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Planning Commission casts its vote for shared beach access at Children’s Pool By DAVE SCHWAB Balking at completely closing off Children’s Pool in La Jolla, the city Planning Commission voted 4-3 Dec. 12 not to prohibit human use of the beach during harbor-seal pupping season from Dec. 15 to May 15.

The Planning Commission’s decision on amending La Jolla’s community plan to allow seasonal beach closure of Children’s Pool will now be forwarded to the San Diego City Council for a final vote on the issue, likely in early 2014.

Prior to the commission vote, pro-beach access proponents unsuccessfully requested the decision to close the beach entirely for seal pupping season be deferred for several months to allow more time for development of an alternative proposal by lifeguards to create a physical barrier separating

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The La Jolla Christmas Parade rang in the holidays with its 56th annual installment on Dec. 8.

The parade was truly a beachthemed event, with appearances from locals like Izzy Tihanyi of Surf Diva and Windansea Surf Club’s Bird Huffman, far right. See all the photos, Page 10.

~Christmas by the sea~

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Soledad cross controversy renewed after judicial order In a nearly 25-year legal fight that has taken countless twists and turns, a federal judge recently ordered the iconic 29-foot cross atop Mount Soledad Veteran’s Memorial in La Jolla to be moved.

It was the second time the landmark cross, which opponents

argue is a Christian symbol constituting an unconstitutional “establishment or endorsement of religion,” has been ordered to come down.

In May 2006, U.S. District Judge Gordon Thompson ordered the city to remove the cross from then city-

owned property by Aug. 1 of that year or be fined $5,000 a day. Two months later, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy temporarily blocked Thompson’s order.

A month later, President George W. Bush signed into law a bill transferring the cross to the Defense

Department as a war memorial.

That law was subsequently challenged in federal court by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Jewish War Veterans and others.

In 2008, U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns ruled the cross

By DAVE SCHWAB

could stay. In 2011, however, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Burns’ ruling, finding that the cross, as currently presented and situated, violated the First

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A timeline of the legal saga of the Mount Soledad Veteran’s Memorial cross: MARCH 1994: The City Council appeals to the Supreme Court and votes to sell the cross and the land to the memorial association.

1954: The present cross, the third on the site since 1913, is erected.

DECEMBER 1991: Federal Judge Gordon Thompson, Jr. rules the cross violates the state Constitution’s guarantee of separation between church and state and issues a permanent injunction forbidding its presence on public land.

AUGUST 2001: A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the sale.

SEPTEMBER 1998: The City Council votes to sell the land and cross to the memorial association.

APRIL 2003: The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear the city’s appeal.

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FEBRUARY 2000: Thompson upholds the second sale, ruling it constitutional because the city did not insist that the memorial association keep the cross.

JUNE 2002: An appeals court votes the sale violates the state Constitution because the city gave preferential treatment to the veterSEPTEMBER 1997: Judge Thompson voids the 1994 sale, ans group. saying it violates the California Constitution.

JUNE 1992: San Diego voters approve selling the cross and surrounding park to the Mount Soledad Memorial Association.

JUNE 1989: U.S. Army Vietnam combat veteran Philip Paulson sues in federal court, saying the Mount Soledad cross on city property violates the U.S. and California constitutions.

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NOVEMBER 2004: San Diego voters reject a measure to sell the cross and the land to the highest bidder. Plans are made to move it to a nearby church.

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FORMER PLHS, UCHS TEACHER, 67, GETS 7-YEAR SENTENCE — A retired teacher at Point Loma and University City high schools was sentenced Dec. 6 to seven years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to obtaining child pornography on his home computer.

James Rick Mitchell, 67, is free on bond until he surrenders by Feb. 7 in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Janis Sammartino.

Mitchell worked for the San Diego Unified School District for 34 years from 1969 until his retirement in 2003. He worked as a math teacher and track coach at Point Loma High School and University City High School, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

His most recent work included 24 years at University City High.

He also worked at Einstein Junior High School as a physical-education teacher.

There are no allegations of molestation. The case was investigated by the U.S. Postal Service and he was identified as purchasing videos and images of minors engaging in sexual activity. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Mitchell was in possession of 4,751 videos

of child porn and many more images.

Sammartino told Mitchell he had cast a “pallor” on his career as an educator. She said child pornography causes “acute harm” to children depicted in the images. The U.S. Attorney Office calculated that Mitchell paid about $4,300 to purchase the images and videos.

— Neal Putnam HEARING FOR LA JOLLA SHOOTINGS DELAYED — The preliminary hearing for Hans Antone Petersen involving the Sept. 18 shootings in two La Jolla homes in which two men were wounded was delayed Dec. 5 to Jan. 13.

Petersen, 49, of University City, is charged with attempting to kill Steven and Lisa Dowdy and Ron Fletcher all on the same night. He is also accused of shooting at an inhabited structure and burglary of Fletcher’s home.

Deputy District Attorney Amy Maund said Petersen, a biotech executive, fired multiple shots through the master bedroom window of Steven Dowdy, 53, a University of California cancer

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News STUDENTS KNIT BEANIES FOR NICU BABIES — Six first- through fourth-grade students at The Children’s School (TCS) made a visit to the NICU at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla on Dec. 3. They delivered 19 handmade beanie hats for the babies living in the NICU. This fall at The Children’s School, second-grade teacher Vanessa Abisror taught an after-school knitting class called Connect the Knots, Connect the Dots. TCS director of development Laura Lavoie decided to “audit” the class to learn how to knit hats to donate to the Scripps Memorial NICU, to show appreciation for the care and dedication of the NICU staff.

In May 2012, Lavoie’s son, Luke, was born nine weeks premature at Scripps Memorial. Luke lived for 37 days in the NICU, a Level 2 nursery operated by Rady Children’s Hospital. Coincidentally, one of the students in the class, Lillian Wegner, was born prematurely and delivered by the same doctor as Luke, Dr. Casey Wang.

When the children learned why Lavoie was taking their class, they asked if they could also make hats for the babies. After seven hour-long after-school sessions, the children and their teachers had knit 19 beanies to donate to the NICU. The children were able to visit the hospital to deliver the hats they had

SPORTSBRIEFS >> FOOTBALL RECAP: MONARCHS CROWN VIKES, UC — Senior wide receiver Nic Skala gained good yardage (153 yards on 10 pass receptions), but it wasn’t quite enough as the La Jolla Vikings football team suffered a 41-24 defeat at the hands of the Monte Vista Monarchs in a CIF Div. IV semifinal playoff game played at Monte Vista High School.

Skala’s longest reception on the evening went for 41 yards for La Jolla.

Meanwhile, running backs Eric Tims and Reid Martin exhibited good footwork for the Vikings.

Tims (14 carries for 93 yards and two touchdowns) and Martin (20 carries for 71 yards) combined for 164 yards on 34

University City High’s Drake Aguon.

ROB STONE carries to lead the attack.

With the season-ending loss, La Jolla finished with an overall record of 5-7.

In other football action, the Monarchs defeated the University City Centurions by a final score of 41-2 in a CIF Div. IV first-round playoff game also played at Monte Vista.

HOLIDAY WARMTH Student Anna Sohn shares a beanie for NICU patients with Dr. Casey Wang. COURTESY made. There, they met the NICU staff and saw first-hand the impact of their generosity.

— Staff and contribution With the loss, UC closed out with an overall record of 4-7.

This season, Dominic Lewis, Kyle LeBlanc, Drake Aguon, Quinn Skillin and Dareion Bell all proved to be dynamic threats on offense for the Centurions.

UC’s Lewis ran the ball for a robust 700-plus yards, while throwing for more than 400 yards.

LeBlanc also logged a lot of yardage for the Centurions, with more than 400 on the ground and another 200-plus through the air.

Entering the 400-plus passing yardage club along with Lewis for UC was Aguon, a sophomore.

Bell and Skillan joined LeBlanc in amassing more than 200 receiving yards for the Centurions.

