It’s fairly unmitigated rubbish to think the City of San Diego is planning a workshop on their significant proposals to mitigate sea level rise in Ocean Beach and Point Loma not in those communities, but in Pacific Beach.
With the Coastal Resilience Master Plan, significant changes are being proposed for OB’s waterfront and for four blocks of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. And the city is holding a community workshop specifically on the project sites at Sunset Cliffs and Ocean Beach for Monday, June 24, in Pacific Beach! — at the Pacific Beach/Taylor Library, at 4275 Cass Street, from 5 to 7 pm.
In contrast, the city is holding a workshop specifically on the La Jolla Shores, Tourmaline and Mission Beach project sites in … La Jolla, at the La Jolla Riford Library Community Room, 7555 Draper Ave, on June 25, 2024.
It’s almost as if the city doesn’t want any feedback or community input from those pesky, noisy residents of OB and Point Loma.
This is a reasonable take-away from this process so far.
But when you realize that this Master Plan was not introduced at your local community planning board, the reasonable-ness of this whole enchilada begins to smell downright hinky. These proposals have not seen the light of day — or received any community input — at either the OB Planning Board or at the Peninsula Community Planning Board.
This is atrocious and unacceptable. If you live in OB or Point Loma, you must respond.
When you go to the city’s website page for the Master Plan, you are offered to take a survey and there is more info on the different project sites. But there are no more community workshops listed for this year. So, there’s only two — those noted above.
I also scanned the site – which is confusing – for some kind of contact person or number to complain about this workshop arrangement but could find none. Other than a listing of the different councilmember offices.
It comes down to this:
OBceans and Point Lomans Must insist that there be workshops on these proposals in Ocean Beach and Point Loma.
The only person I can suggest to speak to about this is your councilmember, and for OBceans and Point Lomans, that is, of course:
Councilmember Jennifer Campbell (District 2)
City Administration Building
202 “C” Street, 10th Floor
San Diego, CA 92101
619-236-6622
Contact Councilmember Jennifer Campbell
Please let the Rag know if you did contact Campbell or some other city official and what, if any, the results were.
Complacency OB and Pt. Loma will get you what ever the politicians want. Stand up for yourselves and tell Campbell and all other council members AND the King you want meetings about your community IN your community.
What locals are left here in PB warned everyone, citywide, repeatedly, that Jen Campbell and Todd Gloria are evil, pure evil.
Campbell and Gloria want you all to take a heartbreaking look at what the corporate takeover of OB and Point Loma is going to look like. After all, what you’re going to see is Campbell’s Continuously Cannibalistic Corporate Catastrophe; inflicted upon our beach community before we got gerrymandered out of our own district. Endless generic, homogenized, repetitive, unimaginative, esoteric, sterile, cheap soviet bloc style buildings carelessly fabricated in record time intended for rent raising AirBNB’s and heavily overpriced retail space to crush small business and gouge everyone, tourist and local. The intention is to break your spirit before the meeting, so the community feels as powerless as possible.
Because now the Wicked Witch Succubus is looking to feed on the corrupting corporate tit by draining her new prey: OB and Pt Loma of your life’s blood so they can fill the bottomless Gloria Hole with more hyper-gentrification dark money.
I’ll let you know what I get back from the D2 office but I just sent them the following.
June 13, 2024
11:20pm
Hi Councilmember Campbell and Manny.
I just learned that there will be a workshop about the proposed changes to the coastline in OB but that the community workshop will be in PB. I don’t really understand why a project that is happening in district 2 will be presented in district 1 and I hate to say this but it feels like an intentional slight and that the city doesn’t care about what OBceans have to say anymore.
I also have no idea why the OB Planning Board has not be contacted about these plans, presenting this workshop, or at the very least giving the OB community a chance to give feedback on those plans at a Planning Board meeting. Is it possible that the city planning department never got the memo that PB is no longer in district 2?
I expect that many of the OB Community will agree with the plans to protect the environment and I have a feeling that much of the resistance to a boardwalk has probably moved on or out of OB, but to completely leave the “I never leave OB” people out of the process is really bad form.
The plans effecting La Jolla are going to be workshopped in La Jolla so let’s be fair here and put the OB/PL one where the “I never leave OB” people might be more willing to attend.
Thanks
……………
Tracy Dezenzo
OB Community Advocate
Preface: I was absent at the last planning board meeting so I cannot confirm what was discussed. I think Manny’s response was fair and I always appreciate his quick responses.
Reply from D2: Thank you for bringing this to my attention. This is something that actually came up at the Planning Board meeting as well. I can assure you this was not by any means intentional. Randy and I were not notified about these locations and the Planning Department posted these dates and locations for the meetings without sharing first with Randy or I. With that said, Randy and I have flagged this to the Planning Department and requested the location be moved to the Peninsula.
Once I have an update I will be share to with you, the OB Planning Board, and the rest of the OB community groups.
Thanks so much TD.
Didn’t the city’s Sports Arena developer hold a community meeting for interested parties in City Heights not to long ago??
Hell, at least PB is closer but it’s still an hour away for someone who has to take public transportation.
