I heard on the news that Kilroy also plans to start signature gathering again…for a petition to keep the Charges in San Diego. I guess the idea is to create petition fatigue (which I certainly suffer from) and keep paid signature gatherers employed with something other than the One Paseo opposition. It’s clever, but also transparent and hilarious. [edited to add: Maybe Kilroy also has some Mission Valley or DT interests to protect?]
I commute from University Heights to the Kilroy-owned building next door to the One Paseo lot. I do this because Carmel Valley is expensive and bores the daylights out of me, and I don’t have kids but I do need my job. The consensus among workers in my building is One Paseo will be a big PITA. Most of them can’t afford to live in Carmel Valley and won’t be moving to apartments/condos next door to the office to shorten their commutes. Mostly, it’ll be construction and traffic for ages, and then traffic and a bunch of establishments none of us will frequent.
The culture clash at the Highlands’ Jimbo’s deli counter kills me every time, and underscores that the day-job people are interlopers — you’ve got people who bill their time for a living, and then you have people who literally have *all day* to decide which quinoa salad they want. (Jimbo’s need to get a number system or an order form or something, though. That’s on them.) I guess if One Paseo businesses and patrons could operate with something of a sense of urgency, that would be nice and save me from El Pollo Loco.
If I could take rail to work in 60 minutes or less I would do it and would have no objections to the development. Though I would miss all the birds.
