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Enlightening La Jolla Since 1913 Vol.99 Issue 6 February 10,2011
La Jolla High bracing for budget news BY KATHY DAY Staff Writer It’s been nearly two weeks since La Jolla High School Principal Dana Shelburne submitted his “budget book” to the district office. Today, he and the other La Jolla principals may find out what San Diego schools Supt. Bill Kowba thinks of their ideas — and those of principals across the district who were asked to submit spending plans for their schools. Shelburne, in an interview last week, said each school was given a target number —per pupil, depending on the size of the school. He was given enough, he said, for 57 teachers and one principal and $733 per student “to buy everything else.” This year the staff includes 13 classified employees, 59 teachers, four counselors, two vice principals and Shelburne. Add on custodians
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SEE BUDGET, A9 La Jolla Planning Association members are urging access to the beach below the 7597 Princess St. home of Ure and Dianne Kretowizc be fully restored. TIM LUCAS
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Planning group unanimous in call to open Princess Street access BY DAVE SCHWAB Staff Writer La Jolla Community Planning Association trustees are urging that both emergency and public access to the cobblestone beach at the base of the home at 7957 Princess St. be restored. The advisory group, which makes land-use recommendations to the city, on Feb. 3 unanimously backed a motion by Trustee Devin Burstein saying the group “supports the restoration and maintenance of the historic full and open public beach access … and not simply ‘emergency lifeguard’ access.” to the beach below Ure and Dianne Kretowicz’s home. The action was to have been heard today when the California
Tidepools and rocks cover the beach at low tide in this area below 7957 Princess St. AUDREY D. KEANE
Coastal Commission meets at the at Chula Vista Council Chambers, however, the item was pulled from the agenda at the Kretowicz’s request, according to planning board member Tim Lucas, who was
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preparing a letter for commissioners. He said a commission staff member told him the item was not likely to be heard until June. Kretowicz has been involved for years in a lawsuit he filed against the Coastal Commission in an effort not to dedicate a public access easement along his property. He also wants improvements and modifications made to the residence he now owns to be “grandfathered in.” “A requirement for an easement wasn’t on my property title,” Kretowicz has said. “I question what is historic access. A prescriptive easement was never granted. We have never agreed to granting a public easement.”
BY DAVE SCHWAB Staff Writer It might be the beginning of the end for “Rancho Relaxo.” That’s what Bird Rock residents have dubbed the house at 5460 La Jolla Hermosa they say is a nuisance to the neighborhood. Neighbors have been compiling a laundry list of complaints against a revolving door of tenants on the 900square-foot, single-family residence, whose landlord, they claim, has been operating it for years as a lodging and rooming house in an alleged violation of the San Diego Municipal Code. Recently, 18 neighbors banded together with the cooperation of San Diego Police, First District Councilwoman Sherri Lightner and a host of
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