The choice is a pool or a baseball field
The City of San Diego wants to build an aquatic center/swimming pool at Hickman Athletic Field in the San Diego Community of Kearny Mesa. This pool would require the removal of at least one youth baseball field that was established in 1969 and has been in continuous use at Hickman Field ever since.
The City currently has no plan for providing accommodation for the aged 12-13 year old baseball players who will be displaced by this plan.
We are asking for citizen support to see that an aquatic center is not added to the General Development Plan even if no immediate plan to build the aquatic center is in order.
We are asking the community to adopt the Hickman Youth Athletic Associa-tion’s General Development Plan as the preferred planning document to improve the existing athletic complex. This will remove the proposed aquatic center – an unnecessary burden and expense on the City of San Diego – and allow youth baseball to continue as before.
The first of three community hearings will occur on March 20, 2013, at the City Public Works Department, located at 9192 Topaz Way San Diego, CA 92123.
We expect a large crowd of interested community members, as well as a representative contingent of youth baseball, softball, and soccer players.
Peter T Fayette
San Diego
Congressional delagation unable to answer questions
As I met with San Diego Congressional delagtion this week in an effort to stop the “sequestor,” I felt as if I was trying to bail water out of Mission Bay. Even in the face of severe economic impacts to al of San Diego, Representative Issa and Hunter were more than willing to “solve” the problem by putting over 75 thousand Federal employees in San Diego County in unemployment lines.
They were unable to answer questions as to who guards the border, inspects the food supply, processes Small Busines Loans, help with identity theft, stop unsafe toys from entering our country and collect the tax revenue to pay for their salaries.
This is a reckless and dangerous position to take.
Malcolm Gettmann
Spring Valley
