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group (Stephen Whitburn). She is also the only non-Democrat in see Nguyen, pg 4

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A locked gate at Normal Heights Elementary. The majority of the joint-use area at the school has been closed to the community because of serious security issues. (Photo by Kendra Sitton)

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In the past year, Normal Heights lost partial access to three separate parks: half of Ward Canyon Interim Dog Park; basketball courts and part of a playground at Adams Elementary; and a playground, basketball Stormy reception to ‘Hurricane Diane’

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Michelle Nguyen’s recent District 3 campaign has shaken up a race previously monopolized by Democrats. The 26-year-old Republican woman is running partially because of the importance of elected officials reflecting the communities they serve. She is young, Asian, a first-generation American whose parents are refugees from Vietnam and a member of the military— important but underrepresented groups on the current City Council. Nguyen has positioned herself as the true outsider in the race as she has never worked for a

Michelle Nguyen is the sole Republican running for the District 3 seat on the City Council. (Courtesy photo) politician (Toni Duran), on policy (Adrian Kwiatkowski), at City Hall (Chris Olsen) or even been elected to a community planning

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growing lack of green space and recreational areas in the neighborhood. Normal Heights is already park-deficient, with about 10 acres of parkland for nearly 16,000 people, according to the 2010 census.

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courts and grassy area at Normal Heights Elementary. While fences were locked for different reasons — justified reasons in the eyes of the school district and neighbors of the dog park — the quick succession between the three closures has some community members panicking about the

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On Feb. 13, Mayor Kevin Faulconer announced the city is taking requests for proposals (RFP) to build up to 28 units of permanent supportive housing (PSH) at the site of the old Mission Hills Library. For Adrian Kwiatkowski, a Mission Hills resident running for City Council in District 3, discussing the conversion of the library into housing for homeless individuals requiring extra care was a constant while canvassing in his neighborhood. He said the majority of the people he talked to are opposed to it. Kwiatkowski has his own qualms about the site because the inclusion of eight parking spots for the fire department on the 0.189-acre site would shrink its footprint — and the number of units it could hold. He has a unique perspective on the issue because he helped usher in 40 units of permanent supportive housing for homeless veterans in Mission Hills. The library is part of a citywide effort to add PSH units to each district but the Mission Hills Library was the only site in District 3 for this round of RFPs. Kwiatkowski believes the city should have done more to find other sites in Uptown. Even if nothing was found, the effort put into the search could be used to explain to the neighborhood why the housing must go there. “Has Mission Hills done its part already? The answer is yes,” Kwiatkowski said. He thinks a better option could be partnering with the county and UCSD to bring a much higher number of units to the new behavioral health hub in Hillcrest.

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“Why go through all this angst and uproar to not do anything really meaningful? And all the support services are going to be built at this mega facility in Hillcrest — doesn't it make sense to do something over there?” Kwiatkowski is running not just on his ideas but his past results as an insider to city hall. In addition to pushing through the veterans housing, he was behind the passage of the strong-mayor form of city government, smoke-free beaches and parks ordinance, and La Jolla Harbor’s seal pupping season beach closure. “I tell people, ‘Judge me on what I've done, not what I'm promising you I will do.’ This should be a good beacon for how I can handle controversial issues when it comes to either density or affordable housing or homelessness, etc.,” he said. “I've had experience in a lot of these fields, where the people I'm running against, with all due respect, have not. None of them have actually ever had anything approved by the city council or got anything accomplished at City Hall. That's a policy and that's where I have a strength.” While he is running on his record, Kwiatkowski has made interesting proposals in the lead-up to the primary. To fix Balboa Park, he wants to put forth a $500 million ballot measure to address the park’s deferred maintenance as well as set up a parcel tax to pay for maintenance and projects. He said he would gather stakeholders to make a list of highest priority to lowest priority issues before putting a bond forward. “We're not gonna do it all in one swoop. What are the immediate needs? The buildings falling apart? Immediate ne e d s. B et t er bat h room s? Immediate needs. Additional parking somewhere? That's an immediate need. $500 million will only cover so many of those items,” Kwiatkowski explained. “Then actually get the projects done on time and on budget and build some trust with the voters that we can actually spend their money wisely. They can actually see the physical manifestation of the park being improved.” Once that trust is built, then the parcel tax or some other permanent funding source could be found with the approval of the voters. The Balboa ballot initiative is important enough to Kwiatkowski that he said he could see himself continuing to work on it even if he is not elected in November. “There are a lot of voices and I think what’s needed is clarity of leadership here and someone willing to push something

Adrian Kwiatkowski (Courtesy photo) through,” he said. Another idea he has is forming a dedicated climate change department at City Hall that would publicly demonstrate San Diego’s commitment to combati ng cli mate cha nge and help meet the city’s climate action plan. While he does not know the specifics of how such an office would work with or apart from other departments in City Hall, it would help keep the focus on all City Hall decisions on the importance of addressing climate change and may only need a few employees to start. “We need to have someone monitoring that climate action plan, and then coming up with new ideas of what the city can do to be a leader on preparing for climate change. The city has a lot of action items and we need people focused on making sure those action items are being met and being followed up on,” he explained. “It says that we are serious about this and we are serious about executing our plan.” In addition, he would found a climate change commission that could evaluate the department and come up with new ideas. Since the department would be a part of the budget process each year, Kwiatkowski feels the city could use that as an opportunity to evaluate what steps it had taken and measure its effects on proactively combating climate change. He also wants to make the budget process in general more efficient so the city can operate more effectively. “One of the things I really want to focus on when I get elected is making sure the city hums, making sure the city operates eff iciently, making sure that the city can deliver services, that our great city employees respond to constituents, that we start resolving some of these longstanding lack- of-focus problems out there,” he said. “So, I'm really going to work on making sure the city, as an organization, operates eff iciently, delivers services, is responsive.” — Kendra Sitton can be reached at kendra@sdnews.com.

