{"id":422544,"date":"2026-08-03T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422544\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T12:37:06","slug":"san-diego-must-reopen-the-restrooms-before-park-stinks-of-urine-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422544\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego must reopen the restrooms before park stinks of urine \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cLeaders clash over park restrooms\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/27\/san-diego-leaders-at-odds-over-paying-to-reopen-closed-mission-bay-restrooms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 28<\/a>): San Diego must reopen the restrooms before Mission Bay smells like urine.<\/p>\n<p>Who benefits the most from tourism? Hotels, motels, Airbnbs, restaurants, right? And yet we can\u2019t find a few dollars from each of them, say, $1 per patron, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/07\/27\/san-diego-leaders-at-odds-over-paying-to-reopen-closed-mission-bay-restrooms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open the restrooms<\/a> at Mission Bay? Or isn\u2019t there a millionaire\/billionaire around who could donate the money for a small tax deduction?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m 74 and will avoid the beaches because I can\u2019t walk a mile to urinate.<\/p>\n<p>Open the restrooms before the park becomes unusable due to the smell of public urination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alma Williams, Escondido\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cLeaders clash over park restrooms\u201d (July 28): San Diego must reopen the restrooms before Mission Bay smells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-422544","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\/422544","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=422544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}