OB Rag

It’s always worthwhile to be able to put a human face or two on corporations that do things and affect us yet wish to remain faceless.

And over the years as the San Diego U-T kept getting batted about from one owner to another we at least could put a face on the Copleys and Manchesters and Soon-Shiongs.

But now, with hedge fund Alden Global Capital becoming the U-T’s sixth owner in 14 years, I don’t think I’ve seen one human face from Alden or its subsidiary MediaNews Group.

That changes today.

by Ernie McCray

Hey,
Maria Ester Nieto.
I was just thinking
how many years ago
we used to refer to our girlfriends
as our “old lady,”
with no thought
that a day might come
when your squeeze is just that,”
an old lady,
a beauty like you
turning eighty,
rocking it,

There is what appears to be some beginning construction / demolition activity at the former Ranchos restaurant and market at Pt Loma Avenue and Ebers. A reader sent the photos.

Project Review Committee’s Review of Proposed Twin ADUs on Del Monte

By Connor Greth

On Wednesday, July 19, 2023, the Project Review Committee, a sub-committee of the OB Planning Board, met to review two proposed Accessory Dwelling Units at 4732 Del Monte Avenue.

There are currently three dwelling units on the 7,000 square foot lot.

By Geoff Page

One item listed on the Thursday, July 20, Peninsula Community Planning Board’s agenda piqued some interest. It was about a laboratory project but the title and description were insufficient to understand what the lab was for.

EMTS Lab Remodel at NTC

The title of the agenda item was:

2392 Kincaid Road. EMTS (Monitoring and Technical Services
Laboratory) – NTC. PRJ – 450-790-08-00

Come Inside for text and details.

According to out Rag writer, Colleen O’Connor, there’s been a power outage in Shelter Island since 2:30 this morning, Monday.

And as of 8:30, city crews were still working to determine its cause.

There’s a battle brewing right now in San Diego between privacy advocates and those who support the SDPD’s installation of “Smart Streetlights” and license plate readers.

Just this past Tuesday, the City Council extended the deadline for the Privacy Advisory Board to review the city’s surveillance and other technologies by 3 years. The initial deadline was one year, but by time that point was reached, the volunteer board had not reviewed one technology.

But then on Wednesday the city’s Public Safety Committee voted to support SDPD’s smart streetlight proposal.

From wildfires and floods to record heat, it’s clear we’re at the point of needing to save what we can while we can.

By David Helvarg / The Progressive / July 18, 2023

Since before the release of the first United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change  report in 1990, scientists have been warning that, without global action to quickly reduce carbon dioxide emissions, we could shift from a dangerous to a catastrophic climate situation.

There’s a production of Cabaret at OB Playhouse that starts today, July 21, and runs through August 20.  The show features local musical theater performs from across San Diego County.

Wildsong Productions, a San Diego based nonprofit 501(c)(3) theatre company currently operating out of OB Playhouse, is producing it and promises it “will provide patrons with a truly immersive experience in an intimate black box setting and transport them back in time to our 1930s Kit Kat Club.”

The Peninsula News appears to have broken the news that the condemned barracks on Harbor Drive near the airport will be demolished and replaced by “some sort of homelessness shelter or lot.” This what they were told by Jen Campbell’s office. (Peninsula News is posted online by the Point Loma Association.)

Here’s their report:

The City of San Diego’s Development Services Depardment has just announced that an application has been filed for a permit to build a 3-story, 39 unit apartment complex at the corner of Voltaire and Wabaska Drive, at 4051 Voltaire Street. The plan also calls for 2 retail spaces in the mixed-used building, which sits on .7 acres.

The applicant is Morengo Morton Architects, Inc. The proposed site for the apartment complex is at a very prominent corner and currently holds the well-known high-end used furniture store, Karen’s Consignment Gallery.