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“Normal Heights, like all of our Uptown communities, is, on a population-base, park-deficient, so we have been really trying to expand the joint-use opportunities with school district facilities,” said Council member Chris Ward. He noted that the since the parks are San Diego Unified School District properties, SDUSD has full jurisdiction over the joint-use areas. Ward has gone directly to superintendent Cindy Marten to advocate for the reopening of the parks. Under normal circumstances, a school board representative could be petitioned, but with trustee Kevin Beiser accused of sexual misconduct, he has no ability to mediate the conflict between the neighbors and schools.

Adams Elementary SDUSD spokesperson Samer Naji said half of the playground and the courts at Adams Elementary are closed as the campus undergoes modernization efforts. At that school, the joint-use area agreement has lapsed and will not be renegotiated until construction has finished. Naji said, “School security is a major district initiative right now because of all the incidents we've seen nationally. One of the big things that we're doing is securing the perimeters of all of our campuses to make sure that during the school day, there's only one way in and out for visitors. We are securing all of our school facilities with single points of entry and perimeter fencing. The modernization at Adams is bringing some of those security features to the Adams Elementary campus.” Although the fenced-in play areas were not included in the original joint-use agreement, the school had previously let the community in to the basketball courts and playground after hours and on weekends. Naji said this area was recently reopened to the public and immediately vandalized and damaged by individuals climbing on the school roof. A passive-use grassy area that is included in the joint-use agreement was secured as a laydown area for materials used in the construction, which could not fit elsewhere according to Naji. The majority of the jointuse area, a large field, is accessible during construction. There is the possibility that the playground and courts could be added to the joint-use area when the agreement is renegotiated when construction ends, if all stakeholders agree.

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The basketball courts not included in the joint-use area at Adams Elementary (Photo by Kendra Sitton)

gates, but their joint-use agreement is still intact. SDUSD, according to Naji, believes they can do so based on a 2012 letter that let the district lock down the joint-use area during city hours of operation “when safety, security or operational circumstances warrant.” Normal Heights Elementary has dealt with a variety of issues in the joint-use area since it was opened to the public in 2012 after delays caused by irrigation issues. Unlike Adams Elementary, which is highly visible from Adams Avenue and to foot traffic on all sides, Normal Heights Elementary is secluded. Principal John Aguilar explained this gave the local homeless population the ability to sleep under the shelter of the lunch area, urinate, and bathe in drinking fountains — creating hygiene issues where students eat and play. It often fell to teachers and other school staff to clear the area of transients in the morning. Weapons, condoms and drug paraphernalia were found on campus. In addition to educating students, school staff were on the frontlines of the homelessness crisis. “I have great empathy for homeless, I really do. But I don't think a school site’s the place for them to hang out and sleep at night,” said Aguilar. The 2012 letter was signed after the city and district decided to close the front gate but leave the back gate open, Aguilar said. However, using the gate from Ward Canyon Park created a new problem as dog walkers and the general public would funnel into the school and then get trapped inside. They often interrupted an after-school program to ask for directions. Aguilar has a video of a homeless man raging at staff during the PrimeTime extended day program. After eight years of security issues and parent advocacy, Aguilar restarted the effort to close the majority of jointuse area, with the support of SDUSD. Community meetings were held in the lead-up to a vote by the local recreational advisory board, Adams Rec Advisory Group. While vocal members of the Normal Heights Community Planning Group

oppose the closure, Adams Rec Advisory Group voted in favor of the school’s plan to keep the central playground, lunch area, courts and some grassy areas closed to the public. Many parents spoke at the meetings about inappropriate experiences their children had while some neighbors spoke in support of keeping the park open. “There's this standoff between the school district and the community groups where the community says ‘don't take away our park space, we want it for good uses.’ The school district is saying, ‘the situation is what it is and we've got to protect our property, we’ve got to protect our students.’ Both groups are right,” said Ward. For his part, he has advocated for the size of the park not to be reduced. Instead, the councilman wants the city to do more in terms of security and maintenance so the area can stay open. According to Naji, SDUSD is not opposed to restoring the joint-use area as long as adequate health and safety measures are put in place that are agreed to by stakeholders, including parents. One of the reasons the neighborhood is so adamant about not losing the playground is because many of them were integral in the original planning process. “The community designed that [playground], the community was part of that whole thing and the community will not be locked out of that thing, period,” said Gary Weber, the NHCPG chair. However, Aguilar contends that the input process in 2005 that created the playground was skewed because there were no parents or administrator at the school yet, so it became what the neighborhood wanted: easily accessible from multiple sides so people who lived west of it could walk through the school to get to Ward Canyon Neighborhood Park. This setup created security issues that would likely have been noticed if there were parent advocates or a designated administrator included in the initial process. Meanwhile, the students at Normal Heights Elementary also have less access to green space than they previously did. An upper field that older students

used to play on is now not open to students during school hours. The field is a part of the jointuse area that has remained open to the public, who have a habit of misusing it. According to Aguilar, teens and children used to play soccer in the afternoons in the field. However, in recent years, dog owners have taken over the field because they can close the gate and let their dogs play off-leash — leaving behind so many feces that the elementary students and other community members stopped using the field. The grass field is nearly adjacent to the official dog park, but because the interim dog park is filled with dirt and aging bark, the grass is perceived as superior (although dog owners misusing joint-use fields is not an isolated occurrence in SDUSD).

