LaCava: Plan to End SeaWorld\u2019s Fireworks Is \u2018Complex\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n After some nesting birds nearby died last year<\/a> following back-to-back pyrotechnics for the Fourth of July, the most powerful person on the San Diego City Council said SeaWorld\u2019s nightly summertime fireworks have got to go.<\/a><\/p>\n Almost a year later and Mission Bay is still booming night after night.<\/p>\n So what\u2019s going on? San Diego City Council President Joe LaCava\u2019s office told our MacKenzie Elmer that it\u2019s complicated.<\/p>\n It involves cracking open SeaWorld\u2019s lease and working with the city\u2019s planning commission on changes to the SeaWorld Masterplan Amendment<\/a>, a long-term planning document for the park which leases city property in Mission Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n There\u2019s a whole section describing fireworks displays at SeaWorld as an \u201cintegral part of the park\u2019s evening experience.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The City Council is waiting on the Planning Commission to take up SeaWorld\u2019s planning amendment, according to LaCava\u2019s staff. Richard Berg, a city spokesman said the Planning Commission will take that amendment up this fall.<\/p>\n Read more here.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Progress Report: How School Districts Combat Enrollment Decline<\/strong><\/p>\n Flashy new facilities. Revamp programming.\u00a0<\/p>\n That\u2019s how San Diego Unified\u2019s leaders plan to combat what seems like an unstoppable fall in student enrollment fueled by an overall drop in birth rates and high cost of living in San Diego County.\u00a0<\/p>\n School Board Trustees hope investments in shiny, new facilities and delivering on demands from parents for things like Montessori principled, project-based learning elements in early childcare centers will lure families to stay put and enroll their spawn.\u00a0<\/p>\n Our Jakob McWhinney unpacks the problem and proposed solutions in his latest Progress Report.\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n South County Report: Imperial Beach\u2019s New Market\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Residents of Imperial Beach have been without a major grocery store for 10 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n That could change this fall. For his latest South County Report newsletter, reporter Jim Hinch features the effort to open a 6,000-square-foot grocery store that\u2019s community-owned and operated.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe only reason I leave town is to get food,\u201d one resident told Hinch.\u201dNow I\u2019ll be able to ride my bike here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Read the South County Report here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n In Other News\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Morning Report was written by MacKenzie Elmer and Lisa Halverstadt. It was edited by Andrea Sanchez-Villafa\u00f1a.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The top county lawyer who abruptly retired last week is heading out the door with a big payout.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,9081,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-109972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-morning-report","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114952966242544571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Councilmember](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/untitled-07620-1024x683.jpg\")
Councilmember Joe Lacava during a City Council meeting in downtown on April 10, 2023. \/ Photo by Ariana Drehsler<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Logan-Memorial-Educational-Campus_0021-1024x683.jpg\")
A woman inside San Diego Unified School District\u2019s first day care center at Logan Memorial Educational Campus in Logan Heights on Dec. 20, 2024. \/ Ariana Drehsler for Voice of San Diego<\/p>\n\n