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North Park Clean and Safe: Good for Business, Bad for Residents?
As San Diego’s budget deficit has grown, the list of basic services that the City provides has shrunk. To address the increased number of overgrown trees, trash-strewn sidewalks, and rundown business centers, dozens of communities throughout San Diego have formed maintenance assessment districts and business improvement districts.
But in North Park, some business leaders believe that the maintenance assessment district created in 1998 isn’t effective enough. And the business improvement district, created in 1996, is not allowed to spend money on maintaining residential areas.
“We have empty storefronts, crumbling infrastructure, litter and graffiti problems,” writes Liz Studebaker, executive director of the North Park Main Street, the nonprofit that manages North Park’s business improvement district. “The lack of maintenance in North Park is noticeable to residents, business owners, and patrons.”
Last year, North Park Main Street began lobbying for a new maintenance assessment district. The idea was to form the North Park Clean and Safe Overlay Maintenance Assessment District, similar to overlay districts in Little Italy and Downtown. It is called an overlay district because it would be contained within the existing maintenance assessment district.
Staff at the Park and Recreation Department —which oversees the City’s maintenance assessment districts — agreed, and in late May, the City mailed ballots to residential and commercial property owners asking if they wanted to pay an extra tax for more services.
If approved, property owners will pay assessments — collected along with the property tax — that are based on a number of factors, including type of property, location of property, and number of feet fronting the street. A single-family home on a residential street with 50 feet of frontage, for example, would pay $54.64 per year. A condo owner might pay $29.44, and the owner of a ten-unit apartment building on a residential street with 75 feet of frontage would pay $233.26. For commercial property owners, average payment would be $1245.
In all, the engineer’s report estimates that assessments would amount to $470,193 the first year. After that, assessments would increase in accordance with a cost of living index plus 3 percent. Of the $470,193, North Park Main Street would receive more than $65,000 per year to manage the overlay district.
The city council will consider the proposal at a July 12 hearing, at which time the ballots will be counted.
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As San Diego's budget deficit has grown, the list of basic services that the City provides has shrunk. To address the increased number of overgrown trees, trash-strewn sidewalks, and rundown business centers, dozens of communities throughout San Diego
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San Diegos Busker Festival: One-Of-A-Kind Entertainment
The Seaport Village’s Spring Busker Festival in San Diego
“My kids love the wacky characters that do strange things like fit their bodies through a toilet seat, swallow flaming swords or perform backflips on a pogo stick,” says Busker Festival attendee, Jon Bailey. The Seaport Village’s Spring Busker Festival that takes place in San Diego, California every year is a one-of-a-kind two-day festival full of eccentric entertainment, and innovative street performers.
It’s not only located in Seaport Village, which is one of the nicest places to walk around in Southern California, but it’s also an original kind of entertainment for tourists and their families to watch live, unlike any type of show or movie that they’ve ever seen.
What is a Busker?
A busker is a street performer, typically known for their eccentric style of entertainment through unusual daring comedic acts. These types of artists perform around the globe for tips in the streets. San Diego’s beautiful Seaport Village hosts the only busker festival in all of Southern California.
Professionals from across the country come to perform their unique talents such as juggling on unicycles, sword swallowing, knife tricks and out of this world pogo stick moves.
“I had heard so much about these sword swallowers, people on unicycles while juggling swords and even about this one guy who would staple money all over his body from my friends and co-workers,” said Becca Burnham, who attended the Busker Festival last year.
“It was time I checked it out myself. So I grabbed my roommates and headed down to Seaport Village. Let’s just say we were not disappointed.”
Most visitors and tourists who go to the Busker Festival are just that, not disappointed. It’s the kind of entertainment you don’t see every day. It’s live, it’s real, and it’s fascinating.
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Band playing at Seaport Village’s Busker Festival
“Seaport Village already has so much to do, what with the great shopping, amazing views and good food options – this just makes it even more fun to spend the day there in the sun, watching the buskers do their thing,” says Bailey.
It’s the kind of festival that all types of people go to, and there’s something for everyone. Best of all, it’s free entry and you get to choose which performers you want to tip, or not.
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