Ward Canyon Dog Park Ward Canyon Dog Park, in its current state, was only ever meant to be interim, but as the process of getting funds to complete the redevelopment dragged on, it remained the only place for dogs in Normal Heights to play off-leash even though the aging bark sometimes cut the feet of the dogs and there is no shade. Last fall, neighbors’ complaints about noise and dust from the park prompted the city to close one section so both big and small dogs would play in the same area. The multi-year redevelopment plan would fix the dust

issues with a permanent dog park. Ward hopes the city’s budget, along with using Proposition 68 funds, will mean the park will finally be improved. In addition, Ward’s office has been working for the past year with Caltrans on a potential expansion to Ward Canyon Park. Caltrans owns property where 40th Street dead-ends next to the on and off-ramp to the 15 freeway, which could potentially be converted into park space if the ramps are realigned. “Working with Caltrans is not always the most straightforward and quickest of opportunities, but we are grateful we actually got a positive update. They actually did agree to work with the city on closing that and realigning part of the on ramp and exit ramp so that we can actually expand the park footprint and that's great,” Ward said. The future of park space in Normal Heights hinges on the renegotiation of the joint-use agreement at Adams Elementary and the type of budget the city passes. If security for Normal Heights Elementary is included (and SDUSD agrees) or funds for the redevelopment of Ward Canyon Park are in the final budget, there is the possibility that diminished footprints could be regained. Turning the deadend at 40th Street into expanded park space would require even more funds.

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the race and the only person not part of the LGBT+ community (although she does consider herself an ally). She is a homeowner in Mission Hills and also a Girl Scout troop leader. Nguyen’s work as officer in the National Guard kept her from entering the race earlier, which means she missed several forums, debates and questionnaires covered by Uptown News. To make up for this and introduce her to District 3 voters, many of the questions in the following conversation were topics included in previous coverage of the race already addressed by her opponents. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length. What is your experience preparing you for this position? I graduated from USD with a degree in international business in minor supply chain management and I'm also in the California Army of the National Guard. So, I've been in for seven years now and my specialty is in logistics. So, as you can tell that from my background, I am business oriented. With my background in supply chain management and logistics, we're all about efficiency, looking at systems to find, pinpoint, and chokehold that hold-up process. In my military life, I am solving problems like that every single day. Right now, I work as a procurement specialist in a company that is a government contractor. I definitely understand what it means to safeguard taxpayer dollars and what is needed and engage my stakeholders and get everything that's needed. With my background in that type of system and the military, I can say that I am a very different approach to City Council District 3. I've never worked for a politician before. I've never worked in policy or government legislature, but I definitely understand what it means to get it done. What would your priorities be if elected? I say 100% is the homeless crisis right now. SANDAG puts out an annual survey on justice-involved homeless for that year. In the past year, they found very interesting facts, one being that the median age is 26 years old. Seventy-seven percent of last year's homeless arrestees will become homeless while living in San Diego. About a third of males will cite that job loss was their cause of homelessness and over 50% of women will say it's through abuse and violence that caused homelessness. So, today I'm 26 years old, I'm a woman. I unfortunately have experienced violence and sexual harassment in very different cases at unrelated times. I feel that I represent a very vulnerable demographic on the city council, so it's very important to me and I think to a

lot of people, that representation on the city council — and that a voice like mine — is represented and has a seat at the table. [Editor’s note: In the survey, the median age of 26 years old was the first time someone became homeless, not the median age of homeless individuals in 2018. In addition, the survey found 19% of women list abuse or violence as their cause of homelessness, not over half.] District 3 has the longest-running streak of LGBT representatives and the LGBT population is critical to being elected. What are you doing to win the votes of the LGBT community? I grew up in an era that is so fortunate to see LGBTQ rights be heard. When I was in school and in college and now in the workplace, we got to see amazing strides happen right in front of us. So, to me, I feel like I am an ally. I would say that I'm spoiled in the way that I didn't really get to see the discrimination of the LGBTQ community. I attribute all the activities of LGBTQ rights to activists of the past and currently right now. How would you address climate change? I work in a sector that [has] very high technology so I really understand the energy sector. A recent report says that San Diego is ahead of schedule on our greenhouse emissions action plans. I think we're supposed to be at 15%, now we're at 24%. If you look at that data, a lot of it has to do with how we view energy. Coming from a background that understands alternative energy, I want to put that up because we have to look at the big hitters in what is causing, proportionally, a lot of climate change. We have to look at how the city can maximize its resources with minimal output. Right now, I believe that renewable energy is the biggest hitter. It's going to decrease our greenhouse gas pollution. It's very important that we put that type of effort [forth] at such a great scale. On a personal note, I feel that there are a lot of people who spearhead the personal, individual impact. I love that San Diego is so green-friendly. I myself, like to try to be conscious in everything I do, from what I can order [at a] coffee shop, down to my spending habits, down to what I want to do in my home. I love to see how you can show again, there's a representation, our type of lifestyle and promoting that type of awareness. A lot of greenhouse gas emissions do come from transportation. There is the emphasis on moving to active transportation as well as meeting Vision Zero goals of having no traffic deaths. What is your stance on transit and bike lanes? If San Diego wants to be a major city, we need to have see Nguyen, pg 7

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“Moose” is one of those funny singular words that serves as its own plural. Therefore, the list of former tenants of the long-vacant San Diego Moose Lodge together are called “moose” — not “meese” or “mooses,” though both words are hysterical and worth using on that basis alone. If you’re going to have a neglected structure in the middle of your neighborhood, why not at least laugh about it? Sunday, Feb. 9, about 20 Golden Hill residents gathered at 1648 30th St. to raise awareness of the abandoned lodge. Feb. 10 marked the 10-year anniversary of a fire that effectively closed the place. Attendees satirically sang “Happy Birthday, Dear Something” and “celebrated” with a decidedly frowning cake. The “meese” sold the vacant property in November 2018. Jim Rinehart, leasing realtor, said in an email: “I can’t share anything about the property at this time, but once it’s open again for business you’ll be able to get all the details.” One attendee at the anniversary party claimed to have put in a market-value lease offer shortly after it went on the market. She was informed the owner was “waiting on a response from a restaurant group,” then abruptly told months later that “they went with another offer.” Multiple neighbors dropped by to express concerns about what the blighted building “could be.” I haven’t seen any productive activity beyond locals voluntarily re-painting the graffiti-laden front door months ago. A chain link fence was erected along the

A frowny-face birthday cake to the vacant lot. (Photo by Suzy Finch)

