I am against the beach-alcohol ban, and there are many more like me out there. I used to take my employees to the beach for a beer every Friday afternoon as a type of team-building exercise. It was a way to relax and let the stress of the workweek fade away, as well as having a good time outside the office with co-workers. This is now gone and it\u2019s just not the same anymore. People come to Pacific Beach to relax and enjoy life, and the draconian enforcement of the trial ban is ruining it for everyone \u2014 locals and tourists alike. I\u2019ve seen families busted in front of their kids. Why? Do you really think they will EVER come back now? And this isn\u2019t a one-time occurrence; I\u2019ve witnessed this multiple times. I\u2019ve also had to personally warn other fathers with children that it\u2019s no longer OK to have a beer at the beach. Why do grown adults with their families have to conceal a beer? These aren\u2019t troublemakers with kegs and beer bongs; they\u2019re families and tourists. These blanket-ban laws, combined with overzealous enforcement, are ruining the relaxed atmosphere of our beaches. This is NOT the image we want to portray of America\u2019s Finest City. I firmly believe that a compromise that is suitable for all parties CAN be reached, but we need to rein in [District 2 Councilman] Kevin Falconer\u2019s knee-jerk reaction to the unfortunate incident from last Labor Day. The voters will ultimately decide this, but their previous vote says that they enjoy having an adult beverage while at the beach, responsibly. Let\u2019s enforce existing laws against being drunk in public before we write new ones, especially when they are so overly broad as to unfairly affect many innocent San Diegans.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I am against the beach-alcohol ban, and there are many more like me out there. I used to take my employees to the beach for a beer every Friday afternoon as a type of team-building exercise. It was a way to relax and let the stress of the workweek fade away, as well as having […]<\/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":"Opposes beach alcohol ban, ripple effects","_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-303713","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\/303713","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=303713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}