Re: “City OKs extension of building permits,” July 23 Beacon, page 1):\u00a0 \u00a0Where does District 2 City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer get off in relieving the stress of private developer interests\u00a0at the expense of\u00a0 the commons? Last time I looked, the financing of private development was a matter between the banking industry and the builder with respect to the free market. \u00a0As\u00a0 gentrification moves from the local business association to the national capitalism of Starbucks, Wings, Subway, World Oil et al.\u00a0to the housing bubble of condo conversions to the current emphasis on\u00a0single-family residences, Ocean Beach sure could use some of those Facilities Benefit Assessments (FBA) and Developer Impact Fees (DIF) to address\u00a0a\u00a0portion of the\u00a0infra-structure deficits that our community faces. But I guess that\u2019s where I\u2019m naive. I\u00a0still think\u00a0that\u00a0public service should\u00a0embrace the\u00a0common good\u00a0as opposed to\u00a0the private passions of individuals. \u00a0So I salute Councilmembers Sherri Lightner and Donna Frye for opposing this current\u00a0extension of building permits,\u00a0but as for Mr. Faulconer …<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Re: “City OKs extension of building permits,” July 23 Beacon, page 1):\u00a0 \u00a0Where does District 2 City Councilmember Kevin Faulconer get off in relieving the stress of private developer interests\u00a0at the expense of\u00a0 the commons? Last time I looked, the financing of private development was a matter between the banking industry and the builder with […]<\/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":"City\u2019s financial relief for builders not appropriate","_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-302033","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\/302033","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=302033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}