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The La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club is at 2000 Spindrift Drive in La Jolla Shores. (Ashley Mackin-Solomon)<\/p>\nGillispie School to renovate Girard Avenue building<\/p>\n
Plans are taking shape to expand Gillispie School\u2019s Fielden Hall, which faces Girard Avenue in La Jolla.<\/p>\n
Local architect AJ Remen presented plans for the building\u2019s renovation at the Nov. 10 La Jolla Planned District Ordinance Committee meeting, saying it would increase the number of \u201cmuch-needed\u201d classrooms.<\/p>\n
Though the project is technically outside the jurisdiction of the PDO Committee, Remen said he \u201cwanted to be a good neighbor\u201d and present the plans so local residents could be informed before work begins.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main aspect of what is being added to is the second floor,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat you\u2019ll see is not much more than what is already there. \u2026 The goal is to make it look like it was always part of the campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once renovated, the space to be developed will be used for classrooms. Currently, the area is used for attic space, mechanical wells for the gymnasium and light wells.<\/p>\n
The intent is to complete the renovation of the exterior in the summer, when students are not in school. The interior renovation would be carried out when the fall session begins.<\/p>\n
Beach & Tennis Club readies for December tennis tournament<\/p>\n
The La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club will be the home of the Hard Courts tennis tournament Monday through Sunday, Dec. 1-7.<\/p>\n
The La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club is at 2000 Spindrift Drive in La Jolla Shores. (Ashley Mackin-Solomon)<\/p>\n
The event is a U.S. Tennis Association-sanctioned national tournament assembling top players from across the United States in the National 40, father\/son and grandfather\/grandson divisions.<\/p>\n
Learn more at ljbtc.com\/tennis\/tournaments<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meal-packing event coming to Bird Rock<\/p>\n The Bird Rock Foundation is partnering with the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary Club and The Outreach Program to help pack 30,000 meals for people in need this holiday season.<\/p>\n Participants can either donate money to pay for food items or volunteer during the meal-packing event from 9:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Bird Rock Elementary School auditorium, 5371 La Jolla Hermosa Ave.<\/p>\n Two volunteer shifts will be available: 9:30-10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to noon. Each shift is limited to 100 participants. A $50 donation is requested from each.<\/p>\n Volunteers must be in first grade or older. Children must be accompanied by an adult.<\/p>\n To learn more or sign up, go to zeffy.com\/en-US\/ticketing\/bird-rock-gives-back-food-packing-event<\/a>.<\/p>\n S.D. says yes to higher hotel valet parking fees but delays decision on hikes on street dining<\/p>\n The San Diego City Council approved a sharp increase in fees for hotels\u2019 valet parking areas but postponed a decision on whether restaurants must pay more for on-street dining spaces.<\/p>\n City officials OK\u2019d the valet hikes Nov. 4 since San Diego loses revenue when valet parking areas take up on-street spaces that otherwise could be metered parking spots. But critics say the fee increases are too steep and may worsen traffic congestion if hotels eliminate valet spots.<\/p>\n Annual fees for the two subsidized valet spots every hotel gets will rise from $634 to $5,000. Fees for any additional spots will go from $317 to $7,500 \u2014 less than the $10,000 proposed by Mayor Todd Gloria\u2019s staff. In special-event zones like one recently established near Petco Park, annual fees for additional spots will jump from $317 to $10,000 \u2014 less than the $15,000 proposed by Gloria\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n Even with the reduction, many hotels will see their annual costs for valet spots jump from less than $1,000 to more than $50,000, depending on how many spots they now use and how many they decide to keep.<\/p>\n Kim Avant, general manager of La Jolla\u2019s Grande Colonial hotel, home to Nine-Ten Restaurant, said last month<\/a> that the hotel has long-standing, city-approved valet parking arrangements with five \u201cloading zone\u201d spaces in front of the property at 910 Prospect St.<\/p>\n \u201cValet fees were never intended to serve as a budget-balancing mechanism,\u201d Avant said of the proposed fee hikes. \u201cThey were designed to cover maintenance and manage turnover, ensuring access to local businesses, not to penalize them.\u201d<\/p>\n She said the city\u2019s plan would \u201cforce businesses to raise prices, cut jobs or reconsider future investments in San Diego.\u201d<\/p>\n San Diego council committee votes to stop towing for expired vehicle registration<\/p>\n In light of adverse effects on college students and low-income people, the San Diego City Council\u2019s Public Safety Committee voted unanimously Nov. 12 to support changing the penalty for expired vehicle registration from towing to a citation.<\/p>\n Registrations expired beyond six months are the No. 1 reason San Diego police order vehicles towed. A large percentage of towed vehicles are sold at auction because the owners can\u2019t afford the fines.<\/p>\n The new policy, which needs approval from the full City Council in coming weeks,\u00a0\u201cis narrowly written to apply only to overdue registrations, which we will continue to enforce but with citations \u2014 not by taking and selling the cars of college students and low-income residents,\u201d said Councilman Stephen Whitburn.<\/p>\n The new policy wouldn\u2019t apply to tows ordered for violations of any other parking law, such as the city\u2019s 72-hour rule for street parking or the oversize-vehicle ordinance.<\/p>\n Bishop\u2019s musicians perform in refugee benefit concert<\/p>\n More than a dozen musicians from The Bishop\u2019s School in La Jolla recently participated in the second Youth Benefit Concert in support of refugee youth education. All together, the concert featured more than 60 young musicians and singers from across San Diego presenting performances ranging from symphonic and folk ensembles to solo piano, viola and traditional instruments.<\/p>\n The musicians performed Nov. 8 at Good Samaritan Episcopal Church near La Jolla, raising more than $8,000 for RefugeeNet, a San Diego nonprofit that serves refugee families. The concert doubled its audience and tripled its donations compared with last year\u2019s debut, organizers said.<\/p>\n UCSD study links weight-loss medications to improved colon cancer survival rates<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1763482568_594_SUT-L-Parking-Enforcement.jpg\")
A parking enforcement officer drives in San Diego. (K.C. Alfred \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n