Point Loma & OB Dems - March 28 Meeting Lineup of Panelists - Short Term Rentals & Quality of Life
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Short Term Rentals (STRs) & Quality of Life
Join us this Sunday for a discussion about how to measure quality of life and housing affordability in our beach communities.
On Sunday a group of local panelists will join us to discuss taxes, services and the impact of STRs in San Diego in order to suggest amendments to the ordinance under consideration by the City Council.
March 28 Meeting - Short Term Rentals & Quality of Life
3:30PM Social time and check-in
4:00PM Meeting
Panelists
John Thickstun is a clubmember, and has been a practising attorney for over 35 years, handling a broad range of civil litigation matters throughout California including, mass torts, personal injury, wrongful death, sexual harassment, construction defect, business litigation, contract disputes and class actions. He is also a trained mediator, having completed the National Conflict Resolution Center training. John has a BA in History from UCSD, and his JD from California Western School of Law.
John leads Save San Diego Neighborhoods, to fight for enforcement of the law and against the ongoing illegal conversion of San Diego homes to short term vacation rentals. Save San Diego Neighborhoods has over 3000 members.
Mandy Havlik is a clubmember, and proud military spouse and mother of two young children who attend Ocean Beach Elementary School. She has been volunteering as the Ocean Beach Elementary Garden Coordinator for the last three years where she worked with parent volunteers and school staff to teach children about gardening and help them grow organic produce that is sampled by the school children in the classroom and in the school cafeteria.
She is a concerned parent and is passionate about ensuring that our streets and neighborhoods are family friendly and safe for children throughout the peninsula. She is currently working for additional traffic and pedestrian safety mitigations around Ocean Beach Elementary School.
Mandy was recently re-elected to the Peninsular Community Planning Board.
Kevin Hastings was born and raised in California, from the beach to inland Los Angeles, and in the small mountain town of Tehachapi. He graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo with a mechanical engineering degree and has worked in the profession for 15 years, gaining experience with design and construction of high-rises, single family homes, and commercial projects. Kevin has lived in San Diego since 2004 and Ocean Beach since 2014. He has been active in the community, cleaning trash and graffiti from our beaches, volunteering his time at Town Council events, and fighting for OB’s interests at city hall. In his free time you might find him hiking our cliffs or at the dog park. Kevin and his wife Micki are raising their new family here and are committed to Ocean Beach for the long haul.
Kevin serves as the vice-chair of the OB Planning Board.
Deaths in San Diego County Jails
Link to Letter for Approval at Meeting — docs.google.com
After last month’s meeting Dave Myers proffered a letter that the club could send to our Assemblymember Chris Ward and to State Senator Toni Atkins.
We are asking members to review this letter and suggest changes by emailing info@pointlomadem.org.
At Sunday's meting we will vote on this letter as a club: Dear (Assemblymembe...
February General Meeting Minutes
Link to February General Meeting Minutes — drive.google.com
We will also vote to approve the minutes from our last meeting in February at this Sunday's meeting! Please review for additional information or to suggest edits.
Local Updates
Latest San Diego Airport Noise Study Has a ‘Hole’ in It — obrag.org Our friends at the Point Loma Association have discovered something fishy in the latest noise study by the San Diego Airport. They found a “hole” in it, as in Jackson Hole. And our friends at PLA who publish their email
Point Loma & OB Dems
Patron
Angela Hawkins
Diane Mosely
Shoba Reddy
Sponsors
Judith Collier
Dave Furlano
Gale Hill
Mike Klinkert
Susan Peinado
Gary Werchak
Sustaining
Marsha Alexander
Toni Atkins
Ybarrondo Belen
Leslie Bruce
Barbara Bry
Michen Denny
Marilyn Gibbs
John Geary
Ann Gonzales
Mandy Havlik
Carol Holt
Dianne Lane
Yvonne Lu
Katherine Merten
Ulrich Merten
Pam Page
Vera Plain
Wedad Schlotte
Katherine Sheehan
Louise Titlow
Howard Walker
Chris Ward
Brant Will
Les Williamson
Point Loma Democratic Club
PO Box 7802, San Diego, CA 92167
(619) 800 5098
info@pointlomadem.org
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John Loughlin, President
Diane Mosely, Vice President
Kip Eischen, Secretary
Angela Hawkins, Treasurer
Central Committee Liaison, Ruth Rollins
Endorsement Committee Chair, Deval Zaveri-Tabb
Membership Committee Chair, Susan Peinado