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on Why Isn’t the H Barracks Lot in Point Loma Open All Day?: “I really don’t understand why both homeless shelters and safe parking lots aren’t open 24 hours a day. How are…” Mar 27, 22:19
on Is Ocean Beach Really Getting This Bad?: “While I’ve never lived in OB proper, I’ve lived in SD since ’86 and have hung out in OB a…” Mar 27, 19:30
on Is Ocean Beach Really Getting This Bad?: “I visited Azucar last Monday. I ordered The Havana sandwich. Sun was out. Jets blasted by every several minutes. A…” Mar 27, 19:02
on Why Isn’t the H Barracks Lot in Point Loma Open All Day?: “All that is required to open H Barracks all day is an amended Coastal Development Permit (CDP) approved by the…” Mar 27, 17:38
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on 75-Year-Old Mission Bay Restaurant Could Be Forced Out by City’s Redevelopment Plan: “Chaz, I agree with your comments re the Embarcadero redevelopment process but, to be clear, the actual Anthony’s restaurant had…” Mar 27, 16:26
on Is Ocean Beach Really Getting This Bad?: “92 was my first visit. Moved to OB in 97, and to Canada in 2012. Have visited once or more…” Mar 27, 15:54on Is Ocean Beach Really Getting This Bad?: “As someone who’s lived in OB since 2013, I see little to no evidence that public safety has gotten worse,…” Mar 27, 14:39
on Is Ocean Beach Really Getting This Bad?: “As a long time (40 plus years) OB resident, my observations regarding the current state of OB arise from a…” Mar 27, 12:43
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on Is Ocean Beach Really Getting This Bad?: “TD, thanks so much for your input. I know you’ve been in OB for over a decade now (at least…” Mar 27, 12:27on Is Ocean Beach Really Getting This Bad?: “People could start by taking pride in their neighborhood and helping to clean up their immediate areas. Picking up trash,…” Mar 27, 12:21
No dirt in parks! No grass in parks! Last I heard, this is a “designated park,” not a “dedicated park.” A world of difference in words and another indication of a city policy about them.
Interesting to see the pictures did not contain any people. Not surprised.
We’ve been there maybe 5 times, weekday afternoons and weekends, and each time a couple other kids were there. Probably many don’t know about it. It’s very hidden.
This space was in the Roseville Redevelopement plans to become a park. It was headed to become housing when I went to a community meeting, in place of the Peninsula Planning Board Chair who had another meeting that same day. I brought up that public land was suppose to be a park with a playground for the community. It still took years to become a park. Little else that was in the plans for other community parts of the redevelopment area was never built. I’m happy they built the park, but sad that the community did’t have a voice in the design.
I miss the cottages, Portuguese gardens, and communty character. It would be nice if they could design some of that into the park.
The signage takes up a 1/3 of the entire of the park. City converted 3 parking spots into a park, then Campbell and the Gloria Hole “pocketed” the cash from sweetheart dealing of the last remaining open space and pump track off of Nimitz. Henceforth the name.
As we reported here in The Rag, the park is designed for children ages age 5 to 12, according to signs posted by the play equipment. The age limits make no sense. Mothers brings pre-school children under five to parks like this for entertainment. After five, they are in school. What good is park not designed for toddlers?
And, it is difficult to believe that any modern San Diego kids aged 8 to 12 would find this place at all entertaining.
And it cost is all $3.3 million.
Any kid over 8 is gonna get bored in this park quick. There aren’t many parks designed for older kids, other than organized sports fields. Maybe the Tecolote parks in mission bay.
Canon st is certainly a toddler friendly park. It’s also on the way to Cabrillo elementary, so I imagine parents will either take younger siblings <5 there after school dropoff, or all their kids there after pickup. This is how Ebers park gets used. And moreso because it's walking distance. (I think it's official name is Ocean Beach Community Park).
Well, the signs say it is not a toddler park, not intended for children under five. So, if a child under five is injured, the city has covered its ass with those signs.
Unfortunately, the cost of the park doubled while the regime let DIF funds sit in accounts for years. It could have been built a few years earlier and the city could have saved the upcharges of a delayed construction.
Another blunder by the Gloria regime.
I wonder who the nationwide search for art installations brought on the job and its cost to San Diego?
It cost $30,000 for a piece of a pier.
I like the park.. but don’t understand why it took so long and cost so much .. remember when the city “found” 800K and said that would pay for a park. They waited so long the cost escalated to the ridiculous… Also, they need more signs on Canon warning cars about people exiting the park onto the small sidewalk on Canon….. the sign should be before the cars reach that area of exit.. not at it. It’s too late by that time. I am always amazed and saddened at how poorly our city plans things.
That’s not exactly what happened. A developer paid the city $840k for building 170+ condos where Barnard Elementary School used to be. What happened to that money was completely political. Faulconer and Zapf, who had a young, naive friend on the Peninsula Community Planning Board, arranged to have the PCPB vote on how to spend the $840k. This is not a planning board function, deciding what to do with money. Had not happened before and probably has not happened since.
The street in front of those condos, Barnard Street, is a third world roadway. That money should have gone to repairing that road that the development made even worse.
Then, those two political losers added to the budget – with no public discussion – hired a professional landscape architect consultants, and paid $30,000 for a piece of “artwork.” That $840k was supposed to be all the money needed for a simple park. The construction of this park was barely half of the $3.3 million. The rest went to consultants and the “managers” from the city.
To make matters worse, the park is dangerous. The fence on the side that parallels Cañon is too short, far too easy for an energetic kid to climb and the other side is steep slope down to Cañon. Then, there is the long, wide concrete sidewalk that slopes downhill and dumps onto Cañon. There is no barrier at the bottom to keep kids in. It just invites a skateboard.
We see no homeless in the park. Why is that? For someone homeless, I would think it would look ideal. I didn’t see a bathroom, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem along the freeways.
We love the new pocket park. It’s a short drive and no bathrooms but great for the little ones. No bums loitering.
The city is fairly good at shiny new things but horrible at maintaining existing assets like all of our local parks within OB.
The park was not designed to drive to, it was designed to walk to. There is no parking but anyone who does drive there has to park in residential neighborhood taking up parking from the local residents.
Glad KH is enjoying the park but an unsurprising complaint from Geoff, perhaps the most negative man in San Diego. Street parking is for everyone regardless of where they live.
The city built a park with no parking on a cul-de-sac of older homes, Avenida De Portugal.. A nice quiet dead end street. That is how the park is accessed now, few will be entering the bottom at Cañon.
If they built that next door to your house, would you brush it off so cavalierly?
Disagreement with you = negativity, apparently. Intellectually, it doesn’t get much lazier.
This site was functioning as somewhat of a park before the obscene amount of money was spent. Kids had some cyclocross jumps set up. It was a destination for local dog walkers. You could walk through it to or from the trail or sidewalk that parallel the south and north sides of Cañon Street respectively. I had been using the vacant site for decades jogging and cycling to avoid that dangerous narrow section of Cañon adjacent to it.
In addition to the cost, my other complaint was how long it took to complete. It seems like it was at least a year that the site was fenced off – often with weeks of no work being done. That forced me to ply that dangerous section of Cañon going slowly uphill on a bike. I don’t care how many sharrows they put there, it is a place to avoid. Especially during peak Naval installations commuting.
I have no complaints about the result. The park seems to be attracting families with small children and that is nice. I don’t feel welcome there passing through on a bike. If there are a lot of people there I walk it, if not I ride slowly. It would have been nice had they incorporated a bike lane (with speed bumps) along the edge of the site and made a curb cut at the bottom to access the Cañon bike lane. My bad for not speaking up and getting involved.