SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The City Council has approved 6-3 a regulatory framework for marijuana production facilities in the City of San Diego. The approved municipal code amendments would create a new land use category for Marijuana Production Facilities – those engaged in the agricultural raising, harvesting and processing of marijuana, wholesale distribution and storage…
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – San Diego Opera and the San Diego City Council announced Thursday the second year of My Voice in the Arts, an educational program that provides free season subscriptions to San Diego Opera performances to middle or high-school students (plus their chaperones) in each of the nine San Diego city council districts….
The San Diego City Council voted 7-0 April 16 to donate $77,000 in funds from councilmembers’ district budgets to The LGBT Community Center in support of its many core programs. Council President Todd Gloria thanked all the councilmembers for the donations and said The Center has “touched the lives of thousands.” The funds will go…
The City Council voted 5-3 Monday to not override the veto by Mayor Bob Filner over the appointments of attorney Rafael Castellanos and businessman Marshall Merrifield to the Port Commission. Six votes were needed and Councilmembers Marti Emerald, David Alvarez and Sherri Lightner voted to accept Filner’s veto Jan. 18. Council President Todd Gloria…
BY NEAL PUTNAM SAN DIEGO – The City Council voted 8-0 Monday to set March 26 as the special election for the vacant 4th District following the resignation of Tony Young Jan. 1 after he left to head the local Red Cross chapter. City Clerk Liz Maland recommended the March 26 date so it could…
The San Diego City Council unanimously approved Monday all of Council President Todd Gloria’s committee chairs and recommendations for 2013. Gloria selected 5th District Councilmember Mark Kersey to chair a new committee dedicated to fixing streets, roads and sidewalks since potholes are the most frequent complaint city leaders hear from citizens. “I expect big things…
“Can you imagine what a pile of 1.8 million dirty syringes would look like?” That was the question posed by the City’s emergency medical director, James Dunford, regarding the City’s Clean Syringe Exchange Program that he chairs, and he told the recent Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee his own answer. “That’s what we have…
Just before the City Council voted 8-0 last week to approve GPS monitoring devices on city vehicles, Third District Councilmember Todd Gloria wanted to know if the new mayor’s official car would include a Global Positioning System on the vehicle. Tony Heinrichs, the director of the public works department, laughed and said his department “would…
LGBT WEEKLY EXCLUSIVE Having served and worked with the last five mayors of San Diego, my relationship and friendship with each of them has been different. I first met Jerry Sanders when he was serving as the San Diego police chief in the mid-1990s. Sanders was a very progressive Republican who extended his hand to…
