{"id":250843,"date":"2016-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-oct-7\/"},"modified":"2016-10-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T07:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-oct-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-oct-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u2013 Oct. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bicyclists and courtesy<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a daily walker and I don\u2019t mind having to share the sidewalk with bicycles when they don\u2019t have a designated bike lane on the street, but pedestrians have the right of way as far as I know. So please just give me fair warning when you are coming up behind a pedestrian! It can scare the crap out of the pedestrian and most dogs are very uncomfortable with bicycles and especially skateboards.<\/p>\n

\u2014Brent Butler via our website, sduptownnews.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Opening studio doors<\/strong><\/p>\n

Re: \u201cArtists open their studio doors to the public,\u201d Vol. 8, Issue 20 or at bit.ly\/2cOCyAa<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you for talking with a few of the artists and reporting on the second annual Open Studios San Diego [Oct. 15-16]. The number of participating artists has grown to more than 30. From Jamul to Fallbrook and Downtown to North Park, they have been telling me how much they are looking forward to opening their studios. Cheers!<\/p>\n

\u2014Patric Stillman, owner of The Studio Door in North Park, via our website<\/em><\/p>\n

No to UAMP<\/strong><\/p>\n

Re: \u201cA median, landscaped or paved? University Avenue re-do plan is at a crossroads,\u201d Vol. 8, Issue 20 or at bit.ly\/2drHmOl<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The outdated, backwards University Avenue Mobility Plan (UAMP) would be a huge disaster for University Avenue and North Park \u2014 for much more significant reasons than discussed in this article. This is literally the worst \u201cmobility\u201d plan the city has come up with in decades. See\u00a0northpark.us\/uamp on why this is, and what can be done to fix it.<\/p>\n

\u2014David Gleason, via our website, sduptownnews.com<\/em><\/p>\n

(Editor\u2019s note: The UAMP was approved more than a year ago by the San Diego City Council, so it is basically a done deal.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Be prepared for more of these arguments. For their bike plans, SANDAG is also requiring that third parties such as maintenance assessment districts or parking districts be in place and agree to pay for taking care of any landscaping before they\u2019ll install it. (Exceptions are federally funded projects, like the few blocks of Rapid Transit lanes on Park Boulevard, that are lushly landscaped.)<\/p>\n

Problem is, these schemes require a subgroup, such as the adjacent property owners or those paying for parking, being forced to fund something everyone gets to enjoy. And California courts have not looked kindly on funding mechanisms that do not have a 1-to-1, pay-to-benefit relationship.<\/p>\n

By refusing to figure in all the costs of the projects they present to the public, local governments and agencies are cutting corners on the cheap that end up costing more in future litigation than would being honest from the start.<\/p>\n

\u2014Mat Wahlstrom, via our website.<\/em><\/p>\n

Street fair posers<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love street fairs, mainly because I love all the handmade crafts.\u00a0I am kind of a chatty person.\u00a0I enjoy talking to artists who are selling their stuff.<\/p>\n

There is a common thread between a huge portion of\u00a0venders\u00a0and unfortunately it is lying about their \u201ccustom handmade items.\u201d\u00a0At a few of the recent fairs I have attended, about six out of 10\u00a0venders\u00a0have claimed that the stuff they sell is their original, unique, one-of-a-kind handmade item.\u00a0Some went as far as to describe the process in detail how the create their \u201cone-of-a-kind\u201d pieces.<\/p>\n

Several were copy cats in the same fair. They were selling the exact same thing as the booth around the corner. I bought a scarf from one\u00a0vender\u00a0who told me she knits in a certain way to achieve the ruffles.\u00a0The items were not knitted; they were crocheted. Big difference \u2014 for those who don’t know \u2014 knitting is done on two needles, crochet is done on one hook.<\/p>\n

Being a big\u00a0crafter\u00a0myself, Michael’s is one of my favorite stores. I found so many jewelry pendants and charms that come prefabricated that the\u00a0venders\u00a0were pawning off as their own.\u00a0I bought a dozen metal-covered leaf pendants, for gifts.\u00a0I paid quite a bit of money for them.\u00a0As I walked through the aisles, I saw the leaf pendants, the exact same ones for sale for $5 a piece or less.\u00a0Boy oh boy, am I a sucker or what.<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0vender\u00a0carefully described the place she goes to personally mine the gems in her jewelry.\u00a0LIE! I saw them at Michael’s.\u00a0The last thing I found was really disappointing.\u00a0This particular\u00a0vender\u00a0I found very interesting.\u00a0Her stuff \u00a0was beautiful and unique, not to mention super expensive.\u00a0She took her time explaining the high-tech process she uses to create her pieces. I didn’t buy anything because it was too expensive. I saw the same pendants at Michael’s priced from $3 to $8, depending on size.<\/p>\n

I don’t get it.\u00a0Do you? Please explain it to me if you do know.<\/p>\n

\u2014Tina S. from North Park via email<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014Letters to the editor can be sent to <\/em>ken@sdcnn.com<\/em><\/a> and comments can be made on our website or Facebook page.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bicyclists and courtesy I\u2019m a daily walker and I don\u2019t mind having to share the sidewalk with bicycles when they don\u2019t have a designated bike lane on the street, but pedestrians have the right of way as far as I know. So please just give me fair warning when you are coming up behind a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":250836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the editor \u2013 Oct. 7","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11551,11593,11552,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250843","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=250843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}