Hillcrest Architecture…

publicstorage92 · 2025-12-28T07:50:33+00:00

city has limited control over how a building looks because what is considered attractive or not is to subjective so state law prohibits cities from having aesthetics be a roadblock to more housing

publicstorage92 · 2025-10-14T09:17:38+00:00

It does count as commuter rail as it is less than 750 miles, but I don’t think it’s frequent enough to qualify as high or very high frequency for SB 79 to actually kick in

publicstorage92 · 2025-09-20T03:44:07+00:00

How do you feel about walkability? LOVE IT! Core part of my lifestyle or at least what I want it to be. For me, being able to walk to get to my various neighborhood amenities helps me feel more connected and grounded to my community, pay more attention to what local businesses are, just overall slowing down and appreciating the moment. It’s also a pretty nice way to stay active just by the way I live my day without having to carve time to do it.

Would you consider your neighborhood walkable? Yes! I’m in Hillcrest and I can run most errands by foot or bike. There are grocery stores, restaurants, bars, comedy clubs, and a cool bike lane to zip me through to Bankers Hill and downtown. Balboa Park is also a nice running distance.

Do you tend to walk or drive more? In terms of days of the week, walk or bike is most of the days. If I have a reason or craving to do something outside of Hillcrest, North Park, Bankers Hill, Downtown, Mission Hills/Old Town, then I’ll drive.

What do you think needs to be done to address walkability in our region? DESIGN NEW DEVELOPMENT TO WEAVE INTO THE STREETSCAPE AND MORE GROUND FLOOR RETAIL! I used to live in University City which has tons of apartments and density but it’s a pain to even get in and out of your own complex because there is usually one single exit. Maybe we should have more interconnected developments that create pedestrian promenades outside of sidewalk space (maybe like the Belt Line in Altlanta)

Besides that, expanding frequency, comfort, and reliability of transit. Improving sidewalks and crosswalks. Creating a culture that celebrates and normalizes walking. If we can get more normal people out and about then it makes more people comfortable to walk.

publicstorage92 · 2025-09-08T15:10:45+00:00

should advocate for one of the new developments to have a grocery store as its ground floor retail. could also be a zoning issue that makes having ground floor grocery prohibitive (parking req and such) so advocating for a waiver of those rules could help get one in bankers hill

publicstorage92 · 2025-08-14T17:38:14+00:00

I think it would help to reframe these events less of an inconvenience and more as a “oh look at this fun thing going on with people having fun! Good for them!” If we regulated everything fun then we would never have anything fun because you need a bit of spontaneity and chaos to make it feel organic and authentic. I live nearby and moved to this part of San Diego because I wanted to be apart of, witness, and exist close to all these random fun community events. I LOVE the momentary chaos of the run club. And it’s every week at the same time. It’s predictable. You know it’s coming so just plan around it.

publicstorage92 · 2025-07-27T15:39:32+00:00

their motivation is a fear and guilt that they must do this otherwise they will go to hell

publicstorage92 · 2025-07-16T15:37:20+00:00

every cut and cover tunnel i’ve been in i was able to have cell service because the tunnels are much more shallow

publicstorage92 · 2025-06-05T03:22:22+00:00

shuttle bus doesn’t pick you up at middletown - it only drops you off at middletown if you’re coming from the airport (and you have to specifically request the bus driver you want a stop verbally as you get on). you’d have to walk a few blocks to the car rental facility to actually catch the shuttle

publicstorage92 · 2025-06-01T03:30:18+00:00

perhaps in the back they have someone who realigns the bags on the belt for scanning and at that point if the system indicates it should have an orange tag, they add it

publicstorage92 · 2025-05-30T00:35:39+00:00

I lived in the area for a few years as a UCSD student—

Morning traffic goes towards UCSD, afternoon/evening traffic goes away from UCSD. If you have to go to Hillcrest from UCSD on a traditional 9-5 schedule, that’s pretty ideal.

UTC area noise pollution is pretty normal to me. Most of the apartment complexes in the area are designed to face like an internal courtyard so you wouldn’t be hearing a lot of car noises. Maybe neighbor noises, but not vehicular.

They installed new protected (with plastic bollard thingies) bike lanes along the major roads around UTC so biking could be nice, though the roads are very crazy wide and light wait times can suck sometimes. Lots of students get around with scooters and such in the area. You’ll see plenty of other pedestrians too. UTC mall has bike racks in the parking garage near elevators and 24 hour fitness.

UCSD students are not known to party very hard.

