Month: February 2018

Adair St Project and 30 Foot Height Limit Also on Agenda

The Ocean Beach Planning Board meets Wednesday, Feb. 7th and on its agenda are 2 projects to review, both demolitions and construction projects – one on Adair Street with the other on Bermuda, a more controversial plan that upset neighbors last time the project appeared in front of the Board. Plus there’s a presentation on the 30 foot height limit by Geoff Page. The Board will also review its upcoming annual election materials.

The Board meets at the OB Rec Center, 4726 Santa Monica Ave, in the community room at 6pm.

4664 Adair Street The owner has applied for a coastal development permit to demolish an existing residence

Maureen Roeber is the Friends of the Library President

OB and Point Loma Form Neighborhood Watch Network

Nicole Ueno sent out the call last month for community members to step up

Swastikas and Slur part of Vandalism to Woman’s Car

A woman in Ocean Beach was left in shock after she discovered her car brutally vandalized in broad daylight.

What’s the City Up to at Former Sports Arena?

From Voice of SD: “City officials are clearing the way for a massive redevelopment of the land around the Valley View Casino Center.

Campland on the Bay Profits Higher in More Than a Decade

Hundreds of San Diegans rallied Saturday, Feb. 3rd in Mission Beach against the Trump’s administration proposals to vastly expand offshore drilling off the California coast – the first time this has been proposed in more than three decades.

Besides the rally, participants spelled out “No Oil!” on the sand, while others held hands up and down the length of the beach, off Belmont Park. The Hands Across the Sand event organized by Oceana as well as other well-known environmental activist groups, such as Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and 350.

Similar rallies were also held Feb. 3 in Laguna Beach, Santa Monica, Brea, Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz. Plus, more will rally and march on Thursday, Feb. 8 in Sacramento, an event coinciding and including a march to the plan’s only formal hearing in California.

There’s blood in the water. That’s the sense that the money behind the American Right has as we head into the second year of the Trump era. And with recent polls showing the big Democratic polling edge ebbing, the sharks are beginning to circle.

But, as unsettling as that is, there is a lot more at stake than just one election cycle.

Strength in Community: OB Joins Together to Fight Crime

By Nicole Ueno

Living in the same town you were raised in is a funny thing. Nostalgia is woven through each day, whether it’s walking down the same concrete stairs at my daughter’s school, or passing by what used to be an empty dirt lot where as kids we’d ride bikes and eat popsicles bought at the corner liquor store.

I’m one of the lucky ones that got to grow up in the beautiful and unique community that is Ocean Beach. It’s been such a huge part of my life story- from my childhood spent at the Big Olaf ice cream store, to working several jobs on Newport during my teens and twenties, meeting my husband in our favorite coffee shop, Jungle Java, and now raising our family here. I appreciate OB for all that it is and all that it’s given me.

Pastor John Wright and Wife Counter Sue Accuser

The #MeToo movement has hit Point Loma Nazarene University where theology professor and pastor John Wright has been placed on a leave of absence pending an investigation after being accused of rape and sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in mid-January.

Former PLNU student Amy McClanahan filed a lawsuit on January 16, 2018, accused Wright, a former professor – and pastor – of hers, of using sex with her as a healing therapy. She has a type of PTSD. Wright is also pastor at the Mid-City Church of the Nazarene, which is also being sued along with 20 unnamed defendants.

A number of environmental groups are sponsoring a rally in Mission Beach against the Trump administration’s plans to open the Pacific up for oil and gas drilling. It will be on Saturday, February 3rd, from 11 am to 1pm next to Belmont Park (Meet in grassy area near Cannonball Restaurant).

The local event will coincide with other rallies across the state to protest the Department of Interior’s offshore leasing plan, which threatens California’s vibrant ocean-dependent economy, marine wildlife, and the health of communities along the West Coast.

The demonstration, entitled “Hands Across the Sand: San Diego’s Voice Matters”, is hosted by Oceana, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and 350, and a number of local politicians – Democrats and Republicans – are scheduled to speak.

Our friends near the boarded up Ebers-Greene project took photos the other day of notices posted on the property.

The notices are addressed to the property owner, Nelco Properties, LP, in relation to 2269 Ebers Street and warn the owner he is in default under a deed of trust or mortgage and unless he takes action to protect his property, it may be sold at a public sale.

The total amount due is $1,077,927 and 34 cents.

The property is scheduled to be sold on February 16, 2018 at 10:30 am, at the entrance to the East County Regional Center in El Cajon.

By Caryn Blanton

Founded in October 2016, Pacific Beach Street Guardians (PBSG) is a non-profit (501c3) that functions as a social enterprise. Neighbors who are experiencing homelessness are hired to handle many different tasks, including:

• Care for the streets, sidewalks, alleys, parking lots and beaches of our community
• Perform janitorial/custodial work for local businesses, organizations, and residents
• Provide event services (set up/take down and trash/recycling)

As a social enterprise, PBSG offers much more than a job – Team Members are given the opportunity to gain pride, purpose, stability, dignity, a path to self-sufficiency and hope.

From website:

AWOL Productions sponsored by Hodad’s would like to put on a local surf competition which will be located down at the Ocean Beach Pier on February 3, 2018 at 7am.

We have organized and put on skate competitions in Ocean Beach for the past 5 years and they have become a huge success. Seeing as Ocean Beach is a huge surfing and skateboarding community we would like to bring the community together with a local surf competition.

The County’s water quality program has issued a stunning number of advisories for Ocean Beach and Point Loma.

Count them – there’s five! And all because “Bacteria levels may exceed health standards,” and people are cautioned to “Avoid water contact in the advisory area.”

Here they are, verbatim:

Ocean Beach Area