Groups opposed to joint-use airport merge
Activist groups opposed to moving Lindbergh Field to MCAS Miramar are merging. “Taxpayers for Responsible Planning” and “Support our Military “” No on Miramar” are now operating under the banner “No on Prop. A.”
The organizations will bring together and leverage their pro-military, public safety, economic and quality-of-life messages against joint-use at MCAS Miramar.
In support of the coalition’s campaign, District 3 County Supervisor Pam Slater-Price hosted a cocktail fund-raiser on Sept. 6 at Andiamo Restaurant in Tierrasanta.
For more information about No on Prop. A, call (858) 459-7707 or visit www.noonpropA.com or www.savemiramar.org.

Code workshop will focus on Bird Rock
Bird Rock residents and business owners will discuss how they want the boulevard to evolve and future codes for the community in a charette scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 19, 6 p.m., at Bird Rock Elementary School, 5371 La Jolla Hermosa Ave.
Instead of focusing on changes to the Planned District Ordinance, a set of rules that governs the character of the neighborhood, the workshop will use a form-based code process.
Form-based codes focus on the relationship of buildings to one another and seek to produce a specific type of environment, instead of emphasizing land-use regulations.
Bird Rock has returned to the drawing table after the community largely rejected a proposal to allow three-story buildings in most of La Jolla.
The city granted Bird Rock more time to form its PDO recommendations. Consultant Michael Stepner will lead the workshop.
Locals can also share their ideas, thoughts and concerns with Stepner by calling him, (619) 234-0318, or by e-mailing [email protected].

Four groups sue city over Rose Canyon Bridge
Four environmental groups have sued the City of San Diego over the City Council’s decision to build the Regents Road Bridge. Friends of Rose Canyon, the San Diego Audubon Society, San Diego Coastkeeper and the Endangered Habitats League filed suit on Sept. 1.
The plaintiffs allege that the city failed to comply with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by ignoring city data, using wrong data, dismissing a state contract and approving the least environmentally sensitive alternative.
According to attorney Marco Gonzalez with the Coast Law Group, the city is breaching a 1997 state contract in which Rose Canyon received a grant for restoration that stipulated use of the canyon would not change without legislative approval.
Gonzalez claims that the city did not seek nor receive state approval to build the bridge.
According to Michael Beck, director of the San Diego Endangered Habitats League, the government is required to adopt the “least environmentally damaging alternative.”
“We believe that this is one of the most egregious violations we’ve seen out of the city in a number of years,” Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez expects that settlement discussions with the city will occur in October, and that a hearing will not take place until spring 2007.

Junior Theatre to hold open house at Firehouse
San Diego Junior Theatre (SDJT) will launch its 59th season and enter its second year of partnership with the La Jolla YMCA. The theater will hold an open house for the public on Saturday, Sept. 16, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Firehouse YMCA. Teachers will be available, as well as free games and food.
This year, the 20-member cast will perform “Charlotte’s Web” from Sept. 15 to 24, followed by “The Stinky Cheese Man” from Sept. 22 to Oct. 1, and “A Charlie Brown Christmas” from Dec. 1 to 17.
“The play production classes blend our education department with our production department,” spokeswoman Theresa Wulf said. “The director works with the kids for weeks upon weeks, and at the end it’s mounted as a play. It’s a really popular option.”
SDJT, which is the oldest youth theater in the nation, offers performing arts classes year-round. For more information about the open house, performances or classes, call (619) 239-1311 or visit www.juniortheatre.com.
For inquiry about the open house, e-mail Bethany Lockhart at [email protected].
The La Jolla YMCA Firehouse is located at 7877 Herschel Ave.