{"id":393653,"date":"2026-07-10T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393653\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:49:12","slug":"city-closing-beach-bathrooms-is-as-dumb-as-it-gets-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/393653\/","title":{"rendered":"City closing beach bathrooms is as dumb as it gets \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cCity closing bathrooms creates threat to public health\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/06\/12\/city-closing-bathrooms-creates-threat-to-public-health\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 12<\/a>): The decision of the city to close many bathroom facilities at San Diego Bay and beach areas has to be the dumbest, most short-sighted idea our leaders have come up with in recent memory. How can San Diego call itself \u201cAmerica\u2019s Finest City\u201d when tourists and taxpaying citizens can\u2019t even use the bathroom at the beach? All to save $500,000 or so. Instead of closing bathrooms, the city needs to keep them open and keep them clean.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u00a0Douglas A. Oden, San Diego<\/p>\n<p>The mayor and City Council have shown complete incompetence in running the city budget for years and now they want to plug the deficits by coming up with stupid solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Close public bathrooms in Mission Bay? Come on!<\/p>\n<p>Raising parking fees and adding street meters kill business and tourism. What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>Have they really tried to reduce staff and expenses at City Hall? No!<\/p>\n<p>Elected leaders: Clean your house before you use us taxpayers and visitors as your bank!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Victor Ravelo, Marina District<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cCity closing bathrooms creates threat to public health\u201d (June 12): The decision of the city to close&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-393653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393653","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=393653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}