A picture of the fire that destroyed the lodge a decade ago (Photo by Sue Beattie) parking lot’s eastern border, though given the lack of progress, it’s unclear why the barrier is required other than to add to an already ghastly site. The lot, at the busy intersection of 30th and Date streets, is centrally located and historically significant. 30th Street has long served as the neighborhood’s widest thoroughfare, with MTS stops and bike lanes to boot. San Diego’s trolleys used to carry workers who were transforming thenCity Park into Balboa’s namesake up that “Golden Hill” to their new home. Date Street emerges from Golf Course Drive at 28th Street and leads travelers four blocks east to the intersection with 30th. It is the only reasonably direct route into South Park from Interstate-5 north of Pershing Street (i.e., the airport). The structure is nestled between two gorgeous murals that bookend 30th Street. The stunning result of Jonny Pucci’s collaboration with GFit owner Kristen Lucek presides over the northwest corner of 30th and Beech streets. At 30th’s panoramic intersection with Juniper is famed street-artist Shepard Fairey’s three-story achievement, “Burmese Monk.” He painted it months after the Moose burned, as part of the MCASD’s “Viva La Revolucion.” It was his first stenciled piece on that scale. One block east of the lodge is charming Fern Street. West is the eastern end of Balboa Park, covered as it is with beautiful green space and abundant trees. Aesthetically speaking, the “mooses” were abandoned in the worst place in South Park.

The former lodge sits in the center of 30th Street’s “spiritual” corridor from Grape to Ash streets. Each of those seven intersections contains at least one institution dedicated, in part or whole, to uplifting the human spirit. The Big Kitchen and Buona Forchetta have transformed profit centers into community support. The Alano Club and Pathfinders support recovery from addiction. Christ United Presbyterian Church and the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses are self-explanatory. The McGill School of Success and Albert Einstein Charter Academy use holistic educational models. In the middle of all that devotion is the “Home for Neglected Mooses.” The building itself was originally home of the Turners, a gymnastic organization with a San Diego chapter since 1873. The Turners, or Turnvereins, were devoted to a sound mind and body. They moved to 30th Street in 1950, five years after their Downtown location caught fire. Like their successors, the Turners hosted community activities throughout the year and generously supported local events. Every household at Sunday’s event expressed concern about the building’s future. I hope, given the property’s central location, historical and spiritual significance, its owners’ and lessees’ will create something worthy of the plot of land on which it will sit.

management strategy” would have mollified the community. No amount of spin or ‘splaining would persuade us that City Hall should carve out a disproportionate amount of road space to benefit a small group of people. Residential parking permits won’t help customers from outside North Park who come here to shop and eat. And where will we cram in enough parallel or head-in parking to replace nearly 500 lost spaces?

Given that he is running for our District 3 seat, I don’t think Chris meant to be dismissive of opponents of 30th Street parking removal. But if he thinks we are misguided people who just need to be educated and enlightened, he may not be the best choice to represent our community.

—Jim Stephens has lived in South Park for five years. He is a retired CPA turned freelance writer. He writes about South Park and the San Diego Symphony at southparksdblogger.com.

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Skilled negotiations save taxpayers’ money City Attorney News Mara W. Elliott As your City Attorney, I advise the City Council, defend the city in litigation, civilly and criminally prosecute violations of the law, and protect taxpayer dollars so that the money can be used to advance the interests of our communities. When it comes to litigation, you might picture lawyers waging a dramatic battle in a courtroom trial. However, a skilled negotiator can often find a way to avoid a costly trial by working out a settlement that is acceptable to both sides, thereby saving a tremendous amount of time and money — your money. Deputy city attorneys are trained to assess liability and obtain fair outcomes for taxpayers when the city is at fault. I’d

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NGUYEN convenient and quick transit, so something that can go to the airport, can go to Balboa Park, can go to all the major universities, is something that is very desirable and it's good for small businesses. It's good for our climate action plan. It's good for residents. I'd love to see on the transit side if we can get that type of transit out to important places. However, I see that car-centric society, for example, a lot of people don't work close to where they live. It's out of the picture if they were to take bike lanes. The city needs to look at rather than mandating a type of initiative to bike, it should definitely be incentive-based. I'm a really big proponent of behavioral economics, meaning that we look toward emotions in psychology to see how we act as individuals and how eventually our society would work. When we see that transit outweighs the opportunity cost of driving a car, then you definitely see more people doing that. Once we can get a transit that is more convenient, cheaper, and faster, then we can see more people exercising their alternative transportation load. Wouldn't that be an argument to add bike lanes because that's going to make it more difficult to drive? I'd say that the 30th Street [protected bike lane initiative] was really rolled out badly. It didn't get a lot of the opinions of stakeholders. It's going to take away hundreds of parking spots. A lot of the people and residents who live on 30th Street are like, "Why can't we just put it on Utah Street?" You can do it in areas where it won't take on such an

like to recognize some of those attorneys, and to highlight the positive outcomes they reached on behalf of our citizens. In 2018, a man filed a lawsuit to halt the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon because of noise associated with the event. Deputy City Attorney Dana Fairchild successfully defended the city by persuading the judge to deny the requested injunction. Last year, the same citizen threatened to bring another lawsuit. With help from the city’s Special Events Department, Dana worked with the resident to address his concerns. The diplomatic efforts paid off — the parties created a plan to abate the noise, the popular event went forward as planned, and the city avoided a new lawsuit. Last year, Deputy City Attorney Lynn Beekman negotiated the dismissal of a lawsuit over the city’s denial of a homeowner’s application to get title to the city’s unused

public rights-of-way that ran in front of, and behind, his home. The view out his front window of a “dying” tree on the city’s rightof-way proved to be the issue that concerned him most. The city’s arborist determined that the tree was struggling but did not need to be replaced. The homeowner disagreed. He argued his case, without a lawyer, with great passion and intensity. After much discussion about possible alternatives to litigation, the parties resolved the case. The resident agreed to waive the costs and replace the tree at no cost to the city. In 2017, nine homeless people filed a federal class-action lawsuit alleging the city violated their constitutional rights through enforcement of its Encroachment Ordinance, which prohibits persons from obstructing the public right-ofway with their belongings. The city argued that the belongings impede the city’s ability to keep

