A new journey permit, which the city of San Diego is dealing, would make the outdoor restaurant program permanently, which has completed a route from Avenida de la Playa in La Jolla Shores for five years.
The section between El Paseo Grande and Calle de la Plata has had a border for vehicle traffic since July 2020, originally, so that the restaurants can offer outdoor seating during the interior restrictions during the Covid 19 pandemic.
However, the program has remained due to its popularity and was founded as part of a special events in the city, which is due to expire on Saturday, August 9th.
The spokesman for the city, Richard Berg, said an application for an ancestor's permit was submitted by La Jolla Shores Business Association in order to design a promenade to a permanent lamp, which would neither extend an expiration date nor extend.
The existing approval was issued by the Department of Special Events & Drying from San Diego, while the new approval is being processed through the Development Services Department, said Berg.
When asked whether the approval for the right of way before August 9, Berg said: “The city works with the applicant, who is aware of the process and is diligently pursuing its permission.”
La Jollan Phil Wise, who led the coastal project of the Shores Outdoor restaurant and has been working since then to keep it alive, rejected a comment.
A permanent expansion of the promenade to Avenida de la Playa could renew a focus in parking spaces elsewhere in order to replace those who are lost outdoors by eating outdoors.
In 2023, the City Council of San Diego agreed to the regulations of the New California Coastal Commission, in which facilities require facilities on the beach to replace all public parking spaces that are taken by dining areas that they operate on the street. The new rooms must match the lost number.
The replacement rooms must be provided either on site or via a joint parking contract with a third party, e.g. B. a nearby company or a residential complex with additional parking spaces. Any replacement parking spaces must be within 1,200 feet (less than a quarter mile) of the lost rooms.
Several suggestions for replacing 24 rooms in La Jolla Shores were weakened, with an iteration in August 2024 received close support from the La Jolla Shores Association board.
This plan would reduce the width of a sandy Berm that shares the Kellogg Park parking lot on the west side of Camino del Oro and creates 24 new parking spaces in the newly opened room. The new parking strip would have the same length as the parking lot, from approximately where it hits El Paseo Grande to Calle frescoa.
The plan was sent to the Department of Development Services for review. The current status was not immediately available.
Some opponents have argued that the outdoor restaurant program is no longer necessary for Pandemic restrictions, and therefore the street parking spaces in Avenida de la Playa should be restored.
A loud opponent of the promenade, the Tricia Riha living in Shores, criticized the city this week for what it described throughout the entire process, and asked where people can park because they “lost our entire street”.
She also expressed concerns where people can load and discharge passengers and where delivery vans can hand over.
“If the city spends permission without a parking space, it is simply too bad for the neighborhood,” said Riha. “The chaos in the streets around the blockade is pathetic.”
“It started with Covid, [but] There is no longer a covid, “she added.” Open the street. “♦
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