Hello and thank you so much
for joining us on CBS A+.
I'm Heather Meyers here at CBS8.
We are working for you,
getting to the bottom of some of
the problems that you've asked about
and we are looking for solutions.
Today we start in Julian with
speeding cars and blind curves.
People who live there say one Rd.
specifically makes them feel unsafe
coming in or out of the neighborhood.
Our Brian White is working for
you to find out what can be done.
Yeah, I'm here on Harrison Park
Road right where it breaks off from
State Route 79 and people live
around here say this road the way
it currently is, is dangerous. You
can see here. How somebody comes
through here too fast, and if they're
even toward the middle of the road,
they're going to hit you. Wayne Daniel
has lived in this Julian
neighborhood for two years and
he says this windy two Lane Rd.
Can meet treacherous.
So coming around these
windy angles and they're all blind.
They're all blind. The
road, which is maintained by the county,
is full of blind curves that have
caused a number of collisions.
So you see this blind curve right
here that we're coming up to.
This is where that head on happened. This
head on collision happened in October and
this car wreck happened the year prior.
See, here's another bad spot right here.
See that? You can't see what's
coming around the corner. Wayne
had a close call himself last week
and I stopped and the guy just kind
of like swerved at the last minute,
scared the bejeebers out of me, you know?
He showed me this 125 mile per hour
speed limit sign at the very end
of this three quarter mile stretch,
but there aren't any others
on Harrison Park Rd.
In fact, over a year ago,
neighbors put their own sign
up for the county took it down.
This is their maintained Rd.
If they're maintaining this road,
they need to maintain it
and keep it safe. You'd
also like to see a center yellow
line painted here to keep cars
in their lanes if there's a
center stripe here and you're trying
to stay on the right side of the road.
It's going to make you slow down. I
called the county's public works
department and they told me they had
requests for speed limit signs last year,
at which point traffic engineers
found the volume of traffic did not
warrant installation at that time.
However, they're going to look into it
again by conducting a vehicle radar study
looking at speeds and volume of traffic.
And if the data supports the posting
of a legal speed limit sign,
the traffic Advisory Committee and Board
of Supervisors will have to approve it.
I hope the county will take this
serious safety issue seriously
and put in some speed limit signs
so that we could have in these
head on collisions here.
And Julian working for you Brian White, CBS8.
Some are right around the corner,
which means a lot of tourists
will be looking to rent A home
and visit our beautiful city.
But this year will be different.
San Diego now requires homeowners
to have a license to operate
shortterm vacation rentals.
You've been asking us,
how can you find out if your
neighbor has the proper license?
CBSA's Abby Black is working
for you to help make sure your
neighbors are following the rules.
Enforcement on short term residential
occupancy, known as STRO's,
started in the city of San Diego.
This week we're working for you.
I'm going to walk you through how you can
find out what households an STR license,
how you can report a violation,
and if you hold one of these licenses,
what complaints have been filed against you.
First, let's start with the signage.
Walking along the Boardwalk in Mission Beach,
you'll see the oceanfront rentals
have new signage in their windows.
Notice all these new signs up,
so I just wanted to take a peek and
see what they're all about. Some
are more readable and reachable than others,
but under San Diego's new STR O ordinance,
host must post this signage that
includes the license and TOT number,
the name and number of the local contact.
Signage is the 1st way to
know if they have a license,
but if you can't find one on the House,
you can also visit the city's
Stro website as you Scroll down
under Reporting Violations.
When you click on Get it Done,
you can be directed to the open data
portal that has a list of all the Stro's.
There's addresses, what tier,
local, contact name, and number
you see a lot of. People who are just
renting units coming in and out. Since
rentals are dense in Mission Beach,
it has its own tier and a whole
home must be rented a minimum
of 90 days out of the year.
Outside of Mission Beach,
there's a minimum of 20 days out
of the year for a whole home.
Now, if you have a problem with
your neighbors, shortterm rentals,
say noise trash not getting back
to your complaint within an hour,
or they're running one without a license,
let's go back on the STRO website.
It breaks down a few ways that
you can file a complaint,
you can call or e-mail enforcement,
but the city encourages you to report
it on Get It Done and now has a
new category dedicated to STRO's.
Most can also check on themselves to
search for complaints made against
you on the city's Str OH website.
It directs you to code enforcement.
You can type in your address
information and it will show you what,
if any, complaints have been made.
Trolling
the area, checking signs with this Corey
Strauer and his pup Ruka say
now they know how to sniff out
any stro violators and hope to
keep the peace in Mission Beach.
It doesn't really bother me
very much, but rules are rules,
so you got to follow them.
Working for you in Mission Beach.
I'm Abby, Black, CBS8.
If you've driven on San Diego streets,
then you have likely had to dodge your
fair share of potholes out there,
and it's been especially bad this year with
all the rain making things so much worse.
Today we are keeping track of how the
city's pothole repair operations are going.
CBS8 is working for you and spoke to
Mayor Todd Gloria to find out the latest.
I'm here on Miramar Rd.
which has long been riddled with
potholes and cracked asphalt.
And people who drive this road every
day are hoping things will get better.
But the city has been making
progress as they continue
working to fix our roads. This
winter in this spring has given
us the opportunity to something
that I wish I didn't have to do,
which is to educate the public on the
general physics behind laying down asphalt.
Lots of rain this year has
wreaked havoc on our roads,
with more than 19,000 final requests on
the Get It Done app so far this year.
We've already surpassed last year's total.
This is what the corner of
Clairemont Mesa Blvd. And Convoy St.
looked like in January,
and this is what it looks like now,
with most of them patched up.
Sometimes I'm asked, Mayor,
do you know about how the
roads are like, Yes, I do.
I drive all over the city.
I I use the Get It Done app to
report the potholes that I see,
and I hope San Diego's do the same
to catch up on the backlog.
San Diego's transportation department
has had nine trucks and crews
working overtime to fill thousands
of potholes across the city.
They're making progress in La Jolla Today,
Mayor Todd Gloria talked about his
proposed budget for next year,
which allocates $140 million
for street repair.
Allowing them to resurface
157 miles of city streets,
like this repaving project
on La Jolla Parkway.
We're going to do it on schedule,
on time, and we're going to do it right.
Nothing's going to be rushed about
this because this is a major investment
we wanted to last for decades. Right
now, the city is conducting a
full assessment of all roads,
using this vehicle to collect
data on nearly 3000 miles
of roadway. By this fall,
they'll have the results,
and that will help them prioritize which
roads to resurface in the years ahead.
Not where we're just laying down
a coat over the existing asphalt,
but where we're ripping it out and
putting it down fresh and new.
That's the difference between a good Rd.
lasting a couple of years and a good Rd.
lasting a couple of decades.
Here at CBS8 we've compiled all
the resources you need to report
potholes or request St. repairs.
No matter where you live in the county,
just text the word pothole to
858-571-8888 and you'll receive
the link in San Diego working
for you. Brian White, CBS8.
If you'd like to report a pothole
or request a street repair in your
area, text the word pothole to
858-571-8888 and we will send
you a link to get you started.
Remember, we are working for you.
If there is something that you
would like us to look into,
just e-mail us at working
for you at cbs8.com.
Thank you so much for joining
us and we'll see you next time.