{"id":149082,"date":"2025-08-15T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149082\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T23:45:09","slug":"san-diego-weighs-in-on-stair-repair-project-at-whale-view-point-in-la-jolla-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/149082\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego weighs in on stair repair project at Whale View Point in La Jolla \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

A project to fix a crumbling stairway at La Jolla\u2019s Whale View Point took a step forward last week when representatives of the city of San Diego met with local volunteers to discuss possible repairs.<\/p>\n

San Diego senior heritage preservation planner Suzanne Segur and senior planner Mayra Medel met at the site with La Jollans who were involved in getting the La Jolla Park Coastal Historic District listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<\/p>\n

The Coastal Historic District encompasses places such as La Jolla Cove, the Children\u2019s Pool, Casa de Ma\u00f1ana retirement community and Red Roost and Red Rest cottages. The area, based on an 1887 map of what was called La Jolla Park, includes eight acres of coastal parkland roughly between Torrey Pines Road and Coast Walk in the north and nearly the end of Coast Boulevard in the south.<\/p>\n

The district was listed on the National Register in spring 2024. At a celebration ceremony<\/a> in November, the volunteer group said it would raise funds to repair the beach access stairs at Whale View Point as an initial project. Originally, the goal was to raise $34,000, but the final number is still being calculated, especially now that the city has weighed in.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe purpose of the [Aug. 8] meeting was to review the final concept plan for improving the stairs at Whale View Point because they are very eroded at this point and can hurt you if you don\u2019t step right,\u201d said volunteer Jim Neri, who will prepare additional renderings for the city.<\/p>\n

In discussing options such as pouring new concrete over the existing stairs or patching them as needed, Neri said \u201cWe [with the city\u2019s input] landed on placing precast concrete pavers onto the steps that are already there and allow them to become the new stairway.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that method would preserve the stairs but make them safer to use.<\/p>\n

\"MayraMayra Medel, Suzanne Segur, Seonaid McArthur and Jim Neri examine concrete samples during a visit to the Whale View Point stairs. (Bob Evans)<\/p>\n

With the city representatives\u2019 blessing on the pavers, discussion shifted to color, texture and process, Neri said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrecast concrete pavers and stair treads \u2026 have high compressive strength and offer different colors that change according to the texture applied, which is usually with sandblast,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to use precast concrete pavers that have an integral color and a light sandblast, resulting in an almond color.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city determined that because the stairway historically has had one handrail, the team will not need to add a second one as part of the repair and can leave the existing handrail in place. However, Neri said, the handrail is to be repainted as part of the work.<\/p>\n

Once Neri\u2019s renderings are complete, \u201cwe will finalize project costs, ensure sufficient funding, raise additional funds if necessary and then hand the project over to the contractor,\u201d who is expected to be Rip Patton, according to project volunteer Seonaid McArthur.<\/p>\n

\u201cRip has indicated the work should take only a few weeks to complete,\u201d McArthur said.<\/p>\n

However, Neri said the process is \u201cjust beginning\u201d and that there is no timeline for when the work will begin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re optimistic we are going to get the help we need to get this done,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m really excited. We have had several meetings there, and it\u2019s amazing just how used those stairs are. It doesn\u2019t matter if it is cold and rainy or bright and sunny, there is a need there. This project is very needed.\u201d \u2666<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A project to fix a crumbling stairway at La Jolla\u2019s Whale View Point took a step forward last…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":149083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3548,7354,19284,3549,3550,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-149082","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-la-jolla","12":"tag-la-jolla-light","13":"tag-la-jolla-light-news","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115035448594335030","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149082","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=149082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}