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Mixed reviews on City's'Slow Streets' at Pacifi cBeach Town Council
By DAVE SCHWAB
Not everyone wants to fast-track Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s new Slow Streets program in Pacific
Beach.That became clear during Pacific Beach
Town Council’s May 20 Zoom meeting, during which some neighbors objected to the program, which has turned Diamond Street from Mission Boulevard to Haines Street into a slow streets thoroughfare.
The “Slow Streets” pilot program was introduced by the mayor recently to make it safer for San Diegans to walk and bike by creating more space for physical dis-tancing and reducing congested foot traf-fic at parks, beaches and outdoor trails.
To create so-called slow streets, the City has closed select streets to thru traffic to optimize pedestrian and cyclist use to prioritize cost-effective transpor-tation for essential workers during a time of economic strain and decreased transit service. This includes temporary barriers and signage, allowing residents to move about their neighborhood while practic-ing safe social distancing.
PB residents testified for and against slow streets, with most acknowledging it’s a good idea in principle. Some, howev-er, pointed out they feel the way it’s being implemented needs tweaking.
Michael Moore, who lives on Missouri, said he and his neighbors have suffered unintended consequences from slow streets closing off Diamond diverting unwanted traffic onto their street.
“I applaud the efforts of the City to give us a better (mobility) environment, but this time I don’t think it’s necessary,” said Moore. “Closing Diamond has only creat-ed another street being less safe.”
“It’s a very nice, positive thing in my mind,” said Ashley Danielle of slow
streets, who lives on Diamond and Bayard. “Before slow streets, Diamond was very crowded on sidewalks. Now I’m seeing people out every day on bikes and skateboards walking their dogs in this 40-foot-wide area for people to get out and exercise.”
Katie Cavalo, who lives on Fanuel and Grand, agreed safe streets is a good idea but added, “It needs to be implemented better with more signs.”
Noted Michelle Adams who lives on Diamond Street: “I’ve been here over 20 years and my issues are twofold: It would have been nice to have had a heads up that this was being implemented. And, Diamond is a main thoroughfare. I don’t understand why Diamond was chosen. Overall, I’m not super thrilled. I’ve seen more negative than positive. I’m really hoping this isn’t a long-term solution.”
Of slow streets in PB, District 2 Councilmember Dr. Jennifer Campbell said: “We’re doing it as a trial, and we want to see how it works. I don’t think it’s going to be a long-term thing. It’s just until we can get more parks and public spaces open.”
Added Campbell: “People are pushing to open things indoors, but as a physi-cian, I can tell you we are a lot safer out-doors (with pandemic) than indoors. We need more space outdoors. It’s now illegal to be outside without a mask, and COVID is the most contagious virus we’ve ever faced because it’s airborne.”
During a slideshow presentation, City planner Alyssa Muto told PBTC, “This is a temporary re-purposing of our streets within the City for increased pedestrian and bike activity allowing for physical distancing. We have a survey up at sand-iego.gov/tsw/programs/slow-streets-pro-gram. We want to hear what the commu-nity thinks about slow streets.”
PB planners discuss approved Foothill and Loring roundabout
By DAVE SCHWAB
Pacific Beach Planning Group got an update in May from City en-gineers on the recently approved
roundabout at Foothill Boulevard and Loring Street.
The City advisory group also vetted dia-grams of the oval-shaped roundabout and raised splitter islands there, along with discussing drainage improvements at that intersection.
Project manager Ronak Rekani, and se-nior engineer Daniel Nutter, unveiled the City’s design phase for the project, now about 60% complete. They also discussed its construction schedule, including signif-icant drainage improvements. Roundabout construction is expected to begin this fall and to be completed by the end of fall 2022 at an estimated cost of $1.8 million. The project is currently only funded through the design phase.
“We’re reviewing free-flowing, fast-mov-ing traffic through Foothills Boulevard along Loring Steet now controlled by stop signs and made worse by the incline of the street,” said Rekani noting, “Also, there are no crosswalks there making it a little diffi-cult for pedestrians to navigate.”
Besides crosswalks, Rekani said import-ant elements of the new roundabout include raised islands, pedestrian passageways and curb extensions, ramps, and crosswalks.
“The raised islands with passageways will guide traffic and enhance the chan-nelization of vehicles through the inter-section,” said Rekani. “Improvements will
include street resurfacing, concrete re-placement, and installation of pedestrian crosswalks. Storm drainage improvements include 640 feet of storm drain pipeline, along with cobble within the curb exten-sion to allow runoff to avoid flooding. That includes a biofiltration unit upstream on Loring Street.”
Tom Coat, a Foothill resident who’s lob-bied for years to get the Foothill/Loring roundabout approved, wrote to PBPG that he’s “extremely appreciative” that planner and other civic groups “all have recognized that making Foothill Boulevard safer is a critical project.” He added what they’re do-ing “can make improvements that likely will save lives.”
Added Coat, “The overall design of the roundabout will be an important step in significantly slowing traffic speeds on Foothill Boulevard. The curbing exten-sions, along with the raised splitter islands, will signal to drivers that they must slow down and these improvements will slow traffic. Additionally, we critically need lighted crosswalks at several locations along Foothill Boulevard. If one of these cannot be located at the Foothill/Loring roundabout, then at least a couple should be located nearby to help pedestrians.”
But not everyone was pleased by the con-cept and design of the new roundabout.
Judith Wesling, who lives in the 4900 block of Foothill south of Foothill/Loring, was unconvinced the oval-shaped round-about will slow traffic as intended.
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Shores Association hears update on City budget from Councilmember Bry
By DAVE SCHWAB
La J o l l a S h o r e s Association’s latest Zoom meeting saw District 1
Councilmember Barbara Bry give a chilling report on the pandem-ic’s impact on the City’s budget, while planners vetted a member’s proposal to close off Avenida de la Playa to help restaurants with dining out.
“What’s most pressing on all of us is that we are in the middle of a pandemic the likes of which we have never seen in our lifetimes,”
said Bry. “And the financial cost of this health emergency is dev-astating, unlike anything we’ve ever seen.”
Predicted Bry, “Long term, we’re in trouble. The economy is not going to come back quickly. We’re (also) going to be wearing face masks and doing social dis-tancing for a long time.”
Bry added she’s hearing some restaurateurs saying new din-ing-in restrictions under the regional re-opening plan are so strict “they feel they’re better off doing take-out than trying to go
back and do in-person.”Pointed out Bry, “I’m truly
concerned about our small-busi-nesses. I’m looking at how to restructure (government). With most employees working remote-ly, how much office space does the City need?
Bry said she is in favor of both a temporary City hiring freeze, and no raises for employees, as budgetary cost-saving measures during this health crisis.
But there was some good news about the pandemic from Bry who noted Dr. Wilma Wooten, the County health official who authored the recent restaurant and retail reopening plan, has said “almost everybody in San Diego who has died from COVID had an underlying health con-dition, and in some cases, two. Basically, what she says is that if you are healthy, you may get the virus, but that you are going to be able to fight it off. But if you have underlying health conditions like heart disease, hypertension or diabetes, that you are seriously at-risk and you need to be very careful.”
LJSA board member Phil Wise presented a plan for aiding restaurants in reopening along the Shores commercial strip on Avenida de la Playa.
“My concept is to try and help the restaurants on Avenida who will be reopening to get more customers by putting platforms out onto the street to allow more dining space from 5 to 10 p.m.,” he said. “I’ve talked to the restau-rant owners, and they seem to be interested in something like this. We need to get a permit to put the platforms in there, and close the street and allow restaurants to serve alcohol on the platforms out in the street.”
Colleague Joe Dicks had a prob-lem with that.
“I’m very concerned about backing this kind of issue with-out handling the threshold issue of social distancing and other re-quirements to keep the commu-nity healthy,” he said.
Merchants Association discusses wayfi nding programBy DAVE SCHWAB
Rev isit i ng proposed i n s t a l l a t i o n o f Vi l la ge d i r e c t ion-
al signage, La Jol la Vi l lage Mercha nts A ssociat ion i n May vet t e d re c om menda-tions made by an Ace Parking representative.
