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PB HOLIDAY EVENTS Photos with Santa and the tree lighting at Christmas on the Pier is Dec. 3, and then the Holiday Parade and San Diego Santa Run (right) on Garnet Avenue is set for Dec. 10 in PB. SEE PAGE 14
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MAD plan riles residents in MB
THURSDAY · DECEMBER 1, 2016
BEACHANDBAYPRESS.COM
Should PB move the market?
By DAVE SCHWAB Councilwoman Lorie Zapf told Mission Beach residents at a Nov. 29 steering committee meeting that if they want a second weekly summer trash pickup to continue to combat flies, there's only one good way to do it. “If you want a second trash pickup – you're going to have to approve a maintenance assessment district (MAD),” Zapf said. “This is up to the community. You get to vote on it.” A MAD is a special district within defined boundaries comprised of both property owners and businesses, who vote to tax themselves to SEE MAD, Page 10
Man pleads guilty to Mission Beach stabbing By NEAL PUTNAM Earlier this month, a 73-year-old man pleaded guilty to stabbing a woman near Belmont Park in 2014 and will be sentenced Dec. 14. Terrance Alphonce Behan faces a maximum term of four years in prison, but court records say the defense is seeking him to be released in some type of senior citizen supervision program. Behan was determined to have regained his mental competency some months ago after receiving treatment and psychiatric medications after he was committed to Patton State Hospital in April 2015. READ MORE ONLINE AT sdnews.com
A couple walks through the farmers market on Bayard Street in Pacific Beach on Tuesday evening.
PHOTO BY THOMAS MELVILLE
Farmers market wants to grow onto Garnet, MTS says no ‘... move the cars off Garnet for a few hours to see how we like a safe pedestrian environment.’ CHRIS OLSON OF BEAUTIFUL PB
By DAVE SCHWAB Pacific Beach is encountering some bumps in the road in its attempt to move the community's weekly certified farmers market to a bigger and better location. Opposition to the beach community's plan to move the market from Bayard Street
between Garnet and Grand avenues to Garnet Avenue between Mission Boulevard and Cass Street on Tuesdays, has come mainly from public agencies fearing the change would unduly disrupt and alter existing PB bus routes. “Everyone wants to see this change except Metropolitan
Transit System (MTS) and San Diego Police Department due to rerouting of two bus routes and traffic rerouting,” said beautifulPB spokesman Chris Olson, noting the proposed venue change would create a weekly pedestrian mall. SEE MARKET, Page 12