2021 Agendas & Minutes

Please note that during the COVID-19 public health emergency LJCPA and its committees are meeting online, as required and permitted by current State and City orders. Most such meetings require advance registration or invitation, even if participants do not wish to identify themselves during the meeting. Instructions are posted below.

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Minutes for Trustee and committee meetings are linked below (there may be no minutes linked if the meeting resulted in no action items for Trustees).

  • LJCPA: La Jolla Community Planning Association Trustees (usually 1st Thursday of each month)
  • DPR: Development Permit Review Committee (2nd and 3rd Tuesdays)
  • PRC: La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee (3rd Monday)
  • PDO: Planned District Ordinance Committee (2nd Monday)
  • T&T: La Jolla Traffic & Transportation Board (3rd Wednesday)

Once LJCPA acts on projects, its recommendations are sent to the City, and they are available on the City’s website: https://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/cpg/recommendations

Looking for 2020? See https://lajollacpa.org/2020-agendas/

MONTHLJCPA (1st thu)DPR (2nd tue)DPR (3rd tue)PRC (3rd mon)PDO (2nd mon)T&T (3rd wed)
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FebruaryFeb 4 (online)
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Feb 16 (online)
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Feb 15 (online)
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Feb 8 (online)
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Feb 17 (online)
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MarchMar 4 (online)
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Mar 9 (online)
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Mar 16 (online)
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Mar 15 (canceled)Mar 8 (canceled)Mar 17 (canceled)
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May 17 (canceled)May 10 (canceled)May 19 (online)
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AugustAug 5 (online)
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Aug 17 (canceled)Aug 16 (canceled)Aug 9 (online)
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Aug 18 (online)
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SeptemberSep 2 (online)
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Sep 14 (online)
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Sep 21 (online)
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Sep 20 (online)
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7902 Roseland
2989 Woodford
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Sep 13 (canceled)Sep 15 (canceled)
OctoberOct 7 (online)
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Oct 12 (canceled)Oct 19 (online)
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NovemberNov 4 (online)
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Nov 9 (online)
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Nov 16 (canceled) Nov 15 (online)
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Nov 8 (online)
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Nov 17 (canceled)
DecemberDec 2 (online)
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Dec 14 (online)
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Dec 21 (online)
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Dec 20 (online)
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Dec 13 (canceled)Dec 15 (online)
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Looking for 2022? See https://lajollacpa.org/2022-agendas-minutes/

The City offers various workshops relating to the Brown Act, the California Environmental Quality Act, and other applicable laws and regulations. Schedules and descriptions of these are posted on the City Planning Department website.

Earlier agendas are linked from the top menu, and on the San Diego Planning Department’s web page for LJCPA.

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Submitted Comments

4 thoughts on “2021 Agendas & Minutes

  1. Craig R McClellan

    As a La Jolla resident, I write to express my opposition to the placemaking. I preface my comments by saying I fully support the taking of a portion of the street for outdoor customer seating for Puesto and the other La Jolla restaurants and businesses that are suffering through the pandemic. However, on August 1st or as soon as they are fully reopened, the street structures should be removed for at least four reasons:

    First, I believe the structures, and especially the ones that are not built as robust as Puesto’s, are a danger to public safety. They extend to the traffic lanes with no buffer, except in some cases (like The Spot) a plastic barrel or two. Since there are no parked cars, no parking space, curb, trees, or sidewalk between the diners and vehicles traveling down the street, the diners are directly exposed to distracted, impaired and negligent drivers. Distracted drivers, especially those on cell phones have become a big problem and safety issue. Consequently, placemaking would be placing citizens in harm’s way.

    Second, they do not meet the definition of a placemaking which is defined by the City as “the temporary use of public right-of-way and private property that activates streetscapes by enhancing the pedestrian experience and providing neighborhood-serving activities.” Puesto’s outdoor structure certainly does not enhance the pedestrian experience, nor does it provide neighborhood-serving activities. It intrudes upon and crowds the normal space for the sidewalk. It takes away nine parking spaces that would otherwise be available to La Jollans and visitors alike. Architecturally, it does not blend with any structure in the neighborhood, and even though it is well built, it is unquestionably out of character with the neighborhood. It is not there for neighborhood-serving activities, it is there for profit-making activities.

    Third, the precedent of granting such an application would be overwhelming to La Jolla Village. I don’t see how it could be granted for Puesto and denied for all the surrounding similar businesses that now have such structures, such as Coffee Cup, Sushi Nekosan, Hennessey’s, Herringbone, The Spot, El Avocado, and Jose’s. Not only do all these structures take parking spaces but their disarray and dilapidation change the character of the Village.

    Fourth, Puesto is a profit-making business. There is certainly nothing wrong with that, except when there is a taking of public property for the benefit of a private, profit-making venture. I know that technically if the permit were granted, the structure would theoretically be open to the public, but I’m sure you realize that anyone who sat at a table there without ordering from Puesto would be subtly or not so subtly pressured to leave. And five years is a long time to give part of a City Street to a private business.

    Thank you.

  2. Diane Kane

    June 3 CPA Agenda Item 5.1: Sen. Atkins & discussion on SB 9 & 10

    An argument in favor of SB 9 includes “creating inter-generational wealth for families, thus providing opportunity and stabilizing neighborhoods.” An alternate and equally likely scenario is rising land values and gentrification that prices adjacent families from their homes and established neighborhoods. Supply side “trickle down” economics hasn’t worked. Without controlling housing AFFORDABILITY to both renters and prospective new owners, merely increasing housing supply does nothing to assure that those who need affordable housing get it.

    1. What is being done through these bills to assure that new housing rental or sales prices remain “affordable” once built?
    2. How long is “affordability” a factor in their marketing and sales? Does this requirement transfer to subsequent owners and/or renters? For what period of time?
    3. What is being done to match up those needing affordable housing with the anticipated increased supply?
    4. What prevents new housing production by speculative property flippers and acquisition by real estate investment portfolios that drive up prices?
    5. What “zoning and design standards” will remain once SFR zones are gone?

  3. tony pauker

    I live just down Draper Avenue from the Rec Center. I and my kids have used a lot over the past 23 years. Regarding the August 5 item on the vacation of Cuvier and donating the land to Bishops i am in favor PROVIDED Bishops creates a flat finished (dirt) area at the elevation of the existing Rec Center field at Bishop’s sole cost.

    If you do not do require the city retained land is approved, you are asking the City to donate free land to Bishops (we have seen some less than perfect city real estate transactions) and then you place the cost of doing the site work to create a park a tax payer liability. This is a win for Bishops (larger campus) and a win for the community (a larger park).

    The city does not have the money to do this park work. So leaving a half build area becomes an attractive nuisance , attractive location for vagrancy, etc.

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