Brad Elsass, VP of strategic initiatives for Ace, conducted a parking study a year ago for LJVMA, noted the merchant group’s executive director, Jodi Rudick.
“Our research was primar-ily focused on off-street park-ing utilization in the Village, which indicated that park-ing capacity is not a signif i-cant barrier to visitation to La Jolla, particularly during nights, weekends, holidays, and events,” said Elsass. “The wayf inding recommendation was developed to improve sev-eral aspects including pedes-trian f low, better access to the coastline, and improvements to congestion by informing visitors where services and
points of interest are located in the Village.”
A d d e d E l s a s s : “ W h e n bench ma rk i ng other com-munities, such as Encinitas, which share similar challeng-es as the Village, it was not-ed that targeted wayf inding programs improve the overall visitor experience. As such, a phased approach to improv-ing signage in the Village was recommended as a potential solution.”
E lsass told Vi l lage mer-cha nts Pha se 1 of a new
wayf inding program would be focused on “static signs that would highlight points o f i nt e r e s t s s uch a s t he Children's Pool, Whale Point, and Downtown.”
He pointed out Phase 2 of a wayfinding program “would be centered around dynamic signage to direct visitors to available parking to reduce the congestion in the Village created by visitors searching for a parking stall. Parking occupancy data can be dis-played in real-time, and sent
to various mobile parking ap-plications to direct visitors to open parking, thus reducing the impact of visitors circling the streets in search of avail-able parking.”
Concluded Elsass, “What we’re looking for is for LJVMA to lead the way in bringing this wayf inding idea around to the community groups.”
Elsass est imated it would cost about $3,500 to create plans for a directory and sig-nage for the Village including graphics.
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announced $250,000 in grants to 11 nonprofit programs that will increase access to quality, affordable early childhood edu-cation and developmental care in San Diego County.
The grantmaking is made possible through The San Diego Foundation Early Childhood Initiative and a pilot program that focuses on responsive grants in the community.
The Covid-19 pandemic has further demonstrated just how critical child care is to
the regional economy, as well as the health and well-be-ing of San Diego children and families.
“The number of families and children in San Diego County that need quality care far out-weighs the amount of child care options available in the region,” said Katie Rast, director of com-munity impact at The San Diego Foundation. “These grants will provide relief to working parents and help bolster the regional economy now, and into the fu-ture, by closing the child care gap
in our communities.” According to research from
San Diego Workforce Partnership and the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, early childhood care and education is essential to the health, develop-ment and success of San Diegans and the regional economy, yet child care options are scare, in-convenient, unaffordable and of varying quality in the region. The Early Childhood Initiative grants are part of a regional effort by employers, working parents, policymakers and funders, who
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San Diego’s Small Business Relief Fund to top $20 millionContinuing to take steps to
provide relief to San Diegans affected by COVID-19, Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer announced that resources made available to San Diego small businesses will now top $20 million following the mayor’ decision to direct $13 mil-lion in federal CARES Act funding to help small businesses get back on their feet.
“Small businesses are the lifeblood of San Diego’s econo-my and they need our help now more than ever,” Faulconer said. “The Small Business Relief Fund has delivered financial assistance to hundreds of businesses so far, and the work has only just begun. This new funding will go to even more businesses as they plan for
the reopening of our economy.” This week, Faulconer released
a revised fiscal year 2021 budget proposal that prioritizes federal CARES Act stimulus funds for small businesses, homeless ser-vices, and childcare for frontline workers. The proposal calls for using approximately $13 million for small business relief.
Created in March by Faulconer, the City’s Small Business Relief Fund provides loan and grants to help local employers sustain operations, retain employees and address reductions in consumer demand. More than 10,000 busi-ness owners submitted applica-tions for relief during the first few weeks, far exceeding the initial re-sources available. The mayor has
since grown the fund as part of a broader economic relief package and announced additional private contributions from corporate do-nors and generous San Diegans.
Financial assistance made available through the fund rang-es from $2,500 to $10,000 and will be allocated to eligible small businesses based on the availabil-ity of funds and program guide-lines. The City is broadening eligibility criteria to allow more businesses to qualify. To be eligi-ble, businesses must:• Employ less than 100 full-time
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Beach rentals open, working out new guidelinesBy DAVE SCHWAB
Small-business owner Matt Gardner wants to get word out that he re-
cently reopened his two recre-ational equipment spots – Cheap Rentals at 3680 Mission Blvd. and Mission Beach Rentals at Belmont Park at 3136 Mission Blvd.
“This is not just an opening in our business/economy, but a way for people to get out of the house and have some fun around the beach,” said Gardner, who is cur-rently president of Mission Beach Town Council.
Gardner has reopened with so-cial distancing and all the other proper health protocols in place in hopes he said of “restoring consumer confidence.”
Since being allowed to reopen, Gardner estimates he’s been op-erating at about 30% of usual capacity, with hopes of volume improving as we turn the corner into summer.
The recreational rental-equip-ment owner said he was a little disappointed the City opted not to reopen the boardwalks for Memorial Day, while noting the City “wanted to but didn’t feel it could handle the large crowds
during the opening Memorial Day weekend of summer.”
Added Gardner, “I’ve been get-ting about 20 calls a day asking, ‘Is the boardwalk open yet?’”
Gardner said his business model has “definitely changed” due to the pandemic.
“We’ve got our six-foot dis-tancing markers out,” he said. “We’ve also upgraded to a no-touch payment policy using credit cards, as well as wiping down all our equipment rentals every time when they come in and go out with sterilizing wipes. And, of course, we wear masks.”
Gardner’s also got something
new in the works.“We’re in the process of pur-
chasing a delivery van to allow for both drop-off and pick-up of our equipment at least a day in advance,” he said adding, “We’ve also been doing free bike repairs, except for the cost of parts, for the neighborhood in Mission Beach as a way of giving back to the community. It’s definitely an investment in goodwill.”
For more information call Cheap Rentals at 858-488-9070, Mission Beach Rentals at Belmont Park at 858-488-9070, or visit missionbeachsurfren-tals.com.
Successful opening for dine-in restaurants and stores for in-person shoppingBy DAVE SCHWAB
Allowed to reopen with strict guidelines and limited seating under
the County’s plan to allow dine-in customers, local restaurateurs are happy to reopen, but also fear the pandemic has shaken customer’s confidence, which could translate into a long slow climb back to normalcy and profitability.
“We’re absolutely jubilant, and everyone we talked to at their ta-bles was just glad to be out again in public, they were just glowing,” said owner Mark Oliver of Pueblo serving Baja-inspired cuisine at 877 Hornblend St. in Pacific Beach. The restaurant reopened for dine-in just before Memorial Day weekend.
But Oliver offered this caveat. “We did maybe 50% to 60% of the sales, in about 50% of the seating, that we did last year on the same Memorial Day weekend.”
This suggested to Oliver, “There’s a very good chance that we may not have one month of profit, maybe for another year. It could be a negative cash flow situation for quite a while.”
“We’re open and we’re kick-ing,” said John Gelastopoulos, owner of Broken Yolk, a regional restaurant chain that started in PB at 1851 Garnet Ave.
“We reopened our dine-in on May 21 with almost 50% of space in our main room, with signs on every other booth saying they were closed for social distancing. We also had paper menus that are disposable.”
Though encouraged by dine-in turnout the first weekend of re-opening, Gelastopolous concurs with Oliver that getting back to “normal” could be difficult.
“I like what I’ve seen,” he said. “But we still had a lot of deliveries, and I don’t think that’s going to go away. It’s going to take some time for the public to get over this (pandemic) fear.”
Michel Malecot, chef and own-er of The French Gourmet at 960 Turquoise St., who expects to re-open for dine-in in ear-ly June, agreed with Oliver and Gelastopolous that Covid-19 may
have permanently changed San Diego’s restaurant landscape.
“I think the business will dras-tically change. Before the pan-demic, my business was about 60% catering,” Malecot said, adding social distancing stifled his catering.
