Comments on: Whitburn, Gloria, Broadway, Hartley, Lee – and what they drive.

By: Paul Broadway

Paul Broadway — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:12:01 +0000

I just want to report back to Mr. Wolff and his wonderful blog that the League of Conservation Voters decided to endorse Mr. Todd Gloria for San Diego City Council, District Three. I hope to become more enivironmentally acceptable in the future. I have always tried to reuse, recycle, and reduce in everyway that I can imagine. If anyone has any ideas that might make me more acceptable to the League of Conservation Voters, please feel free to send them to me in an e-mail.

By: David R. Voth

David R. Voth — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:38:38 +0000

Paul Broadway and his wife not only share a car, it’s a Chevrolet Aveo.

By: Go: Don't Look Back

Go: Don't Look Back — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:16:50 +0000

And finally, everyone spoke fervently about protecting our canyons, but no one mentioned that this isn’t likely to be a huge issue going forward, given passage of Kehoe’s Senate Bill 373. Or will it?

By: Go: Don't Look Back

Go: Don't Look Back — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:04:38 +0000

Another thing: I admired Whitburn’s willingness to consider urban growth and development in itself a “microenvironmental” issue. Though the LCVSD-sponsored event was essentially focusing on the macroenvironment, unchecked growth and development in our urban communities impact the local environment in terms of increased vehicle traffic and loss of green space, at least. These impact the regional macroenvironment in terms of air quality and water pollution, and also contribute to long-term water and energy use problems.

By: Go: Don't Look Back

Go: Don't Look Back — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 22:55:54 +0000

Maybe the best response was Broadway’s: asked to grade the council and mayor, he said “Incomplete!”
Of course, he was last to have to answer, so had time to frame the good joke. Others were handing out Ds or Cs, and I kept thinking, “for what?”

Btw, though Gloria admitted that he would have cast a YES vote on the Kensington Terrace project, he needn’t have said: that he knew about the project for 7 years and many, many homeowners and residents of Kensington did not know until too late to stop it says it all. The developers and the planning group may have followed the letter of the law on noticing, but, as is prevalent these days in our urban neighborhoods, not the spirit of the law. Flying below the radar of the busy but working families in urban settings is not the right spirit. Because residents don’t scrutinze the SDDT or legal-notice columns nightly doesn’t mean they don’t care about their community and how it grows.