CVS Ready to Move in on Former Apple Tree Location — but Not Without Liquor License
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WANT TO GENERATE INCOME? Learn how to buy multiple units with as little as 3.5% down Call Lanz (619)564-6355 BRE#01883404 www.correiagroup.com San Diego Community Newspaper Group THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013 www.SDNEWS.com Volume 27, Number 22 MAYORAL SPECIAL ELECTION: PLHS students join outcry CANDIDATE STATEMENTS EDITOR’S NOTE: To better inform our readers about the political views of the four over whale captivity most prominent candidates in the Nov. 19 mayoral special election, the San Diego Community Newspaper Group developed a seven-pronged interview for the political hopefuls. The candidates queried were former City Attorney Mike Aguirre; District 8 City Councilman David Alvarez; District 2 City Councilman Kevin Faulconer; and for- mer state Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher. Fletcher’s campaign did not respond. issue? Candidate: MIKE AGUIRRE A: Homelessness is a regional issue. (Former City Attorney) The county’s 18 cities and our county government should consolidate, coordi- What is the nate and share efforts, including greatest chal- churches, nonprofits and other organi- lenge/challenges fac- zations. We can achieve higher efficien- ing our beach com- cies by working together, as well as pool- munities and how do ing scarce resources and obtaining you propose address- greater amounts of grant funding. In ing this/them? Orange County, funding is being provid- A: Stormwater ed through Proposition 10 (1998) that The Cinematic Arts and Video Production students at Point Loma High School had a strong reaction to the documentary runoff fouls our created a tax on cigarettes and other "Blackfish" that was broadcast on CNN in October. Courtesy photo MIKE AGUIRRE beaches and bays tobacco products to go to early child- every time it rains. New water-quality hood education. In addition, the county Pupils take SeaWorld to task after marine-mammal documentary on CNN rules take effect in 2018. It will cost developed a “10-Year Plan to End Home- BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON open-ended assignment that they subject of several CNN news features. about $2.7 billion to make the upgrades. lessness.” Participants identified about could watch it and write something The PSA, written, acted and pro- The city wants to increase homeowners’ $4.5 million in additional county funds. Point Loma High students reacting about it, an essay or a movie review,” duced by Point Loma cinema students monthly stormwater fees by more than We should explore a similar approach. to “Blackfish,” an anti-marine mam- said Palmiotto. “One of the kids said, using the school’s state-of-the-art stu- 1,000 percent to pay for the upgrades, Medical marijuana dispensaries have mal captivity documentary, have cre- ‘Why don’t we make a video?’ Then dio, shows several students fading in but the fee increase requires a vote, which been an ongoing controversy for years for ated a public service announcement we started to piece together different and out as they read portions of their will fail. The city will face up to $37,500 the city, law enforcement, the dispensaries (PSA) asking Sea World to stop using reactions from students in different letter to the aquatic park. in daily fines when there’s runoff into and those who believe medical marijuana is animals for entertainment. classes. That’s how it came about.” “Dear Sea World, thank you for all the ocean. I will negotiate with the of benefit to them. How would you Less than a minute long, the PSA, “Blackfish” explores the accidental the amazing memories, the Shamu Regional Water Quality Control Board resolve/reconcile this controversy? titled “Dear SeaWorld,” was created deaths of SeaWorld trainers and is Show, Dolphin Point, the Penguin to phase in implementation of the regu- A: As a former Assistant U.S. Attor- by students in Anthony Palmiotto’s critical of keeping killer whales in encounter,” begins the PSA. “But lations while increasing investment in ney, I support enforcing the law. In Cinematic Arts and Video Production captivity and having them perform in after watching the documentary storm-drain upgrades. August, the Deputy Attorney General classes. shows. The film premiered at the Sun- ‘Blackfish’ on CNN, all those special The homeless situation and the issues/ provided “guidance … concerning mar- “We always do a documentary and dance Film Festival in January, then memories have totally been cheap- problems associated with them continue to ijuana enforcement,” which tacitly when it (“Blackfish”) came on basic went mainstream Oct. 24 when it grow seemingly on a daily basis and are per- acknowledges states’ rights to permit cable television, I just gave them an was featured on CNN and became the SEE DOCUMENTARY, Page 5 vading nearly every neighborhood in San Diego. How do you propose to resolve the SEE ELECTION, Page 7 CVS ready