2019The FiveCorreia Star Group Professional App makes Award your forhome the searchFifth Year easy! Trust local Expertise, and coastal specialists to make your experience a breeze. Point Loma Branch 4980 North Harbor Drive, Suite 203 San Diego, CA 92106 See Page 15 for more information CA BRE#01883404 SanSan Diego Diego Community Community Newspaper Newspaper Group Group FRIDAY,FRIDAY, SEPTEMBE AUGUSTR 16, 11, 2019 2020 INSIDEINSIDE EMOTIONAL MEMORIAL Movement for cleaner WANING SUMMEROB streets BY DAVE SCHWAB | THE BEACON esidents are being asked to sign a peti- Rtion on Ocean Beach’s Neighborhood Watch Facebook page to take action Author Jill G. Hall to “help to keep our sidewalks Pointhas Loma a new Pointers novel prep clean ensuring a healthier forSEE season PAGE 14 opener environment for everyone.” “One complaint that is often SEE PAGE 11 heard about the downtown area of Ocean Beach is how dirty, stained, and smelly the sidewalks are,” the online peti- tion reads. “The OB Clean & Safe Pro- gram, a project of the Ocean Beach MainStreet Association, After a steamy Labor Day weekend, locals look forward to a warm fall, empty beaches, and more green flashes. is lookingJIM toGRANT/PENINSULA change that BEACON by applying for funding to provide bi-monthly cleanings of New- port Avenue sidewalks, in addition to installing addition- CityMelinda Whiteselects (left) embraces an emotionaldeveloper Eva King during the memorial to at transformSunset Cliffs for Mike White, a well-known Sports angler and surfboard Arenaal trash property bins along the street. shaper who grew up on Ladera Street. Melinda, Mike’s sister, helped organize the memorial and paddle out where dozens of friends and fam- By DAVE SCHWAB | The Beacon Brookfield/ASM was chosen over ily, including King, who was a life-long friend and former girlfriend, came out to celebrate Mike’s life on Sunday, Aug. 11. ‘Sunset Cliffs was SEE CLEAN, Page 7 OB Hostel reopens his world and his playground,’ said Melinda. ‘He loved it here.’ See page 10 for the story. THOMAS MELVILLE / PENINSULA BEACONits competitor, Midway Sports and underOcean new Beach management mom-preneur A City selection committee has Entertainment Team Development. leads SexySEE PAGEMama 8 Movement chosen Brookfield Properties and The selection committee used a sys- ASM Global for the monumental tem with 111 total possible points SEE PAGE 13 task of redeveloping the City-owned awarded to both applicants: 20 SportsLongtime Arena area property. Ocean Beach surfboard shaper trying to rebuildpoints on how after clearly they fire ad- Brookfield/ASM must now deliv- dressed criteria in the RFP; 25 er on redeveloping,BY DAVE SCHWAB leasing,| THE BEACON oper- pointsextinguisher, on their development/oper pulled the plug, hit- ating and maintaining the 48-acre atingthe plan; fire 25— pointsand it exploded.for profession It just- site. 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ARENA, Page 4 for sunset dining said Elliott, who’s been riding e- SEE PAGE 6 bikes for years. “I picked up a fire The charred remains of Albert ‘Ace’ Elliott’s shaping shed in OB. SCOTT HOPKINS / PENINSULA BEACON SEE FIRE, Page 5 Call us before you Concierge Real List or Purchase Christie Romano Tony Romano Estate Company your home Broker/Owner | Cal #01476904 Sales Manager We handle every aspect of your real estate (619) 677-5773 Realtor / Veteran | Cal #02062741 sale from start to finish. We get your Mention this ad for ✉ [email protected] property ready so you don’t have too. 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I think the fact that it’s even Proposition D 30-foot height lim- “If you had taken the time to cial, office, industrial, institutional, measure language has no limita- covered by Prop. D was the result it from the Midway District and consult with our community, military, and civic uses.’” tions, so it would be (for) the entire of an oversimplified description of Pechanga Arena. Proposition D is you would know that Measure E But some Peninsulans remain Midway District. When this was what should be subject to the lim- a 48-year-old voter-approved ini- has been backed by the Midway unconvinced that removing brought up at the CPC meeting in itation – everything west of I-5. My tiative passed in 1972 to preserve Community Planning Group,” Midway’s 30-foot height limit is August, Clairemont jumped right concern is centered on making sure ocean views. It restricts coastal Kenton said. “Why have you taken desirable – or justifiable. on the bandwagon and wanted to that significantly more intense built development to 30 feet in height. such a hard line against Midway, “I am against lifting the 30-foot raise the height limit there. I be- environment planned for that area Measure E proponents claim its residents, its businesses, and its rule in Midway,” said Point Loman lieve this is a slippery slope.” – whether all at 30 feet or in taller the height limit should never have property owners? We have been Mandy Havlik. “I think that it is the “I don’t object to removing the buildings – is supported by the in- been applied in Midway as the dis- crying out for improvements and start of a slippery slope that will height limit in the Midway/Sports frastructure necessary to support it.” trict enjoys no ocean views. They railing against the blight, crime, erode the protections of the 30-foot also point out the existing Sports and utter decay in our community rule that has protected the coastal Arena, in the early stages of rede- for far too long. region from overdevelopment.” velopment, is 77 feet tall. “Why would you want to con- “The only way this measure San Diego Airport receives grant Detractors insist abolishing the tinue the tradition of strip malls, would earn my support was if 30-foot Midway height restriction strip clubs, trash, and homeless- there was some protection for for noise mitigation measures would be a precedent-setting move ness that is pervasive in Midway? every other community in the that could have an unwanted dom- Because you think we need more Coastal Overlay Zone,” said On Sept. 1, U.S. Secretary of Authority through the Quieter ino effect elsewhere. time dealing with these problems? Obecian Andrea Schlageter. “This Transportation Elaine L. Chao an- Home Program, the airport’s resi- The City Council voted 7-2 in July We don’t need more time. We need could have looked like a number nounced the Trump Administration dential sound insulation program. to place the removal of the 30-foot to get on with the job of making of things, a moratorium on any will award San Diego International The FAA has determined that res- Midway coastal height restriction the Midway/Sports Arena arena a other votes to lift the height limit, Airport a total of $18,023,885 in idences within the 65 to 69 decibel on the Nov. 3 ballot. District 1 jewel in the crown of San Diego.” requiring that a height limit raise two airport safety and infrastruc- level contour map around San Diego Councilmember Barbara Bry and “Measure E will allow for the originate from a plan update, or ture grants through the Federal Airport may be eligible for sound Council President Georgette Gomez construction of a new Sports hold any future votes in just that Aviation Administration for noise insulation treatments to mitigate cast the two dissenting votes.