By Joni Halpern
There have been many times in the past when community advocates for the best interests of the Point Loma community have needed the support of residents of other San Diego communities. The retention of Dana Junior High School is only one example. We needed support from other communities to prevent the school from being sold to developers who planned to replace it with almost 300 condominiums. We succeeded in our efforts, because other communities joined us.
However, had it not been that other communities were targeted to lose their schools to developers, we would have been unable to make the argument that other communities should support us, because their residents widely believed that neighborhoods like Point Loma, La Jolla, and other constituencies of affluence did not care one whit about any community but their own.
The truth is, every community needs the support of others — all of us in this city, all of us in every neighborhood need each other’s support.