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But will there be enough water for One Paseo?
We need to prioritize what agriculture produces in the state, rank food production from essential to non-essential and price the water used accordingly. Sod farms come to mind as being totally non-essential particularly since we don't have the water available to keep them green. Growing grass with cheap water when we are telling residents to let the lawn go brown makes no sense at all. Much as I like almonds, pistachios etc I can live without them or be willing to pay more since the price of water should rise for those who continue to grow them. Reasonable changes in agriculture water use can help us get through this drought but the changes will need to be long term and not forgotten when the next rainfall happens.— April 9, 2015 2:09 p.m.
More special interest cash for mayor's non-profit
These types of non-profits need to go, they have morphed into something that is far from the original intent of the laws that established them.— March 31, 2015 11:35 a.m.
Where's my green-waste container?
Lets grandfather in all the households that are currently not receiving city pickup of trash. Obviously the city provides the service at a much lower rate than the private trash companies. The currently excluded households would save money and we could finance it with a small % of what is proposed for a chargers stadium.— March 31, 2015 11:31 a.m.
Put up or cover-up, public utilities commission?
Don, do you think those state lawyers are overpaid?— March 30, 2015 5:16 p.m.
Where's my green-waste container?
If the total cost of trash collection in the city is about $47 million/yr. how can it cost $15 million to implement automated green collection for 90,000 households? Are the capital costs not amortized? Was any calculation done to account for the reduction in man hours required due to the automation? Currently the greenery trucks have a driver and at least one other person to manually load the greenery. I would assume that if the system is automated the other person would no longer be needed. At $47M/yr. the cost per household trash collection is approximately $162 per household or $13.50/month. That's well below what most folks that have private collection pay for trash pickup.— March 30, 2015 1:37 p.m.
The economy in shock
Use less, pay more, how does that help with conservation? Meanwhile SDGE wants to build more "peaker" power plants that are hugely expensive and only run part time.— March 20, 2015 5:27 p.m.
Oh, those troublesome bike lanes
Paul, the decrease in permits is most likely due to the addition of several thousand new apartments the university built in the last 10 years in combination with the many shuttles used by nearby apartments. I'd like to see some data on the number of parking permits issued and total parking available on campus. As to your bridge analysis I suppose you could say that if you remove a bridge you could see an increase in swimmers. Anyone who drives by SDSU can see that a large part of the traffic problem is the students most of whom commute from areas some distance from the university.— March 1, 2015 4:53 p.m.
When reporting a fire, best to use a land line
Perhaps the dispatcher could ask the cell callers for the address?— February 27, 2015 1:53 p.m.
Oh, those troublesome bike lanes
"Endlessly widening roads does not fix the problem," Jamason says. "It only creates more traffic, which quickly fills the new lanes, and we end up with the same congestion. There's even a term for it: 'induced demand.' Traffic on College Ave is the result of it being a connector to both I8 and SR 94 and 30,000 SDSU students most of whom drive to school every day. I'm sure SDSU has some data on the number of students with parking permits. Take a look at the parking lots on campus next time you pass by on College or Montezuma. As to the bicyclists, I don't know where anyone sees hundreds of students on bikes. I have lived in the area for 16 yrs. and travel both College and Montezuma frequently, I rarely see anymore than 1-3 cyclists in the area. Increasing traffic is due to increased dense development in the area primarily housing students.— February 27, 2015 1:36 p.m.
Begging becomes a bloody business
A sign saying please help sounds like begging to me. Creating a traffic hazard must be illegal.— February 17, 2015 7:23 a.m.