Letters to the editor:
Reading articles about the people of San Diego claiming the duty of Enhancer La Jolla in a stumbling incident in the town of La Jolla, there is a wonderful fear about the town’s leadership, or lack thereof” (“Second Stumble and Fall Lawsuit Opposed to San Diego Embroils Enhance La Jolla, October 13, La Jolla Light”). This is the pot that asks for the black teapot, irony and a whole Catch-22.
Enhance La Jolla evolved only because the city refuses to do its duty to the infrastructure of its communities, La Jolla added. Enhancer La Jolla volunteers have dedicated time and resources to helping the city end. If the city did its job, personal citizens would not have to give their time to do the work of the city.
How sad that the people choose to take credit for well-meaning volunteers instead of taking responsibility. The people cannot accept it in any way. If the town needs La Jolla to remain part of the town of San Diego, it will have to live doing its day-to-day jobs and maintaining La Jolla’s infrastructure. If it chooses not to, it deserves to allow La Jolla to become independent and its future.
Choose one, City of San Diego. Su lack of leadership should not be our problem. This technique is an embarrassment to the network and to those who have graciously given their time to do their work.
Ted Levis
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The increasing use of electric motorcycles on the Fay Avenue motorcycle trail is becoming a serious protection issue. The sign indicates that motor cars are not allowed. The police branch says they are not motorized, but they run at full speed along the trail without honking or verbally warning that they are approaching.
Many young children, strollers, pets, and seniors with hearing disorders take this path. A posted speed limit is ignored. There will be a serious twist of fate if this continues.
Occasional police officers walking the trail can have a deterrent effect, but until something is done to fix this problem, a serious twist of fate will occur.
Maria Pat Des Roches
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The Seal Society is heavily involved in animal harassment, and rightly so.
No one likes to see animals of any kind abused or harassed.
There is, however, an undeniable solution that will benefit only the seals but also the public: return the children’s pool to children.
Ellen Browning Scripps gave it to the children of La Jolla!It belongs to them, to the city. . . Take the seals out of there and return them to their rightful owners.
James Heiner
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It took me a while to formulate an opinion on the sustainability of impromptu street meals (“Councilman updates La Jolla Shores on ‘spaces,’ repaving, ‘comfort station,’ basement and more,’ Oct. 20, La Jolla Light).
Is it a smart concept to attract more people to beaches to get results for personal business owners?Is more or more is less?
Adding to La Jolla’s visual clutter is something we think about twice. Do we want to have a sprawling dining room now that COVID is being handled?
Maybe there is only one charge for the for-profit public area. Directing those prices to improving La Jolla would be a smart trade-off.
“More is more” is a slippery slope.
Debra Duford
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I need to thank [Cameron] Volker for detailed, guest feedback at La Jolla Light (Oct. 6) about UCSD’s seamless campus expansion (“UC San Diego’s rampant expansion hurts our waterfront and community”).
I’m so glad someone notices and publicly complains about the reckless regulations in our community. I know Ms. Volker has written about the challenge of college in the past, though to no avail. When I look out the window, I see the cranes and skyscrapers rising and I am horrified that there is nothing we can do to prevent them.
How are we going to deal with all the traffic, the water used for the structure and the water for 43,000 students?
How is it possible that UCSD has ignored the will of the people of La Jolla for so many years?You have to get organized! Or what can we do to prevent this madness?
Roswitha Marouf
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In recent years, we have noticed the consequences of progressive deregulation to rely solely on the market to solve our housing problem.
This is regrettable because it is foreseeable that the attempt to repeal in 2020 the citizen initiative of 1972 – which was judicially invalidated last year – will be taken to the polls back in November as Measure C.
Measure C is a textual repetition of the same voting language used in 2020, justified through the same environmental review process.
It is the result of the refusal of those in force to settle for “no” as an answer to get what they want.
For those unaware: Measure C back proposes removing the Midway-Pacific Highway planing zone from the 30-foot coastal height restriction overlap zone, allowing in a different way unrestricted heights for all new buildings in that zone. He wants to build affordable housing wanted to rebuild the sports arena site.
However, the site of the sports arena spans 48 acres; And as a city property, any redevelopment will have to involve at least 25% affordable units. But once this stands out, enthusiasts say it’s mandatory to build a new sports stadium. So why doesn’t Measure C concentrate on this site?-a specific exception that cuts coverage for the entire 1,324-acre Midway Planning Area?
We are told that the only way to get affordable housing is to allow unlimited heights and densities. But all we have to display are beautiful skyscrapers, with symbolic amounts of small ensembles interspersed between luxurious homes of the moment and corporate and vacation rentals.
Vessels exceeding the 30-foot coastal height limit are already allowed under the state’s Density Bonus Act, as long as they come with affordable housing (advocates even claim the procedure is too onerous, ignoring that progression is reviewed on a project-by-project basis). base. )
Make no mistake: the repeal of the coastal height limit on “just” the Midway domain making plans is the camel’s nose in the store. If they can get away with saying Midway the coast, when it’s literally a liquefied salty swamp, what’s left to say about Point Loma, the eastern Pacific beach, or the heights of La Jolla?
Vote no on measure C.
Mat Wahlström
— This letter was originally published through the San Diego Times.
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The last thing I need to see when I take my spouse on an appointment for a hike in the mountains is a large, nasty plastic bag hanging from tree branches. But on our three-month anniversary, what was meant to be a relaxing stroll through the foliage has become a “Where’s Waldo?”For plastic pollution: water bottles, empty snack wrappers, even a bowl of food with a half-eaten rotten burrito tucked inside like a rabbit in a den.
This is not just a challenge for me. According to the EPA, 27 million tons of plastic were dumped in landfills in 2018. We can no longer treat plastic pollutants and replace them with climate through symptom treatment. Challenge: Excess plastic production.
That’s why I’m asking City Council Member Joe LaCava to help ban plastic bags in San Diego. Longevity becomes if politicians and legislators have a style of indifference.
Yale Huang
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