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News Jeanne Jones IDs suspect in home robbery Jones’ home has been burglarized by jewel thieves and Jones testified she has put up her house for sale. Four people are serving long prison terms for a 2011 incident. A former housekeeper’s boyfriend was convicted in an earlier theft.

Jones’ assistant, Vicky Holly, testified the total loss came to nearly $244,000. Jones said a Rolex watch, several rings, broaches, bracelets, earrings and cuff links were taken.

Also taken was a heavy locked safe, which she said contained nothing.

Powell was ordered to stand trial for grand theft, burglary and attempting to dissuade Jones from reporting a crime by allegedly grabbing her cell phone. He remains free on $250,000 bond and a trial date will be set Jan. 15.

Powell has pleaded not guilty and has no previous association with Jones. None of the jewelry was recovered after his Oct. 23 arrest.

After she had initially testified, Jones noticed Powell walking around in the court hallway and asked to be recalled as a witness, saying she recognized the way he was walking.

“Body language says more to me.

I was a dancer for years,” said Jones, who said she was “more certain” now that Powell was one of the burglars.

Powell’s lawyer, James Pokorny, introduced Powell’s employer in Los

A judge on Dec. 16 ordered an Inglewood man to stand trial for burglarizing the La Jolla home of cookbook author Jeanne Jones during which more than $200,000 in jewelry was taken.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Michael Smyth cited Jones’ identification of the suspect and DNA evidence as reasons to warrant a trial for Leon Powell III, 27. Powell’s DNA was found on disconnected cables to Jones’ video-surveillance security system that was taken during the theft.

Jones, 77, identified Powell during the preliminary hearing as one of two men who broke into her house Oct. 4 while she was asleep. She testified she called 911 on her cell phone, but one burglar grabbed the phone out of her hands. She called police after the men heard an alarm and left.

“I was terribly frightened. I was scared to death,” said Jones, adding that her husband was out of town that night and she was alone.

Because her locked bedroom door was partly made of steel, the burglars used a crowbar and other devices to tear into a nearby wall to get inside. Her closet safe containing jewelry had been left open and the men grabbed several items, dropping some on the way out.

This case marks the third time

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Angeles who testified Powell worked for his camera-security installation company for the last 7 to 8 years.

Kevin Garvin testified he sent Powell to buy security installation cables at warehouses at least 17 to 18 times.

Pokorny argued that Powell’s DNA was found on Jones’ security systems because his job required him to touch and handle cable wires. A DNA expert testified there was no way to tell how long Powell’s DNA had been on the disconnected cables at Jones’ house.

Smyth said the explanation was interesting, but Pokorny presented no evidence that Jones’ security-system firm, ADT, used any cables that came from L.A. warehouses. Pokorny said ADT could not confirm to him where it purchased its cables.

Pokorny also presented an alibi witness, Robert Hall, who said he had been working on Powell’s car at a Southgate firm and was not finished with it until Oct. 5. Pokorny argued that Powell is “not Superman” and could not have been in La Jolla the day before.

Deputy District Attorney Jalyn Wang argued that Powell “knew where to go” in Jones’ house to steal the security system because he works in that industry. She said Powell took off his gloves to dismantle and take the video recorder and left his DNA there.

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parent community approval process in La Jolla. A process where LJCPA trustees, in collusion with their attorney of choice, can force any applicant to pay hundreds of thousand dollars in attorney fees, city staff time, prepare a complete environmental impact report, endure almost five years of public

review and redesigns of their building and then be casually told, “If you want to avoid future litigation, move your building over five feet on the second and third floor from the east property line.”

This warning was recently relayed to me and members of my family from both attorney Julie Hamilton and Joe La Cava, the current LJCPA vice president. The warning came despite the fact the San Diego Municipal Code, the La Jolla Shores PDO and the La Jolla Shores Design Manual allow zerolot-line development in the commercial center of La Jolla Shores.

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humans from seals while allowing beach access to both.

In rendering its decision, planning commissioners expressed frustration over the inability of parties concerned to reach a compromise agreement guaranteeing harmonious shared-use between humans and pinnipeds at the popular pool.

Noting this was the “ninth or 10th” time he’d heard the Children’s Pool use debated, commissioner and La Jolla architect Tim Golba said he’d previously received assurances that “there was no way full closure (of the beach) would ever happen.”

“And here we are today,” Golba said. “I can’t support a community plan amendment that goes against everything in that document as far as beach access goes.”

Commissioner Michael Smiley asked why Dec. 15 to May 15 had been chosen as the target dates for Children’s Pool closure.

City staffer Morris Dye replied those dates have been generally recognized as the start and end of pupping season, adding, “It’s a date we can’t hang our hat on.

It isn’t precise.”

Smiley made his position clear.

“Denying access to the beach,

I’m not for that,” said Smiley.

Commissioner Stephen Haase said he would like to see greater flexibility in the policy of prohibiting public access to the beach, while commissioner Anthony Wagner voiced concern that if the commission were to vote for the seasonal pool closure, the issue “will come back to us again.”

Other commissioners also expressed frustration.

“There’s been bad behavior on both sides,” said commission chairman Eric Naslund, who said he couldn’t understand why a “real barrier between people and pinnipeds” can’t somehow be devised.

“That’s the most logical step for getting to the true intention of joint use,” he said, expressing concern that the lifeguard’s counterproposal for doing exactly that “hasn’t been more fully vetted.”

The public testified both for and against the seasonal beach closure.

Supporters of the closure claimed it is well documented that some humans can’t resist the temptation to harass seals even with a rope barrier separating them, and that temporary beach closure is the only solution.

Opponents testified that access to public beaches is a right guaranteed by the state

constitution. One pro-beach access proponent carried that argument one step further, saying closing the beach to human contact even part of the year could constitute a violation of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) laws guaranteeing equal access by the disabled to public amenities.

“Don’t be swayed by the ADA argument,” countered attorney Bryan Pease of the Animal Protection and Rescue League.

“That’s an entirely separate issue from restricting beach access to humans during the sensitive time of the seals’ pupping season while they’re nursing and raising their young.”

La Jollan Mike Costello testified that harbor seals are a thriving and expanding population and that added efforts like closing Children’s Pool to protect them are totally unwarranted.

“The public has a clear constitutional statutory and public trust right to access this beach,” said diver John Leek. “Violating that trust is not only unwise — it’s prohibited.”

Still others were just anxious to get to a resolution, whatever that may be.

“The time is right to end intermittent solutions and move to a permanent solution,” said La Jolla community planner Joe LaCava. “The seals aren’t going anywhere.”

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French-American School rings in the holidays The San Diego French-American School (SDFAS) welcomed students, parents and the public to its Mount Soledad campus on Dec. 13 for its annual Marché de Noël, or holiday market.

The market presented a wide array of goods for sale, including everything from homemade jams to lavender toiletries to jewelry, art and other gifts.

Vendors ranged from professionals who peddle their wares in farmers markets and other venues citywide to SDFAS parents and students who took the chance to become small-business owners for a day.

Students especially embraced the opportunity, setting up booths and demonstrating their best professional behavior to sell their products. One young, creative entrepreneur made earrings out of old 35mm film strips, while another worked hard to produce more than 30 jars of homemade — and delicious — preserves (pictured above).

The market also featured food ven-

dors like Green Door Catering, a regular at the La Jolla Open Aire Market that specializes in vegetarian and vegan food. Entertainment for children was provided in the form of a bounce house and a trackless choo-choo train on the school’s grounds.

The school also gave students a treat earlier the same morning with Dr. Bronner’s Magic Foam Experience, which turned the school into a winter wonderland. Students frolicked in the snowlike foam, below, before the biodegradable soap dissolved.

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taken up the 9th Circuit Court’s suggestion to look for alternatives.

Proponents of keeping the cross “where it is, as it is,” said they’ll challenge this latest legal attempt to move the Soledad cross.

“It’s unfortunate that the 9th Circuit left the judge no choice but to order the tearing down of the Mount Soledad Veterans Memorial Cross,” said Bruce Bailey, president of the Mount Soledad Memorial Association (MSMA). “However, we are grateful for the judge’s stay that gives us an opportunity to fight this all the way to Supreme Court.”

