Re “With bold leadership, San Diego can shape its future” (July 16): This article is a little too late. San Diego’s mayor and City Council have long provided bold leadership and have shaped the city’s future, the future we are now living. The problem is that our leaders are incompetent and the future they have given us is dismal. The idea that they should be given more power independent of state and federal government is truly scary: more favors for unions, more expensive electricity, more taxes and fees and parking meters, more real estate debacles, more bicycle lanes, more expensive trash pickup (and counting), more potholes, unaffordable cost of living, etc.
I appreciate author John Eger’s frustration that California and the federal government do not provide what he wants for San Diego, but adding another layer of incompetence to those two is not the answer.
— Thomas W. Schoene, La Jolla
The author may be right, but we have no prayer of accomplishing anything like this with the leadership of this current administration in place. If you really want to see San Diego lead, then replace the mayor and the City Council with intelligent people who know how to see ahead and make change that works for the benefit of all of its citizens.
Take the politics out of this and stop letting labor lead our city with poor financial decisions that may well bankrupt us one day.
Stop this insane mandate to create more housing at all costs.
And, finally, stop letting our city destroy our most prized jewels: the beaches and bays of San Diego. They are little more than RV parks and tent cities now and are getting worse every year.
— Glen Volk, Point Loma