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Climate Plan: City Commits To Getting Natural Gas Out Of Buildings
The city’s new plan is a meaningfully grander commitment than its last one.

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The city’s new plan is a meaningfully grander commitment than its last one.

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Chula Vista’s pot permits system is a disaster. Now, after a court ruled the city screwed up, it’ll need to figure out a fix on the fly.
VOSD podcast host Scott Lewis found in his new story, bidders decided the way to pay for the crazy expense of such a project is concerts.
Kris Michell testified that her ordering the deletion of 101 Ash St. related city records was “inaccurate” and politically motivated.
Plus: An Imperial Beach RV Park knows the limitations of state eviction protections and beaches are busy despite being contaminated.
Broker Jim Neil would return $1 million he collected for brokering the purchase of the Mission Valley hotel and another in Kearny Mesa.
Pickleballers are taking their fight for space right to the tennis court.
Most of them are homeless and have scattered across the city.
Residents of an Imperial Beach RV Park have to move out for repairs every six months, keeping them from getting state eviction protections.
Plus: A group of residents who were illegally living in a foreclosed home in Escondido were evicted last month.
The citizen-led body is intended to foster public trust in the Police Department, but appears to do little for accountability.
A repair gone wrong to the troubled Punta Bandera has been spilling sewage into the Tijuana River and threatening beaches on the U.S. side.
Plus: An onslaught of Tijuana sewage heads for San Diego coastline and San Diego pressing ahead with contractor transparency regulations.
Kris Michell leaked a confidential analysis of the 101 Ash deal to a candidate for city attorney as she considered blowing the whistle.
Plus: When you’re dedicating time, money and energy on a campaign strategy, why stop at a single “vote no” and the latest VOSD podcast.
The three teams bidding for that job have picked heavy hitters in the big-building business and laid out very different visions.
The hosts discuss what went down in this week’s council meeting ahead of the decision, all of the lofty ideas packed into this project.
Plus: Escondido voters will decide on sales tax measure this November and San Diego scores big bucks for books.
The shores of Imperial Beach through Coronado fail public health safety standards more often than previously thought.