August 1, 2011
Police say checkpoint moved to downtown to ‘spread enforcement wealth’ PACIFIC BEACH — A DUI checkpoint planned for the Fourth of July weekend in Pacific Beach, where police frequently net a large number of intoxicated drivers, was called off by department brass, a traffic officer reported to the community’s planning group. Officer Mark McCullough, who ...
Checkpoints, Drunk Drivers, Other Communities
August 16, 2010
SAN DIEGO – A suspected drunk driver barreled over a sidewalk and straight into a La Jolla restaurant Sunday evening sending three teens and a man to local hospitals, according to officials. Three teenagers were seriously injured and a man suffered minor injures when a 67-year-old man drove his Chrysler off the road and crashed ...
August 16, 2010
Bird Rock resident Sherry Macelli described the scene at Cass Street Cafe when a suspected drunk driver’s car barreled through the front of the restaurant as she and her husband sat down to eat. They were seated near the window fronting the parking lot, she said, when “we heard a girl’s scream outside.” The ...
Drunk Drivers, La Jolla
August 12, 2010
The following is a handout presented to the La Jolla Town Council as part of my personal public comment: Alcohol Licenses and a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) / Deemed Approved Ordinance (DAO) The dread we experience in Pacific Beach several evenings a week and most weekends throughout the year appears to be building over La ...
Alcohol Licensees, Commentary, La Jolla
October 17, 2007
Several downtown issues were decided at the September 18 council meeting. The city introduced the power to audit any business in a first reading of a new ordinance The city council intends to enact a tool to help recoup some tax money from the extravagantly costly Restaurant Overlay District, otherwise known as downtown Fullerton. The ...
Comparable CA Cities
October 1, 2007
Two young restauranteurs were dealt a blow by the council when the council declined to approve another exception to the alcoholic beverage license moratorium for restaurants whose applications were deemed complete before the moratorium of June 5. Their application for a “Type 47″ (full on-site liquor) beverage license was then necessarily denied. Nick Lombardo and ...
Comparable CA Cities, Other Communities
