‘Daylighting’ problems result from a poor law
The problems with “daylighting” enforcement are the result of another in a long line of badly thought-through laws coming out of our California Legislature (“La Jolla remains a hot spot for ‘daylighting’ tickets,” La Jolla Crime and Public Safety News, Oct. 9, La Jolla Light).
Instead of putting the burden on motorists to decide where they can and cannot park by prohibiting parking within a blanket 20 feet of marked and unmarked crosswalks, the law instead should have required councils to review all crosswalks within, say, three years or another reasonable period of time and to add red curb paint within 20 feet of those where warranted.
Once paint was added, parking violations would be clear and dealt with as in any other red zone. This would also allow local councils to be the ultimate arbiter of what distance was appropriate for each crosswalk in the area.
As it stands, we have yet another one-size-fits-all, top-down state law, like the recent housing-near-transit bill, that is so poorly thought-through that it makes no sense for many areas and is a nightmare for councils and residents.
When are some of our elected representatives (I’m looking at you, Catherine Blakespear and Tasha Boerner) going to notice some of the unnecessary problems they are creating and repeal some of these laws?
Kevin Knight
Remembering La Jolla golden girls
In my junior year in 1961 at La Jolla High School, one of my cheap thrills was getting to look at, and even some days exchanging greetings with, local beauty Salli Vinning.
We weren’t friends but would acknowledge each other as we passed by on campus or at lunch. Salli graduated that year.
Then in my senior year, Sallie was replaced by Linda Opie and Kathy Harris, two motivating reasons to go to school each day. Kathy won the Miss San Diego Junior Miss contest that year and is still active. However, both Salli and Linda were discovered by the “dream factory” in Hollywood and became prominent extras in the popular series of “beach party” movies that hit the screens during the ’60s. The camera and director liked them both and they looked like matching “bookends,” as their director described them, in their sexy bikinis in every beach dancing scene.
They both married young and both of their young husbands died tragically together doing stunts in an airplane over Windansea Beach. Salli went on to act in more films as Sally Sachse, but Linda’s cinema career pretty much ended after the death of her husband.
Sadly, Salli died this past September and Linda died coincidentally a few months before her. But their lives from the La Jolla beach culture to the glamour of the silver screen were kind of a big deal back in the ’60s.
Alan Segal
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