{"id":245510,"date":"2012-10-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/councilmember-demaio-addresses-hillcrest-town-council\/"},"modified":"2012-10-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T07:00:00","slug":"councilmember-demaio-addresses-hillcrest-town-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/councilmember-demaio-addresses-hillcrest-town-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilmember DeMaio addresses Hillcrest Town Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

Community organization hands out LION awards at October meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

Por Antonio Rey | Editor SDUN<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Councilmember
Carl DeMaio speaking at the Town Council meeting (Photo by SDUN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After community members were given LION awards at the Oct. 9 Hillcrest Town Council meeting, Councilmember and 2012 mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio spoke, highlighting his mayoral initiatives and answering questions from the crowd. Approximately 30 people were in attendance.<\/p>\n

Town Council board chair Luke Terpstra handed out the awards, which are given to individuals and businesses in Hillcrest for visual improvements, support and general community building. LION stands for \u201cLet\u2019s Improve Our Neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLION is the Hillcrest Town Council official award that we give to people who improve our neighborhood,\u201d Terpstra said at the meeting. \u201cWe don\u2019t give out a lot, but when we give them out, it\u2019s very, very special.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hillcrest resident Ricardo Rodriguez was present to receive his LION award for his renovation and restoration of two properties at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Vermont Street. \u201cThere were two houses at that intersection \u2026 that were falling down,\u201d Terpstra said. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a lot of hope for them. We want to thank Ricardo for enhancing the appearance of that intersection.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second award was given to Ortega\u2019s Bistro, located at 141 University Ave. Owners John Haugland and Juan Carlos Ortega were also present to accept their award.<\/p>\n

Terpstra said Ortega\u2019s Bistro was being honored for \u201cgenerously providing a meeting [space] to the Hillcrest Town Council steering committee, where plans are made to improve the neighborhood.\u201d The committee meets monthly to set the agenda are set for the regular council meetings. While separate from Uptown Planners and the Hillcrest Business Association (HBA), the Town Council works closely with businesses, planning groups, city government and individuals on issues it deems important to the neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do this throughout the year, and we\u2019re very appreciative to Ortega\u2019s for supplying that space for us to meet,\u201d Terpstra said.<\/p>\n

Part of the group\u2019s initiative is providing a forum for guest speakers, including DeMaio. The group welcomed Congressmember and mayoral candidate Bob Filner to speak at their August meeting.<\/p>\n

At the October meeting, DeMaio repeatedly reiterated the focus of his candidacy, citing fiscal and economic issues. \u201cMy candidacy is about finishing the job of fiscal reform,\u201d he said. \u201cOur fiscal reform agenda isn\u2019t just about the pretty balanced budget and the great balance sheet. It\u2019s about getting city government working again in our neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n

After moving beyond discussion of fiscal reform, DeMaio emphasized other platforms of his mayoral run, including infrastructure, parking and the environment, ultimately coming back to economic concerns by calling job creation the \u201cmost important\u201d issue for the new mayor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also need to pivot from fiscal reform and restoring services; we\u2019ve got to get our economy moving again,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

DeMaio then addressed his support in Hillcrest, including from the LGBT community. In the June primary election, DeMaio did not receive the majority of votes from the Hillcrest neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may disagree from time to time,\u201d he said. \u201cI know a lot of people look at me and see nothing more than a party label, just like a lot of social conservatives at one point looked at me and saw nothing more than my orientation.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeMaio then fielded questions from the audience regarding the state of the Uptown Community Plan, density and infrastructure issues for Hillcrest. The Councilmember said there is both money and a commitment from the city to see the completion of the Uptown Community Plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou need neighborhoods, so community plans are really the reflections \u2026 of where we are today and where we want to go,\u201d DeMaio said, calling Hillcrest a \u201cwalk-able and bike-able urban community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next Town Council meeting is scheduled for Nov. 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Joyce Beers Community Center. For more information visit hillcresttowncouncil.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Community organization hands out LION awards at October meeting By Anthony King | SDUN Editor After community members were given LION awards at the Oct. 9 Hillcrest Town Council meeting, Councilmember and 2012 mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio spoke, highlighting his mayoral initiatives and answering questions from the crowd. Approximately 30 people were in attendance. Town […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":245511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Councilmember DeMaio addresses Hillcrest Town Council","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11550,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-top-stories","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}