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<\/a>\u201cThe biggest highlight is our April 27 cleanup we\u2019re doing in the neighborhood with I love a Clean San Diego at Meshuggah Shack,\u201d said Town Council President Lara Gates. \u201cThe Mission Hills Garden Walk on May 11 is also a big deal, and then there\u2019s the Concerts in the Park series starting the second to last Friday in June.\u201d<\/p>\n
The concerts will be every Friday from 6 \u2013 8 p.m. through August, and Gates also highlighted the Fourth of July Festival in Pioneer Park, which includes a parade and barbecue competition.<\/p>\n
Volunteers for the Saturday, April 27 cleanup will meet at 9 a.m. on the corner of Goldfinch Street and Fort Stockton Drive to clean streets, sidewalks and open spaces of trash including cigarette butts and single-use plastics like grocery bags, bottle caps and Styrofoam cups.<\/p>\n
Natalie Roberts of I Love A Clean San Diego gave a brief presentation on the nonprofit\u2019s Keep America Beautiful ashcan program, a joint effort with the Surfrider Foundation of San Diego to install public ashcans outside bars and restaurants to help mitigate cigarette-butt litter.<\/p>\n
Under the program, ashcans with hoods protecting them from rain are typically purchased by community groups or business improvement districts for $200. Areas with containers have experienced a 25 to 85 percent decrease in cigarette-butt litter on those streets, Roberts said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA total of 158 ashcans have been installed throughout San Diego County,\u201d she said, adding the goal is to have eight to 10 containers strategically located throughout communities near restaurants and other high-use areas for smoking to deter cigarette litter. \u201cWe are expanding them inland into areas like Hillcrest where there are a lot of restaurants, bars and street traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to the April 27 cleanup, the Town Council also discussed plans for the 15th annual Mission Hills Garden Walk, to be held May 11 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year\u2019s theme is \u201cSomething for Everyone,\u201d and the 2.5-mile walking tour starts at Mission Hills Nursery and visits 10 gardens.<\/p>\n
Every summer, in one of the neighborhood\u2019s most attended traditions, free concerts are offered in Pioneer Park at 1521 Washington Pl. hosted by community organizations and businesses. \u201cWe\u2019ve got an absolutely phenomenal lineup of bands this year,\u201d Gates said, thanking County Supervisor Ron Roberts for \u201ccontributing the lion\u2019s share of funding necessary to hold the concerts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following the discussion of upcoming events, Beth Robrahn of San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) updated the Town Council on the Uptown Regional Bike Corridor Project. SANDAG is working to create a bicycle network that links city neighborhoods and includes on-street bike facilities from Old Town and Mission Valley through several other Uptown neighborhoods, City Heights and Downtown.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of several projects that [was] adopted as part of the San Diego Bike Plan,\u201d Robrahn said. \u201cIt\u2019s a large project area, about 10 miles, within the Uptown District planning area. We\u2019re in the planning and design phase of this project.\u201d<\/p>\n
Robrahn said the objective of creating an interconnected regional bike network is to \u201cmake the streets safer for people to ride their bikes,\u201d adding \u201cthat\u2019s a huge opportunity to encourage people to bike.\u201d<\/p>\n
Regional bike corridor projects like Uptown\u2019s \u201ccan be transformative [and] actually improve the feel and vitality of neighborhoods by slowing down cars with traffic calming [measures], making streets safer and improving business,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Calling Washington Street an important part of the Bike Corridor project area, Robrahn said regional cycling network improvements will \u201cprovide a tremendous opportunity to slow traffic down on Washington making it safer, not only for people biking, but for people walking.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said details for plans along Washington Street will be available soon, and the project will hopefully be \u201con the ground\u201d in two years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ashcan program and SANDAG bicycle project discussed at Town Council meeting By Dave Schwab | SDUN Reporter The Mission Hills Town Council outlined a number of upcoming events and received a progress report on ongoing bicycle network improvements for Uptown at its April 11 meeting. From a spring cleanup and annual garden tour to the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":246085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Mission Hills outlines upcoming events","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246084","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=246084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}