I was running at the beach yesterday and discovered the restroom facility between Towers 3 and 4 in Ocean Beach completely fenced off and a series of Port-a-Johns set up outside.\u00a0 I asked a city worker what happened and was astonished at the answer.\u00a0 Apparently, a city engineer inspector looked at the building and condemned it in July, in the middle of the summer season when it is needed the most.\u00a0 I cannot express the depth of my disappointment and anger\u00a0at this city\u2019s\u00a0inability to serve the basic needs of its citizens.\u00a0 There was no need to condemn the building now. \u00a0The city worker I spoke with seemed to believe there was a problem with the roof and the city engineer felt it was in danger of collapse.\u00a0 Any competent contractor with some 1″ plywood, beam material, 6×6 wood columns and some miscellaneous tie lumber could make the building safe and usable in a matter of days, at least until the summer season is over.\u00a0 Some years ago, they put an entire second story on the Fashion Valley Mall while the first level of the mall continued to operate.\u00a0 I think if that was possible, the city should be capable of temporaily mitigating whatever concerns that engineer had so that San Diegans and the visiting tourists don\u2019t have to put up with this completely unnecessary\u00a0inconvenience.\u00a0 What a picture of beautiful Ocean Beach: a condemned, fenced-off\u00a0beach restroom\u00a0building right on the beach that the tourists come to enjoy. \u00a0Someone needs to step up and remedy this stupidity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was running at the beach yesterday and discovered the restroom facility between Towers 3 and 4 in Ocean Beach completely fenced off and a series of Port-a-Johns set up outside.\u00a0 I asked a city worker what happened and was astonished at the answer.\u00a0 Apparently, a city engineer inspector looked at the building and condemned […]<\/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":"Timing of beach restroom\u2019s closure is astonishing","_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-303212","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\/303212","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=303212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}