“Since the pandemic, my take-out has been doing very well, and the bakery and to-go are drasti-cally up,” he said. “But I’m doing a third of the business right now that I used to do.”
The state has approved San Diego County to move further into Stage 3 re-opening, allowing dine-in customers at restaurants and in-person shopping for retail businesses, with modifications to protect the spread of coronavirus.
Businesses need to follow the guidelines, complete and post safe reopening plans. The new regulations require businesses and restaurants to demonstrate compliance with requirements for social distancing, disinfection, sanitation, and safe operations.
Other coastal restaurants were just overjoyed to be back in busi-ness, though many admitted pan-demic health restrictions now in place present significant challeng-es to successful operations.
“We are so delighted to be able to open, even with the restric-tions,” said Amy Bulgatz, CFO for Sammy’s Woodfired Pizza & Grill, which recently renovated at 875 Prospect St. in La Jolla. “We are so excited to see our employees and guests again and are eager for life
to get back to normal. We were very lucky to be able to be open for take-out to at least keep some em-ployees and fulfill the cravings of our guests for their favorites. But nothing beats the vibe of a dine-in restaurant.”
"We are thrilled to open our dining rooms to San Diegans, and hope to be a source of entertain-ment, nourishment, and joy,” said Eric Adler, a co-founder of Puesto La Jolla at 1026 Wall St. “Be as-sured we are doing our part to ensure a safe space for everyone to enjoy.”
“We were excited to open our restaurant offering dine-in ser-vices,” said Morgan Barnes, spokesperson for Lagom Balanced Food at 723 Pearl St. “We decided to utilize our outdoor area and move some tables on to the side-walk (6 feet apart). We feel like this is a good opportunity for us to create a friendly outdoor area in addition to our dining room. We will continue to serve fresh and healthy breakfast and lunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. We look forward to serving the community.”
Recently remodeled Westfield UTC, which bills itself as an out-door retail resort, announced it and other shopping centers it has countywide will re-open May 29.
“The centers will welcome back customers with modified hours, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 6 p.m. on Sunday, although indi-vidual retailer hours may vary,” said Nino Rodriguez, Westfield’s
VP of shopping center manage-ment. “We are excited to welcome back guests and come together as a community again. As we begin our initial recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, our cen-ters will be equipped to provide a healthy, clean, and safe environ-ment for our customers, retailers, and employees. We are committed to ensuring the best experience possible as we prepare to open our doors again."
New Westfield center practices include:• Increasing the frequency of
cleaning measures with a fo-cus on high-touch areas such as restrooms, play areas, dining areas, and water fountains;
• Monitoring and controlling the number of guests entering the centers and crowds in dwell ar-eas and queuing lines; and
• Implementing and enforcing relevant policies related to so-cial distancing, face masks, and other preventative measures.In addition, Westfield will con-
tinue working with select retail-ers to facilitate curbside pick-up to make it as easy as possible for customers to quickly and safely collect purchases.
Some other coastal eateries re-opened for dine-in included: Draft at Belmont Park; Firehouse in PB at 722 Grand Ave.; The Duck Dive at 4650 Mission Blvd.; Pacific Beach Alehouse at 721 Grand Ave.; Bub’s at the Beach at 1030 Garnet Ave.; Breakfast Republic at 4465 Mission Blvd. re-opening for dine-in soon; and Nashville-style Dave’s Hot Chicken, debuting May 29 at the corner of Garnet Avenue and Cass Street.
But not all restaurants made it through the pause to reopen for dine-in, or at least not right away.
Whisknladle Bistro & Bar in La Jolla at 1044 Wall St. recent-ly announced, after 12 years in business, that it has closed noting they “could not see a path forward for the restaurant in the era of COVID-19.”
The Fishery, a fixture in PB at 5040 Cass St., announced it will close temporarily May 31 for a re-vamp, to re-open in mid-June with a new chef and a remodeled bar and fish market.
PLACES OF WORSHIP, BARBERSHOPS, HAIR SALONS CAN OPEN
Houses of worship, hair salons and barbershops can all resume ser-vices, but they must implement a va-riety of safety measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19, the County Health and Human Services Agency announced on May 27. All must com-plete and post the County’s Safe Reopening Plan before opening.
Places of worship will have to limit attendance to 25% of capacity, or 100 people or fewer, whichever of the two is smaller. Worshippers not in the same household will have to sit or stand six feet apart. State guidance says houses of worship should consider discontinuing sing-ing and other practices that increase the chance of virus transmission through exhaled droplets. They also should consider or modify practices that require sharing items.
The state also gave the green light for hair salons and barbershops to reopen. Employees will have to complete a health screening at the beginning and end of each shift and both stylists and customers must wear facial coverings for the dura-tion of the hair appointment.
While the businesses may open immediately, certain services fre-quently offered are not yet allowed. This includes eyelash and eyebrow services, facials and shaves.
“As an increasing number of busi-nesses reopen, San Diegans should continue to adhere to the safety guidelines we have implemented during the pandemic,” said Wilma J. Wooten, M.D., M.P.H, County public health officer. “Being in close prox-imity to non-household members increases the risk of being exposed to Covid-19 and people should wear a face covering and frequently wash their hands to prevent the spread of the virus.”
The state has not yet permitted nail salons to reopen. The county expects to receive further guid-ance about those businesses later. Customers or employees should not enter any business if they have symptoms of Covid-19, which in-clude fever, cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills, muscle pain, sore throat, or a new loss of taste or smell.
CHANGES TO HEALTH ORDER
The County also announced sev-eral additional changes to its pub-lic health order on May 27. Going forward, all businesses will have to implement temperature and health screenings for employees. Businesses must also ensure that all employees wear facial coverings and maintain physical distancing.
Beginning Wednesday, one-on-one sports lessons are also allowed, as long as both the instructor and student comply with physical dis-tancing and face covering require-ments. Students and instructors should not share equipment.
The Public House at 830 Kline St. in La Jolla is open for dine-in customers. PHOTO BY MIKE FAHEY
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French Gourmet delivering entrees to Mother of Confi dence parishionersBy DAVE SCHWAB
The French Gourmet in North PB has found a new way to reach out
to patrons during the pandem-ic: delivering delicious entrees prepared daily, blast chilled and ready to be reheated.
“We’ve got a lot of home bound people, and I got the idea of delivering food to them from a church parking lot, then have volunteers take [the meal] the last 500 yards,” said restaurant owner Michel Malecot, who’s working with the Knights of Columbus, a global Catholic fra-ternal service order, delivering food to Mother of Confidence pa-rishioners in UC. “I started do-ing it March 16 every night and on Sundays at noon. We take from two to three to as many as 10 orders.”
Added Malecot: “I do it at a fixed time and people simply come and get their pre-ordered goods, which are bagged here at French Gourmet. Bags are marked with their name and payment status.”
The way it works, said Malecot, is clients order online or call or email him, before he sends them a confirmation and a credit card form and asks them to bring the completed form back when they pick up the order.
“People really appreciate the service and it is a fun and re-warding process to all of us,” he said. “It allows French Gourmet to continue to pay its bills and a fair number of employees.”
Malecot noted his bakery and catering-to-go menus offer simple meals and comfort foods made from scratch in-house daily.
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Since closing after the pan-demic hit, three things have happened with
Pacific Beach Training owner Junior Leoso: He’s switched lo-cations, changed his business model, and temporarily loaned out much of his equipment to members.
“We’ve jumped the gun start-ing a program renting out our equipment for free to members since we closed March 15,” not-ed Leoso, a volunteer member of Pacific Beach Planning Group, who has attained nationally ac-credited certifications, as well as multiple non-accredited courses. “We’ve given equipment out as a way to train people.”
Added Leoso, “We’re doing
online training with people we’ve loaned our kettlebells, dumbbells, and barbells to, over $40,000 worth of equipment to people in Pacific Beach so that they could keep on training anyway.”
Leoso’s got about 100 mem-bers presently after some nine years in business. “I’m the lon-gest-standing training studio that I’m aware of in this ZIP code,” he said.
