Parking Pugilistics Who are these people who continue to claim to represent the taxpayers in government? Public officials, at every level, from La Jolla Parking Advisory Committee to the City Councilmembers, to the White House, have total disregard for public will.
I understand that Martin Mosier and the Promote La Jolla Board passed a vote to submit their Parking Management Plan despite the overwhelming opposition from 85 percent of the business community and residents. What is going on in the collective heads of Promote La Jolla? What happened to Democracy? What happened to "No taxation without representation?"
These people are elite, who have total disregard for, and are not the least bit interested in, doing what is right for us, the taxpayers. Their interest is in those who are in their camp. Their focus and energy are spent in backrooms making decisions, and fashioning legislation and laws with language that burries their schemes to siphon the wealth of this country into their pockets. They give themselves outrageous pay raises, while laying off city workers and cutting services, to save money. Bettering human conditions and honest communications become forgotten campaign rhetoric. And the scary part is it is pervasive and never enough. The schemes become more elaborate and more costly to Americans.
We should look below the surface and ask ourselves, "What is really happening in La Jolla and America?" As with the current housing market, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Michael DeClouet La Jolla
No on paid parking Your April 17th article "Promote La Jolla submits parking plan to city" quotes PLJ's president saying she would like "to see at least some elements of the plan tried." Unfortunately for the process of building consensus, she does not say whether or not the ones she would like tried include paid street parking. You also quote her saying that "people are so upset and so angry about parking meters that they don't listen..."
I disagree; what I have seen is a failure of Promote La Jolla and its parking board committee to listen and respect the voices of business owners and residents saying that they have thought about the issues, and while they may be interested in some parking plan elements, they will not accept a plan that remains open to having parking meters (of any kind) as an option.
John A. Berol La Jolla
Station 13 error The La Jolla Light published an excellent interview with Sherri Lightner, First District Council candidate, in the April 10, 2008, issue. (Page A10). The article was written by Dave Schwab. One section in the article has resulted in a misunderstanding. The portion in question is as follows: "The lifeguard tower at the Shores went through the community process for two years," she said. There was a delay in funding for it because that funding was put into the Fire Station (13 upgrade). The (public) process has been exhausted."
We do not presume to know what the writer had in mind with the use of two parentheses but, ordinarily, a parenthesis used in this way implies that the writer is adding his own words to the narrative, i.e. "13 upgrade" and "public."
It is my understanding that Sherri Lightner did not state "Fire Station 13 upgrade." She is fully aware of the exceptional community effort leading to the remodeling of Fire Station 13. This effort was spearheaded by Trip Bennett through the Rotary Club Foundation of the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary club. Financial donations and donations in the form of services in-kind all came from the community through efforts of Trip Bennett and the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary club. We are not aware that any city monies were used for this project. Sherri Lightner also knows this and thus, would not, and did not, make the statement that funds for the lifeguard tower were diverted to fund the Fire Station 13 remodel.
This misunderstanding is a disservice to members of the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary club and to Sherri Lightner. We respectfully request that the La Jolla Light issue a retraction and apology for the misunderstanding create by a portion of the otherwise excellent interview article.
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