Radical Plans Threaten Balboa Park’s Historic Integrity
A proposal to build a freeway-style off ramp from the Cabrillo Bridge at San Diego’s Balboa Park is raising more than a few eyebrows among preservationists and park advocates. Even the National Park Service is voicing its concern, stating the development threatens Balboa Park’s status as a National Historic Site. Bruce Coons of the Save Our Heritage Organisation talks about the proposed redesign’s threats to the integrity of one of the nation’s great urban spaces.
The Bureaucratic Plight of the La Jolla Seals
Helen Browning Scripps was one of the great civic patrons of San Diego, leaving behind a legacy of parks and civic projects which continue to enhance the lives of the city’s residents today. While not intended as a philanthropic misstep, one of Mrs. Scripps most beloved projects, the Children’s Pool at La Jolla Cove, has become something of a controversial legacy. In the late 1980s huge numbers of seals began returning to the Children’s Pool, an area which originally had been used by generations of seals who instinctively called the rocks it was built upon home.