The U.S. Supreme Court is exactly where the Soledad cross case

Amendment.

The 9th Circuit didn’t, however, order the cross to be dismantled.

Instead, it offered the defendants an opportunity to alter the monument in some unspecified way so that it no longer violated the law.

Litigants have attempted, unsuccessfully, to do just that.

Over the years, the U.S. Supreme Court has twice declined to hear the Soledad cross case. But the highest court in the land has hinted that it remained open to hearing the case after the trial court had

JULY 2005: In a special election, San Diego voters approve a measure to donate the cross and the land around it to the U.S. Interior Department as a national veterans memorial.

MAY 2006: Judge Thompson orders the city to remove the cross from city property by Aug. 1 or be fined $5,000 a day.

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JULY 2006: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy temporarily blocks Thompson’s order.

OCTOBER 2005: San Diego Superior Court Judge Patricia Yim Cowett stops the land transfer, saying voter-approved measure is an unconsititutional aid to religion.

JUNE 25, 2012: The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear the appeal, letting standing the 9th Circuit’s ruling that the cross is unconstitutional.

FEBRUARY 2007: The state Supreme Court declines to review the appeals court decision against Cowett.

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Court,” he said. “This is likely to be the last round. Then, in two or three years, we’ll definitely have a resolution.”

Mount Soledad veterans have secured the support of the Liberty Institute, a nonprofit legal group dedicated to defending and restoring religious liberty, in its continuing fight to keep the cross on its La Jolla mountaintop site.

“We will continue to fight for this memorial and the selfless sacrifice and service of all the millions of veterans it represents,” said Hiram Sasser, Liberty Institute litigation director. “It is the least we can do for those who gave so much to us all.”

JANUARY 2011: A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses Burns’ ruling.

AUGUST 2006: President George W. Bush signs into law a bill transferring the cross to the U.S. Defense Department as a war memorial.

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could — and likely will — end up, said Glenn Smith, professor of Constitutional Law at California Western School of Law in San Diego.

“The cross is one of those things that has taken on a symbolic significance that far exceeds this particular set of facts, that’s why the issue has taken on such life,” Smith said.

The legal battle over the landmark cross is far from over, Smith said.

“I fully expect that Judge Burns’ decision will be appealed to the 9th Circuit, and I would expect the 9th Circuit to affirm Judge Burns’ decision, and that it will again be appealed to the U.S. Supreme

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JULY 2008: Federal Judge Larry Burns rules the law Bush signed is constitutional because the cross has become part of a war memorial and its secular message outweighs any religious meaning.

NOVEMBER 2006: A state appeals court overturns Cowett’s ruling.

FEBRUARY 2012: The Mount Soledad Memorial Association asks the U.S. Supreme Court to review the appeals-court decision. The next month, the U.S. Justice Department also asks the high court to review it.

DEC. 12, 2013: Judge Burns rules the Mount Soledad cross is unconstitutional. The ruling could send the matter back to the U.S. Supreme Court for final resolution.

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CIVICREPORT >> La Jolla Community CIVICREPORT >> La Jolla Town Council, Dec. 12 Planning Association, Dec. 5

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Should La Jolla Shores’ commercial strip along Avenida de la Playa have more or less development in the future?

La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) opted for less, voting 13-3-2 against a revamped plan by Bob and Kim Whitney on their reintroduced, mixed-use, three-story redevelopment in La Jolla Shores.

The vote came at the LJCPA’s Dec. 5 meeting, during which the advisory group, which makes land-use recommendations to the city, also approved a controversial proposed sidewalk café in front of La Valencia Hotel by a 10-7-1 vote.

Bob and Kim Whitney, who’ve owned the property at Avenida de la Playa and Paseo Grande since 2007, want to demolish the one-story residence there and replace it with street-level retail with parking underground and condos on two levels above.

Whitney project opponents continue to contend that the project’s floor-area ratio (FAR) — the total building square footage compared to the square footage of the lot — is excessive

and makes it out of scale and character with surrounding development.

This is the second go-round for the Whitney project, which in May 2011 was ordered to do a full environmental impact report by a 6-1 City Council vote.

In discussing project revisions, Tim Martin, the Whitney’s architect, challenged community planners “to find a building that’s more articulated in La Jolla than this one.”

Defending his revised development, Bob Whitney said, “It will be a wonderful addition to the area. We’ve done everything the community wanted” in terms of providing setbacks drawing the building back so it wouldn’t crowd adjacent properties.

Attorney Julie Hamilton, representing the Whitney project opposition, argued the project would be precedent-setting and should be nixed.

“If you allow this project to go forward, you will set a baseline condition for other similarly large projects on Avenida de la Playa,” Hamilton said. “It would significantly change the charac-

ter of this community, which so many people have worked very hard to protect.”

La Jolla architect Michael Morton disagreed, insisting it was time for the Shores to move in a different direction developmentwise.

“We’ve seen this project evolve and development in the Shores change from its 1950s building stock into an urban beach community,” he said. “It is time to let this project be approved and move on. I urge you to look ahead to future generations and let this community grow and develop, let it become what it should be.”

LJCPA secretary Helen Boyden spoke of the “creeping size” of Shores redevelopment, noting the La Jolla Shores PDO (Planned District Ordinance), which governs future development, was “established to change the course of development” (curbing it).

LJCPA trustee Patrick Ahern said the Whitney project as

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The La Jolla Town Council was updated on the status quo of the proposed Children’s Pool Walkway Beautification Project at its December meeting.

The “really” good news is that La Jollan Tom Morgan has pledged $200,000 toward the project, thus achieving a $250,000 fundraising goal, project promoter Phyllis Minick told council members.

The bad news, Minick added, is that won’t be quite enough.

“We could not get the final number on the costs until we actually had the $250,000, and we found out costs are 20 percent more than that — another $53,000,” Minick said, adding she hopes to make up the difference through grants.

“I’ve written 25 grant proposals in the last three years and I’m very much hoping those proposals will generate the difference,” she said.

“That and begging down on the sidewalk and glad-handing.”

Minick said community residents and businesses have been more than generous toward the project. She pointed out Casa de Manana retirement community nearby donated $10,000 and cumulative donations of $35,000

were submitted by several individuals.

“I’m sure there will be other bumps in this road,” she said.

Minick also had a bit more potential good news.

“Surprisingly, that same week we got a letter from San Diego Department of Park and Recreation saying they have $70,000 for repairing the Children’s Pool Walkway that does require City Council approval, so we don’t really know what will happen there,” she said.

After the meeting, Minick announced she and landscape architect Jim Neri have begun seeking a contractor to bid on the walkway-improvement project, which could take six months or more.

Improvements are to include vastly improved pedestrian flow along Coast Walk, double-seat walls similar to existing ones at Shell Beach and Seal Rock, the planting of shade trees, repairs to the existing gazebo, the addition of interpretive/historical/educational signage near the new lifeguard station, use of native plants on the bluffs to control erosion and restricting vendor “free speech” tables to a single location.

CIVICREPORT >> La Jolla Shores Association, Dec. 11 The La Jolla Shores Association (LJSA) received assurances from public officials that impacts from two infrastructure improvement projects are being minimized.

Vic Salazar Communications, liaison between the city and the Shores on the two ongoing projects, Avenida de la Playa Storm Drain Replacement and Sewer Group 809 Project, clued community planners in on recent developments.

Avenida de la Playa Infrastructure Replacement will improve

storm water, sewer and water services to the community by creating more reliable systems replacing undersize storm drains, which have contributed to frequent flooding and resultant pollution to the adjacent Shores beach and its state-designated Area of Special Biological Significance. Shores beach access will be impeded early on as construction on the ocean outfall structure will close the boat launch ramp for about 2 ½ months.

The 809 Project will install new

sewer and water mains within portions of the public right-ofways of Avenida de la Playa, Paseo del Ocaso, E1 Paseo Grande, Vallecitos, Calle Frescota, Camino del Sol, Camino del Oro, Paseo Dorado and Avenida de la Ribera.