Leoso, who inhabited a space at 4440 Ingraham St. pre-pan-demic, has since moved his op-erations to a new workout space he’s been converting.
“We’re in the midst of an up-grade, having moved into a much bigger space for a gym closer to the water next to Sliders at 909 Grand Ave.,” he said. “I’ve been doing all the work necessary to
get up and running in that build-ing. We’re doubling down on everything, redoing the ceiling
and flooring and upgrading all the equipment and sanitation stations. It’s going to be fun.”
When he’s allowed to reopen his physical fitness facility by the state, Leoso said he will have all the new health protocols re-quired in place.
“We’ll be restricted on the number of people we can have in the place at any given time, and we’ll only be doing private lessons,” said the fitness owner/trainer, who hopes to reopen as soon as June 1.
“We won’t be going full swing back into group training or class-es right away, as more members start trickling back,” said Leoso. “We want to make sure we’re doing all the right things so that people feel comfortable when they come back.”
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Short-term vacation rental operators hoping for rebound this summerBy DAVE SCHWAB
Like a ship trapped in the dol-drums at sea, the Covid-19 pandemic has temporarily
taken the wind out of the sails of local short-term vacation rental owners and operators.
The ongoing pandemic has changed the “typical” tourist, said industry spokesperson Jonah Mechanic, owner of SeaBreeze Vacation Rentals in La Jolla and president of Share San Diego, Airbnb's San Diego arm.
“The client now is not your typi-cal tourist who comes here to go to the beach and see all of San Diego’s attractions like the zoo, Balboa Park and SeaWorld, which are all closed,” Mechanic said. “People are now staying here for more extended periods of time. For example, ma-ny people living outside San Diego, who have family here, are coming and renting for a month or multiple weeks, so they can stay in the same house and quarantine together. It’s something we haven’t seen before.”
With kids, and sometimes par-ents both at home, they’re finding their space has “shrunk,” which Mechanic said is causing some to consider taking on a short-term rental “to have a larger house and maybe some outside space with a yard to help with the kids while quarantining together.”
Will the new normal ever get back to normal for short-term rentals?
“Two theories on that,” an-swered Mechanic. “The first is that unemployment rates are through the roof right now and finances will be tough. Even when things go back to normal, people may re-main hunkered down and not go on vacation. The other is that people, being cooped up during the lock-down, that they’ll really want to get out of the house and go on vacation (post-pandemic).”
It’s Mechanic’s take that not on-ly who is coming – but how they’re getting here – could likely be per-manently altered by the pandemic.
“What I’ve read is that interna-tional travel will be the last to come back,” he said. “What will be com-ing back more quickly is road trips for drive-to destinations. San Diego has always been a predominantly
drive-to destination. Once we get back to some sense of normalcy, people are going to choose to drive to Southern California. But these are all theories. We’re in unprece-dented times.”
Kimberly Wise, a longtime re-al estate agent in Mission Beach who deals with short-term vaca-tion rentals through her compa-ny, Magical Mission Beach, noted Covid-19 restrictions are ham-stringing everyone in the industry right now.
“The governor’s executive or-ders say vacation rentals are not an essential business and I could be fined,” said Wise, who present-ly manages 18 short-term rentals. “And we may not rent to anyone who is not essential. I’ve been going along with that because I’m trying to follow the rules.”
Wise is now getting phone calls from clients saying, ‘The beach is open, start renting again.’” To which she responds, “No, the ocean is open – the sand is not. It’s just a delicate situation.”
Of the future of short-term rent-als, Wise counseled, “We all need to take a collective breath until we find out what’s next, instead of be-coming arm-chair scientists.”
Post-pandemic, Wise sees short-term rentals coming back gradually.
“I think we’re going to have people coming from driving dis-tance,” she said. But with current pandemic restrictions presently in
place, Wise warned, “You can’t just let people come to this community and party and play volleyball on the beach as if there weren’t any restrictions.”
Blaine Smith, owner/operator of 710 Beach Rentals at 4990 Mission Blvd., concurs with Mechanic that the “new normal” in short-term rentals likely will be different.
“After the lockdown order in mid-March, the cancellations start-ed coming in,” Smith said, adding, “I’m optimistic that we’ll rebound once the lockdown is lifted. But I think it’s naive to think we’re going to have the same demand we had prior to the pandemic.”
Added Smith: “I think people will be uneasy about traveling in an airplane, and that demand for air travel will be down. Obviously, it’s also going to take time for peo-ple to be comfortable going and staying in new places and venues, once they’re allowed to leave their homes. It’s my take that it’s going to take time to get consumer con-fidence back.”
Smith said the jury is still out on whether short-term rental oper-ators will convert to longer-term rentals, as a consequence of the pandemic.
“It’s a little too early to tell the impact of how many short-term rental properties will convert to long-term,” he said. “There has been an uptick in mid-term rentals. But as far as full conversion to long-term and pulling out of short-term
… I do think that’s going to hap-pen. I just don’t know to what ex-tent. After the lockdown is lifted, what we’ll be seeing is anybody’s guess.”
Samuel Cryan, a longtime short-term rental operator who represents properties countywide including Ocean Beach, said he is holding his own right now during a depleted market.
“I’m still getting bookings here and there,” Cryan said. “During this time of quarantine, I’ve got-ten five bookings now not on the beachfront. I don’t know if they’re low-cost rentals, or nurs-es dealing with Covid or random strangers.”
Noting he’s been dealing with short-term rentals since the be-ginning, Cryan added, “We’ve been very lucky. It’s covered the costs. We’re making do.”
Regarding the future of short-term rentals, Cryan advised short-term operators to stay the course.
“The reality is a lot of people are getting scared and putting their houses on the monthly rental market,” he said. “They’re freak-ing out, not getting their money. But I guarantee you 100% that when it (market) comes back, the ones who stick it out are going to be the breadwinners and make a @#$%load of money.”
Cryan concurs that tourism, once it revives, is likely to involve, at least early-on, driving to San Diego, not flying.
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Some Mission Beach residents concerned about short-term vacation rentals ramping up By DAVE SCHWAB
With short-term rent-als presently hob-bled by a lack of
tourism during the pandemic, the question of whether or not they’re over saturating the beachfront is resurfacing.
With the Covid-19 lock down two months old, and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s decree that STRs can-not be rented to non-essential tenants, STR operators admit rentals are way down. They’re also noting the market’s demo-graphics have changed. With air-port traffic cratering, San Diego, at least temporarily, has become a drive-to destination.
The Beach & Bay Press and La Jolla Village News spoke with two residents – Greg Knight and Gary Wonacott of Mission Beach, the coastal community acknowl-edged as having the largest pro-portion of STRs – to get their take on what the present short-term rental situation may bode for the future.
“We are seeing a decline in the amount of STRs that are being rented and many of the respon-sible owners and property man-agers have stopped renting all together with the stay-at-home order in place,” said Knight, a small-business owner and member of Mission Beach Town Council. “However, many prop-erty managers are seeing their
businesses losing money, which means they are doing anything and everything to get a unit rented.”
Added Knight: “This means lowering the prices and going af-ter the people that are not taking this situation as serious. An STR on my court actually rented to a group recently that were just here for the (lockdown) protest in PB.”
“Grocery stores limit the num-ber of shoppers, but we do not put a limit on the number of vis-itors coming into our residential areas. This seems insane,” said Gary Wonacott, a former MBTC member who resigned recently, and has advocated for stricter STR regulations.
Meanwhile, Wonacott said the pandemic has brought some changes to MB, that some resi-dents are not displeased with.
“Mission Beach last summer
was inundated by STRs, scoot-ers, and airport noise,” he said. “It was horrendous … Since the coro-navirus showed up, virtually all of the scooters have disappeared. STRs, until recently, have been very quiet. And airplane noise is almost non-existent over MB.”
Nearly a year ago in June, MBTC sought to “broker” a com-promise over STRs in the commu-nity. The MBTC room vote then was 94-34 in favor of an MBTC committee’s recommendations, with at least one critic arguing it was a largely pro-rental partisan crowd, not the sentiment of long-term residents.
