In June, La Jolla Village Merchants Association was debriefed on developments with electric scooters and the successful Concours d\u2019Elegance in April.
\nThe group also modified its ongoing strategic plan, as well as electing Lauren Johnston of Patronus Wellness to fill a board vacancy replacing hotelier Laurnie Durisoe, who sold Pantai Inn and is retiring.
\nDistrict 1 staffer Mauricio Medina gave a scooter update.
\n“We\u2019re identifying areas for rollout of scooter corrals,” he said. “In two months, you\u2019ll start to see corrals on the street, but not blocking emergency vehicle lanes or fire hydrants or red curb areas, without taking out any parking spaces. The goal for this is to get scooters off the sidewalk and into these corrals.”
\nMedina described the new 4-by-40 rule, which allows groups of four scooters in corrals separated by at least 40 feet. He said the City will employ a “carrot approach” to enforcing corralled scooters.
\n“If a scooter is improperly placed, the operators will have three hours to remove it or it will be towed,” Medina said noting recently passed scooter regulations by the City has ended the “wild west period with no regulations on the books. Now we have an ordinance that gives stronger teeth to enforcing it. Hopefully, we\u2019ll start seeing more compliance, with cops issuing tickets to people riding on sidewalks. This is only chapter one. We\u2019ll keep a close eye on this issue.”
\nMichael Dorvillier, who spearheads the annual classic-car, three-day Concours in April described this year\u2019s outcome as “awesome” adding,\u00a0 “LJVMA even had local car dealers set up with classic cars in front of their doors to bring people in. We also had small, one- and two-person groups playing music throughout the Village all day on Saturday, with a party with 1,200 people Saturday night at the Cove.”
\n“You did a great job and this was really a wonderful, synergistic, symbiotic relationship,” said LJVMA executive director Jodi Rudick.
\n“Creating these relationships, this is something big,” agreed LJVMA president Brett Murphy.
\nDorvillier noted classic cars were shipped from as far away as Boston and New York by owners paying thousands of dollars in shipping fees themselves. “We\u2019re really getting national attention for this show,” he added. In other action:\u00a0 \u2022 During public comment Susannah Stewart registered a complaint. “There\u2019s this beautiful new plaza with landscaping at Children\u2019s Pool and some big vendors sitting right there blocking the sidewalk and destroying the ocean view,” she said. Medina noted recent state legislation has loosened restrictions on sidewalk vending in parks. “It\u2019s not within our jurisdiction,” said LJVMA president Murphy. “But we\u2019d rather support people paying rent in the Village.”
\n\u2022 Discussing amending the group\u2019s strategic plan after six months, Murphy said, “We want to promote associate memberships to our neighbor business districts in Bird Rock and La Jolla Shores. Rudick noted other changes include LJVMA offering free, one-on-one counseling to aid merchants, as well as plans to host job fairs to help Village merchants recruit new employees.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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