Both projects were combined into one and are being done concurrently to save time and cost.

“The Avenida storm-drain upgrade is a very involved project,” said LJSA chairman Tim Lucas. “It’s great that the city and sports vendors (kayakers) have

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gotten together to make this work during this difficult (construction) period.”

Salazar said the ocean outfall box on the beach at the end of Avenida de la Playa is being demolished, which is causing Camino del Oro to be closed off and traffic, particularly local kayak companies using the beach, to be diverted.

“Kayakers and lifeguards have reached agreement on the number of kayaks allowed (30 per company) at their staging area

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using Vallecitos to load and unload,” Salazar said.

Another issue has been where staging for construction work for both projects will be conducted, with the community highly resistant to using Nobel Laureate Park along the Shores commercial strip. The city found an alternative site it has leased from SDG&E on Hidden Valley Road.

LJSA planner Sue Geller ques-

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HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS The La Jolla Christmas Parade and Holiday Festival marched through the Village on Dec. 8, drawing throngs of spectators to the streets. Girl Scouts and Brownies alike (1) were decked out in festive attire, while District 1 City Councilwoman Sherri Lightner greeted her constituents along the parade route (2). Moonglow Design wowed viewers with a creative and humorous float (3), while Santa waved to the crowd (4) and the ladies of Ooh La La Dance channeled the Rockettes (5). Even the Navy rang in the holidays with a float replicating the USS Midway (6). The parade was not without its non-human representatives, either, as horses, dogs and even camels made appearances (7). The festivities continued afterward with cookiemaking booths at the La Jolla Presbyterian Church (8). Photos by DON BALCH

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THE FUN CONTINUES After the parade, the crowds flocked to the La Jolla Recreation Center for the Holiday Festival, where Holland M. Smith, festival coordinator, lit the Rec Center Christmas tree lights (9).

The lights, furnished by GDC Construction Company, will be lit each night until New Year’s Day. Voice of La Jolla Ron Jones emceed the event, which included performances by music groups, including the Ukelele Bruddahs (10).

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Fishwick’s lively animal portraits on display downtown Stephen Fishwick’s art is not something that merely hangs on a wall. It is a vital entity, the next best thing to the living, breathing body it depicts. The concept is easier to imagine when standing in front of one of his large-scale portraits featuring the gaze of an endangered animal in all its untamed intensity or a spirited rock star in the throes of a performance.

Fishwick, whose work will be on display at Alexander Salazar Fine Art through January, has plenty of experience with his subjects.

Growing up on a farm in Ohio, he was exposed to a multitude of animals at an early age, and when his mother noticed his penchant for sketching and painting them from as early as age 7, she gently prodded him toward a career in art.

“Both my parents were very encouraging,” Fishwick said.

“They never asked [my brothers and me] to find something to fall back on.”

Fishwick made a decision to study art, but spent just nine months at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh before deciding the school wasn’t for him. At 19, his talent for quick drawing earned him a job at an Ohio theme park doing sketches and caricatures, a job he would parlay into a decades-long career.

After 20 years spent traveling around the country, training artists at various theme parks to do quick portraits, Fishwick was hired by SeaWorld San Diego in 1994. The park brought him out west to train its artists, and pretty soon he was working with every major theme park in California, from Santa Clara to San Diego.

The job, however, lost its luster when Fishwick found himself cre-

artists,” he said. “I didn’t want to turn 50 and wish I had been an artist, but was instead running a company.”

Luckily, due to the considerable downtime during the theme park off-season, Fishwick had always maintained a home studio and had constantly worked to perfect his craft. He had WILD ART Stephen Fishwick often portrays endangered even begun toying with the idea species in his paintings. of live painting, creating large-scale portraits in ating more managerial guidelines than artistic renderings. record time in his garage. The con“I found myself hiring and cept involved turning the process training artists to hire and train of filling a blank canvas into a live

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performance, and he even devised a musical score for each painting to add to the drama and inspiration.

Eventually, Fishwick made a promotional video of one of his first forays into live painting. The subject in the video’s painting, a Bengal tiger, caught the attention of a San Diego Zoo employee in 2007, and Fishwick was soon hired to perform his live “speed painting,” depicting endangered species and educating audiences of their plight.

“As a kid, we all knew about the [extinct] dodo bird, but that was it,” he said. “Now, it’s zebras, orangutans, pandas. It’s just shocking, astonishing that those animals could become extinct.

Once I can impress an audience

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out alternatives to choose from La Jolla is home to a wide is cardio boxing using a Thai range of cutting-edge fitness constyle. cepts, each with its own unique “It’s high intensity, mimickapproach and each able to get you ing what would happen if you looking and feeling your best. La were in the ring,” said HalvorJolla Today is featuring a different son, adding Zumba dance is fitness-related business each another free alternative offered issue. We’ll continue our series in periodically to clients. “We the new year to make those resrefer to it as our fun, party olutions easier to keep. class. It’s good for metabolic Personal attention is what affect and fits in with what we Bird Rock Fit prides itself on do.” and delivers.

A Bird Rock Fit workout is The fitness studio, previ- SHAPE UP Bird Rock Fit offers a variety of fitness regimens ously located in Bird Rock’s to get its members in their best possible shape. DAVE SCHWAB empowering, Halvorson said.

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“We have people in their teens all long as they need it. We’ve found Fitness programs at Bird Rock Fit the way into their 70s and 80s,” this works well because people parare also noteworthy for their brevisaid Halvorson. ticipating have varying fitness levels. ty: 30 minutes duration.

Halvorson said group and indiThis is another thing that sets us “Typically, the reason people give vidual classes at the facility utilize a apart from boot-camp style fitness for not working out is that it takes variety of equipment, including programs where, if you take a break, too long,” said Ryan Halvorson, dumbbells and body weights, you’re looked at as failing.” director of group training. “Everymedicine balls and resistance bands.

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The Patio recently installed a canopy to help with rain, wind and other inclement weather during the winter months, enabling allyear-round outdoor dining under the comfort of the new lid.

“Guests were intrigued watching the canopy in action,” said the restaurant’s director of operations, Lucas Reeve. “The added warmth it provides was a most welcome benefit.”

Reeve said the lack of overhead protection last winter clued the restaurant’s owner and operators into the need for such a covering, as even San Diego experiences cold snaps this time of year.

“We recognized the need to provide further comfort and warmth for our guests,” he said. “Adding the canopy has delivered a truly unique outdoor dining experience in the winter months.”

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MUSTHEAR >> There is no night on the yearly calendar quite as special as New Year’s Eve. The imminent arrival of 2014 is the perfect excuse to celebrate with friends, food, drink and music, and the La Jolla area offers up plenty of options to wrap up the year. At intimate night spot Eddie V’s, jazz piano aficionados will enjoy music from the Freddie A Dream Trio, playing standards in the V

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with the art, I have their attention and I can bring a reality to their struggles.”

Fishwick’s reputation as an artist with a soft spot for animals spread, and soon he was creating pieces to auction for the Humane Society, Wild Wonders and more.

His live speed-painting performances, meanwhile, earned him the chance to travel the world, educating audiences about endangered species or merely entertaining them (he also creates paintings related to music — his other love — with renderings of musicians of all genres).

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To those who marvel at his quick on-stage creations, “there’s no smoke and mirrors,” he said. A lot of practice has gone into his ability to create a painting in roughly 10 minutes in front of a rapt audience, but, Fishwick said, he believes he could “train anyone to do it.” He doesn’t plan much out in advance, either, he said, apart from the general subject matter and the soundtrack.

“Sometimes I get up there and I have little idea of what I want to paint,” he said. “I have to be in that moment to see what comes out. Sometimes, something very spontaneous happens, and it goes in a completely different direction. I really want to feel

that moment, that’s where it’s fun. I’ll have a general idea, but quite often it turns out different, and that’s a good thing.”

The only criterion he demands of his work is that the finished product embody the energy and lifeblood of the model.

“I totally engulf myself with my paintings,” he said. “If I can look at the piece and hear their voice, whether it’s a tiger or a person, I feel like I’ve succeeded.”