No action was subsequent-ly taken by the City over MBTC’s short-term rental recommendations.
Those recommendations in-cluded non-transferable rental permits; annual per-unit $950 permit fee; primary rental occu-pant must be age 25-plus with the three-night minimum; two-per-son per bedroom occupancy; required “good neighbor policy” posting; prompt nuisance com-plaint response; complaint log required showing responses; escalating fines from $1,000 to $4,500 with permit revocation, and an appeals process, for repeat offenders; and an ultimate goal of limiting short-term rentals in MB to 30 percent of total units.
Since then, the STR issue has since largely been back-burnered
with the upcoming mayoral elec-tion and the ongoing pandemic.
There is now a new concern over short-term rentals besides lack of enforcement.
“Many people are coming in and do not know what the rules and regulations are during this virus,” Knight said. “Many aren't wearing masks. When you just show up in town and find that you are limited to no boardwalk, no restaurants, very limited sup-plies, and not knowing where to find sources of information, it makes it next to impossible for renters to figure out what to do and where they can go.”
Added Knight, “MB is a very tight community geographically with a lot of units right on top of each other and many doors that open within six feet of one an-other. MB also has a lot of senior citizens living in close proximity to college-age and mid-20s peo-ple, many of whom don't take this situation very seriously. We are concerned that if the virus were to come to MB, it has the potential to spread like a wild-fire with severe consequences for some. If vacation rentals are allowed to come back in with no consequences, our population in Mission Beach could increase by 400-plus percent, which could be deadly.”
Wonacott’s longstanding view that MB is oversaturated with short-term rentals remains
unchanged. And he doubts the present “pandemic pause” will have much long-term effect.
“The percent of STRs in PB has been around 7 percent of total dwellings compared to over 50 percent in MB,” he said. “I doubt there are many communities in California that compare with MB, which is why we are so con-cerned about a sudden increase in coronavirus here brought in from STR visitors. … I do ex-pect the percent of STRs in MB to drop substantially this sum-mer in MB, although it appears that most STR owners/investors are staying the course for now. I don’t see a dramatic decrease in STRs in the long term due to the virus.”
Reacting to the contention that short-term tenants aren’t aware of local pandemic restrictions, rental industry spokesperson Jonah Mechanic said: “From di-rect interaction with our guests, that is simply not true. Virtually every guest that calls or emails our office looking to come to San Diego always asks what the rules are so that they are pre-pared. They ask about the beach closures, restaurant availability (dine-in versus take-out), masks, and social distancing. These are responsible people who are in need of accommodations so that they too can responsibly shelter-in-place.”
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Deemed essential, local cannabis shops negotiate the pandemicBy DAVE SCHWAB
It’s hard to say if the legal cannabis industry has “escaped” the economic
downturn from Covid-19, or ris-en above it.
In any event, local legal mari-juana dispensaries, which were designated by the state as essential businesses, have remained open and have fared better than many other small-businesses during this two-month pandemic pause.
Beach & Bay Press and La Jolla Village News caught up with two local dispensaries for a Q&A to dis-cuss how they’ve been holding up
against the economic downturn. BBP: We’re hearing that there was
a surge in business for marijuana dis-pensaries in March and April after the virus hit. Was that true with your business?
URBN LEAF: “Initially yes,” said Kendall Barquist, store man-ager at Urbn Leaf, which has three San Diego dispensaries and covers coastal and other areas of the City and County. “Especially once we put in the new policy for following lockdown protocols, social distanc-ing and mandated facemasks.”
COLUMBIA CARE: “That was exactly our experience,” said
Carolyn Kates, promotions and community outreach specialist with Columbia Care San Diego Dispensary at 4645 De Soto St. in Pacific Beach. “In March, we had a record number of shoppers, who seemed to be ‘stocking up’ for their quarantine. However, as soon as the official ‘stay at home’ order came, our sales dropped in half.”
Added Kates: “As the weeks went by, many people lost their jobs and it seemed as if they had less expendable income. Finally, some of our customers opted to have their cannabis delivered by a delivery service, which we do not offer at this time. All those resulted
in our sales dropping each week, except for the weekend prior to 4/20, and on 4/20, when we wit-nessed a return of our shoppers, almost back to normal.”
BBP: Tell us a little bit about your
clientele, are they from the surround-ing area?
URBN LEAF: “Usually we pri-marily have tourists because we’re the closest location to the airport,” said Barquist. “But since the travel ban due to the pandemic, we started to get people from all over includ-ing North County and Temecula. I would say our sales went down about 30% after the travel ban, but
the business has been pretty con-sistent ever since. We always have bodies here. But before the pandem-ic, we had the entire lobby filled and lines out the door. Now it’s just con-sistently busy.”
COLUMBIA CARE: “Over half of our clientele are tourists and visitors to Pacific Beach,” said Kates. “The other half come from all around San Diego County. Because of that client mix, we were also adversely affected by the beaches and the boardwalk being closed for over six weeks. When tourism suffers, our dispensary also suffers.”
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Added Remillard, “Students and families will need to remain in their cars throughout the event. We have encouraged students/families to decorate their cars for the event. We will be videoing the evening. Then on June 9, a video with student images and footage from the night will be posted on our website, district website, and social media platform. This will be a class of 2020 recognition.”
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ball and football coach at Mission Bay High School, died Friday night, May 15 in his home. He was in his 31st season as head coach of Mission Bay baseball af-ter returning in 2017 following a 10-year stint as head baseball
coach at Cal State San Marcos.He was the third-winningest
baseball coach in San Diego Section history with 671 wins ranking be-hind only Rancho Bernardo’s Sam Blalock (946) and Montgomery’s Manny Hermosillo (701).
Between high school baseball and football as well as college base-ball, Pugh had more than 1,000 career victories. He won 86 games in 13 seasons as head football coach at Mission Bay, winning two San Diego Section championships.
His most-notable player at Mission Bay High was running back Arian Foster, who went on to play in the NFL for the Houston Texans, gaining 6,527 yards, playing in four Pro Bowls and was first-team All-Pro in 2010. Pugh is survived by his wife, Marilyn.
PB FARMERS MARKET BACK IN BUSINESS
The farmers market reopened May 19 after being on hiatus due to the pandemic. "Our first week open went really well," said Sara Berns, executive director of Discover PB, which sponsors the weekly Tuesday event. “For the most part, our community followed our new regulations and brought patience, but mostly excitement, to be able to shop at their favorite local farmers market again. We look forward to continuing to grow the market as regulations are lifted safely over the coming months."
MURAL PROPOSED FOR PB REC CENTERFormer Pacific Beach Planning
Group chair Brian Curry out-lined his efforts to secure City
approval for a mural on the Pacific Beach Recreation Center at 1405 Diamond St. at the City advisory group’s May 13 meet-ing. Curry asked for, and re-ceived, a letter of support from PBPG.
Curry said an artist, Rob Tobin, has been chosen for the project. “His specialty is commu-nity art, which is ideal for this project as we want the entire PB community involved in the beau-tification of our rec center,” said Curry urging people to observe examples of Tobin’s art at artist-robtobin.com.
Added Curry of the commu-nity beautification effort, “It is a pretty long process given it is City property and having to meet all City requirements, etc.”
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The show must go on for Fashion Week San Diego
Fashion Week San Diego has good news to share with the com-munity. They decided the show must go on and scheduled a series of virtual runway shows.
Gwen Bates has taken over the helm as the new director, from the founder Allison Andrews, and is planning events all year long. The eight designers select-ed this year are: luxurious de-signs by Bea Cruz PH, Colombian fashion designer Gloria, Avant Garde Couture by Kelly Leanne Apparel Designs (KLA), L Label Loves Emvee Bikinis, L’Atelier Couture by Olivia Romero, Custom Made and Built to Belong by REFORM, Technical Designer
Sierra Mitchell, Croatian born designer Dijana Fiorentino with the Scheherazade Collection, and VaughnBerry.
