4, 2016 4:28 p.m.
San Diego’s pension investments tied to luxury trips?
We all paid for the trips. It is part of the Overhead passed along to the client (the City of San Diego Pension Fund) as fees. The city is always surprised to be reminded that it is funded with our money.— August 4, 2016 1:02 p.m.
Francis Parker School expansion approved
Sorry, I missed the point earlier. New students = 140. Tuition = $30,000 a year. Total increase in school income per year: $4,200,000.— July 31, 2016 8:51 p.m.
Francis Parker School expansion approved
"This is a high school and high schools have kids in them and kids make noise," says the commissioner. But the article says, "This is 62,000 square feet of new buildings..." Well, buildings do a lot of things too; this is the same as packing in 21 full size houses. Looks to me like that would accommodate more than 140 students even at Francis Parker luxury class size. Perhaps the residents feel that not all has been revealed.— July 29, 2016 2:45 p.m.
Biker accident victims win $375K settlement
Thank you for the explanation, dbdriver. I obviously don't go to Walmart very often. It makes perfect sense now.— July 26, 2016 12:56 p.m.