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Pipe waiting to be installed on 30th Street near Polite Provisions and Jayne’s Gastropub I started this site to make our city’s backbone—its pipes, bike lanes, roads, buildings, fire stations, parks,...
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City Buildings: Time for a check-up
Fountain in wonderfully car-free Plaza de Panama that will hopefully be home to a San Diego Craft Beer Garden & Visitor Center one day is an example of a city-owned facility This fall, the City...
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How to pay for our future – Part I
This image came from a fine illustrator named John Royle, I hope he doesn’t mind that I used it. By now, it is hard to live in the City of San Diego without having heard that there is at least a $1...
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How to pay for our future – part II
Woman cautiously guarding limited resources – or perhaps looking for additional resources The above photo was delivered to me by the Google, it is from this article about finding high-paying jobs (Man,...
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Understanding Short Term Rentals in San Diego – a panel discussion
Pt. Loma photo taken from Times of San Diego. Photo credit: Realtor.com For the better part of the last year I’ve found myself involved – mostly through Airbnb – in the City of San Diego’s short term...
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Understanding short term rentals in San Diego (pt II) – The “community’s”...
I put the term community in quotes in the title because not everyone in every community views these issues the same way. Elected officials and others frequently refer to “the community” as if we all...
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Understanding short term rentals in San Diego (pt III): Residential rental of...
For those unfamiliar with the issues, you can read part I and part II of this story, also on this site. For everyone else, let’s just get right into it. The issue in my client’s case is not whether...
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San Diego City Council District Three Part I: Mission Hills Town Council...
Peering in the auditorium at the start of the candidate forum This site is usually reserved to help San Diegans understand local policy and issues related to public roads, buildings, sewer and water...
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Understanding San Diego Water – A Rise San Diego Chat
On August 19, 2016, Rise San Diego held one of its breakfast chats to focus on one issue everyone agrees is extremely important…water! Over the next few days I will add questions, answers, and...
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Understanding How Homes Get Built – The 10-step series
A 10-part series on how the home-building “puzzle” pieces work in San Diego On this blog, I write about San Diego issues that could use straight forward explanations. Most people don’t have time to...
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