Last week they had a FWSD virtual runway show featuring VaughnBerry. This live virtu-al show was in a warehouse at the Luz Loft in Little Italy. They showed floral metallic boyfriend and girlfriend bomber jackets with matching fashion masks. Another look was a white lattice bomber jacket for boyfriends and girlfriends with matching fashion masks. The next virtual fashion show in the series will be in June and will feature Dijana Fiorentino from Scheherazade Fashion.
The first free Zoom workshop was with special guest Mercedes Gonzales, who is a New York -based expert industry global pur-chaser. This week, they present-ed a FWSD Zoom series featuring Anna Crowe who is founder and
CEO of CrowePR. She discussed the PR tips and tricks for the fash-ion industry.
The Zoom fashion series will continue with Knobbe Martens, which will be presented at noon on June 4. They will be featuring special guests Jason Jardine, Loni Morrow, David O-Hair, Radhika Raman and Jeff van Hoosear from the Intellectual Property Law Firm.
One of the new events com-ing up is FWSD Art & Beauty behind Fashion @ Sotheby’s in NYC in partnership with The Art Renewal. This collaboration will showcase the eight design-ers who will use inspiration from paintings from around the world to create their designs. Sotheby’s will showcase eight paintings having the artist interpretation of their inspiration at the event.
FWSD has set up an addition-al series of fashion Zoom events.
Look for tutorials from the beauty team on hair and make-up. There will be free sewing classes given by the designers. Some of the de-signers helped facilitate donations of 600 masks to Rady’s Children’s Hospital, ScrippsHealth, and mil-itary bases.
I asked Gwen Bates to tell us about herself and she said: “I am a native to San Diego and no stranger to the fashion industry. I have embarked upon this new journey as the new Director to build onto the outstanding orga-nization founder Allison Andrews started in 2007. I am excited for what the year has in-store and am expecting much success and creativity this year.”
FWSD2020 Designer Runway Shows will have a live runway show on Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. Guests can attend the event at the Luz Loft in little Italy or can have the option to watch it virtually at home. On Oct. 18 there will be a trunk show with the designers and Fashion Awards present-ed. Stay tuned for all the dates and times by visiting fashion-weeksd.com
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Dealing with the many losses resulting from the coronavirus pandemic
After I lost my husband 10 years ago, I wrote about the seven steps of grief from loss to healing. Now with the losses experienced because of the coronavirus, I have come up with four stepping stones that may identify the journey we need to go through to deal with these different kinds of losses.
1. Anticipatory GriefWhat I call anticipatory grief
usually concerns the loss of those who had been ill for weeks, months, or even years. When someone succumbs to the vi-rus, this period is most likely re-duced to days. To make matters even worse, there is no way to visit your loved ones if they are hospitalized.
Anticipatory grief is also the anxiety and fear that something
bad is going to happen. It is not only the loss of a person, it might also be the possible loss of a job or home, and more generally the loss of a feeling of security, connec-tions to others, and the routine of our lives. This sense of dread can lead to hypervigilance, where one is always looking around, waiting for the next “shoe to drop.”
2. ShockThe second state right after a
loved one dies is shock. The end of life is jarring. While in shock you fluctuate between unbearable emotional pain and the need to be rational and logical in order to survive on one’s own. During the pandemic, this must be faced without the usual support from family and friends and without the rituals of grieving which provide catharsis and closure. Reaching out for comfort is both imperative and daunting. Now the bereaved must reach out by phone, email, FaceTime, or Zoom. The sudden loss of employment, inability to pay the rent, or hav-ing young children at home 24/7
can also be a shock. With no preparation for how to handle the sudden change in our daily activ-ities, we may feel overwhelmed.
Shock is not only emotional, it is physical, as well. The body is flooded with cortisol (the stress hormone) and one cannot func-tion normally. There is deep fa-tigue, sleep is disturbed, so are eating habits and digestion. Isolation can also impede the re-lease of this stress. Taking care of yourself by getting enough sleep and eating regularly becomes even more important.
3. DisbeliefDisbelief is the third state.
Nothing seems real. People say, “I feel nothing, disconnected.” I sus-pect this lack of affect is the brain’s way of protecting us from intense and disabling pain, waiting for things to settle a bit. Behavioral symptoms can include lethargy and exhaustion, but also anxiety and agitation, not crying at all or sobbing uncontrollably.
Not feeling normal is normal. Your unconscious has not yet
caught up with the new reality of your life, and it will take time to re-program your reflexes and habits to this new way of living. There are plans put on hold, projects that may never see completion, interrupted education. The surreal becomes all too real. It is difficult to compre-hend the extent of the dislocation.
4. RealityAt some point you have to ac-
cept reality. You have gotten in touch with the finality of your losses. It is a period of reassess-ment, how are you going to han-dle your new situation? There may also be no one to talk to or cry with and to look for solutions on how to handle one’s new iden-tity as bereaved, or unemployed and without the usual resourc-es. The ensuing loneliness can be physically and psychologically depleting.
You have morphed into a dif-ferent person, from being social-ly involved to living in seclusion. You have to resign yourself that there cannot be any sense of nor-mal right now, but a temporary
state in which you must find the resilience to survive on your own. What can be bearable with an-other to share the pain becomes unbearable alone. You must seek another person to talk to, wheth-er by phone or email, or video meeting. There are also online therapists available to help deal with this totally disorienting state of affairs.
Pretend you are own your ther-apist who says, “Ok, think this through. What inner resources can you muster now? What are your strengths that have helped you deal with past traumas?”
Life is made up of step-ping-stones. This pandemic will end at some point, and you will eventually see the light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime, there is a step waiting for you to place one foot on, perhaps ginger-ly…followed by a second step, then a third, and finally a fourth. You will be standing solidly in a new reality that will eventually be ex-plored and be lived.
Copyright © 2020. Natasha Josefowitz. All rights reserved.
By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D.
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City to distribute $1M to support artists struggling amid pandemicAs part of the City’s efforts to
provide economic relief to those struggling financially during the pandemic, Mayor Kevin L. Faulconer on May 27 announced $1 million in funding to support local artists, bolster public art in neighborhood parks and expand the Civic Art Collection.
This funding is available through private donations and fees developers pay into the City’s Public Art Fund.
As COVID-19 continues to devastate the global economy, local artists are among many struggling to make ends meet as work opportunities are scarce. To support those artists, the
City of San Diego is launching two new initiatives to beautify public spaces like City parks and add new works to the City’s collection.
“As we continue to slowly re-open our economy, we’re look-ing for ways to help folks get through this diff icult period and begin to recover,” Faulconer said. “That’s why we’re launch-ing two new initiatives that will provide work for many strug-gling artists and create beau-tiful, thought-provoking public art for everyone to enjoy.”
The first arts initiative, SD Practice, will support artists through the direct purchase
of existing artwork, providing income to working artists. This effort is made possible through a $500,000 gift from the late Thomas O. Rasmussen, an avid contemporary art collector.
Information on how artists can apply to participate in SD Practice can be found on the City of San Diego’s Commission for Arts and Culture website or at sandiego.gov/SDPractice. Artwork purchased through the SD Practice initiative will diversify the City’s Civic Art Collection with different types of art, such as paintings, sculp-tures and media-based works.
Spreading messages of love and gratitude when they're needed most
By THOMAS MELVILLE
Five years ago, when I last talked to Pacific Beach artist Autumn Love, she
just finished a new sidewalk mes-sage on Emerald Street, wiped chalk off her scraped knees and gave me a big hug.
Last week when I visited her, she just finished a new “love” message at the intersection of Bayard and Emerald streets, wiped chalk off her hands and still scraped knees, and gave me a virtual hug from six feet away.
Same dimpled smile, same sparkle in her eyes, and same en-thusiastic messages of love and gratitude. Just what the doctor, er, the love guru ordered.
