Comments on: Children’s Pool rope barrier goes up, but only for pupping season http://www.lajollalight.com/2010/12/15/children%e2%80%99s-pool-rope-barrier-goes-up-but-only-for-pupping-season/ Enlightening La Jolla since 1913 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:21:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: Chris Cott http://www.lajollalight.com/2010/12/15/children%e2%80%99s-pool-rope-barrier-goes-up-but-only-for-pupping-season/#comment-29286 Chris Cott Sun, 26 Dec 2010 16:50:56 +0000 http://lajollalight.mscsddev.com/?p=30849#comment-29286 Using fabricated or skewed numbers to make your point is not only transparent, but should be checked by the paper before being printed. Stated in the 12/22 isuue AGAIN was " Fact: According to the lifeguard census there were more than 2 million visitors to the Casa/Children's Pool in 2009" First of all, I didn't know the lifeguards did a census, maybe a rough estimate. But OVER 2 million visitors? That is OVER 5,479 people a DAY! If they were coming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that would be over 228 people an hour, Non-stop! No wonder I can never find a parking spot! Maybe if each one of these seal visitors gave $1, we could finish the lifeguard tower, take down the hideous scaffolding and we could incorporate a spa area for the seals and a lounge for the "over 2 million visitors a year". Using fabricated or skewed numbers to make your point is not only transparent, but should be checked by the paper before being printed. Stated in the 12/22 isuue AGAIN was " Fact: According to the lifeguard census there were more than 2 million visitors to the Casa/Children's Pool in 2009"
First of all, I didn't know the lifeguards did a census, maybe a rough estimate. But OVER 2 million visitors? That is OVER 5,479 people a DAY! If they were coming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that would be over 228 people an hour, Non-stop!
No wonder I can never find a parking spot!
Maybe if each one of these seal visitors gave $1, we could finish the lifeguard tower, take down the hideous scaffolding and we could incorporate a spa area for the seals and a lounge for the "over 2 million visitors a year".

]]> By: bigdipper http://www.lajollalight.com/2010/12/15/children%e2%80%99s-pool-rope-barrier-goes-up-but-only-for-pupping-season/#comment-23278 bigdipper Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:15:35 +0000 http://lajollalight.mscsddev.com/?p=30849#comment-23278 It is a solution to people getting too close to seals and anyone who wants to cross it can do so? And where does it say how close is too close? Adding a contradiction does not produce a solution. A non-prohibitive guideline is not a solution unless Dorota is there to yell at people with her megaphone like she does every year. Then it becomes a solution, imposed by the vigilantes pretending the rope is what they say it is not. An official tool for owning a public beach by intimidation. The only danger to the seal colony is the resentment these people and their tricks engender. The Planning Commission knew what it was doing when it rejected the yer round rope. They knew the City could lose millions again if it violated the Coastal Act again. The City cannot afford to continue to bend the law for a special interest group. It dares not let the decision be appealed to the Coastal Commission because the CCC could invalidate the winter rope too, given the facts it lacked last year. It is a solution to people getting too close to seals and anyone who wants to cross it can do so? And where does it say how close is too close? Adding a contradiction does not produce a solution.
A non-prohibitive guideline is not a solution unless Dorota is there to yell at people with her megaphone like she does every year. Then it becomes a solution, imposed by the vigilantes pretending the rope is what they say it is not. An official tool for owning a public beach by intimidation. The only danger to the seal colony is the resentment these people and their tricks engender.
The Planning Commission knew what it was doing when it rejected the yer round rope. They knew the City could lose millions again if it violated the Coastal Act again. The City cannot afford to continue to bend the law for a special interest group. It dares not let the decision be appealed to the Coastal Commission because the CCC could invalidate the winter rope too, given the facts it lacked last year.

]]> By: Johnny be good http://www.lajollalight.com/2010/12/15/children%e2%80%99s-pool-rope-barrier-goes-up-but-only-for-pupping-season/#comment-21704 Johnny be good Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:49:43 +0000 http://lajollalight.mscsddev.com/?p=30849#comment-21704 “It’s not a fence — the rope is just a guideline,” said Dorota Valli of the Animal Protection and Rescue League. “It doesn’t prohibit people from going on the beach and accessing the water.” Bryan Pease, who represents the Animal Protection and Rescue League and La Jolla Friends of the Seals, said a year-round rope is good for both people and seals. “The rope is such a common-sense, unobtrusive solution to people getting close to the seals,” Pease said. “Anyone who wants to cross the rope is not prevented from doing so. “It’s not a fence — the rope is just a guideline,” said Dorota Valli of the Animal Protection and Rescue League. “It doesn’t prohibit people from going on the beach and accessing the water.”

Bryan Pease, who represents the Animal Protection and Rescue League and La Jolla Friends of the Seals, said a year-round rope is good for both people and seals.
“The rope is such a common-sense, unobtrusive solution to people getting close to the seals,” Pease said. “Anyone who wants to cross the rope is not prevented from doing so.

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