Month: April 2018

Editordude: The following is a compilation of a number of suggestions readers left in comments to our articles on short term vacation rentals.

Perhaps the solution to the mini-hotels and short term vacation rentals is for all permanent residents to collectively hit the STVR owners where it hurts the most – the pocket book. If you are a permanent OB resident living next to a full time vacation rental, make life miserable for the guests – in legal ways. Make it so they won’t want to come back and will encourage others not to.

Here are a number of suggestions on how to annoy

by Andie Naugler/ lomabeat.com / April 11, 2018

“Good morning!”

Long-time neighbor of Sunset Cliffs Natural Park David Kimball wakes up early in his house before the sun comes up and heads over to the demonstration garden adjacent to the Ladera Street parking lot. It is his favorite time of day.

“You couldn’t tear me away from here,” Kimball said.

By Ernie McCray

I recently wrote a rhyme about all the love I’ve enjoyed for 80 years, and now I’d like to share how I’ve put that love in play.

Regarding that, I have to say that loving has been easy for me because my life’s work has been dedicated to schools which are perfect places for spreading love.

And my intent, all along, has simply been to make my world more just for all human beings – beginning, in a moment in time, when I was in grade school myself.

Join your fellow OBceans and other San Diegans at Saturday’s Ocean Beach Climate Rally & March – April 28. Hosted by San Diego Climate Mobilization Coalition, the rally begins at 10:00 a.m at the at the foot of Newport Ave. in Ocean Beach on the grass.

There’s a rally with music and speeches. and then march to the Ocean Beach Post Office to post on the door the demand

COME INSIDE FOR THESE STORIES … AND MORE

“Bait Bike” Program Launched by Police in OB and Point Loma

Pt Loma Patient Consumer Co-op Wins 2nd Place in SoCal Cannabis Cup – Best Hybrid Flower

Pot dispensary raided for second time in Midway District

Reward Offered for Info on Hit-and-Run Driver

Where Are All the Vendors Going?

Criminal Proceedings Suspended for Man Suspected of Shooting Boss at Pt Loma Auto Shop

Voltaire Beach House to Have Bowling Lanes

Walk for Animals at Liberty Station – May 5

It’s been 25 years now – a quarter of a century – since Mindy Pellesier and Jane Donley opened up Dog Beach Dog Wash, in February 1993, on Voltaire Street. It was the first do-it-yourself dog wash in San Diego.

This year is also their 16th anniversary of sponsoring monthly Dog Beach clean-ups. And that’s where I recently ran into the couple – under the canopy of their clean-up HQ on the berm before Dog Beach last Saturday. They had teams out on the sand and along the River picking up litter – and other unmentionables.

There’s usually a lot of fanfare whenever a new business or commercial enterprise opens in Ocean Beach, like the new 4-lane bowling alley opening in a local restaurant in northern OB, or when Apple Tree reopened on Newport Avenue.

In all the hubbub, we tend to overlook those businesses or commercial enterprises that have closed, the empty storefronts that hang like dragging anchors on any forward progress and a blight on our collective psyche. Sure, you might say, who’s going to celebrate the closed businesses in our community?

And that’s exactly the point. We don’t celebrate them. And we tend to forget them. Or we ignore them.

But we shouldn’t –

The City of San Diego has confirmed the report that any Target Express in Ocean Beach will not be allowed to be open from 5pm to 2am.

In response to an OB Rag inquiry, the Development Services Department stated:

“Target cannot operate during the hours that South Beach has the exclusive use of 33 parking spaces, per the Shared Parking Agreement.“

According to the city, Target will be required to operate in a manner that does not conflict with the Shared Parking Agreement with South Beach Bar & Grill, which requires the exclusive use of parking spaces for South Beach from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m.

On Wednesday, April 25th at 7pm, the Ocean Beach Town Council will be hosting a Candidate Forum in preparation for the June 5th primary election.

The OBTC has invited all District 2 City Council candidates and District Attorney candidates to introduce themselves to our community, give us some details on their positions on community issues, and answer a few questions. It’s important to note that this event will not be a debate.

By David L. Dick

At the Peninsula Community Planning Board meeting on Thursday, April 19, I offered to assist Ms. Bendixen with her efforts to investigate ownership and title to the property. I asked her to e-mail me at my personal e-mail address that appears on the PCPB website (www.pcpb.net) and I would work with her. I am a former member of the San Diego Housing Commission and and very familiar with the property and its history. Further, I believe I could help her cut through the “red tape” at the Housing Commission to resolve questions about title. But, so far, I have not heard from her.

But I have since done some of my own investigation since Thursday.

By Geoff Page

There was not much on the Action Item agenda for the Peninsula Community Planning Board at its regular meeting April 19 held at the Point Loma Library, but PCPB meetings always have some entertainment value.

There was good news, a vacancy was filled and a new chair was elected. A former board member was elected by the board vote to fill the vacancy and was then elected the new chair, something that is clearly a much welcomed improvement. The downside is that the PCPB will very probably cease to be as entertaining a side show it has been for some time.

By Jennifer Cost

I have spent a lot of time in the past thirty years kayaking, hiking, and backpacking in the western United States–in Alaska, the Sierra Nevada, the Lost Coast, the Wind River Range, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the Beartooth/Absarokas, the Grand Canyon, the Anza Borrego Desert, and the San Juan part of the Colorado Rockies.