Peter Q. Davis is a very smart man, and the Port commission should consider hiring him as their next Port Director. But that doesn't make him right on this issue. One key question being debated is whether we should end up with a working waterfront or one that is paved over with highrise hotels catering to the tourist industry. There needs to be come balance, but for now, our downtown bayfront is being buried under more hotels and the expanding concrete cancer they call the convention center, with nothing being left for the local public, which actually owns our waterfront tidelands under the California constitution.

Posted by Watcher | reply to this comment
October 7, 2008 8:08 am

Your argument implies that the working waterfront is better than a tourist oriented waterfront. I've walked all over the embarcadero and in and among the Hyatt and Marriott waterfront hotels as well as the convention center. All areas are open to the public. I've never set foot inside the 10th avenue marine terminal, nor do I think i would be allowed to. I travel to Coronado quite a bit and I rarely see any ships sitting at the dock at the marine terminal. The area is totally underused and will become even more irrelevant when the huge port is built in Baja. The outcry against redevelopment is mostly sponsored by the working waterfront unions who fear job losses for their members. The unions need to put out hard facts that justify the use of the land as a benefit to San Diego & not just their union jobs.

Posted by TB | reply to this comment
October 9, 2008 10:51 am

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