Goals: (provisional) The goal is to keep the Pacific Beach community informed and aware of planning and land use issues.  Future issues may include Community Plan revisions, building code, density, zoning, new development, under grounding of power/phone/cable wires, etc.

Sub-Committee Chair Person:  This sub-committee is in the process of forming.  If you are interested in leading the group or joining this sub-committee, e-mail us at Info@SavePB.org

Current Projects

Mission at PB Drive

This project on the corner of Pacific Beach Drive and Mission Boulevard would replace the former pay-parking lot (now a dirt lot) and the Mission Bay Market.   The project contains 3000 sq ft of retail space and 42 parking spaces (shared by residential and retail) on the ground floor.  On the second and third floors are 18 four-bedroom apartments (72 bedrooms).  Project seeks a bonus density (18 instead of 15 residential units).  Project has driveways on both PB drive and Mission Blvd.  The project is adjacent to single-family homes (on the east) and the plans show additional project access via the narrow (15-ft-wide), perpendicular, “T”-shaped residential alley to the east.

Community concerns include:

• Alley access unsafe and unnecessary
• Too little retail - amount and location does not comply with Community Plan
• Bonus density not warranted
• Out of character, bulk and scale with adjacent single-family neighborhood
• Traffic and parking impacts
• Design will exacerbate flooding in adjacent residential area

Action:  Read More and Take Action

Status:  Planning Commission Hearing scheduled for June 22, 2006 confirmation and details to following in an e-mail from SavePB.org.

VOA Relocation (Detox Center move)

This project includes an inebriate reception center (“drunk tank”) and residential drug and alcohol treatment program.  Police take public drunks from all over the city to the “drunk tank” where they have to stay for 4 hours while they sober up, at which time they are released.  The residential treatment program will have 150 beds.  Volunteers of America has run this facility in downtown for 26 years, but they have lost their lease and want to relocate to a former restaurant building near the old Mission Bay Hospital and Interstate 5 (corner of Bunker Hill and Del Rey Streets).  The surrounding neighborhood is made up of offices, businesses and residences.

Community concerns include:

• Drunk tank clients released into the community
• Inappropriate location due to nearby residences and proximity to schools (Mission Bay High and Bayview Terrace Elementary)
• Does not comply with the Community Plan
• Lack of consequences for public drunkenness

Action:  None

Status:  

February 7, 2006: The City Council DENIED (6-2) the relocation of the VOA detox center to Pacific Beach!  Faulconer, Frye, Maienschein, Madaffer, Atkins and Peters voted to deny the project. Young and Hueso were in favor of the project. Kevin Faulconer was able to win the other council members support by his firm opposition to the PB site and by expressing his commitment to helping the VOA find an appropriate site within District 2. County Supervisor Pam-Slater Price came to the hearing and spoke strongly against the VOA relocation to PB. She also pledged to assist Kevin Faulconer and the VOA in finding an appropriate site. City Attorney Mike Aguirre issued a legal opinion that the project needed a full EIR.

Pacific Beachfront Resort

This project is a 227-room hotel/time share located on the oceanfront between PB Drive (the Surfer Motel will remain) and Reed Avenue.  It has 227 underground parking spaces for guests and employees.  Also, it has been required to provide 19 public parking spaces (underground) to replace those it will eliminate.  This project calls for the city to vacate (“give to the landowner”) the public right-of-way on the 700 block of Oliver Avenue and part of the right-of-way on Reed Avenue.  Project will provide a public walkway at Oliver Avenue and a concrete area at the end of Reed Avenue.  Project may provide boardwalk improvements.

Community concerns include:

• Oliver Avenue right-of-way should be preserved as a public park
• Bulk, scale and intensity too great
• Narrowing and shortening of Reed Ave.
• Reduced public access to beach
• Traffic, congestion & parking impacts

Action:  None

Status:  None

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