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CITY LOWERS THE BOOMJULYON4THLA JOLLA FIREWORKS SHOW AT COVE CANCELED
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(From left) Jim Heffner, the attorney representing La Jolla Community Fireworks Foundation, Jack McGrory, the group’s spokesperson, Brett Murphy, and Deborah Marengo, who leads the foundation, spoke about negotiations that fizzled with the City about the July 4th fireworks.
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ireworks fizzled. And a lot of La Jollans weren’t happy about it. Especially not merchants. A July 2 press conference was called by La Jolla Fireworks Foundation organizers to lambaste the last-minute cancellation by the City of the promised return of Fourth of July fireworks at the Cove due to permitting problems. A court challenge was brought by environmental attorney Bryan Pease who contended fireworks “harassed” seals and currently pupping sea lions near where the fireworks were to be set off. That, coupled with a determination by the California Coastal Commission that a coastal development permit was in fact required to host the pyrotechnics event, doomed the popular
community event for a fourth consecutive year. The signature event begun by La Jolla restaurateur George Hauer 36 years ago was last held in 2017. “Every time we brought up something (alternative site) they (City) would say, ‘We’ll have to explore that.’ And we had a truckload full of pyrotechnics on the way,” said Deborah Marengo, head of the nonprofit La Jolla Fireworks Foundation, about negotiations to find an alternative venue to the Cove for the pyrotechnic display at the 11th hour. “We have a four-page declaration, filed in court, signed by the city attorney that clearly lays out we didn’t need a coastal development permit to host fireworks that we relied on all these years,” said La Jolla Fireworks Foundation spokesperson Jack McGrory. “It’s (fireworks) a temporary activity under the
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code. It’s not a development. It’s a very arbitrary decision, and they’re not respecting the decisions that were made in the past.” Brett Murphy, immediate past president of the La Jolla Village Merchants Association, warned the last-minute cancellation of the event directly harmed local merchants and tarnished the community’s image. “You need to understand the business community needs something to rally around, and they did with this event,” Murphy said. “It was not just one event. It was a lot of tickets sold to a lot of places in town, and the community needs people to come in and bring business to the Village. We gave them (City) facts, hard evidence, as to why we needed these fireworks.” See FIREWORKS, Page 9
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