Autumn has been filling side-walks and the boardwalk with her positive messages of love off-and-on for about six years when she moved here after graduating from University of Michigan. For the past five years, her love-themed paintings have adorned the walls of local businesses, she’s developed and hosted creative workshops, and her “Love Mugs” are one of the most popular items requested at artbyautumn.com.
Now 30, and established in Pacific Beach, the petite love bug still skateboards around PB with a pocket full of chalk ready to create when the mood strikes, which is often. And our mood definitely needs some bright-ening up. It’s Autumn’s time to shine.
Why write these messages?Autumn: How can I use this
love I have channeling through me? Especially at this time, when it’s needed more than ever. I write these messages to help spread the energy of love to the world. Love heals. Love is eternal medicine to life. And chalking messages on the sidewalk is almost free – it’s just a piece of chalk – and people are walking around so it’s an easy and accessible way to reach anyone.
Why did you start it?Autumn: I love being on the
boardwalk and skateboarding. I noticed that so many people on the boardwalk were just on their phones. I would pass so many people who were looking down at their phones.
I’m an artist. I love to draw, write, I love creating fonts. I just sort of combined it all and people are out here and how do I reach them? They are looking down and going to the beach, so I just start-ed chalking love. I didn’t have a lot of money at the time either – so it was an inexpensive way to do something. It’s interactive and I like to be physically active while I’m creating, its a bunch of things in one.
I just have in me the feeling of love and I want to give that out – go up and hug strangers – I can’t now, of course, it’s just in me. I feel it’s my calling. To raise the love energy of the world.
What kind of feedback do
you receive?Autumn: It’s been 99 percent
good. It’s a great conversation starter for people. People will be walking by and say “what’s this about?” and encourage an ex-change of love. It put me in a po-sition for those interactions and start a thought process for people.
This morning, as I was doing
this piece, people were walking by thanking me. Some say, “So you’re the one doing these mes-sages.” That’s one of the main things people say to me.
A lot of people give thanks and gratitude toward me for it and I just give it back. I say, “It’s for you.
It’s for all of us.” It’s been really good feedback.
A few people complained that it’s graffiti and defacing the sidewalk. I just say, it’s chalk. It’s temporary. You can pour water over it and it’s gone. I think that’s part of the gift of it, it’s not permanent, it’s tempo-rary and that’s appealing to me.
What’s happening with
your art?Autumn: I’m doing the love
mugs. I’ve also started side proj-ects during the quarantine. I started screenprinting on socks. That’s been fun. I’ve been working on bigger pieces as well.
I want to donate art to a hospital or care facility. During this time, it would be great to get my love pieces in front of people who are sick and alone right now. How do I get it to people who need healing?
I’ve been doing a lot of painting at my studio and brainstorming on how to disseminate it – how do we spread the love? That’s the challenging part for me. I just want to create.
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Pacifi c Beach artist Autumn Love with her latest message at Bayard and Emerald streets. Follow her on Instagram @artbyautumn. PHOTO BY THOMAS MELVILLE
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Osprey nest perched above Scripps Pier brings hope to environmentalistsThis spring, love is in the air for
some feathered friends taking up residence at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Perched on a platform high above the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, a pair of ospreys were recently spotted making a nest.
This nesting activity is a wel-come sight for Bev Grant and Art Cooley, two supporters of Birch Aquarium at Scripps who are deeply rooted in supporting en-vironmental and humanitarian causes. In 2018, Grant’s family’s foundation made a gift to Scripps Oceanography to support the construction of an osprey nest-ing boom and platform on Scripps Pier in the hopes it would provide a safe space for the birds to breed.
This April, amid a quiet campus due to the coronavirus pandemic, researcher Phil Zerofski — one of the few staff members on site — reported seeing two ospreys nest-ing together on the platform. This marks the first sighting of its kind since the platform was installed in December 2018.
“Obviously we're doing a little happy dance and hoping that we're going to be grandparents,” said Grant, a retired English teacher who spent 30 years work-ing at Torrey Pines High School. “We're going to see what happens this year and maybe have our first batch of osprey babies; it’s a very
exciting time.” Grant and Cooley are both
fascinated by ospreys — large, fish-eating sea hawks known for their ability to plunge feet-first into the water, grasping prey with their talons. These majestic birds of prey are often found pa-trolling shorelines and bodies of water in places throughout the world, including San Diego, but this wasn’t always the case. In the decades following World War II, osprey populations in the United States were nearly wiped out due to widespread use of DDT, a pesti-cide which poisoned the birds and thinned their eggshells.
Cooley, a lifelong environmen-talist and former biology teacher, has a long history of efforts to
protect ospreys and other birds of prey. In the mid-1960s, he co-founded the Environmental Defense Fund, a nonprofit group that succeeded in implementing a nationwide ban of DDT in 1972. Thanks to these efforts, osprey populations have rebounded in many places and the species has become a conservation success symbol. But Cooley notes that once DDT was banned and ambi-ent DDT levels dropped, there was still the problem of where the os-preys could nest.
“The banning of DDT certainly helped the osprey, and it helped bald eagles, brown pelicans, and peregrine falcons. All of them, now in retrospect, are expanding their numbers and their range
distribution,” said Cooley. “But one of things that occurred to us is that the whole story isn’t just tied up in DDT. It was also tied up in nest sites, because all of these birds require some kind of structure, like a tree, to house their nests. As we looked back at where these birds were nesting, it turns out that 80 to 90 percent of the nests were made by humans.”
Preservationists encourage the use of artificial nesting plat-forms to help reestablish ospreys, particularly in areas where the birds are still scarce or their natural nesting sites have been destroyed. While it’s extremely rare to find an osprey nest in San Diego, there have been sev-eral documented success stories involving the installation of arti-ficial platforms.
When Cooley and Grant learned about a resident osprey known to frequent Scripps Pier, their interest was piqued. The idea to support a nest came to fru-ition through conversations with Greg Rouse, a marine biologist at Scripps and a friend of the couple, who informed them about several osprey nesting attempts over the years. There was evidence that the birds had tried to build a nest on the pier's existing booms but the materials, including large sticks and seaweed, wouldn’t stay put.
Rouse was inspired by the cou-ple’s proposal to fund a nesting
platform and served as a key facil-itator, connecting them with the right people at Scripps to move the project forward.
“Bev and Art’s idea to put a platform on the pier really fits in with this idea of community at Scripps,” said Rouse. “We have this pier that everyone admires — why don't we have a simple thing appended to it that makes some of our local residents happy? It seemed like a no-brainer and a winner all around, so I was real-ly happy to try and help make it happen.”
Several Scripps staff members were instrumental in getting the ball rolling for this project, in-cluding Facilities Manager Ken Hall, Pier manager Christian McDonald, and John Matthews, a former staff member in the de-velopment office.
Once the project was given the green light, Cooley and Grant met with staff members in the Marine Science Development Center at Scripps to help inform the nest design. It was truly a team effort, with Cooley sharing his knowledge of osprey nesting needs, Travis Thomas oversee-ing the project and installation, Anthony Marshall doing the fabrication and welding, and Eric Browning creating the CAD drawings and helping with the design process.
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Two ospreys in a nest on Scripps Pier. PHOTO BY PHIL ZEROFSKI
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Analysis of immune response to SARS-CoV-2 bodes well for Covid-19 vaccineScientists around the world
are racing to develop a vaccine to protect against Covid-19 in-fection, and epidemiologists are trying to predict how the corona-virus pandemic will unfold until such a vaccine is available. Yet, both efforts are surrounded by unresolved uncertainty whether the immune system can mount a substantial and lasting response to SARS-CoV-2 and whether expo-sure to circulating common cold coronaviruses provides any kind of protective immunity.
A collaboration between the labs of Alessandro Sette, Dr. Biol. Sci. and Shane Crotty, Ph.D., at La Jolla Institute for Immunology is starting to fill in the massive knowledge gap with good news for vaccine developers and is provid-ing the first cellular immunology data to help guide social distanc-ing recommendations.
Published in an online edition of Cell, the study documents a ro-bust antiviral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in a group of 20 adults who had recovered from Covid-19. The findings show that the body’s immune system is able to recognize SARS-CoV-2 in ma-ny ways, dispelling fears that the virus may elude ongoing efforts to create an effective vaccine.
