By Thursday, January 20, city contractors had begun to set up scaffolding near the end of the Ocean Beach Pier. The plan is to spend $8.4 million to repair two damaged piles.
A city spokesperson told media that the scaffolding might take upwards of two weeks to construct, and depending on the weather, repairs should take about eight weeks. He added the entire OB Pier should reopen once those repairs are completed. By the beginning of summer.
We’re all hoping that the city spokesguy is right, that this money will result in sufficient repairs that the end section can reopen.
Our concerns and fears are that this will be just a bandaid that will enable the pier to open the “T” section for just a limited period of time.
The city and the press keep repeating the mantra that the pier was badly damaged just last winter and these repairs will suffice. In the next breath, everyone says that, sure the Pier needs more but this is all funds that are available.
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, the front exterior of the City Heights home of San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher and former Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez home was engulfed in flames. Fletcher and Gonzalez were awoken by their smoke alarms after 4 am, and were able to safely evacuate with their family. No one was injured.
The Ocean Beach Town Council is holding its elections for the Board of Directors, beginning the latter part of January and is now accepting Candidate Statements. The statements must be submitted by Monday, January 24. Voting by members takes place over the course of the week, from Thursday, January 27th to Friday, February 4th, 2022 .
On the eve of his State-of-the-City Address, Mayor Todd Gloria unveiled a stunning turnabout on a major environmental issue – the future of northeast Mission Bay. And it’s sure to win him accolades within San Diego’s environmental community.
The City of San Diego is seriously considering closing coastal parks and parking areas in OB and Point Loma – as well as in other beach communities. They say it’s all about the crime, gang activity, late-night parties, illegal bonfires and unauthorized camping.
He’s back in the news again. OB’s own “Whistler” 
We don’t have all the facts yet, but we have names. Or at least the names that have been floated about of those maybe running against Jen Campbell for the newly-redrawn District 2. The primary is June 7.
It’s anti-insurrection week at the OB Rag.
*** Ocean Beach Apartment Complex Sells for Almost $2.4 Million
Mayor Todd Gloria has recently pledged to “fight like hell” to save the Sports Arena redevelopment from Judge Bacal’s axe. Bacal just ruled last week that Measure E — which removed the 30-foot height limit in the Midway District — was illegally place on the ballot by the city council because of a lack of environmental review on buildings over 30 feet.
Residents on Abbott Street in OB have been complaining for a long time about broken and non-working street lights. At least for a year.
Editordude: “Save Our Access,” the group that brought the lawsuit to block the implementation of Measure E, the lifting of the 30-foot height limit in the Midway District, responds here to the recent court ruling in their favor.
There are 5 remaining 
Just about everyday it seems, there’s a letter to the editor in the San Diego U-T complaining about vendors taking over the Boardwalk at Belmont or swamping walk-ways in Balboa Park. In Ocean Beach, merchants and residents have long been complaining about vendors taking over the Vets’ Plaza and the grassy area at the end of Newport Avenue.
Is a 5-unit bed & breakfast coming to the 4700 block of Voltaire Street?
Old Town has “returned” to District 2. It’s part of the 
SANDAG Executive Director Hasan Ikhrata admits the agency “screwed up” its plan to create 70 miles of bicycle lanes and bikeways throughout San Diego County.
Monday was a bad day for Jen Campbell. She was replaced as City Council president and a local watchdog group has asked the San Diego City Attorney’s Office to investigate whether she or her staff illegally influenced the ongoing process of redistricting – the drawing of new council districts.
On January 9 this year, when Trump was still calling himself “president” and just 3 days after the Trump-inspired violent insurrection at the Capitol, pro-Trump supporters held a rally in Pacific Beach.
Residents of the Midway District, as well as others in OB and Point Loma took a sigh of relief Friday upon t
Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal agreed with petitioner Save Our Access in her tentative ruling that the city should be barred from implementing Measure E. Judge Bacal ruled that the City of San Diego improperly placed the measure on the November 2020 ballot because the city failed to study the environmental impacts of buildings taller than 30-feet, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act.
Some folks in Pacific Beach are not happy with the latest 
Joe LaCava, the councilmember for District 1, says he has a bunch of reforms for community planning groups that will bring them in line with the city charter while making them more independent.
The big news from San Diego City Hall Tuesday was the New Rule: for many businesses starting January 1, parking space requirements are eliminated.
A week ago, on Tuesday November 9, the San Diego City Council finally adopted a plan for Fiesta Island, the 470-acre island in the middle of Mission Bay.
If you’ve been attuned to the recent flurry of maps across your screen or TV recently having to do with redistricting, then you’ve been paying attention to an important process that will affect all voters.
Kudos are certainly due to the San Diego Unified School District and its leadership for naming a new elementary school opening in 2022 in Mission Valley after the Kumeyaay village that was located in the vicinity long before the arrival of the Spanish.
Don Wood January 21, 2022 at 2:52 pm on OB History: The In-Between – a Place Where Young People Could Hang OutAround 1970, I was working as a welfare eligibility worker for the County. I worked mornings at the welfare office downtown and worked at the...
Sam January 21, 2022 at 1:49 pm on Will $8.4 Million in Repairs Open Up the West End of the Ocean Beach Pier for Good?well, if Public Works is involved, double the time and the cost. 
Debbie January 21, 2022 at 9:31 am on Hugo’s Cocina in Ocean Beach to CloseVern...loved this place at Ebers & Point Loma! Inside it was cozy, the food was great plus they sold interesting merchandise and other food items....
Vern January 21, 2022 at 9:12 am on Hugo’s Cocina in Ocean Beach to CloseYears back, there was, what memory recalls, a third Ranchos location - at Ebers & Point Loma Blvd in what became, possibly, a short-lived VFW...
Thomas Ultican January 21, 2022 at 5:54 am on OB History: The In-Between – a Place Where Young People Could Hang OutIn 1968, I joined the Navy to avoid the Army and hated it. Lonely and disaffected, I found the In-Between. I had almost forgotten why...
obcliffhanger January 20, 2022 at 5:05 pm on A Short Writer’s Rant: ‘Where Are the Masks? And Where Is Everybody?’I want the restrictions to end as much as anyone. And I work in healthcare, with kids. There were no straw men there. The admitted...
Bearded OBcean January 20, 2022 at 4:22 pm on A Short Writer’s Rant: ‘Where Are the Masks? And Where Is Everybody?’The problem with the discourse, as the good doctor has demonstrated for us, is that the goalposts keep shifting. Someone can do everything that's been...
Geoff Page January 20, 2022 at 2:00 pm on Missing Woman from New York Found in OBAnd, add to that, the woman is 19 years old, a legal adult. She could whatever she wants. Maybe she has a over-bearing mother who...
Kristi January 20, 2022 at 1:58 pm on Hugo’s Cocina in Ocean Beach to CloseMy understanding is that the Rancho's location in North Park is owned by the former owner and ex-wife of the original Rancho's in OB. They...
Bobo January 20, 2022 at 1:25 pm on Neighborhood Group Dissatisfied With Lack of Support from San Diego Council on ADU Reforms, Changes StrategyI’m an OB resident/homeowner who is of the opinion that it is totally appropriate if an on-site homeowner does this. In fact, that’s the original...
