(Editor’s note: Author Bob Whitney is one of the central figures in a development dispute over a proposal to build a mixed-use facility in La Jolla Shores.) Your website states that “The San Diego Community Newspaper Group is dedicated to serving local coastal communities of San Diego, including La Jolla, University City, Pacific Beach, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach and Point Loma.” Your reporter, however, oftentimes shows his allegiance not to our community but to the self-proclaimed land-use activists in our community. (Reporter Dave) Schwab has done a good job covering the local news in our community for many years, not only as a reporter with your paper but also with La Jolla Light. Despite his lengthy experience of reporting in our community, he refuses to report that the go-to attorney for Sherri Lightner and La Jolla Community Planning Association to oppose projects in La Jolla is Julie Hamilton. Due to his regular attendance at monthly association meetings and his familiarity with the community planning process, Schwab certainly has witnessed the association’s and Hamilton’s tactics over the years. He is aware they will file lawsuits under the guise of newly formed concerned community groups, including La Jolla Shores Tomorrow, No Three Stories, Tax Payers for Responsible Land Use, La Jollans for Neighborhood Preservation or Save La Jolla. The true purpose of their innocuous community sounding petitioners is to delay, add substantial costs to the applicant’s approved project and obtain fees and expense awards for Hamilton. Your reporter fails to report that the commonality of these surreptitious groups is that they are formed by the same cast of association characters. To bolster their grievance, they will enlist one of the licensed architects with the association to act as a professional witness or to create distorted unattractive project renderings to be used at public meetings (see video at youtube.com/watch?v=Uq0brcD1lVk>). Their relationship is so interwoven that Hamilton represented an architect and the president of the association as a character witness in front of the San Diego City Council. He allegedly presented false and misleading information regarding a project he was hired to oppose while the project was under review by the association (see video at youtube.com/watch?v=OEiBkc0wl8s>). Their group Save La Jolla consists of two association trustees. They filed a lawsuit to prevent the remodeling of a 500-square-foot expansion to their next-door neighbor’s oceanfront deck. Although the deck was built, it has been reported that Hamilton was awarded fees and expenses for unrelated permit issues. Then there is La Jolla Shores Tomorrow, a group consisting of several association trustees who have filed a lawsuit against the Whiney Mixed Use project. In this lawsuit, they argue “community character, bulk and scale, visibility triangles and the cumulative effect on neighborhood character.” The seven-year-long review process, however, has disclosed the group’s real intent is to preserve the view from an association trustee’s three-story home overlooking the Whitneys’ single-story home! Another association trustee led the group La Jollans for Neighborhood Preservation. On appeal to the California Coastal Commission, its goal was to prevent the rebuilding of a multimillion dollar home in his neighborhood merely because he claimed the new oceanview home would be used as a vacation rental! As a service to our community and in the spirit of fairness, perhaps Schwab should report all the names of both the plaintiffs and defendants, including the names of association trustees that are members of Hamilton’s clandestine groups. — Bob Whitney