Follow up. I just used MTS’s trip finder. It would take at least an hour and 20 minutes to get to the PB library from my house in OB. First I’d take the 28 bus over to Rosecrans, then to the Old Town Trolley Station. Then I’d catch the 30 bus that would take me up I-5 and then down Grand Avenue. An hour and 20 minutes is best case if the busses are on time!! If not it could easily turn in to a 2+ hour trip each way.
I have just received the following email which notes that the workshop location for the Sunset Cliffs locations has been moved from PB to OB:
The City Planning Department is developing a Coastal Resilience Master Plan to mitigate risk from sea level rise, protect and enhance habitat, and support access to the coast and recreational opportunities. The City will hold two community workshops on June 24 and June 25 to share about the project purpose, planning process, and seek community feedback on the draft designs for each of the project sites.
Please note that the location of the June 24 workshop has been updated to:
Ocean Beach Recreation Center
4726 Santa Monica Ave, San Diego CA 92107
This workshop will be from 5:00-7:00 pm and focus on the Sunset Cliffs and Ocean Beach project sites.
Sean – this is good news. Had you emailed the city or Campbell’s office?
We will announce this change, although the city’s site for the Master Plan has not been updated to reflect it. https://www.sandiego.gov/climate-resilient-sd/projects/coastal-resilience-master-plan
Community Workshops
Workshop 1: This workshop will focus on the Sunset Cliffs and Ocean Beach project sites.
Date: June 24, 2024
Time: 5 – 7 p.m.
Location: Ocean Beach Recreation Center, 4726 Sant, San Diego CA 92109
Workshop 2: This workshop will focus on the La Jolla Shores, Tourmaline and Mission Beach project sites.
Date: June 25, 2024
Time: 5 – 7 p.m.
Location: La Jolla Riford Library Community Room, 7555 Draper Ave, La Jolla CA 9203
Yes, Vern, we’ve heard, but I just checked the city master plan site and it had not been changed.
Okay, yes, the site has now been updated (as Sean and Vern said) to :
This workshop will focus on the Sunset Cliffs and Ocean Beach project sites.
Date: June 24, 2024
Time: 5 – 7 p.m.
Location: Ocean Beach Recreation Center, 4726 Sant, San Diego CA 92109
Hello Frank, I received this message from Julia Chase of the CoSD Planning Department. I believe she is the Chief Resilience Officer. I received the email likely as an email blast sent to interested community stakeholders, but I am signed onto so many that I couldn’t tell you exactly how I was included and not others. It’s great that they seem to have responded from community pushback, but if the official city website is not updated then it would be hard to say they are super dedicated to real community feedback. Either their intentions are still not the strongest, or perhaps someone on their team is just not the most competent/quickest. But I don’t want to take a dump on them too much for making a good move…
This is a commonly used tactic in San Diego. Hold meetings in a location that will not be impacted by a proposed action so that those who are affected will be disincentivized to attend.
I remember vividly the meetings the FAA held on the NextGen airspace reorganization in Logan Heights, when the most impacted people would be in OB/Point Loma. The excuse was DEI concerns, but c’mon, man.
Thanks Paul. I was going to mention that as well.
did anyone notice that all the flood photos shown as the city’s example of climate change issues are from OB https://www.sandiego.gov/climate-resilient-sd/projects/coastal-resilience-master-plan
OF COURSE, the city is planning meetings outside of OB and PL. They don’t want us to notice the changes they are bringing to our local communities. If you dig into city documents, you will discover, if you don’t already know, that single homes are on their hit list. They say clearly that all these pesky laws regarding Coastal Regulations, R1, R2 zoning, and limited parking are interfering with their plans for high-density apartments. The only solution is to replace the mayor and as much of the city council as possible. Until we vote, you can bet developers and city planners will rush to BUILD. They are! Larry Turner is running for Mayor, lives in OB, and likes the community charm. Learn about him. I am voting for him. Meanwhile, APPEAL all of those ADUs that are apartments in what used to be single family zones. Yes, it costs $1,000 to Appeal, but APPEAL.
The flooding photos in their report are the result of rainfall exceeding the capacity of our storm drain system. This has happened every few years for decades.
That ain’t seawater in the pictures. Fix the cause. Fix the storm drains. Keep it simple stupid. Maybe these affected businesses and residents should sue the city, it’s the only way it will get any attention.
It’s official! The city has changed the location – but right as of this moment, they got the address wrong –; this is for the community workshop on the proposed changes for Ocean Beach and Sunset Cliffs.
It now will be located at the Ocean Beach Recreation Center — same date and time — June 24 from 5 to 7 pm.
Yes, they got the address wrong! The website says : “4726 Sant, San Diego CA 92109” — ! Of course, this is just a typo, the result of a rushed text change. The OB Rec Center is located at 4726 Santa Cruz, but it’s in OB, so it’s “92107” — not the PB 92109. (As of this writing at 3:46 pm, 6/17/24)/
Will someone please inform the city.
Ocean Beach Recreation Center. 4726 Santa Monica Ave. San Diego, CA 92107 (619) 531-1527
emailed Campbell’s & Toad’s offices.
Ocean Beach Recreation Center. 4726 Santa Monica Ave. San Diego, CA 92107 (619) 531-1527