By Shelli Derobertis The $26.5 million Torrey Pines Road Corridor Project, approved in July 2011, has residents wondering if it hit a roadblock, since after one year, the only action taken to improve public safety along the busy thoroughfare has been the installation of two radar speed indicators in January by Councilwoman Sherri Lightner’s office. […]
By Bob Witney, LJA Member; Mr. Whittemore, Ms. DeJong, Mrs. Naegle, Mr. and Mrs. McCormack, it is refreshing for our community to see you have chosen to respond to my open letter to Sherri Lightner as individuals, instead of using your characteristic playbook of hiding behind the names of small but vocal non-profit groups. This […]
By: Bob Whitney; Letter to the City Attorney. It is easy for violations of the LJCPA volunteers to be shrugged off as insignificant and regarded as LJCPA “housekeeping”. Housekeeping however is not the point of this letter. The point is La Jolla has a systemic problem in which activist members of our community planning group […]
By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO–A La Jolla planning group had three answers to Hillel of San Diego’s request to build a religious, intellectual and spiritual center on land it owns near the UCSD campus: “No,” “no” and “no.” There were three interrelated questions before the La Jolla Community Planning Association on Thursday evening, June […]
City of San Diego Response: May 3, 2012 M1 (3)[1] re Michael Morton
La Jolla Light: By Dave Schwab The La Jolla Shores Permit Review (LJSPR) committee said no on March 27 to a requested street vacation necessary for a downsized Hillel Jewish Student Center project proposed on a triangular plot across from the UCSD campus in a single-family neighborhood. LJSPR voted 5 in favor, 1 opposed, with […]
April 22, 2012 Ms. Mary Wright, Deputy Director Planning Division Development Service Department Re: 600-24 and Brown Act Violations by members of the La Jolla Community Planning Association. Dear Ms. Wright: First and foremost I believe the majority of the Trustees on our community group serve our community with only the best of intentions. And […]
Bob Whitney La Jolla Association Member On February 6, 2012 the San Diego City Council (SDCC) voted 7-1 to approve the construction of a new home at 8490 Whale Watch Way in La Jolla. Their vote denied an appeal brought on by the La Jolla Community Planning Association, a group in which Councilwoman Lightner was […]
Esther Rubio-Sheffrey, March 23, 2012 Updated campaign records show that of three city council incumbents up for re-election, only District 1’s Sherri Lightner faces any real opposition. Campaign records released by the City Clerk’s office yesterday, detail each of the campaigns’ fundraising efforts from January 1 through March 17, 2012, and reveal that incumbents Marti […]
By: Michael Morton, AIA La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee member Dear La Jolla Planning Association (CPA) and the Residents ofLa Jolla: La Jolla continues to grow and change, but some want to “shoot the messenger “of that change. Architects and designers are the messenger of that change; they sculpt the designs that will grace […]