6 San Diego Reader February 25, 2016


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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS By Reader stringers


P OWAY Lord’s business in business park? “I know this council is not anti-church,” says mayor Poway churches want to move into the South Poway Business Park and are asking the city to reconsider its zoning that prohibits churches from moving in. Mayor Steve Vaus owned up to being the driving force behind the move at the Poway City Council work- shop on February 16.


The business park was created in 1985,


along with the zoning favoring manufactur- ing and corporate headquarters. Churches were barred because of parking issues, reduced property-tax revenues, and the distinct problem of having churches next to manufacturing and industrial uses, where, for example, hazardous materials are used, according to Poway director of development services Bob Manis. The business park was intended to be an


economic engine for Poway — to generate jobs and bring industry and the higher property taxes, staffers say. No vote was taken at the workshop, though it became clear that the five-person council is split on the issue. “I have friends who are trying to stay in the


business park. They are doing well but they can’t get enough parking for their employ- ees,” councilmember Dave Grosch said. “I’m inclined to keep the Poway business park the way it is.” A resident named Elaine Fox sent a message


that her church currently meets in an elemen- tary school multipurpose room and she would like to have a permanent home for the church. The other consideration is that there


are plenty of places throughout Poway that churches can choose from. “In the rest of the city, every zone allows


A road (Danielson Street) amid 900 acres of business and industrial park zone in south Poway


“There are a couple of terrific parcels east


of General Atomics that would make a great spot for a church,” Vaus said. “It’s the blanket prohibition I’m against — I think we can make room up there.” But one of the founders of the business


park, who sent commercial real estate agent Ted Cuthbert to speak at the workshop, said that churches don’t belong amid the 900 acres of business park territory (along Scripps-Poway Parkway, east of Community Road). “We don’t have enough space for the busi-


nesses that want to be here now,” Cuthbert said. “We have one of the lowest vacancy rates in the entire county — we’re at 5 percent, where the county average is 12 percent. People who live in Poway now find they can’t find enough room to keep their business in Poway.”


churches with a conditional use permit,” devel- opment services director Manis said. The city staff recommended against letting churches into the business park. The business park has restricted street park-


ing, which would become an issue if a church were set up there, Manis said. Vaus dismissed the parking issue, saying


the city could require the church to provide parking as part of a conditional use permit. “I know this council is not anti-church,”


Vaus concluded. MARTY GRAHAM


CARDIFF Frank and June return to San Elijo


Campground stories from the good ol’ days In 1965, Frank and June Nuttall were camping throughout the desert Southwest with their kids in a tent trailer when they decided to travel west from Arizona on old U.S. Highway 80. After heading up the coast, they spent


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Mesa, said they just booked their 2016 summer week for $57 a night. The Nuttalls’ best memory of the town of


Cardiff: walking across the railroad tracks to take the kids for big ice cream cones at the Yellowstone Bus Company Deli (long gone). The couple said they were disappointed to


June and Frank Nuttall


their first night in San Diego at the San Elijo State Beach. It led to a 50-year love affair with the Cardiff-by-the-Sea campground, and a state record.


After that trip, the Nuttalls returned each


summer and Christmas vacation from their British Columbia home. Their sons, Kevin and Kim, became Canadian beach boys. In 1987, Frank and June became the full-


time campground hosts at San Elijo. It was a tradition that lasted 26 years, earning them the state record for being as the longest-serving volunteers in California’s history. When they retired in 2013, the San Diego


County Board of Supervisors proclaimed it Frank and June Nuttall Day with a special presentation at their campsite. On February 18, Frank, 89, and June, 85,


returned to the campground for a reunion visit with several of the regular campers and rangers that they served with over the years. Frank and June shared some memories of


life at the San Elijo campground: Once, an escaped baby bull from the Del


Mar Fair made it into the campground. It was running around everywhere, scaring people. One of the campers on the south end was a cowboy and he finally lassoed it. One year, a naked woman was prancing


around the open washroom, waiting for her clothes to dry. The Nuttalls had to call the sher- iff’s department. “Every sheriff’s car in town showed up,” said June. Another year, when rural North County


was ravaged by a wildfire, the campground took in 50 horses. “We were hauling hay for days.” Back then: the campground culture was


clearly divided between the south sites #1–126, and the north sites, #127–171. “The south end was Party Town, the north end was Relax- ing Town.” Sites were $4 a night when the Nuttalls first visited. Dave and Joyce Timms, from Mira


Satisfied customers at the new dog park in Normal Heights


The effort kicked off in 2015 with a “Mid-


City Unleashed Rally” on February 15, and almost 2000 signatures were signed on peti- tions over the following months. District 3 councilman Todd Gloria appropriated $22,000 in funding for an interim park that opened officially on February 13, 2016 — 363 days from the date of the kick-off rally. About three dozen dogs and their owners


attended, and Gloria cut the celebratory ribbon to cheers and applause. According to Ron Ferrero-Pham, president


of the community association, a number of “modifications to the original plans included continued on page 8


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NORMAL HEIGHTS Dogs unleashed! Ward Canyon Neighborhood Park makes room for mutts The Normal Heights Community Associa- tion, with support from the Adams Recreation Council (and the city’s Park and Recreation Department), the Normal Heights Commu- nity Planning Group, and the Adams Avenue Business Association worked for nearly a year to have an off-leash dog park established at Ward Canyon Neighborhood Park.


see the removal of landscaping shrubs between many of the campsites. “There’s no privacy now, ” said June. At the end of their afternoon visit, the two


sat at a picnic table in campsite #1, looking at the ocean and the descending sun.


KEN HARRISON


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