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VOLUME 25 ISSUE 3 March 8 – April 11, 2019
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NEWS BRIEFS Navajo Planners to hold board elections
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NCPI board chair David Smith addresses flooding along Alvarado Creek at the Jan. 29 City Council meeting. (City of San Diego)
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Grantville stakeholders want action on Alvarado Creek
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At the January meeting of the Navajo Community Planners, Inc., board chair David Smith announced that he intends to be “very vocal and persistent” throughout 2019 in pressuring the city to fix the flooding problem along
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Alvarado Creek in Grantville — and so far it seems he is sticking to that goal. On Jan. 29, Smith addressed the City Council during public comments with a presentation laying out the case for fixing the flooding problem. “The Alvarado Creek storm channel is averting the city’s vision, state mandates and developer interests to build
affordable and transit-oriented housing around the Grantville Trolley Station,” he said. Despite a rezoning effort for Grantville in 2015 that allows the highest density development the city allows, developers are still unable to build, Smith added.
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Cassidy Klein San Carlos resident Jill Pankow knows the pain of not being with a baby right after birth. Pankow’s daughter, Nicole, was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Rady’s Children’s Hospital after she was born in 1991. Pankow and her husband did not know what was going on with her for two days and could not see her.
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Angels Above founder Jill Pankow (second from right) and her family (Courtesy Jill Pankow)
“Being away from your child immediately, it’s very difficult,” Pankow said. Pankow started Angel’s Above Foundation with her husband and two grown children last year with the intent
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Ridership on the Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) bus and trolley network has climbed by more than 200,000 trips in the first seven months of fiscal year 2019, which began on July 1, 2018. The gains have been led by the trolley, which See NEWS BRIEFS page 4
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Remembering City Councilmember Judy McCarty. Page 21
The Navajo Community Planners, Inc. (NCPI), the local planning group authorized to review and provide recommendations on land use issues to the City Council, will hold its annual elections for board members on March 13. All residents, business owners and property owners in the communities of Allied Gardens, Grantville, Del Cerro and San Carlos are eligible to vote in the elections. Proof of residency or business or property ownership is required. Currently there are two candidates for the two seats per community, but nominations can be made from the floor on election night for write-in candidates. Candidates are eligible if they have attended one NCPI meeting in the past year. New candidates include Shain Haug and Spencer Tuck of Allied Gardens and Jay Wilson is running to return to the NCPI board representing Del Cerro. Incumbent board members include John LaRaia and David Smith of Grantville; Justine Neilson of Del Cerro; and Terry Cords and Matt Adams of San Carlos. The election will be held on March 13, 6:30 to 7 p.m. at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 6660 Cowles Mountain Blvd. For more information, visit navajoplanners.org.
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