OB Rag

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.

By Chris Lindahl/ Patch San Diego/ August 18, 2023

Hurricane Hilary has intensified to Category 4 status as it continues to make its way northward off the coast of Baja California Friday morning, bringing with it winds up to 140 mph.

It appears that Democrat Monica Montgomery Steppe will face off with hard-right Republican Amy Reichert in November’s runoff to resolve who will have the supervisor seat for District 4, according the latest from the County Registrar of Voters.

Montgomery Steppe came in with the top vote at just over 40%, holding an eleven-point lead over Reichert’s 29%.

The other Democrat in the Special Election to replace Nathan Fletcher, Janessa Goldbeck, came in at 25.3%. And the other Republican, Paul McQuigg, garnered 5%. McQuigg didn’t run any visible campaign.

By Leighann O’Reilly

Support the Our Neighborhood Voices initiative.

The Our Neighborhood Voices initiative restores the authority of your local representatives to decide what gets built in your community, on your street, and right next door to where you live.

We are organizing a campaign to bring back our neighborhood voices in local planning with a 2024 statewide ballot measure.

In San Diego, this means a two-step process to ensure voters have a say in their housing codes:

Why are San Diego City leaders tempting fate with single-family zoning loopholes in high-risk fire zones?

By Sandra Johnson / Neighbors for a Better San Diego

The first call came in at 11:52 a.m. on Sunday, June 30, 1985, but the fire was already out of control when the first units arrived. By 1:00 p.m. it had gone to four alarms and formal evacuations were in progress. By evening, the Normal Heights fire zone was more than a mile long and a half mile wide.

Everyone thinks it won’t happen to them.

Planners, applicants, and interested members of the public are invited to Wednesday’s meeting of the OB Planning Board Project Review Committee, Aug. 16.  The sub-committee will be meeting at their regular time and location this month, at the OB Rec Center at 6pm.

There is one project on the agenda. St. Peter’s By-the-Sea at 1371 Sunset Cliffs Blvd has submitted an application for a conditional use permit and coastal development permit to install a Dish Wireless with 3 panel antennas and 6 remote radio units and a bunch of ancillary equipment.