the streets safe and clean for all; however, the homeless individuals said they had nowhere else to store their belongings. The judge suggested the parties to the litigation attend a ridealong with the city’s Homeless Outreach Team (also known as the HOT Team). The judge and lawyers spent a summer morning in the East Village with the HOT Team and toured the Alpha Project Bridge Shelter to see how many storage facilities the city provides to homeless individuals. This field trip was an essential step in finding common ground. Deputy City Attorneys Marni von Wilpert and Dave Abad worked with the plaintiffs to craft an agreement requiring the city to open a third transitional storage facility for the homeless. In addition, police who are in contact with a homeless individual who has violated the ordinance must offer services, including offering a bed

or storage bin, before an arrest can be made. While the city paid reasonable attorney’s fees to the plaintiff’s lawyer, no other monetary damages were awarded, putting an end to a complicated and expensive case. These are just some examples of how your deputy city attorneys are working hard every day, often behind the scenes, to resolve conflicts and reach solutions that save taxpayers’ money.

impact on traffic. For example, 30th Street is going to take two years of construction. I can't imagine the traffic that it's going to cause. When cars are in stopand-go traffic and idling, they're actually emitting more greenhouse gases than if they were to go at fuel-efficient speeds. You have to look at the science, the physics of your car and see what are we trying to achieve here? If we really love cycling, I think we need to open up the idea of traffic circles as well. It eliminates cars from going and stopping a lot. There are ways of not dramatically changing the way that San Diegans live their lives but we can think about smart ways to cut down greenhouse emissions. Unfortunately, the bike lanes really exclude the physically disabled, those who can't contribute to that type of vision. They are a population that needs to have their voice heard and with the physically disabled, there's also parents with strollers that need to have that type of parking. I definitely want to find a happy medium and it definitely can be done not just by mandating bike lanes.

would like to see them come back so that they can solve the last-mile option and I definitely want to see fewer people get injured.

some of your opponents have pledged to oppose because of privacy concerns? I think, like a lot of San Diegans here, privacy means a lot to us — more freedom to do what we'd like and not have that type of data recorded and kept somewhere. Personally, I'd like to see more

advocates for privacy rights. I definitely would love to see where this information goes. Of course, when you see data collected on you and you don't get to see exactly where that goes, it's very scary.

What is your stance on regulations on electric scooters? I feel really sad to see businesses, like these scooters, leave San Diego, because of course we're trying to solve the last-mile option. If they're trying to be a transit-forward city and disincentivize companies to provide such scooters, that's very sad. With any type of use of transportation, safety is the biggest concern. I'd love to see a way to get more people to wear helmets, to get people to use them responsibly. A lot of people are talking about having a type of licensing, permitting or taking a safety test to ensure that safety awareness is at the forefront of usage of electric scooters. I definitely

What is your stance on the smart cameras installed at stoplights that the city attorney says have helped solve crimes, while

— Mara W. Elliott was elected City Attorney of San Diego in 2016 after serving as the chief deputy attorney for the office’s Public Services Section and legal adviser to the city’s Independent Audit Committee and Environment Committee. Mara and the lawyers in her section held polluters accountable, reformed city contracting, cut administrative red tape, and strengthened the city’s Living Wage and Non-Discrimination in Contracting ordinances.

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‘Hurricane Diane’ is 90 minutes of environmental evangelism JEAN LOWERISON | Uptown News

Being a demigod used to be a great gig. You could sit up there on Mt. Olympus, drinking and talking with the other deities, and when you descended to earth you’d get recognition, gifts, even adoration from the mortals down below. But time went by, and things changed. Even gods changed, at least in form. But that’s nothing compared to the horrifying changes wrought by the human species, which at this juncture seems hellbent on ruining the world itself with mining, stripping, slashing and burning in search of that ghastly oil and gas. In “Hurricane Diane,” playwright Madeleine George takes a hilarious look at what might happen if Dionysus, demigod of agriculture, wine and song, came back to earth today. James Vásquez directs the 90-minute play — in its West Coast premiere — which runs through March 8 at The Old Globe’s White Theatre. This time, the god’s name is Diane (Remi Margron, who plays Diane, uses they/them pronouns), and they’re a lesbian landscape gardener trying to pass the word on saving the environment to a

quartet of bored housewives who live in identical houses in a Red Bank, New Jersey cul-de-sac. Carol Fleischer (Liz Wisan), who works in the compliance division of a big pharma, is a lot less interested in permaculture and maintaining a natural ecosystem than she is in preserving the salability of her property. When Carol expresses her main wish – a wrought-iron accent bench – and a desire to achieve “curb appeal,” Diane knows the campaign to return the property to its lawn-free near-natural condition as a primeval forest will be a tough one. Renee Shapiro-Epps (Opal Alladin), on the other hand, an editor at HGTV Magazine, has somewhat more sympathy with Diane’s plan because she lived on a hippie-like permaculture commune back in the day. She seems to have squashed most of those hippie tendencies. Ita l ia n A mer ica n Pa m Annunziata (Jenn Harris) is a case unto herself. She prowls around, catlike in leopard-print gear and a demanding attitude. She’s not especially happily married but insists that she and her husband “do it” every day “just so I don’t hate his guts.” Beth Wann (Jennifer Paredes),

Diane is tasked with trying to convince the suburban women to protect the environment.