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Senior Lifestyle Doing Flunking retirement it Better

By Natasha Josefowitz, Ph.D. I flunked retirement! This is evidence-based: just look at this column — I’m not sitting by the fireplace doing my knitting in my rocking chair. (Actually, it would be needlepoint in a recliner.)

When you think of retirement, what images come to mind? For me, it always was an ocean, a sunset, a palm tree.

Well, I have all three right out of my bedroom window, and it did not do the trick. So, what are the options? In thinking about retirement, I divided people into three levels of work/leisure: (1) Those who are happy to play golf or bridge, read a book, spend time with grandchildren, garden, cook, attend a class, volunteer a couple of hours a week, go on a cruise once a year. They are definitely retired.

(2) Those that are semi-retired: They do some of the above, but they also have a part-time job or their volunteer activities entail responsibility they cannot shirk, perhaps as active board members.

(3) Those who have an “F” in retirement. They may have tried the life of leisure for thirty seconds and did not like it and just continue what they have always done, but at a different schedule or different position. Within that group there is a whole new category: the retirees who have re-invented themselves into a new type of fulltime worker.

I recently got an email from a doctor who had operated on my husband many years ago and with whom I have maintained a long-distance friendship. He wrote that his skills as a surgeon will be waning as he is aging, and since he has never developed any other skills or interests, he was wondering what he could do next. Reinventing yourself presents the chance to experience a whole new

“Doing It Better” columnist Natasha Josefowitz proves she is truly flunking retirement.

Her most recent book — her 20th to date — was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best books of 2013.

“Living Without the One You Cannot Live Without,” a collection of Josefowitz’ poems chronicling the loss of her late husband, was called a “hard-won, heart-wrenching collection of poems” by the American book-review magazine.

“A beautiful book of sad, funny and relatable verse and a comforting companion for anyone grieving the loss of a loved one,” wrote Kirkus Reviews.

Josefowitz’ book is available on Amazon.com and at Warwick’s, 7812 Girard Ave. — Staff and contribution

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way of being, thinking, learning, living — so the questions to ask oneself are the following: • Think of some of the happiest times in your life, when you felt

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most fulfilled and productive.

What were you doing then? What made you happy? What skills were you using? What interactions with others were you having?

• Were there people you admired or envied and wished you were in their shoes? What were these people doing?

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• Did you have fantasies about yourself in some wondrous adventures like when you were young?

What did you dream of being?

• When you read a newspaper, magazine or journal, what do you

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Society

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Holiday merriment with a purpose

SILVER TEA: above: Sue Kalish, Maryl Weightman, Claire Reiss, Karen Miller, Sally Irwin. Below: Sharon Zeichner, Martha Houshar, Colleen Royal, Sarah Burton-Hawkins, Marilee Warfield, Yvonne Mellon GINGERBREAD: above: Dr. Lee Rice and Mary Rice, Geniya Derzhavina, “Papa” Doug Manchester, Kathy West, Tara Tarrant, Ramin Pourteymour. Right: John and Sally Thornton, Phyllis Parrish, Cristull Hasson, Dr. David Barba

MERCY: above: Dan and Mary Mulvihill, Debbie and Conrad Prebys, Karen and Tom Gammiere.

Right: Charlie and Maureen King, Kristin King, Anne and Chuck Dick

Starry, starry nights

with Vincent Andrunas La Jollans have enjoyed some very festive fundraisers this holiday season, supporting a number of especially worthy causes.

One such event was Gingerbread

City 2013, a benefit for the Epilepsy Foundation of San Diego County held at the Grand Del Mar. Sally Thornton founded this event nearly a decade ago, and it grows in size and popularity every year. Its centerpiece is a competition for which artists, chefs and “gingerbread architects,” both amateur and professional, produce spectacular creations judged by a celebrity panel before being auctioned off.

This year’s theme, “Somewhere in Time,” attracted a dozen entries in “Grand” and “Petite” categories.

The level of artistry and detail was

simply stunning. The judges chose “Garden of Eden” (by Leticia Vasquez, Guadalupe Perez and Maria Gonzales) as the “Petite” category winner. They deadlocked in the “Grand” category, awarding duplicate first places to “Hidden Wonders” (by Maria Webster) and “Kris Kringle — In the Beginning” (by Melody, Tiffany, Cal and Chad Morse). Top places received cash prizes. All entries were sold in a silent auction, but the winners were first displayed at the Mingei Museum during December Nights.

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ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF OLD TOWN RING IN THE NEW YEAR AT THE COSMOPOLITAN IN OLD TOWN --Celebrate the Last Night of the Year in Grand Style at the Cosmo-The Cosmopolitan Restaurant and Hotel in Old Town San Diego State Historic Park will host a New Year’s Eve Party on Tuesday, Dec. 31, beginning at 9 p.m.

Guests are invited to celebrate the best night of the year at this special event where they can enjoy drink specials, indulge in a late-night buffet and dessert bar and listen to

live musical performances by Luis Max and the Blue Moon.

A special a la carte dinner menu prior to the event will be available from 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and will feature a variety of festive favorites.

Room specials are also available for one of the 10 boutique rooms for $250, which includes two tickets to the party.

Tickets to the event are $29.95 per person and include a welcome cocktail, a lavish

buffet and a champagne toast at midnight. Guests must be 21 or over to attend. The celebration begins at 9 p.m. and

ends at 1 a.m. To purchase tickets call 619-297-1874 or visit www.oldtowncosmopolitan.com.

Visitors celebrate Las Posadas Sun, Dec. 15th , 2013

attracted 325 guests. They enjoyed dishes produced by 14 celebrity chefs from area restaurants. Six chefs also donated dinner party packages, sold in a live auction for as much $6,500 each.

Eleven-year-old Maria Burritt spoke with amazing poise about living with epilepsy. (Her 15-yearold brother, Ricky, is afflicted.) She inspired guests, who donated generously during a paddle-raise. The event netted more than $150,000.

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About 27 years ago, Dan and Mary Mulvihill founded The Mercy 1000, an organization of supporters who each give $1,000 annually to help support the needs of Mercy Hospital. To date, the organization has helped Scripps Mercy Hospital and the Mercy Foundation raise more than $100 million for new equipment, surgical

rooms, beds and other needs.

An annual holiday party thanks and recognizes members. Held recently at the La Valencia’s newly redecorated Verandah Room and Terrace, the celebration was hosted and sponsored jointly by the Mulvihills and La Valencia owners Ash and Lata Israni. Guests enjoyed cocktails and tray-passed hors d’oeuvres, as well as antipasti, beef tenderloin, risotto, scalloped potatoes and more. The talented Pizarro Brothers entertained on keyboards.

The evening was also the occasion for top Scripps executives to thank Maureen King for her five years of service as chairwoman of the foundation board, a position she now relinquishes to Anne Dick.

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Real Estate

See you next year!

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It’s been a year of great things in La Jolla and here at La Jolla Today. While we’ll miss our readers over the next couple of weeks, we look forward to bringing you all the local news that’s fit to print in the new year. Look for our first issue of 2014 on Jan. 10. Happy holidays and happy new year to you and yours!

Residents unveil top-of-the-line green home in La Jolla Shores The home of tomorrow is in La Jolla today.

The Nooren residence at 8001 Calle de la Plata in La Jolla Shores is the third LEED Platinum home in La Jolla.

Built extensively with recycled materials and utilizing the latest in energy-efficient technology, the Nooren home is truly “green” and a model of resource conservation at all levels.

LEED, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design, is a program that provides third-party verification of green buildings satisfying prerequisites to earn points to achieve different levels of certification.

Developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is intended to help building owners and operators be environmentally responsible and use resources efficiently. The LEED rating system offers four certification levels for new construction — Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum — that correspond to the number of credits accrued in five green design categories: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality.

Started in 1998, LEED standards have been applied to more

than 7,000 projects in the United States and 30 other countries, covering more than 1.5 billion square feet of development.

During a Dec. 5 open house, Jack and Jill Nooren, owners of the Shores LEED-certified home, walked guests through their dwelling, discussing the finer points of energy-efficient building.

