Admin/Volunteers On July 16, 2013 the property owners of 754 -758 Bonair Street, requested the La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee (DPR), a subcommittee of the La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) to approve their Coastal Development Permit, Tentative Map and Variance. The applicant wanted to demolish an existing duplex and construct three, 3-story, detached single family […]
Impeded by natural and manmade delays, the construction of two multimillion dollar lifeguard towers in La Jolla is far behind schedule and may not be completed until summer is over. Lifeguards at La Jolla Cove and the Children’s Pool are operating out of temporary facilities as the unfinished towers look like construction zones to those […]
Fox 5 News/Admin Residents in the Westknoll neighborhood blocked crews from installing a wireless antenna Monday morning. “This whole thing stinks, there’s something wrong here,” said David Haney. Crews from Crown Castle, for which La Jolla Community Planning Association’s President Joe LaCava is a paid Lobbyist, were installing cellular equipment on a city light pole in […]
The property at 820 Rushville has been in the Hansen’s family for almost 60 years. On June 11th an appeal, filed by the disputed President of the La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA), Joe LA Cava, was rejected by a 5-1 vote of the San Diego Planning Commission. This was the third consecutive appeal filed […]
La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) Trustee, Phil Merten and Chair of the La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee (LJSPRC), explains to the Planning Commission, on April 16 2015, just how underhanded the approval process can be in La Jolla. Merten’s comments confirm why the Whitney family terminated their relationship with their original architect Dale Naegle. […]
Monday, May 4, 2015 By KPBS <img src=”https://kpbs.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2015/05/04/barbara-bry_t614.jpg?a3ca5463f16dc11451266bb717d38a6025dcea0e” alt=””> Entrepreneur and political activist Barbara Bry announced Monday that she’ll run for the seat of San Diego City Council President Sherri Lightner, who is being termed out. Bry is the chief operating officer of Blackbird Ventures, a firm that invests in fledgling technology companies, and was […]
The South elevation of the proposed Whitney mixed use residence. The San Diego Planning Commission, on April 16th for the third time, by a 5-1 vote, approved the Whitney Mixed Use Building in La Jolla Shores. The approval coincides with City Staff and the San Diego Hearing Officers previous approvals of both the project and the environmental determination. […]
By Pat Sherman Park Prospect resident James Oehler voices concern that a restaurant proposed for the Tasende Gallery adjacent the five-story condo building where he lives (architectural sketch at right) would create noise, odor and traffic impacts. Jose Tasende and his architect, Jim Alcorn (of Alcorn & Benton Architects), will make their case to add […]
On Thursday, the La Jolla Music Society made a presentation to the La Jolla Community Planning Association that included showing renderings of the proposed Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center for the first time. And it announced its intention to start the formal submission of plans to the city for approval within the next two weeks. […]
By Pat Sherman Legal dispute remains long after Gill cottage’s demolition Irving Gill’s ‘Windemere’ cottage was built in 1894 and believed to be the master architect’s first home in California, and the first Craftsman home in the state. Originally located on Prospect Street, it was moved a half-mile to 1328 Virginia Way in 1927, and […]