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Complaint Lodged Against Clean and Safe Program Employee
How about "clean safe and milking/bilking the public"? Give me a break. This is what Sanders/DeMaio privatization buys you. The path to BID enrichment/empowerment is planned to be even easier going forward: Can you say, "privatization, privatization, privatization"? North Park BID MAD is next.— May 19, 2011 7:49 p.m.
Downtown Redevelopment Really Does Work...
Oh no, Parrothead, you can stop reading right after the line before the "paid for by" line - From the Keyser Marston website on "Our People": "Mr. Trimble is Managing Principal of Keyser Marston Associates, Inc., San Diego. He came to Keyser Marston in 1992 after five years as president of the USC Real Estate Development Corporation, a for-profit real estate development corporation wholly owned by USC, and 10 years as the chief executive officer of the Centre City Development Corporation, San Diego."— May 18, 2011 4:19 p.m.
Consider the Condo
Wow. Great work. One other thing that local governments have done is offer developers exemptions to a variety of normal code requirements, or relief from normal taxes/fees, if the developers include one or two or a few "low-income" units in a project. In such projects I've examined, the balance of benefit is very much on the developer's side, to the detriment of the taxpayers and local community. Also, these "low-income" units, rentals or for sale, have not been for very low-income renters or buyers, and have had all kinds of legal problems. There was such a Redevelopment project of units for sale in North Park. In a strange twist, currently, due to local redev agency/government failure to build low-income housing, and the pending elimination of the redev scam, redevelopment-specializing developers have scoured areas for city-owned parcels (e.g., parking lots) and have made successful overtures to be basically given the right to develop upscale projects with a unit or two of low-income units tucked in.— April 20, 2011 2:23 p.m.
San Diego's One-of-a-Kind Spirits Festival
Ah, drinking...when the going gets rough, there's money to be made in alcohol. Although Edwards' attendees will likely be well-heeled friends of the CCDC/Port/City crowd, the peons of San Diego seem also to be focused on throwing their disposable income down the hatch in the local bars. Because...why? I don't know...maybe spending money on bar-priced alcohol is a substitute for saving for a house you will never be able to afford...or because the low-paying service job you have in San Diego leaves you longing for intellectually stimulating company found only at bars? Here's an example of the prose in a recent U-T article about Can't-Miss Drinking Events: "North Park Pub Sprawl is more of a self-guided stumbling situation, where you you lurch around and get drink specials from 11 participating bars." "Like an airport shuttle, except this Brewery Tours bus is delivering you to your next buzz - for free: It's the DrinkAbout Bus! And for four hours on Wednesday, April 20, from 7 to 11 p.m. you can be driven to [8] watering holes [in Normal Heights and South Park]. Bonus: Sleep it off on the shuttle between these bars." Whoopeee! Make some noise and wake up the residents of the old inner-city hoods. Blow all your paycheck on booze. It helps the local economy when nothing else does!— April 18, 2011 10:07 a.m.
Ex-IRS Agent Turned Tax Preparer Nailed for Laundering
Wow! That's all. Wow!— April 16, 2011 6:48 p.m.
Pacific Beach Foot Traffic, Retail, Up in Smoke
Thank you for saying everything that needed saying... I think I love you. I DO love you!— April 11, 2011 7:26 p.m.
Pacific Beach Foot Traffic, Retail, Up in Smoke
You are supposed to be riding a bike! what's WRONG with you...don't you know there is no free parking? Donald Shoup said so. Don't you want to be GREEN?— April 11, 2011 8:54 a.m.
I stumble on the MIHO food truck in South Park
Example: Just go to twitter.com/mihogastrotruck if you want that particular vendor. You can follow them, they can follow you...assuming you carry around a mobile and need to track food trucks, that's what you do. See their twitter page for details.— April 11, 2011 8:49 a.m.
Here's to a New Career in Booze
Ah, yes. The Revenue. That's the ticket...— April 8, 2011 8:27 p.m.
Here's to a New Career in Booze
Too many people depend on alcohol today, ...imbibing, promoting, brewing, selling, leasing space to do all of these things... I love certain kinds of alcohol at certain times of day, in limited amounts, but not to the extent that I see among people today, especially the 18- to 35-year-olds. The fierce fights to drink crazily at the beach, at the park, at the local bars, ...it is obsessive. The beach-drinking battle, the local residential neighborhood bar-permit fights, the Kate Sessions Park right-to-party fight...These battles to do whatever the young drinkers think is their inherent "right," coupled with the alluring profit from selling and promoting drinking...the Blank Generation + down economy has created monsters. These kids drinking obsessively are going to be fat, diabetic, and/or have bad livers/hearts/kidneys in 10 years. The PR industry (locally involving the restaurants/bars, the companies that provide shuttles to carry people to same, etc.) really needs to dial it back. The City and its permit departments, the Planning Commission that sees the money in bars and won't disallow anything, ...shame.— April 8, 2011 5:42 p.m.