“If we had seen only margin-al immune responses, we would have been concerned,” says Sette, a professor in the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine
Research, and adds, “but what we see is a very robust T cell re-sponse against the spike protein, which is the target of most ongo-ing Covid-19 efforts, as well as oth-er viral proteins. These findings are really good news for vaccine development.”
“All efforts to predict the best vaccine candidates and fine-tune pandemic control measures hinge on understanding the immune re-sponse to the virus,” says Crotty, also a professor in the Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research. “People were really wor-ried that Covid-19 doesn’t induce immunity, and reports about peo-ple getting re-infected reinforced these concerns, but knowing now that the average person makes a solid immune response should
largely put those concerns to rest.”In an earlier study, Sette and
his team had used bioinformatics tools to predict which fragments of SARS-CoV-2 are capable of ac-tivating human T cells. The scien-tists then, in this newest research, tested whether T cells isolated from adults who had recovered from Covid-19 without major problems, recognized the predict-ed protein fragments, or so-called peptides, from the virus itself.
The scientists pooled the pep-tides into two big groups: The first so-called mega-pool includ-ed peptides covering all proteins in the viral genome apart from SARS-CoV-2’s “spike” protein. The second mega-pool specifically focused on the spike protein that dots the surface of the virus, since
almost all of the vaccines under development right now target this coronavirus spike protein.
“We specifically chose to study people who had a normal disease course and didn’t require hospi-talization to provide a solid bench-mark for what a normal immune response looks like, since the virus can do some very unusual things in some people,” says Sette.
The researchers found that all Covid-19 patients had a solid CD4, or “helper,” T cell response, which helps antibody production. Almost all patients had produced virus-specific CD8, or “killer,” T cells, which eliminate virus-in-fected cells. “Our data show that the virus induces what you would expect from a typical, successful antiviral response,” says Crotty.
And, although these results don’t preclude that the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 may be detrimen-tal, they provide an important baseline against which individu-als’ immune responses can be com-pared; or, as Sette likes to put it, “if you can get a picture of something, you can discuss whether you like it or not but if there’s no picture there’s nothing to discuss.”
“We have a solid starting foun-dation to now ask whether there’s a difference in the type of immune response in people who have se-vere outcomes and require hos-pitalization versus people who can recover at home or are even asymptomatic,” adds Sette. “But
not only that, we now have an im-portant tool to determine wheth-er the immune response in people who have received an experimen-tal vaccine resembles what you would expect to see in a protective immune response to Covid-19, as opposed to an insufficient or det-rimental response.”
The teams also looked at the T cell response in blood samples that had been collected between 2015 and 2018, before SARS-CoV-2 started circulating. Many of these individuals had significant T cell reactivity against SARS-CoV-2, although they had never been ex-posed to SARS-CoV-2. But every-body has almost certainly seen at least three of the four common cold coronaviruses, which could ex-plain the observed crossreactivity.
It is still unclear, though, wheth-er the observed crossreactivity provides at least some level of pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2 and therefore could explain why some people or geographical loca-tions are hit harder by Covid-19.
“Given the severity of the on-going Covid-19 pandemic, any degree of cross-reactive coronavi-rus immunity could have a very substantial impact on the overall course of the pandemic and is a key detail to consider for epidemi-ologists as they try to scope out how severely Covid-19 will af-fect communities in the coming months,” says Crotty.
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Airport’s Terminal 1 expansion plans still on, despite pandemicBy DAVE SCHWAB
Though COVID-19 has at least temporarily shelved most flights in and out of
San Diego, airport authorities say the projected $3 billion proposed expansion of Terminal 1 remains a go, and that there are no plans to alter the project’s timetable.
Planned new improvements to ’60s-era Terminal 1 would fea-ture adding 11 new gates to the present 19 bringing the total to 30 adding more gate-area seating, restaurants and shops and addi-tional security checkpoints with more lanes and a host of ener-gy-efficiency upgrades. Terminal 1’s expansion, part of the overall Airport Development Plan, also includes numerous roadway and transportation improvements.
Prior to the pandemic, the time-table for Terminal 1’s redo tripling its current size had construction starting in late 2021, with the first stage of the new terminal opening in 2024, and full completion of ter-minal gates in 2026.
When it opened in 1967, Terminal 1 served 2.5 million passengers that year. In 2019, the same facility served more than 12 million.
Nicole Hall, senior communica-tions specialist, San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, point-ed out San Diego International Airport’s air traffic and passenger
volume “mirrors the numbers at airports around the country.”
Asked if there’s a chance plum-meting air traffic could scale back – or even scrap – Terminal 1’s expansion, Hall replied: “Currently, passenger volume at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints at airports around the country is down 96% compared to one year ago. As of now, the impacts from COVID-19 have not impacted cur-rent plans to redevelop Terminal 1, which is a part of the larger ADP.
“Plans for the redevelopment of Terminal 1 have not been changed. However, as we move forward, we will continue to re-view the potential impacts of COVID-19 on all projects and programs.”
Hall noted public input on Terminal 1’s expansion continues. “The public can provide input at board meetings, which are being held telephonically at this time,” she said.
Recently, the airport received more than $91 million from the newly created Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act Airport Grant Program.
“The relief funds are on a reim-bursement basis, so we will draw down funds to reimburse eligible costs expended,” said Hall. “We are still evaluating which costs we will seek reimbursement for. The
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Added Hall: “The executive lead-ership team, in coordination with the board, will decide which costs will be reimbursed by the grant. The airport is incredibly grateful for this funding, and it will be criti-cal in helping the airport cash flow and current obligations. As ma-ny industries are, the airports as a whole are facing unprecedented uncertainty. As time passes, there may be a need for additional as-sistance for airports around the country. We expect the funds will assist with FY 2020 and a portion of FY 2021 needs.”
In October 2019, Peninsula Community Planning Board sent a letter to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority com-menting on a draft environmental impact report being circulated on proposed Terminal 1 and airport expansion.
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752 DEVON CT. 2BD | 2.5BA | 1,325 sq ft Sold Price of $1,007,387 South Mission Beach ground floor condo with luxury features!This home is located on a lovely, well maintained court and isonly steps away from the beach. The property features travertinefloors, stainless steel appliances, granite counter tops, AC andsolar. Master bedroom is pure luxury with jetted tub, separateshower, huge walk in closet. Open layout, ground level livingspace sprawls onto private landscaped patio.
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PB Point (False Point), used to house a Navy anti-aircraft batteryand surface warfare training facility in the 1940’s. By the late1940’s the site was closed and the land was later developed.
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724 WINDEMERE CT.2 BD | 1 BA | 1,004 sq. ft. Asking Price of $1,099,000 Renovated, two-story home just six houses in from the ocean on one of North Mission Beach'smost coveted courts! This charming property features a downstairs open-concept living spacethat opens up to a spacious ocean-view patio, making it a great space for entertaining. Let thesound of the waves rock you to sleep at night, enjoy amazing ocean breezes, and gaze atwhite water views from your second story, oversized deck. The beach life doesn't get betterthan this, so what are you waiting for?! Call now for more information.
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2605 FAIRFIELD ST. 4 BD | 3.5 BA | 3,103 sq. ft. Asking price of $1,399,000 - $1,449,000This custom-built Bay Park home on an 8,700 sq ft, corner lot boasts an open and airy living spacewith vaulted ceilings, tons of natural light, spacious bedrooms, and abundance of storage space.The well-manicured and sizable backyard has plenty of space for a grassy area to play, loungearea, and even room to build a pool or add a firepit. The fully-functional accessory unit has its ownkitchen, full bathroom, large bedroom, dining area, exclusive washer/dryer, private balcony, elevated area with spectacular bay and ocean views, and its own private entrance from the garageand the exterior. Last, but not least, there is plenty of room to park you cars and toys with 5 garagespaces, 5 additional driveway spaces, + RV/Trailer/Boat parking on the side of the house.
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