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Blog 29 days ago
Landlords Allegedly Breaking Renter Transparency Law
Last year, San Diego leaders passed a law that mandated transparency on renters' utility bills. It turns out, some landlords may not be following it. The ordinance requires landlords to produce copies of utility bills, along with the calculations behind t
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Blog 30 days ago
San Diego Passed New Renter Protections Last Year. Tenants Say Landlords Are Already Breaking Them.
When a San Diego renter disputed their utility charges from their landlord, they turned to a new city law for help. The landlord billed the renter for water, sewer and trash, but the tenant didn't understand how the charges had been calculated, according
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Blog 30 days ago
Existential Threat to CEQA or Just Building Stuff We Need Faster?
A coalition of businesses want to build more quickly in California. The way they hope to do it is by putting a big, legal stopwatch on California's Environmental Quality Act or CEQA. The sweeping environmental movement of the 1960s gave birth to CEQA. The
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Blog 30 days ago
City Demands Answers from Gaslamp Business Leader on Comic-Con Ad Deal
An illegal Avengers advertisement installed over the Gaslamp marquee during this year's Comic-Con has come back to haunt a local business leader. A new letter from the city alleges that Michael Trimble, executive director of the Gaslamp Quarter Associatio
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Blog 1 month ago
County Supe Set to Dish on the State of the County
The county has yet to hold its usual annual address on the state of things, but one supervisor is ready to dish. Supervisor Joel Anderson, who could soon become the sole Republican on the county Board of Supervisors, will sit down with our Lisa Halverstad
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Blog 1 month ago
How the Trash Screw-Up Happened and Why It's Not Going Away
It was the simplest of mistakes. The city sent bad billing information on roughly 87,700 customers to the county tax collector's office. An employee transferring the data from Salesforce into a TXT file made an error, the Politics Report has learned. City
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Podcast 1 month ago
VOSD Podcast: Regrettable Errors
Thousands of San Diego residents recently discovered that the city had mistakenly overcharged people for trash pickup on their property tax bills. The San Diego Union-Tribune was the first to report the story. On this week's show, our hosts discuss how of
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Blog 1 month ago
City Threatens to Cut Ties with Gaslamp Quarter Association Over Alleged Involvement With Illegal Comic-Con Ad
This post has been updated. The city of San Diego is threatening to terminate its contract with the Gaslamp Quarter Association after documents suggest its executive director may have unilaterally approved and accepted $10,000 for an illegal advertisement
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Blog 1 month ago
This San Diego Lawmaker's Bill Died, but Its Not a Total Loss
Sacramento Report Countdown 39 days until the November election With just days before his end-of-the-month deadline to sign or veto bills, Gov. Gavin Newsom gave the proverbial thumbs down to a measure to tighten environmental rules for factories near hom
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Blog 1 month ago
Democrat Wants to Flip a Board of Supervisors Seat
A Democratic political newcomer is taking on a veteran Republican politician in a highly anticipated race for the County Board of Supervisors seat that represents much of North County. Who wins will likely come down to experience, name recognition and who
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