In May, La Jolla Village Merchants Association elected a new president, while once again vetting the divisive issue of dockless bikes and a proposal to “corral” them in sidewalk racks or disabled parking.
\nAlisha Hawrylyszyn Frank, a life coach with Fiercely Optimistic, assumed the reins of group leadership from James Niebling, who stepped down in April.
\nNoting she had “enthusiasm and a lot of energy,” Hawrylyszyn Frank said, “We\u2019ll continue working on our block captain roles while making social media [outreach] one of our highest priorities. Merchants who sign onto our website, we\u2019ll feature them in our social media.”
\nHawrylyszyn Frank praised LJVMA\u2019s client mix and the direction for the merchant group being charted adding, “La Jolla is already on the map, and we\u2019ve got to keep it rocking and attention going here.”
\nRegarding dockless bikes, LJVMA executive director Sheila Fortune said, “They are here. The bottom line is we can figure out how we want to proactively welcome them, or we can sit and complain about it and have a million more meetings.”
\nFortune asked the board whether they would prefer to have dockless bikes “corralled,” in free bike racks donated by the city on sidewalks, or possibly re-use disabled parking for that purpose.
\n“The City has racks that they will install,” she said. “But the racks have to be approved by the real estate owners in front of the sidewalks in which they\u2019re placed.”
\nRegarding an earlier suggestion that bike racks could be localized, Fortune replied, “The City will not pay to have La Jolla printed on them or any kind of bike rack logo. We do not have the budget to get custom bike racks.”
\nAfter the May 9 meeting, Fortune said the city has asked LJVMA to identify 10 spots that could be used for bike racks throughout the business improvement district by June.
\n“Then as we are looking for bike rack locations on our sidewalks, we will look at the [disabled] blue zones and see if there are a few that could potentially work with the space next to it painted as a \u2018coral,\u2019 “Fortune said, adding, “Not all sidewalks can handle racks, and not every block that has a blue zone needs a coral. Until we map it out, we don\u2019t know what will work\u2026or what can even get approved.”
\n“We need to be thinking about alternative transportation \u2014 golf carts, Segways, etc. \u2014 that is coming,” said LJVMA board member Laurnie Durisoe on May 9. “The trade-off is your hoping to get rid of [standard] vehicles for smaller units.”
\n“We have to embrace it [dockless],” said board member Michael Dorvillier.
\n“We need to get [dockless off the sidewalks, but the sidewalks should not be cluttered with racks,” agreed Hawrylyszyn Frank.
\n“We\u2019ve intimidated the bike companies,” said Bill Robbins, a La Jolla community park planner from the audience.
\nRobbins said dockless companies need to be held accountable.
\n“Somebody needs to make them put them in some sort of corral,” he said. “I don\u2019t think we should have to do that for them.”
\nSuggested Robbins: “I would make a deal with them saying, \u2018We\u2019ll do this if you do this. We\u2019ll give you parking spaces or racks if you pick them up.\u2019 ”
\nBut Robbins warned, “Let\u2019s get something from them in writing before you give away parking.”
\nThe dockless issue will likely be revisited again at LJVMA\u2019s next meeting on June 13.
\nEn otra acci\u00f3n:
\n\u2022 LJVMA unanimously voted to draft a letter of support in favor of Community Choice Energy, an alternative to traditional utilities-based energy, which allows cities and counties to purchase cleaner power options from alternative sources at competitive prices.\u00a0
\nThe next La Jolla Village Merchants\u2019 meeting will be held on Wednesday, June 6 at the Riford Library from 3 to 4 p.m.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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