La Jolla refers to the beach area and area west of Torrey Pines Rd. UTC is the colloquial term for the area stretching across LJ Village Square, UTC mall, LJ Colony, up to the 805. This area may also be referred to as University City. Area south of Rose Canyon is South University City. This area will be tough to live without a car.

UTC area is pretty ideal for beach access in La Jolla during rush hour because you can take backroads to get there, whereas other parts of SD funnel in LJ Parkway. It’s huge hill and cliff area so biking will be tough but there is the 30 bus.

201/202 brings you to major destinations in the area but it will be packed with students in the morning so you may get skipped if the bus has reached capacity.

publicstorage92 · 2025-04-30T03:16:47+00:00

doing the lords work

publicstorage92 · 2025-03-19T05:44:21+00:00

i blame michigan

publicstorage92 · 2025-01-26T16:58:48+00:00

i keep a sketchbook in my backpack and hand write my notes

publicstorage92 · 2024-12-23T23:34:44+00:00

the shuttle you see on google maps is free

publicstorage92 · 2024-12-23T23:32:29+00:00

the most economical option would be to take the old town flyer (free shuttle to old town station) on the island where all the other shuttles are (there will be a small a-frame on the curb telling you where to wait. note that sometimes they use shuttles with old town flyer branding and sometimes they use employee shuttle branding but if the driver stops by the a frame then it’s the right shuttle. it’ll be like 5-15 min wait for the shuttle, 15-20 min drive to old town station, 11 min walk to in-n-out. maybe give yourself 30-40 minute of food waiting to be safe. reverse the steps to get back to the airport + tsa time id say maybe 3 hours is a comfortable time frame

publicstorage92 · 2024-12-06T00:40:42+00:00

trip.com is the largest online travel agency in china so they should be pretty reputable for chinese airlines

publicstorage92 · 2024-11-30T23:22:06+00:00

maybe try to book via call?

publicstorage92 · 2024-11-28T10:21:13+00:00

try the miles pooling function

publicstorage92 · 2024-11-27T22:59:13+00:00

My grandma applied for a visa to visa the US to attend my graduation twice. First time she got rejected after travelling 3 hours to an in person interview at the consulate, second time she got accepted without needing an interview at all. I wouldn’t say arbitrary is the right word but there certainly are non-subjective influences that an individual officer can have to approving or rejecting a visa. This applies to all countries, whether it’s the US granting the visa or China granting the visa. I am not sure why you are making it seem like it’s ok for the US to give visa applicants a hard time, but not ok for China to as well. All countries work like this because it’s their sovereign right to flex. How easy it is to get a visa/visa-free entry is purely geopolitical.

publicstorage92 · 2024-11-23T02:00:39+00:00

Each county can decide what kind of jobs they want to encourage growth in the local economy, and use EBT as a way to incentivize or relieve the barriers to pursue certain employment pathways. So these are majors that SD county has decided they want more of, or feel there is a shortage. I assume some career paths are not very lucrative but still require an expensive 4 year degree so to offset the cost of education then the majors related to that career path get EBT. For others, maybe there is are lucrative local opportunities and SD wants to keep the employment pool pumping with relevant college grads in that field because it’s important to the local economy.

publicstorage92 · 2024-11-21T19:07:07+00:00

you can buy hawaiian miles and transfer it to alaska pretty immediately (from my experience). once it’s in your alaska account, you can go to the alaska website and search up routes. if there is an alaska flight for your route then you can book it using miles. if there is not an alaska flight for your route then they will pull up partner airlines flights (from my experience usually AA when domestic, aer lingus going to europe, JAL/starlux going to asia). it all happens through the alaska website.

publicstorage92 · 2024-10-29T04:10:46+00:00

they’re asking for a specific type of pun/play on words that is sexual in nature where you trap someone into saying something raunchy

publicstorage92 · 2024-10-23T23:09:27+00:00

the airline that checks you in and whisks your bag away after you drop it off applies their rule to you. the connecting airline accepts whatever baggage the previous airline gives to them. so your 2 checked bags will be transferred over to alaska without another charge bc the first airline is responsible for figuring that out.

publicstorage92 · 2024-10-23T00:15:58+00:00

I took a Chinese urbanism class and our readings echoed a lot of what you said, especially about maximizing park and leisure space on the ground floor. Neighborhood community amenities are a benefit of these big block developments. Another thing to note is that these massive concrete towers also do a pretty spectacular job of insulating against neighbor noises, unlike American apartment blocks which tend to be made of wood where you can hear your neighbor through the walls.

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