The details “Hurricane Diane” plays through March 8, 2020, at The Old Globe’s Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park. Tuesday and Wednesday at 7 p.m.; Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m.; Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.; Sunday at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets: 619-234-5623 or theoldglobe.org youngest of the quartet, has the shy diffidence of someone who’s been deserted. Her husband left her, and she’s looking to make a connection. Diane’s problem is to win these women over, to make them want to make efforts to save the environment. Will it happen? I’ll let you find that out for yourself. I’m here to tell you about the journey. There’s probably nothing an environmentalist hates more than women addicted to HGTV and its magazine. HGTV addicts look at pretty pictures in the magazine and decide that’s what they want. But what Diane wants them to want is raw nature, rather like the raw vocabulary stuffed with F-bombs that comes out of Diane’s mouth. Diane talks about hognut and bee balm, foxglove and milk vetch. Carol wants a wrought-iron accent bench. How can this work? The answer is with a lot of

Rami Margron as Diane in the West Coast premiere of "Hurricane Diane" (Photos by Jim Cox)

Four suburban women are at the heart of this play about environmental action. dialogue that may be reminiscent of certain TV talk shows, and the playwright keeps us laughing with a script full of clever jabs and one-liners. If there’s not a lot of depth, well, that’s who these women are. Margron carries the heavy lift of trying to bring these women around to a reasonable environmentalist point of view with great

"Hurricane Diane" is a reimagining of the Greek god Dionysus.

verve, dedication and the magic only a demigod has. They’re a pleasure to watch in action. Jo Winiarski’s set – a spiffy-looking if cookie-cutter kitchen in New Jersey – serves the purpose well. Shirley Pierson’s costumes (especially for Pam) are spot-on. Lighting and sound are well handled by Cat Tate Starmer and Drew Levy respectively, and local folk-rock band Golden Howl provides original music. The 90-minute engagement we have with these folks is long on talk, short on action, but this is the life they live. Just know that the talk is fun, often funny and sometimes raunchy, and if you leave the theater thinking just a little bit more about saving the planet than you did when you entered, the playwright has done her job. — Jean Lowerison is a long-standing member of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle and can be reached at infodame@gmail. com.

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Roanna Canete has been baking beautiful gluten-free treats in San Diego since 2015. On Feb. 8, she opened a retail storefront. Her delicious gluten-free goodies and leadership within San Diego’s allergy community is helping make San Diego a prominent destination for those with limited diets. You already own a thriving wholesale gluten-free baking kitchen selling to restaurants and hotels. Why open a retail storefront now? We’d had so much demand. We would get phone calls from people wanting small orders with special glazes. But I couldn’t deliver that on a wholesale level. I also didn’t love working the farm-ers markets. Estimating how much product to make each week without a loss caused me too much stress. I started to realize I wanted a brick and mortar. I have a mentor and he said your retail location can’t be in the same space as wholesale. I knew how much I hated looking at property with realtors, so when the space in North Park became available and I wasn’t looking, I felt like this is the right thing to do at the right time. At your grand opening, you had seven ribbon cutters. Why? We had people of different ages, races and genders representing the celiac community and glu-ten-free community, including vegans who have allergies and vegans by choice, those allergic to wheat, and those who avoid gluten by choice. I wanted to show that the gluten-free community includes everyone from the young girl to the older gentleman. There’s no real clearcut profile except for the foods they don’t eat. We all come to the table and we’re all different but we all eat gluten-free. So, you were trying to put a face to the community? Yes. I wanted to put a face to the facets of the community. Gluten-free people often feel exclud-ed, so I wanted to create a sense of inclusion and celebration at the opening Community seems important to you. Is that key to success? Yes. I think engaging the community and creating a sense of shared identity and common ground is key. How do you go about developing recipes? For me, I need to create the best recipe every time. It requires trial and error and working with people. When developing lemon bars for instance, I needed the

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Roanna Canete, along with other ribbon cutters (Photo by Cherie Gough)

The GF Baking Co 4594 30th St. San Diego CA 858-270-9863 thegfbakingco.com base to crisp and I was having trouble with that. At the time, I was reading a cookbook where the author compares recipes and tries using different ingredients from famous restaurants’ recipes to his grandmother’s. He notic-es how these terrific recipes are similar, and what the possible downfalls might be. Then at the end, he makes a recipe based off of his observations of all of that, and that last recipe is the best because he takes everybody’s ideas, learns from them, and puts them together. That’s what I did when learning to create our lemon bars. With our bagels, I needed help. I’d never made a bagel. I made the dough, then I got together with Kristee at Big City Bagels and she showed me how to boil the water and the process for ac-tually making bagels. I needed her expertise. And people were blown away by those bagels. The first few weeks that Big City Bagels debuted our gluten-free bagels, customers were livid. They thought the store got their order wrong, that they were served a “regular” bagel with gluten. Ours taste just like the real thing. Which items are you most proud of, what are your best sellers, and what seasonal items are coming? I’m really proud of our cinnamon rolls. To make a vegan cinnamon roll that doesn’t crumble, is gooey and can be heated without drying up. I’m really proud of that. Donuts and bagels are our most requested items. That’s what our gluten-free customers

say they want the most. We are getting ready to stock mini pies and crumbles using seasonal fruits. You recently competed on Netflix’s ‘Sugar Rush’ with your cake decorator Lisa Altfest, who is a celiac, and baked everything gluten-free. What’s been the response? It’s been overwhelming. We’ve received emails and handwritten letters from all over the world. The most distinctive response was to Lisa with people saying, “I never knew a celiac could do that — become a renowned baker.” We’ve had pastry chefs from Europe to South America ask-ing how they can learn to bake such beautiful gluten-free treats, and sharing their dreams of opening their own shops. One letter that definitely stands out was from the mom of a boy who was just diagnosed with celiac disease. He was devastated, but then that same week, they turned on the show and watched us create our bakes. It gave him hope. We sent him a package of our chocolate cake mix and he is saving it for his birthday cake this year. What’s next for you? I want to start a gluten-free pastry school based in San Diego. I’d love to empower people with the basics of how to successfully bake gluten-free at home as well as train professionals in depth using French pastry techniques who are looking to open their own gluten-free pastry shop. You seem very driven and always looking toward the next project. What inspires you? I’ve got this fire inside of me that motivates me. I need to feel like I can balance family, life and work, like three balls in the air, but also, I cannot be bored at work, ever. I need to feel like I’ve accomplished something at the end of each day. — Cherie Gough is an award winning local writer uncovering San Diego's best gluten-free gems.

