In your front-page story, “Beach alcohol ban to get 1-year trial,” (Beacon, Nov. 8), you reported that District 4 Councilman Tony Young “offered no explanation for his no vote” when the City Council approved a one-year alcohol ban at city beaches, bay shores and coastal parks on Nov. 5.”
Actually, Councilman Young would have been hard-pressed to explain why he voted against the aforementioned alcohol ban in view of the fact that his own council district is flush with a total of 26 alcohol-free public parks.
Furthermore, from among the eight city council districts, only one has more alcohol-free public parks than Council District 4.
The ban on alcohol at city beaches, bay shores and coastal parks will come up for a second reading within the next couple of weeks.
Councilman Tony Young will likely vote no again ” as well as offer no explanation for the hypocrisy of his opposition to alcohol-free public parks in Pacific Beach, Mission Beach and Ocean Beach.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In your front-page story, “Beach alcohol ban to get 1-year trial,” (Beacon, Nov. 8), you reported that District 4 Councilman Tony Young “offered no explanation for his no vote” when the City Council approved a one-year alcohol ban at city beaches, bay shores and coastal parks on Nov. 5.” Actually, Councilman Young would have been […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Says Councilman Young's anti-ban vote hypocritical","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302148","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=302148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}