“LEED recognizes that we need to become more ecologically responsible in the way we design and build homes and the reason for that obviously is we need to limit the use of our natural resources, not just water, sewer and waste but also gas and electric,” said Jack Nooren. “So the LEED process looks at the global picture, which means they examine, when you do demolition, if you’re recycling any of the content of the old structure, which is what we did.”

The Nooren project featured an integrated design team con-

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Now, when you put all that information together, do you see a pattern? Something maybe even in your unconscious — that road not taken, that dream unfulfilled.

We don’t have to become experts at some new ventures, but we can

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You will happily flunk retirement when you do something that gives you that proverbial dopamine kick. This feeling of great pleasure and satisfaction

when you do something that gives you a high, a little adrenaline circulating in your blood, will make you feel alive.

This is not advice. This is to help you become aware of options — all equally valid: • Move quietly and happily into a comfortable old age, • Do a bit here and there, just enough to stay tuned, or • Get out of your comfort zone and re-invent yourself.

We all have default settings for

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LEGAL ADS 900 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA HALL OF JUSTICE 330 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 CASE NO: 37-2013-00076210-CU-PTCTL PETITIONER OR ATTORNEY, BRIANNA VASQUEZ 1501 BROADWAY APT. 306 CHULA VISTA, CA. 91911 619-772-5118 HAS FILED A PETITION WITH THIS COURT FOR A DECREE CHANGING PETITIONERS NAME FROM BRIANNA VASQUEZ TO BRIANNA CHAIDEZ THE COURT ORDERS THAT all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that indicates the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING TO BE HELD ON JAN 08, 2014 TIME: 9:30 AM DEPT 52 220 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 ISSUE DATE(S): NOV 28 DEC 05,12 AND 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032697 SUNLAND HOME CARE SERVICES located at: 10523 STONY RIDGE CT. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92131 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): COROMANDEL COAST LLC This business is being conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY COROMANDEL COAST LLC 10523 STONY RIDGE CT SAN DIEGO, CA. 92123 CALIFORNIA The transaction of business began on: NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 20, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 28 DEC 05 ,12 AND 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032431 SLIM THE LINEMAN PUBLISHING located at: 1692 LOS ALTOS ROAD SAN DIEGO, CA. 92109 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): WILLIAM WISTER HAINES JR. This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on: 11/01/2009 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 18, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 28 DEC 05 ,12 AND 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032052 PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROFESSIONALS, PMP located at: 1594 CRESPO DR. LA JOLLA, CA. 92037 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): NATALIE SEIER, IBRAHIM BARHOUMI This business is being conducted by: JOINT VENTURE The transaction of business began on: NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 14, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 28 DEC 05 ,12 AND 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-033016 KHAN SALAR located at: 4514 FELTON ST. #6 SAN DIEGO, CA. 92116 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): MOHAMMAD SAEED SAADZADEH, ROYA MOHAMMADI DAMOOCHALI This business is being conducted by: A MARRIED COUPLE The transaction of business began on: NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 25, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 28 DEC 05,12 AND 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032885 IT’S A PRODUCTION located at: 4365 KAMLOOP AVE. #28 SAN DIEGO,CA. 92117 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): MELISSA CABRAL This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on: 03/06/2012 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 22, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 28 DEC 05 ,12 AND 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032941 ARTWORKS SAN DIEGO located at: 8835 BALBOA AVE. #C SAN DIEGO, CA. 92123 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): SAN DIEGO ARTWORKS, LLC.This busi-

ness is being conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY SAN DIEGO ARTWORKS, LLC 8835 BALBOA AVE. #C SAN DIEGO, CA. 92123 CALIFORNIA The transaction of business began on: 01/01/2007 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 22, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 05,12, 19 AND JAN 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-030738 LZ CONCRETE AND PAVING SEAL located at:1352 CERRITOS CT. CHULA VISTA, CA. 91910 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): IVAN LOPEZ This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on: NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: OCT 29, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 28 DEC 05,12, AND 19, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-029548 SWEETALY BAKERY & BISTRO located at: 1110 ROSECRANS ST. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92106 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): SWEETALY LLC This business is being conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY SWEETALY LLC 11391 MATINAL CIRCLE SAN DIEGO, CA. 92127 CALIFORNIAThe transaction of business began on: NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: OCT 16, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 14, 21, 28 AND DEC 05, 2013 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA HALL OF JUSTICE 330 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 CASE NUMBER 37-2013-00077687-CUPT-CTL PETITIONER OR ATTORNEY, RICHARD MASTERSON 1746 MINDEN DRIVE SAN DIEGO, CA. 92111 619-908-0461 HAS FILED A PETITION WITH THIS COURT FOR A DECREE CHANGING PETITIONERS NAME FROM RICHARD LEE MASTERSON TO JESSE HOWARD LASH MASTERSON THE COURT ORDERS THAT all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that indicates the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING TO BE HELD ON JAN 10, 2014 TIME: 8:30 AM DEPT C-46 220 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 ISSUE DATE(S): DEC 05, 12, 19 AND JAN 03, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032004 NANCY MARTINEZ CHC, EMPOWERED SELF EMPOWERED HEALTH located at: 1726 1/2 UPAS STREET SAN DIEGO, CA. 92103 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): NANCY A. MARTINEZ This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on: 04/12/2013 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 13, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 05, 12, 19 AND JAN 02, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-033669 SAN DIEGO NIKKEI NETWORK (SDNN) located at: 4491 BERWICK DR. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92117 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): KEIICHI ITO, KOHEI OWATARI This business is being conducted by: AN UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION-OTHER THAN PARTNERSHIP The transaction of business began on: 12/03/2013 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 03, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC12, 19 JAN 02 AND 09, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-033789 CARE MINDERS HOME CARE located at: 8787 COMPLEX DRIVE #150 SAN DIEGO, CA. 92123 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CAREER INC. This business is being conducted by: A CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL HEALTH CAREER INC 8787 COMPLEX DRIVE #130 SAN DIEGO, CA. 92123 CALIFORNIA The transaction of business began on: NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 04, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 12, 19 JAN 02 AND 09, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032810 THE SOUNDRANGE located at: 4677 SARATOGA AVE. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92107 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): MATTHEW MOLARIUS, ANNA HOWARD This business is being conducted by: A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP The transaction of business began on:

NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 21, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC12, 19 JAN 02 AND 09, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-031755 DELIVER THE DRINKS located at: 4260 INGRAHAM ST. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92109 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): RANDI HAMBICK This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on: NOT YET STARTED The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/ County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 08, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 05, 12, 19 AND JAN 02, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-033800 DREAM HOMES MORTGAGE UNLIMITED located at: 4645 RUFFNER ST. #5 SAN DIEGO, CA. 92111 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): BROOKSTONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION This business is being conducted by: A CORPORATION BROOKSTONE MORTGAGE CORPORATION 4645 RUFFNER ST #5SAN DIEGO, CA. 92111 CALIFORNIA The transaction of business began on: 12/04/2013 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 04, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 12, 19 JAN 02 AND 09, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-034082 RAMIREZ CUSTOM TAILORING located at: 969 GRAND AVE. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92109 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): TOMAS RAMIREZ ZALMORANThis business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on: 06/05/1991 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 09, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC12, 19 JAN 02 AND 09, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-034128 CONTRACTS ADVISORY SERVICES located at: 3333 HILL ST. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92106 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): JAMES SOUTHERLAND This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on:12/09/2013 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 09, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC12, 19 JAN 02 AND 09, 2013 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA HALL OF JUSTICE 330 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 CASE NO: 37-2013-00079063-CU-PTCTL PETITIONER OR ATTORNEY, RUTH LAIRD KRYNSKI 5835 LOND CECIL ST. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92122 619-508-0221 HAS FILED A PETITION WITH THIS COURT FOR A DECREE CHANGING PETITIONERS NAME FROM RUTH LAIRD KRYNSKI TO RUTH EMERY LAIRD THE COURT ORDERS THAT all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that indicates the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING TO BE HELD ON JAN 24, 2014 TIME: 8:30 AM DEPT C-46 220 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 ISSUE DATE(S): DEC12, 19, JAN 03 AND 09, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032746 CURA COFFEE CO located at:

