I read with great interest the article (“Faulconer, OB?planners at odds on beachfront variances, demolitions,” Aug. 11 Beacon,<\/i> page 1), about how [District 2 City Councilman] Kevin Faulconer does not [seem to] care about the character of our old, charming neighborhoods.\u00a0 If you have ever gone to a City Council meeting \u2014 and anything [pertaining to] Ocean Beach was on the agenda \u2014 then you know first-hand like I do that Mr. Faulconer, in fact, does not care.\u00a0 He is all about density \u2014 at all costs.\u00a0 He was perfectly happy to let a seven- unit condominium complex be built at the entrance to Ocean Beach in the 4800 block of West Point Loma Boulevard that would have been three stories high from street level, just inches from the sidewalk and with a setback way out in front of the conforming setback for the entire street.\u00a0 The architect was underhanded in presenting that this street is a block of two- and three-story buildings. Any moron driving down the street could see it is a block of all single-story frontages on the street.\u00a0 Because there is a slope down to Robb Field at the back of the street, some homes have a second level below street level.\u00a0 This travesty was fine with Mr. Faulconer and he thought the architect was quite clever in his twisted presentation.\u00a0 Thankfully, that project never came to fruition and one of the homes that would have been torn down has been sold, so hopefully it is forever dead. I am so happy to know that others are also aware of Kevin Faulconer\u2019s true character.\u00a0 He obviously thinks that Ocean Beach is not worth keeping as it is, and that new big condos should fill the lots, rather than Craftsman-style cottages that the area is known for. Thank you for exposing this negative councilman.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I read with great interest the article (“Faulconer, OB?planners at odds on beachfront variances, demolitions,” Aug. 11 Beacon, page 1), about how [District 2 City Councilman] Kevin Faulconer does not [seem to] care about the character of our old, charming neighborhoods.\u00a0 If you have ever gone to a City Council meeting \u2014 and anything [pertaining […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Writer not happy with councilman\u2019s policies","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294648","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=294648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}