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A combination oyster, gin and wine bar in North Park is in store by the owners of The Rose wine bar and bottle shop in South Park. Owners Chelsea Coleman and Rae Gurne have named their upcoming second venture Mableâ€™s Gone Fishing in honor of Colemanâ€™s dog. The Roseâ€™s focused inventory of global and natural wines will be in the offing along with gin cocktails, seasonal bistro fare and fresh oysters. The establishment is expected to launch in the coming months. 3770 30th St.

Dozens of breweries, distillers and restaurants are taking part in the 10th annual Mission Valley Craft Beer & Food Festival from 1 to 5 p.m., Feb. 29 at the San Diego County Credit Union Stadium Practice Field. The ever-growing event has partnered this year with the San Diego Bacon Fest for adding another layer of decadence to the offerings. Participating brewers include North Park Beer Co, Belching

Beaver, Societe, Green Flash, Eppig and many more. They will be joined by 10 local distillers that include Old Harbor, You & Yours, and Malahat Spirits. Food samples will be doled out by Cocina 35, The Cork & Craft, Amore Cheesecakes and others. Tickets are $55. They include unlimited tastings of beer, spirits and food. VIP admission is $80, which allows guests to enter the grounds one hour earlier, at noon. 9449 Friars Road, mvcbf.com.

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The Orange County-based Tabu Shabu has bubbled into North Park with various soup bases and ingredients for customizing your own Japanese hot pots. The porridge choices include seaweed dashi, spicy miso and tonkotsu pork. They can be paired with a number of grains, vegetables and proteins such as brown rice, Napa cabbage, grass-fed rib eye, and more.

The offerings extend to a wide variety of sake in addition to draft beer and wine. Founded eight years ago in Costa Mesa by restaurateur Jeff Chon, the restaurant has a few other locations in Southern California, and with another opening soon in Carlsbad. 3647 30th St., 619-4080369, tabushabu.com.

Ravioli are not exclusive to Italy. The French do a fine job at making them too, as will be proven at Bleu BohĂŠme in Kensington next month for National Ravioli Day on March 20. Chef-owner Ken Irvine will bring to the menu ravioli dâ€™agneau, which features delicate pasta casings filled with goat cheese

and house-made lamb ragout. Theyâ€™ll be served with sauteed mustard greens and Beaujolais sauce for $28 per plate. Irvineâ€™s popular ravioli maison stuffed with mushrooms and served over spinach will be available as well for $26.95 per plate. 4090 Adams Ave., 619-255-4167, Ravioli with French twists in Kensington (Wicked Creative PR) www.bleuboheme.com.

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Medina Moroccan-Baja Kitchen in North Park will celebrate its one-year anniversary March 6 with a few perks for customers. Chef- ow ner Alia Jaziri plans on running happy-hour specials all day with $5 draft beers and $1 off tacos. And from 6 to 9 p.m., there will be live music and

t ray-passed appeti zers a nd desserts. Jaziri opened the casual-service restaurant a year ago in honor of her Tunisian-Mexican heritage. She had previously operated a food truck in San Francisco before returning to her native San Diego. 2850 El Cajon Blvd., 619230-5037, medinakitchen.com.

Rusticucina has opened on Park Boulevard. (Alternative Strategies) The new Rusticucina in Hillcrest is up and running to the tune of dry-aged meatballs, lobster lasagna, bone marrow risotto and other Italian-American dishes created by chef and co-owner Marco Provino. Formerly Sirens Bar & Restaurant, and Pardon My French before that, the space has

been radically remodeled with copious greenery, earthy colors and a freshened-up side patio. Lunch and dinner are served daily, and there is also weekend brunch. 3797 Park Blvd., 619-3105291, rusticucina.com. â€” Frank Sabatini Jr. can be reached at fsabatini@san.rr.com.

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A tip of the crown to malted waffles Restaurant Review Frank Sabatini Jr. At more than 25 years old, The Waffle Spot in Hotel Circle remains a campy offshoot to the midcentury-style lobby of Kings Inn San Diego, a two-level hotel built in 1959 that received a respectful makeover about five years ago. Upon stepping inside the breakfast-lunch joint, patrons discover its cartoonish mascot, Sir Wafflelot, whose image graces a medieval landscape captured on a giant mural. There are also printed versions of the kingly waffle character hanging above the restaurant’s sizable lunch counter. They were colored in by kids who got to actually meet him roaming the lobby on weekend mornings. Because locals have long been privy to The Waffle Spot, spillover is common during peak times — such as on weekends and holidays between 9 a.m. and noon. Although you can usually shrink your wait time by opting for a stool at the counter, or by arriving shortly after it opens at 7 a.m. daily. Lighter colors and new flooring were given to the restaurant during the property’s remodel. Yet still, the place is refreshingly non-trendy and has maintained its retro kitsch. The waffles are obviously a big deal. They’re made with malted flour shipped in from Carbon’s in Michigan, which developed the mix in 1937. The malts bestow rise and sweetness while the addition of cornmeal contributes heartiness. But given their acclaimed airiness, the waffles cool down faster than most, especially the mini ones that are included with many of the breakfast plates. I’ve been coming here for more than a decade, and only on this recent visit did I fork into an apple-cinnamon waffle, which my companion ordered and kindly shared. It uses canned apples on the inside and thinly sliced fresh ones on top. Combined with a high cinnamon factor, it’s hard to imagine eating a plain waffle ever again. He upgraded his waffle to a “platter,” which gave him two eggs (any style) and four strips of bacon. (Customers can choose between any combination of two

Waffles reign supreme inside a historic Hotel Circle property. (Photos by Frank Sabatini Jr.)