3503 ETHAN ALLEN AVENUE SAN DIEGO, CA. 92106 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): THOMAS ANDREW FITZPATRICKThis business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on:11/20/2013 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 21, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 19 JAN 02, 09 AND 16, 2013 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA HALL OF JUSTICE 330 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 CASE NO: 37-2013-00078618-CU-PTCTL PETITIONER OR ATTORNEY, SEBASTIAN ADAMS 3268 GOVERNOR DR. #267 SAN DIEGO, CA. 92122 619-634-9815 HAS FILED A PETITION WITH THIS COURT FOR A DECREE CHANGING PETITIONERS NAME FROM SEBASTIAN STEWART ADAMS TO SEBASTIAN STEWART ADAMS HOPKINS THE COURT ORDERS THAT all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that indicates the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING TO BE HELD ON JAN 31, 2014 TIME: 8:30 AM DEPT 46 220 WEST BROADWAY SAN DIEGO, CA. 92101 ISSUE DATE(S): DEC 19, JAN 03, 09 & 16, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-033625 SIMPLY SO PHOTOGRAPHY located at: 268 LA VETA AVE. ENCINITAS, CA. 92024 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): SEAN O’LEARY This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on:11/01/2013 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 03, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 19 JAN 02, 09 & 16, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-033334 LANGSTON HEALTHCARE SERVICES located at: 2907 SHELTER ISLAND DR., STE 105 SAN DIEGO, CA. 92106 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): LISA HARRINGTON, JAMES KLEYWEG This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on:01/02/1996 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 02, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 19 JAN 02, 09 AND 16, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-034424 INDULGE SALON located at: 3959 30TH ST. #103 / J SAN DIEGO, CA. 92104 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): LATASHA S. TITUS This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on: 12/01/2013 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: DEC 11, 2013 ISSUE DATES: DEC 19 JAN 02, 09 AND 16, 2013 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 2013-032332 SAN DIEGO PIZZA COMPANY, S.D. PIZZA CO located at: 703 AGATE ST. SAN DIEGO, CA. 92109 is hereby registered by the following owner(s): JASON (J.T.) MEADOWS This business is being conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL The transaction of business began on:11/13/2012 The statement was filed with Ernest J. Dronenburg, Jr., Recorder/County Clerk of San Diego County on: NOV 18, 2013 ISSUE DATES: NOV 21, 28 DEC 05 AND 12, 2013

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FRIDAY · DECEMBER 20, 2013 LA JOLLA TODAY

What to do about selling a house while living out of area Charles and Natasha: I am an absentee owner, yet have read your articles online at ljtoday.com. I purchased a coastal condo in La Jolla in 2008. I paid $1,475,000 at that time. I live on the East Coast, and while I love coming to La Jolla, I am finding that after five years, the travel time and effort is a deterrent. I would like to sell my condo, and here are my concerns: (1) I know market values have declined, so how can I find out the worth of my condo; (2) I had a bad experience with the real-estate agent who helped me to purchase, so how do I select a good agent; and (3) will I have to travel to La Jolla to sign documents and close a sale?

— Dr. Aaron R. Doctor — As our space is somewhat limited, we will be brief and to the point. First, know that you are not unique, at least so far as that a significant percentage of coastal homes serve as vacation, recreational or income-producing properties for absentee owners.

As for market value on your condo, it is difficult to give any opinion without being able to view the property and perform a market-value comparison of other similar properties recently sold. However, knowing that you would like some idea, we suggest using the Case Shiller index. Many people use median price indices published by various sources — we happen to prefer Case-Shiller, which is a Standard and Poor’s company. You did not indicate when in 2008 you made the purchase, but let’s assume at mid-year. The Case Shiller index at mid-year 2008 was 175.37, and as of September 2013 (Case Shiller lags about two months) was 193.51. So … by the use of simple mathematics, and without giving price consideration to whether you upgraded the property or knowing whether you originally purchased at a premium or a discount, the ending index of 193.51 divided by the beginning index of 175.37 suggests a 10.3 percent increase. Please understand that a more comprehensive analysis is usually undertaken with many more variables to consider in determining a listing price.

As you contemplate the listing price of your home, keep this thought in mind. Many buyers are willing to pay more if you offer enough value to warrant a higher price. However, in the absence of clear and convincing factors that represent value, potential buyers will default to the lowest price as the differentiator between your property and another.

Sorry that you had a bad experience with a real-estate agent.

Many buyers are willing to pay more if you offer enough value to warrant a higher price.

There are thousands of real-estate agents ready to take on your business. The question is, who do you listen to? We are in the service industry, so it is important to select an agent who you feel confident can hit your “hot buttons.” Refer to our article in the last issue titled, “You have to drive as much traffic as possible to your listing” (Dec. 6, Page 19) for the four most important questions you need answered.

First and foremost, you need an agent who is honest and who places your needs ahead of their own. You may not like the substance of information provided to

you — just like your patients may not like the results of your diagnosis — but listen to and determine whether the agent’s advice is credible — just like your patients need to determine whether to trust in your treatment program. Be sure that the agent is available to put the time and effort into selling your property rather than putting your listing on auto-pilot.

The wonderful thing about having other service providers involved with real-estate transactions, such as the buyer’s agent, title and escrow companies, is that everyone works in a coordinated effort to provide you the necessary documents to convey ownership. In addition, with the use of electronic document approval systems, you will be able to receive, review and sign most, if not all documents electronically. You will not need to travel here to close the sale.

Best of luck!

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SOCIETY >> CONT. FROM PG. 16

“Chairing the Scripps Mercy Foundation is one of the most rewarding things that I have ever done in my life,” said King. “I have loved every single minute of it.”

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’Tis also the season for St. Ger-

maine Children’s Charity’s annual Silver Tea. Claire Reiss lent her beautiful La Jolla Farms estate for the event, resulting in a total sellout as 365 guests arrived to sip tea and ogle the stunning 14,000-square-foot home. The decorations were amazing, including the eight (or nine?

Claire wasn’t sure) Christmas

*TWAS THE WEEK BEFORE CHRISTMAS* Twas the week before Christmas And all ‘round the town Not a buyer was buying...

Not one could be found.

The listings all hung In their folders with care In hopes that Saint Buyer Soon would be there.

Ma in her business suit, I with valise, Had just settled down To draw up a lease.

JOSEPH DEAN KLATT PhD & ENYA When out in the street There arose such a clatter LIST WHERE THE REAL ESTATE ACTION IS AT I sprang from my chair To see what was the matter.

KLATT REALTY INC. Away to the door I flew like a flash DRE IIic. No. 00617121 Raced outside expecting a crash (858) 454-9672 Sunbeams off Mercedes 1124 Wall St., La Jolla Enya Lined in a row DrJosephKlatt@san.rr.com Gave the luster of diamonds www.KlattRealty.com To cars that cost dough.

When what to my wondering eyes should appear But a shiny Rolls Royce and a driver with cheer.

“Close Torrey Lane and buy a home close to the sea!”

He shouted with glee A true investor he was; No mere amateur was he.

And we heard him exclaim as he Roll-sed out of sight Merry Christmas Klatt Realty And to all a good night!

From the entire Klatt Realty staff...“Merry Christmas!”

trees.

St. Germaine members made all the tea sandwiches and desserts the day before (and used secret tricks to keep them fresh). Fifty tea servers took turns doing the pouring, and 20 students from Mira Mesa High School’s Event Planning Club helped with various tasks, gaining valuable practical

experience. Ten singers from the La Jolla High School Madrigals sang holiday songs.

Committed to stopping child abuse and improving the lives of abused and neglected children, St. Germaine Children’s Charity has provided over $4 million in aid to the San Diego community since its 1984 founding.

who rode at high speeds in La Jolla pleaded guilty Dec. 11 to evading police with reckless driving.

