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Enforcement of the new regulations to begin Monday, Sept. 11.

By Elisabeth Frausto / La Jolla Light / Aug. 22, 2023

The California Coastal Commission has approved the city of San Diego’s “Spaces as Places” regulations requiring some businesses in the coastal zone to replace public parking occupied by outdoor dining. The Coastal Commission, however, had concerns about the elimination of parking spots in a narrow strip of San Diego’s coastline known as the “beach impact area,”

The OB Rag annual fundraising drive, begun on August 11, has exceeded our goal of $1500 by more than $500.

And we expect a few more checks to flood in to our PO Box.

A funny thing happened to a good friend on Saturday, August 19, as Hilary approached.

That morning, he went to People’s food store on Voltaire to buy a food item but found some kind of festival going on — a birthday celebration, perhaps — there was a band playing in the parking lot and he saw a whole bunch of hippies grooving to the music, a kids’ jumper was set up — and the parking lot was closed. All the parking spaces on Voltaire were also taken, so he proceeded up Voltaire to Stump’s market.

Once he arrived at Stumps, he witnessed a whole other scene. People were rushing in to get survival supplies, flashlights, water, toilet paper perhaps – it was Armageddon!

And it seemed much of the local media and politicians played Hilary as armageddon.

Sabor Del Barrio

The 1st annual Taste of Barrio Logan will take place on Sunday, August 27, 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm, covering all of the Barrio Logan cultural district. Sabor Del Barrio will feature 36 Barrio Logan restaurants, coffee houses, bakeries, breweries, and one of a kind eateries, and include access to local museums and galleries in the historic Barrio Logan cultural district.

In a subscriber-only article in yesterday’s U-T, reporters Roxana Popescu, Lori Weisberg wrote that two OB tenants of vacation rental king, Michael Mills, who had sued him for unlawful eviction and rent raises, will be able to remain in their homes.

Tenants Damin Dixon and Alison Bradford are no longer facing eviction. “Both tenants are still living in their same units,” their lawyer, Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi, stated. The Rag covered the suit.

The OB Town Council is holding a “Town Hall Meeting” Wednesday, Aug. 23, and it looks like a good part of the meeting will be a workshop on the city’s “Cultural Plan.”

It will be at the Point Loma/Hervey Library located at 3701 Voltaire St. and starts at 7 pm.

Here’s what the OBTC had to say in their announcement:

Vic, a 61-year-old unsheltered man, helped others staying at Mayor Gloria’s homeless encampment to move out of the Golden Hill safe campsite before Hilary hit. Vic took the photos.

by Ernie McCray

I see the movie industry
as a huge answer to
the way our society
defines Black people
so negatively
because Hollywood is a master
when it comes to painting an image
of a people,
as I remember growing up
watching many a movie
that made the world seem

The folks at Peninsula News are tired of the “Cañon Street Crap.” Here’s why (for any links, go to original):

Long-time San Diego Reader writer Tom Arnold just wrote a cover piece entitled “Pier Review” about San Diego’s piers – and here is what he had to say about the Ocean Beach Pier — his favorite:

These days, my beloved Ocean Beach Pier has been making headlines because it is dying. The 1971-foot-long structure, with its dip in the middle and two asymmetrical arms at the end, is said to be the longest concrete pier in the world. …It hasn’t aged well.