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Julie Stalmer
Articles by Julie Stalmer
Bay Park – around long before Clairemont
60-foot height limit, Seisel's, Poseidon Project, Coastal Trailer Villa, trashcans destroyed
Red balloon sent up in Bay Park "I am against high density,” says Johnson. “I think it’s wrong. I'm very unhappy with the way that this is going. We don't need more people [here]. That's ...
Why so many pedestrian accidents in San Diego?
The fatal 15 intersections upgraded
A week doesn’t go by without news of a hit-and-run or a near miss caused by a speeding driver. Residents on the Mount Streets in Clairemont have reported parked cars in front of homes getting ...
Pacific Beach leads the town in dog tickets
"I am not going to shut up until we get a real off-leash park"
Pacific Beach dog lovers have been frustrated over the lack of off-leash options. Many go rogue and let their dogs run free in parks with rules against that. In January, increased enforcement led to residents ...
Downtown San Diego's Plaza Hotel goes; homeless parking proposed on Mission Bay
"In a perfect world we'd all have a unicorn and Lamborghini too"
Another SRO is about to bite the dust. Short for single room occupancy hotels, these cheap hotels have been dropping like flies from 123 in 2012 to 37 in October 2018. It's hard not to ...
Container homes shipping into Logan Heights
Locals more okay with shipping containers for homeless over storage containers for homeless
An apartment building made out of shipping containers is coming soon to Logan Heights. Michael Copley (Makana Properties), third generation San Diegan and realtor, is embarking on this first for San Diego with partner Douglas ...
Zapf's Swampland aka Cate's Litter Box
Eyesore median set to be clean in 2019
Joel Pointon in Clairemont has been calling his city council office about a messy median on Balboa Avenue at Mt. Abernathy and Mt. Alifan. He and others started making calls before Lorie Zapf was in ...
Clairemont braces for density
Will NIMBY suburban go YIMBY urban?
Our mayor has a dream, a dream in which NIMBYs click their heels three times and turn into YIMBYs joyfully proclaiming, “Yes, in my backyard.” In this perfect world, constituents no longer have any anti-housing ...
Clairemont still waits for Trader Joe's
In spite of local connection to Joe Coulombe, founder
On January 31, a lady walking her dog announced to me that "Trader Joe's is coming to Clairemont!" She said she knows someone that works for the Clairemont Town Square shopping center and that everything ...
Less parking for San Diego's Old Town
Four adobe houses survive from the 1800s
‘It’s been vacant as long as I can recall” was the consensus I got when asking about the vacant lot on the corner of Congress and Harney streets in Old Town. An empty lot is ...
