Neither divers nor La Jolla Shores community plan-ners, negotiating on the regulation of commercial businesses in Kellogg Park, want the city to initiate \u2014 or control \u2014 that process. Currently, Shores surf camps and kayak operators are permitted, regulated and taxed by an RFP (request for proposal) process administered by city lifeguards. Detractors of that process argue the system is flawed, in that it tends to weed out smaller, independent operators, and that user fees paid by kayak and surf camps go entirely to the city\u2019s general fund, and not to La Jolla Shores, as some feel they should. The issue was discussed at the first meeting of the newly formed La Jolla Shores Subcommittee on Commercial Regulation on Jan. 23. “As designated representatives of the entire diving community, our goals for the first meeting were to identify and capture the concerns and issues regarding divers and brainstorm ideas to address the issues, as well as ways to protect and maintain La Jolla Shores Beach and Kellogg Park for all users,” said Jeff Nadler, one of five divers on the fledgling subcommittee. Nadler said area dive businesses will meet to discuss what occurred at the subcommittee\u2019s first meeting, and to gain a consensus of what business owners would like to bring to the subcommittee at its next meeting. Member Mary Munk said the group\u2019s initial meeting was fruitful. “We discussed what is done in other areas of California, the USA and the world relative to charging fees for use of reserves for scuba diving and other water-based activities and whether or how we might apply some form of these processes to La Jolla Shores,” she said. “Everyone agreed that the last thing we want to see is an RFP similar to the ones controlling the surf and kayak industries, because scuba diving is different, and an RFP would likely result in two large vendors controlling the use of the park for instruction and put the majority of the smaller businesses out of business.\u00a0We didn\u2019t feel that it would benefit the park, community or vendors to have that happen \u2026 or even the large vendors if times and numbers were controlled.” Munk said ways and means of assessing a fee (daily, weekly, monthly or annually) for commercial users (instructors, students, tour participants and their guides, etc.) was vetted, with no conclusions drawn, though a “healthy discussion” ensued. “The main concern was to figure out how to work with the city to have them direct fees collected back to the park for a park ranger and additional maintenance, as opposed to going straight into the city general fund,” she said. “With 2 to 3 million visitors each year, Park & Recreation needs all the help they can get.” The next meeting of the La Jolla Shores Subcommittee on Commercial Regulation, which is open to the public, is Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. at Voulez-Vous, 2168 Avenida De La Playa. {Members of the La Jolla Shores} \u2022 Janie Emerson, Brandon Price, Coco Tihanyi and Mary Munk \u2014 La Jolla Shores Association \u2022 Terry Winn-Kraszewski \u2014 La Jolla Shores Merchants Association Diver members: \u2022 Scott Anderson, president, San Diego Council of\u00a0Divers?\u2022 Jeff Nadler, Industry and Governmental Relations Executive PADI Americas \u2022 Michael Timm of Dive California representing dive shop owners \u2022?Alan Blake of Al\u2019s Diving representing\u00a0independent dive instructors \u2022 Robert Brauer of San Diego Divers (as alternate)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Neither divers nor La Jolla Shores community plan-ners, negotiating on the regulation of commercial businesses in Kellogg Park, want the city to initiate \u2014 or control \u2014 that process. Currently, Shores surf camps and kayak operators are permitted, regulated and taxed by an RFP (request for proposal) process administered by city lifeguards. Detractors of that […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":275269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Divers, Shores community bands together for solution to Shores commercial regs","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275268","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=275268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}