OB Town Council President Winkie and Other Residents Rip City for Lack of Progress at Point Loma ‘Natural Park’

Sunset Cliffs Natural Park was ripped apart three years ago as part of what the city called the Sunset Cliffs Improvement Project.

On Friday, September 13th, OB Town Council president Mark Winkie and other local residents ripped apart the City of San Diego’s efforts to complete the so-call Point Loma “Natural Park”.

KUSI reporter Dan Plante interviewed Winkie, Dan Dennison – a member of the OB Planning Board and retired drainage engineer – , as well as Anne Jackson Hefti – who has been active in opposing the use of RoundUp in the park.

Reporter Plante – who is a local – gave a rather impassioned report on the current state of the park, describing how the area was once covered in trees, flowers and grass, but the master plan for improvements called for all of that to be replaced with native plants. Those plants are cactus, sage and succulents.

Go here for the KUSI report.

The plan also calls for redesigning the storm drain, as well as ripping out what was once a beloved baseball field. The park is covered in garbage. The park hasn’t looked the same since the beginning of the project, and locals are concerned it never will. Residents are complaining about the lack of updates on the status of the improvements from the city, the lack of any response from the local city council office and frustration with the reported additional years the park will have its current appearance.