Update the infrastructure: parks, pools, sewers, more roads.
Improve integrity of our elected officials. The Cunningham case and pension problems left a bad mark on our city.
Improve beach access (parking) and cleanliness. Make beaches more fun and inviting. I was at Oceanside beach last weekend, and it looked like a really fun place. On the beach, there was an inviting walkway to the beach, a couple restaurants, a permanent stage with band playing, a pier, lifeguard stations. It was a clean, wide sandy beach. It was the most beautiful, fun, inviting beach area I’ve seen in SD. Mission Beach is also an entertaining beach for kids.
I think we could do more with our beaches: build restaurants on the beach, surf board shop (rentals, classes), performances, fire pits, bike and skateboard rentals to use on the boardwalk, more areas to rent boats. Where can you even rent a surfboard at a beach other than Mission Beach?
On the financial side, SD’s prospects are bleak. What will SD do with their already poor budget, as the sales and property taxes dwindle over the coming years? How will they ever replace the broken sewer pipes?
The biotech and wireless industries are not growing, and Professional and Business Services lost jobs last month. That is the ONE sector that the UCLA Anderson school looked to for job growth. Their Forecast said that the lost realtor jobs would be replaced by jobs in the PBS sector. That is not going to happen after all.
