La Jolla Light
Enlightening La Jolla Since 1913
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Vol. 100, Issue 35 • August 30, 2012
Residential Customer La Jolla, CA 92037 ECRWSS
Online Daily at www.lajollalight.com
Goodbye Summer Vacation
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Town Council to meet over board shakeup
Historians seek to save La Jolla’s cottage treasures, A3
High school principal Shelburne readies for opening day, A10 Librarian Olivia Caughey reads a book to Elizabeth Jenkins’ kindergarten class at Stella Maris Academy in The Village of La Jolla during their first day back at school on Monday, Aug. 27. Students in San Diego Unified School District classes report for duty on Sept. 4. Phil Dailey
By Pat Sherman Following the abrupt resignation of La Jolla Town Council (LJTC) president Cindy Greatrex — and the reported, subsequent resignations of the organization’s second vice-president, treasurer and secretary — the LJTC has planned a special meeting to address what some trustees are referring to as a council reorganization. The meeting is open to the public and will be held at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 4 at the La Jolla Rec Center on Prospect Street. “As the LJTC is reorganizing and preceding to staff community leaders’ positions, we do it with grace and respect for La Jolla,” said trustee Mary Soriano, via e-mail. “The LJTC has so much potential to be a sound voice of sound decisions on See Council, A7
Residents DEMAND:
La Jolla Visitor Center points tourists in the right direction, A13
Country Day Football has high expectations, A17
Bronowski Forum may be presenting its final discussion, B1
What’s holding up Torrey Pines Road project? n The $26.5 million Torrey Pines Road Corridor Project, approved in July 2011, has residents wondering if it hit a roadblock, since after one year, the only action taken to improve public safety along the busy thoroughfare has been the installation of two radar speed indicators in January by Councilwoman Sherri Lightner’s office.
BY SHELLI DEROBERTIS For more than a decade, committees have been rallying for project plans to slow traffic and improve pedestrian and bicycle access along Torrey Pines Road. To that end, the city has received $1.1 million in federal stimulus and transportation sales tax funds. But no work has been done on the project’s first approved phase, “Segment 4,” which begins at Little Street to La Jolla Shores Drive and includes the placement of a sidewalk, fence, median and plantable retaining wall. “We have not heard of any updates since seven months ago when
Sherry Nooravi, of Residents for Torrey Pines Safety, points to the curbside mess residents say should already be a sidewalk. Shelli DeRobertis the V-calms were installed,” said Sherry Nooravi, spokeswoman for an ad hoc Torrey Pines Corridor neighborhood group. “So many of us have been working on this and
keeping in touch with our city officials, but the dangers on the roadway continue.” Robert McCue lives on Amalfi Street, on the south side of Torrey Pines
Road, and remembers when the road was a quiet, two-lane highway in the 1950s and people could easily ride their bicycles to The Village, he said. McCue has been lobbying for improvements on Torrey Pines Road for several years. He said he’s been trying to get an update on the project, but his last two calls to the city have not been returned. Lightner’s office replied to the La Jolla Light’s inquiries, and through her representative, Erin Demorest, said the city has the funding to perform two sidewalk projects in Segment 4, but the plans must be designed. The city received $600,000 from two TransNet funds installments in 2011 and 2012 that will be used to remove sidewalk obstructions along the north side of Torrey Pines Road from Prospect Place to La Jolla Shores Drive. The money will also cover costs to install a new sidewalk between Calle Juela and Roseland on the south side of Torrey Pines Road, Demorest said in an e-mail.
See TORREY PINES, A8