Shadrach Daniel Farmer, 31, of Lakeside, will be sentenced Jan. 13 and is expected to get 180 days in jail, according to court records. He remains in jail after a judge found he was in violation of probation terms in an unrelated domestic violence case.

There were complaints from La Jolla residents about motorcyclists who were riding at high speeds in the area late at night. Farmer pleaded guilty before San Diego Superior Court Judge Eugenia Eyherabide.

At his preliminary hearing Oct. 29, a police officer testified he used a radar device to clock Farmer going 77 mph in a 45 mph zone at 10:15 p.m. on Torrey Pines Road. The officer said he tried to pull him over, but Farmer sped up, and a police helicopter was used to locate him.

Farmer was arrested on Prospect Place and was driving on a suspended license with no insurance. Farmer had posted $50,000 bond, but was jailed Oct. 29 for failing to enroll in a 52-week domestic batterer course as part of his probation. Farmer also had not performed five days of public work service.

— Neal Putnam

BRIEFS >> CONT. FROM PG. 2 researcher. Dowdy was shot in the back, but his wife was not hurt in the 3 a.m. shootings.

Petersen was to appear Dec. 18, the original preliminary hearing date, for a status conference before San Diego Superior Court Judge Leo Valentine, Jr., and return to his courtroom for a preliminary hearing that may take one day of testimony.

Petersen remains in custody on $5 million bail and has pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted murder, firing into an occupied dwelling and burglary. Petersen has no prior record and previously served as CEO of several firms.

Maund said Petersen was angry with Steven Dowdy over a failed business deal. Around 6:40 a.m., Petersen allegedly broke into the Cottontail Lane home of Fletcher, 50, his estranged brother-in-law, and shot him in the stomach.

Fletcher was able to overpower Petersen by hitting him with his own gun.

— Neal Putnam MOTORCYCLIST PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY EVADING — A motorcyclist described as the organizer of a group of other motorcyclists

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LJCPA >> CONT. FROM PG. 9

presently construed “complies with the rules and regulations.”

“The subtext of this meeting is anger,” said trustee Gail Forbes, pointing out building transitions can be “hell on earth” if not done right, while noting the Shores is a “very tight-knit” neighborhood and one set in its ways.

Trustee Phil Merten, an architect, said, while he felt the proposed Whitney building was “well articulated on three sides, it’s the fourth side I have a problem with.”

Merten spoke for many opposing the project, noting “It is 30plus percent bigger than any other building in La Jolla Shores.”

LJSA

>> CONT. FROM PG. 9

tioned the appropriateness of staging on Hidden Valley Road.

“There are terrible problems there with traffic backup because of the lights (signals),” Geller said.

Officials responded it was the only choice available, pointing out the La Jolla Shores area in and around “the throat” is notoriously difficult to get in and out of.

“The morning commute is really the only concern,” said Lucas.

City engineer Akram Bassyouni said the 809 Project will go faster than storm-drain replacement.

“Sewer and water replacement goes a lot faster than storm-drain replacement because storm-drain pipe is so big,” he said, adding the objective of construction on both projects will be to “get in there and get out.”

According to the city’s website, Avenida de la Playa Infrastructure replacement, which just began, is scheduled to be done in summer 2014. Sewer and Water Group Job 809 is scheduled to be finished in winter 2015. Cost was estimated at $4.5 million for the Avenida de la Playa project and $10.5 million for the sewer and water job.

At its December meeting, the LJSA also supported new proposed regulations governing mobile food trucks, precluding them from operating in residential areas.

Shores residents have been complaining for some time that food trucks have been operating illegally, and that they are an imposition on the community because they compete with local restaurants.

LJSA member Mary Coakley Munk suggested ice cream and pretzel vendors, not included in the same category as other foodtruck operators, be covered along with others in the revamped regulations because they are equally disruptive to residential neighborhoods and community merchants.

Real Estate Today REAL ESTATEBRIEF >> GENERALLY, WHEN COMPARED TO 2012, single-family homes in San Diego County increased in market value by more than 20 percent in 2013, according to County Assessor/County Clerk Ernest Dronengburg, Jr. However, due to a limit imposed by Prop. 13, 71 percent of San Diego Coun-

ty residential property tax value will grow by less than a half-percent, he said.

“I campaigned in 1978 when Prop. 13 passed. I support it because it limits value growth and, in turn, limits the unabated growth in taxes,” said Dronenburg. “Under Prop. 13, values cannot grow more than 2 percent or the inflation rate, whichever is lower. The

NOOREN >> CONT. FROM PG. 17

sisting of Joseph Diasparra, Hill Construction Company, David Keitel, Domusstudio Architecture and LEED consultant Stephanie Fagen Ecopious.

Among the Nooren residence’s LEED components: • Drought-tolerant and indigenous landscaping • A drip water-irrigation system • A photovoltaic, passive solarheating system featuring a 100-gallon storage tank, providing 60 percent of the home’s hot-water needs • Use of energy-saving appliances • Recycling of 75 percent of all waste generated during home construction • An LED lighting package that reduced the house’s demand for energy and electrical costs Project architect David Keitel said there are significant upfront costs associated with building a LEEDcertified home that are more than made up for over time by cost sav-

CELEBRATING THE GREEN LIFE From left, Jack Nooren, Ravi Bajaj (USGBC program manager), Joseph Diasparra (Hill Construction Co.), David Keitel (architect, domusstudio architects) and Jill Nooren.

ings.

“There is an initial upcharge for building a LEED home, but there are so many efficiencies implemented through the LEED process, that it really makes what we’re doing a nobrainer,” Keitel said. “The Noorens have tax rebates and credits coming back to them on their taxes this year for building this house, which really adds up very quickly.”

Nooren said he feels construction similar to that done on his home will be the rule, not the exception, in the future.

inflation rate for 2013 is less than one half of one percent.

“This is the eighth time the inflation factor is less than the 2 percent limit and is the second-lowest change since passage of Prop. 13 35 years ago.

Under the top adjustment factor of 2 percent, this homeowner would be facing an increase in assessed value of $7,000, but next year they will see an

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increase of $1,589 in assessed value,” he said.

Properties recently sold are not subject to an inflation increase. Also, properties that, in the past, have had assessments reduced below their Prop. 13 values because their current market value was less than the Prop.

13 value are evaluated annually. If the current market value as of Jan. 1 is

“It’s a standard of how construction should be and how people should think when they build,” he said Nooren. “Everything we built in here was all about what we could recycle.”

Besides conserving energy, Nooren said LEED design is also about not wasting space.

“This house is only 2,350 square feet on two levels with 4 ½ baths,” he said. “We don’t have any wasted space because we have our kitchen, dining and living quarters all in one area downstairs.

Nooren said the bottom line with LEED building is that, in the end, it saves money, as well as energy.

“We’ve lived here almost a year now and the highest monthly bill we had was $36,” he said. “We have six inches of Styrofoam on our roof, plus hatches we can open up to to get air circulating so it never gets warm in here. We don’t have air conditioning. We never need it.

How many $3 million homes get built without air conditioning? Not very many. This is one of them.”

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higher than in 2013, the property value will be restored to its former Prop. 13 value or to current value, whichever is less.

“This check on government easily converting inflation of home values to taxes is one of the most important parts of Proposition 13. It limits growth in taxes beyond a homeowner’s ability to pay,” Dronenburg said.

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7857 Eads Avenue

Elegant Historic Seaside Villa

Steps to the Beach Spectacular Ocean & Sunset Views Timeless Spanish architecture fused with soft contemporary living in this historic home nestled in the heart of La Jolla's famed Village. Just a block to the sea, this exceptional residence was completely and exquisitely remodeled to perfection.

Experience spectacular sunsets, white water views and ocean breezes. The outdoors become one with the home as you are beckoned into the lush tropical landscape complete with award-winning pool, spa and poolside cabana/office.

Designated Historical Landmark No. 449, this sophisticated home evokes the romance and charm of yesterday coupled with the latest in today's luxuries. Huge savings under the Mills Act - current property taxes are $8,000 per year.

Now offered between $3,800,000 & $4,400,000

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