Archive for "Apr 2009"

OCEANSIDE: Doctors ask for leadership change at Tri-City

OCEANSIDE —- A dozen doctors stood shoulder-to-shoulder Monday at Tri-City Medical Center and said they will ask the hospital’s publicly elected board to help find a new, less incendiary form of government within the next 90 days. Led by Chief of Staff Dr. Richard Burruss, the physicians said they’ll make a public presentation to the [...]

OCEANSIDE: Senior center set for June opening

OCEANSIDE —- Oceanside officials say that after almost 18 months they have good news concerning the El Corazon senior center. “On time and on budget,” Gary Kellison, the city’s senior civil engineer said this week of the 15,000-square-foot facility, the first project scheduled for completion from the El Corazon master use plan. “Everything is in [...]

SoCal agency orders water cuts

LOS ANGELES —- With the region confronting one of the worst water shortages in state history, Southern California’s primary supplier voted Tuesday to cut deliveries an average of 10 percent this summer and to hike water rates an average of 26 percent on Sept. 21. For residents of San Diego and Riverside counties, it means [...]

OCEANSIDE: Senior community waits for appeal results

Senior-only status hangs in the balance OCEANSIDE —- Residents of a small retirement community should know in 90 days whether their community will regain its senior-only status or remain open to buyers of all ages. Property owners in Oceanside’s Costa Serena community have been in a sort of legal limbo since a judge ruled in [...]

No raise in Harbor Slip Rents

OCEANSIDE —- The City Council on Wednesday scuttled a proposal to raise rents for slips at the Oceanside Harbor. City staff members said Oceanside needed the money to pay for sewer work, new restrooms and other improvements in the harbor. Boat owners called the plan “preposterous” and “unconscionable.” The council rejected it 4-1. “This is [...]

OCEANSIDE: City blocks park’s proposed rent increase

OCEANSIDE: Study says city should streamline development reviews

OCEANSIDE —- Outdated technology and other inefficiencies in the city’s Development Services Department make it harder than necessary for developers to get their projects approved, according to a recent consultant’s report. Download Volume 1 of the study Download Volume 2 of the study A draft of the report, by Matrix Consulting Group of Palo Alto, [...]