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Kevin Hastings, the vice-chair of the Ocean Beach Planning Board — and OB’s foremost expert on the status of the different ocean access points — has put together a power point presentation on the “Coastal Access in Ocean Beach – 2022 Update.” He gave the presentation at the last OBPB meeting.
The Rag has split Kevin’s presentation into 2 parts. The following is Part 1 (and go here for the new Part 2):
Part 2 will be posted Friday, Aug. 12.
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So now we know what Kevin has been doing in his “spare” time – putting this wonderful presentation together. Every Obcean needs to check this out – as does every city council staffer and planning dept bureaucrat.
I honestly don’t know where the guy gets any spare time but he seems to.