to move in on former Apple Tree location — but not without liquor license BY TONY DE GARATE | THE BEACON standing-room-only crowd Nov. 6 at the es can be granted without a finding requirements and a public comment ed a grocery store being replaced by a monthly meeting of the Ocean Beach that another license would serve period. retail outlet with offerings so similar to a CVS Pharmacy thinks the old Apple Planning Board (OBPB). “public convenience or necessity.” Even though alcohol makes nearby Rite Aid. Others wanted CVS to Tree grocery store, the long-vacant CVS was hoping to get the OBPB to Police have 90 days to make that up only five percent of CVS’ show it would be a good corporate neigh- building at 4949 Santa Monica Ave., give its blessing now, while the San Diego determination, said Lt. Dan Plein total sales, it’s a critical part of bor. would make a dandy spot for its 26th Police Department is in the middle of an of SDPD’s Vice, Permits and the company’s business, com- Some, like Tommy Gomes, who San Diego-area location. investigation that could make or break Licensing unit. pany officials said. described himself as a licensed drug and Corporate officials reportedly love the whether a liquor license is granted. Community approval is one of “Alcohol is a convenience we alcohol counselor, just plain don’t want building. They say the available floor Instead, with more than three dozen the factors police look at when need (to offer) to be competi- any more alcohol in Ocean Beach. space and parking is quite adequate, and audience members crammed into the they make that decision, said tive,” said Wolfgang Schiefer, “We don’t need more booze,” Gomes they admire the curved roof and other meeting room of the Ocean Beach Recre- Plein, who was one of two vice district operations manager for said. “There’s money to be made some- features that reveal its past as a 1960s- ation Center, it voted 10-0 to put off a officers at the meeting. CVS. place else.” style Safeway supermarket, according to decision until that investigation is com- Obtaining that determination, “It brings people in to buy Gretchen Kinney Newsome, president Steve Laub of Land Solutions, Inc., a plete. or PCN finding, is the first step other products,” Laub said. of the Ocean Beach Town Council, asked local project management-consulting Police approval is crucial because the in CVS’ plan to occupy the build- “CVS wants to make it so people about the possibility of a “community firm that is overseeing the permitting property sits in a census tract that, ing. If police make a PCN finding can come in and get their whole benefits package” that could include process. according to a formula used by the state in CVS’ favor, the company will list of shopping items.” things like college scholarships, commu- What CVS doesn’t have is permission Alcohol Beverage Control Department, formally submit a liquor license Nearly every citizen who nity clean-up sponsorships and a pledge to sell beer, wine and spirits — and the already has too many off-premise liquor application, Laub said, which spoke opposed the liquor license prospect of a liquor license whipped up a licenses. Under state law, no more licens- triggers posting and notification or had concerns. Some lament- SEE CVS, Page 8 THURSDAY · NOVEMBER 14, 2013 2 THE PENINSULA BEACON NEWS QUICKHIT Multiple SDCNG writers reap journalism honors Cabrillo Centennial Three of the San Diego Community race of school life with gigantic hamster Newspaper Group’s corps of reporters wheel.” Celebration redux Dec. 7-8 earned top honors during the San Diego Mike McCarthy received a first- The Centennial Celebration at Cabril- Press Club’s 40th annual Excellence in place award in the Investigative Report- lo National Monument has been Journalism Awards on Oct. 29 at the ing category for the article “Teeming rescheduled for the weekend of Dec. 7-8, Market Creek Jacobs Center. with life — summer marine life unusu- with the commemorative 100th anni- The evening was a rich mix of tradi- ally active,” that ran in the Peninsula versary ceremony set to take place Sun- tion and celebration featuring San Beacon, Beach and Bay Press and La day, Dec. 8 at 3 p.m. Diego’s finest restaurants with regional Jolla Today. He also received a second- Because of the partial government wines and beers. For the honorees, it place honor in the Photography Still shutdown, the park’s originally sched- was a fun evening of rubbing elbows News category for the same article. uled three-day Centennial Celebration with friends in the San Diego media. The Reporter Mariko Lamb collected sec- from Oct. 12-14 was cancelled. The San Diego Press Club is the third largest ond-place honors for her work at the rescheduled centennial activities will in the U.S., representing all media city Beach & Bay Press in the non-daily coincide with the park’s third annual and county newspapers, magazines, newspapers Best Gardening Story cate- “World War II — Fort Rosecrans Goes websites, television and radio outlets.