{"id":244981,"date":"2026-03-31T12:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244981\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:28:07","slug":"san-diego-threatens-owner-of-vacant-lot-for-not-hiring-private-trash-hauler-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/244981\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego threatens owner of vacant lot for not hiring private trash hauler \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding San Diego\u2019s new trash removal program, I own a property in Encanto, a vacant lot with no structures. Officials have denied city trash pickup for this property. Yet I have received threatening notices from the Environment Services Department, stating that if I don\u2019t contract with a private hauler, I will be fined by the city to the tune of $250 every 14 days (up to $1,000). I\u2019ve called twice and left messages with no response. I\u2019ve emailed with no response. My lawyer has emailed an appeal, no response. My lawyer went to their offices and was told no walk-ins. I am 77 years old. All this time the city is spending harassing me for a property that is a vacant lot with no structures on it. Can you see trash cans in the middle of a vacant lot? Our city at its best.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Cornelius, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Regarding San Diego\u2019s new trash removal program, I own a property in Encanto, a vacant lot with no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-244981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","9":"tag-opinion","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}