strips of bacon and two sausage links.) Everything on the plate, including his scrambled eggs, was cooked to perfection. I’m especially in love with The Waffle Spot’s hash browns and corned beef hash. The potatoes are consistently crispy on the outside and fluffy underneath — a tricky feat many kitchens can’t seem to master. They respond beautifully to a few daubs of Tapatio hot sauce found on the tables. That same crispy sheath is also present on the corned beef hash, which (gasp!) comes from a can. Call me crazy, but I actually prefer it that way because the meat is minced to a near-smooth texture with small, diced potatoes adding starchy creaminess. So what if it looks like Alpo with two eggs on top, the stuff packs terrific flavor. Chicken and waffles on this particular morning were ubiquitous. I suspect the dish is new since I don’t recall seeing it here in the past. The chicken pieces looked excellent with their craggy coatings of medium-tan batter. Numerous customers gnawing away at them appeared in trances, with one in earshot favorably comparing the dish to the almighty Roscoe’s in Los Angeles.

From the “sandwich billboard” menu, a chicken sandwich called the Phoenix flame thrower was anything but boring when I ordered it for lunch one day. It features a blackened flame-broiled chicken breast topped with sharp cheddar cheese and a crisscross of smoky bacon. The accompanying chipotle mayo was spicier than expected, revealing bits of fiery red peppers as I spread it gleefully across the buttered bun. Other sandwich choices include a Baja-style BLT, an Albuquerque turkey melt, a French dip, and the “Chula Vista chicken Caesar wrap,” which was added to the menu some years ago by an employee from South Bay. In combining an offbeat theme with a classic diner vibe, Waffle Spot’s waitresses generally fall into the category of folksy-sweet. They move fast, talk loud and know everything about the food — exactly the kind of service to help ignite your engine on hungry mornings.

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— Frank Sabatini Jr. is the author of ‘Secret San Diego’ (ECW Press) and began his local writing career more than two decades ago as a staffer for the former San Diego Tribune. You can reach him at fsabatini@san.rr.com.

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Mission Hills historic home once occupied by creator of aviator Lindbergh's 'Spirit of St. Louis' family’s wishes. The newlyweds resided briefly at Casa Grande Apartments in Hillcrest. In 1921, Helen purchased the lots on which the home would be built. Soon after, Requa was hired to design the home and in December 1922, B.F. Mahoney's name was added to the deed.

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The B. Franklin and Helen Mahoney/Richard Requa House, located at 4105 Alameda Drive in Mission Hills, has been home to several occupants including B. Franklin Mahoney, a man who helped make history. Mahoney was the one-time owner of San Diego's Ryan Aircraft Corp., the creator of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, the first airplane to cross the Atlantic Ocean nonstop in 1927. Lindbergh’s flight brought international attention to aviation and to San Diego as a center of aviation manufacturing and innovation (although Lindbergh has become a controversial figure for being a Nazi sympathizer during WWII). According to local historic home researcher, Alexandra Wallace of Landmark Historic Preservation, Mahoney “was a pioneer and innovator in the new field of aviation in San Diego and was also the creator of one of the first U.S. airlines with daily passenger service which ferried passengers from San Diego to Los Angeles.”

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The B. Franklin and Helen Mahoney/Richard Requa House is “an excellent example of Spanish Eclectic architecture and an excellent example of the work of established Master Architect Richard Requa,” according to Kiley Wallace, president and architectural historian of Landmark Historic Preservation. “Requa designed this home in 1921 in an early form of his Spanish Eclectic ‘Southern California Style.’ The period of significance, 1921-1951, encompasses the date of construction of the home. This house has been well maintained and has excellent integrity within the public view,” he said. Mahoney and first wife Helen

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Mahoney home in Mission Hills (Photo courtesy SDASM Archive)

owned the home from 1921-1951 and were residents from 1921 to 1925, when they separated and divorced. Mahoney retained ownership until 1951.

Early on Benjamin F. Mahoney was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 1901. Dad Franklin B.F. Mahoney, Sr. owned a large general store in Wilkes-Barre called Mahoney & Co. When Franklin Jr. was about 12 years old, his father died. He attended the Bordentown Military Academy in Bordentown, New Jersey, the Rosenbaum College Preparatory School i n M i l ford, C on ne ct icut , and Mercersburg College in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. In 1919, Mahoney and his mother Jennie moved to San Diego. After arriving, he worked as a bond salesman and then at an investment firm. On Aug. 2, 1902, Franklin’s wife, Helen Ann Post, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in 1912, she moved to San Diego with her parents and brother. She attended Francis W. Parker School, San Diego High School, and in June 1920, graduated from Bishop's School in La Jolla. Six months later, she married Mahoney against her

Franklin and Helen reportedly had a rocky marriage, which peaked in a shooting incident on July 13, 1924. Apparently, Mahoney drove to 4105 Alameda Drive with a private detective. According to Mahoney’s statements published in the July 23, 1924 issue of the San Diego Union, his car was being followed by the car of Edward H. Post, his father-in-law. There are various reports of where Mahoney parked his car, too. A San Diego Union article dated July 23 states he parked at the “rear entrance” of 4105 Alameda Drive, although there is no rear entrance, Alexandra Wallace added. A Union article from the next day reported the car was parked across the street, at the entrance to an alley leading to Helen's parents’ home at 3929 Alameda Drive. Helen came out of 4105 Alameda “brandishing a revolver.” Helen told the private detective, who was still in the vehicle, to leave the area, at which point B.F. Mahoney took the gun away from her. Moments later, Helen’s father fired five shots at Mahoney from a .32 caliber automatic pistol. “Neither Mahoney nor the private detective was hurt. Her father was arrested and charged with assault with intent to commit murder, and bail was $5,000. Helen filed for divorce shortly after the incident,” Wallace said she learned while researching. see Mahoney, pg 15

The Mahoney house from the street (Photo courtesy Alexandra Wallace of Landmark Historic Preservation)

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