Re: “Formation of new Town Council is \u2018sour grapes\u2019” (April 9 Beacon, page 6): On March 26 the Beacon ran an article titled “Group weighs creation of Peninsula Town Council.”\u00a0 The article described a collection of Peninsula citizens who decided to form a new group after a cadre of like-minded real estate and development interests took over the Peninsula Community Planning Board (PCPB).\u00a0 Some folks believed there was a need to make sure the people in the Peninsula heard the side of the story that would not only not be heard from the PCPB but would be actively squashed by that organization with its current make-up. The week following the article, two letters appeared in the Beacon.\u00a0 The current chair of the PCPB branded the organizers of the new group the “Gang of 11” in a sarcastic, vitriolic and factually inaccurate letter.\u00a0 Examples of the inaccuracies were the claim that the PCPB had been in existence for 50 years and that the PCPB operated under some nonexistent rules called the City of San Diego “Regulations.”\u00a0 The second letter branded the new group as “Chicken Little” and derided its goals in a silly, cheerleading piece for the PCPB.\u00a0 In the April 9 Beacon, the new group was accused of “sour grapes” by\u00a0someone from\u00a0the Point Loma Association (PLA).\u00a0 Where did that come from?\u00a0 The article on the formation of the Point Loma Town Council never mentioned the PLA.\u00a0 The new group has no stated problem with the PLA, so why does\u00a0the PLA\u00a0have a problem with a new group forming? \u00a0What I find puzzling is that the creation of a new civic group of people, that want to volunteer their time in community service, has generated so much animosity.\u00a0\u00a0The PLA\u00a0has indeed been around for 50 years and it has truly been responsible for beautifying Point Loma.\u00a0 But, contrary to what\u00a0the letter\u00a0stated,\u00a0the PLA\u00a0has never represented itself as a town council. It is an association of people who have had, as their main mission, the admirable goal of working to make Point Loma more beautiful.\u00a0 Ocean Beach has a planning group, a Town Council, a merchants organization, and other groups all with their own particular focuses.\u00a0 Point Loma should welcome a new group of volunteers, not denigrate them.\u00a0 \u00a0I believe the reason the PCPB chair\u00a0and the penner of the\u00a0“Chicken Little” letter wrote\u00a0what they did\u00a0was to tell everyone not to pay any attention to this new organization, just listen to the PCPB \u2014 and that would be a big mistake.\u00a0 A very big mistake.\u00a0 I think\u00a0the writer of the PLA letter\u00a0perhaps felt that this new group was attempting to\u00a0co-opt the role of\u00a0the PLA\u00a0and that is entirely untrue.\u00a0 This is simply a new organization with a different focus, and time will tell whether or not what it has to say and what it does is of value to the community.\u00a0 So, instead of those of you from the PCPB, the community, and the PLA throwing stones at the new Peninsula Town Council before it has even done anything, why don\u2019t you\u00a0just relax and let the public form its own opinion based on the new\u00a0group\u2019s actions?\u00a0 Better yet, why not welcome it? \u00a0Or, are you afraid of something?\u00a0 Geoff Page Former PCPB chair Point Loma<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Re: “Formation of new Town Council is \u2018sour grapes\u2019” (April 9 Beacon, page 6): On March 26 the Beacon ran an article titled “Group weighs creation of Peninsula Town Council.”\u00a0 The article described a collection of Peninsula citizens who decided to form a new group after a cadre of like-minded real estate and development interests […]<\/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":"Emerging Town Council should be given a chance","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11593,11552,11561,11550],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-images","category-opinion","category-peninsula-beacon","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297517","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=297517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}