{"id":427258,"date":"2026-08-08T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427258\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:38:10","slug":"vosd-podcast-del-martians-sling-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/427258\/","title":{"rendered":"VOSD Podcast: Del Martians Sling Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Del Mar\u2019s City Council cut its summer recess short this week for an emergency meeting \u2014 and came out of it asking for investigations into California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a Del Mar Fairgrounds board member.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the center of it all is Seaside Ridge, a 249-unit housing project proposed for Del Mar\u2019s North Bluff. A resident\u2019s letter raised questions about ties between the fairgrounds board member and a string of warning letters Bonta sent pressuring Del Mar to approve it \u2014 and despite formally referring the matter for investigation, city officials insist they\u2019re not accusing anyone of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also on the show: How a San Diego downtown gas station sidestepped pedestrian-safety rules with the help of a $15,000 lobbyist, the city closed public restrooms in Mission Bay while funding new playgrounds nearby, and we debuted our first-ever Summer playlist.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Del Mar\u2019s City Council cut its summer recess short this week for an emergency meeting \u2014 and came&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-427258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","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\/427258","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=427258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}