The Coast News, June 14, 2013

JUNE 14, 2013
by CHUCK
ODD
SHEPHERD
FILES
Very Personal
Hygiene
Orestes De La Paz’s
exhibit at the Frost Art
Museum in Miami in May
recalled Chuck Palahniuk’s
novel and film “Fight Club,”
in which lead character Tyler
Durden’s principal income
source was making upscale
soap using discarded liposuctioned
fat fetched from the
garbage of cosmetic surgeons
(thus closing the loop of fat
from rich ladies recycled
back to rich ladies). De La
Paz told his mentor at Florida
International University that
he wanted only to display his
own liposuctioned fat
provocatively, but decided to
make soap when he realized
that the fat would otherwise
quickly rot. Some visitors to
the exhibit were able to wash
their hands with the engineered
soap, which De La Paz
offered for sale at $1,000 a
bar.
The Entrepreneurial
Spirit
As recently as mid-May,
people with disabilities had
been earning hefty blackmarket
fees by taking
strangers into Disneyland
and Disney World using the
parks’ own liberal “disability”
passes (which allow for
up to five relatives or guests
at a time to accompany the
disabled person in skipping
the sometimes-hours-long
lines and having immediate
access to the rides). The
pass-holding “guide,”
according to NBC’s “Today”
show, could charge as much
as $200 through advertising
on CraigsList and via wordof-mouth
to some travel
agents. Following reports in
the New York Post and other
outlets, Disney was said in
late May to be warning disabled
permit-holders not to
abuse the privilege.
After setting out to create
a protective garment for
mixed martial arts fighters,
Jeremiah Raber of High
Ridge, Mo., realized that his
“groin protection device”
could also help police, athletes
and military contractors.
Armored Nutshellz
underwear, now selling for
$125 each, has multiple layers
of Kevlar plus another
fabric called Dyneema,
which Raber said can
“resist” multiple shots from
9 mm and .22-caliber handguns.
He said the Army will
be testing Nutshellz in
August, hoping it can reduce
the number of servicemen
who come home with devastating
groin injuries.
Unconventional
Treatments
Researchers writing
recently in the journal PLoS
ONE disclosed that they
had found certain types of
dirt that contain antimicrobial
agents capable of
killing E. coli and the antibiotic-resistant
MRSA.
According to the article,
medical “texts” back to
3000 B.C. mentioned clays
that, when rubbed on
wounds, reduce inflammation
and pain.
THE COAST NEWS
Optional uses for Surfside building to be presented
By Bianca Kaplanek
DEL MAR — Two proposals
for alternative uses of
Surfside Race Place at the
Del Mar Fairgrounds will be
presented to the 22nd
District Agricultural
Association board of directors
at a future meeting, likely
in August.
One of them, however,
may not be a viable option as
it likely goes beyond activities
authorized under a landuse
agreement at the stateowned
facility, Director
David Watson said.
“I don’t think the people
who applied were aware of
that,” said Watson, a land-use
attorney who is chairman of
the land-use committee for
the 22nd DAA, which governs
the fairgrounds.
One proposal for a family
entertainment center with
a focus on upscale bowling is
from the company that
owned Stick and Stein, a
sports bar in El Segundo that
closed in 2011. It had healthy
and safety violations during
inspections in 2008 and 2009.
Called New Stick, the
plans submitted to the 22nd
DAA include installing bowling
lanes in Surfside.
Fair board Director
Stephen Shewmaker said the
business would be similar to
Lucky Strike bowling, which
has venues at L.A Live, in San
Francisco and nationwide.
The second, more problematic
proposal called for an
upscale movie theater as well
as a drive-in, although
SANDAG
wants your
opinion
COAST CITIES — Now is
the time to make your voice
heard. Bring your ideas to the
table on the issues facing the
San Diego region between now
and 2050 - issues like the economy,
the environment, transportation,
public health, and
social equity. The San Diego
Association of Governments
(SANDAG) is hosting a meeting
from 6 to 8 p.m. June 20 in
the Oceanside City Hall
Community Rooms, 300 N.
Coast Highway. For reservations,
contact Sarah Strand at
sarah.strand@sandag.org or
call (619) 595-5609.
The community workshop
will seek input on land use,
transportation, housing,
healthy environment, public
health, economic prosperity,
public facilities, energy, climate
change and borders. Get
involved in the on-going conversation
about how to tackle our
challenges today, and determine
quality of life for the
future.
The San Diego Association
of Governments and its partners
have embarked on creating
San Diego Forward: The
Regional Plan. It plans to build
upon local planning efforts and
incorporate emerging issues
and innovative concepts, to
form an overall vision for the
region's future, including specific
actions aimed at turning
that vision into reality.
Two companies submitted proposals for alternative uses of Surfside Race Place. The plans will be presented at noon on June 17 at a special fair
board meeting. Photo by Bianca Kaplanek
Shewmaker said those plans
could be scaled down so the
project is confined to
Surfside as is required.
When the projects were
initially introduced at the
June 4 22nd DAA meeting,
Watson said that one in particular
could present “huge,
huge regulatory stumbling
blocks.”
He said he didn’t want to
“undo” any of the legal issues
just settled between the 22nd
DAA, California Coastal
Commission, Sierra Club and
adjacent cities.
“I’m not willing to open
up land-use issues,” Watson
said, adding the proposals
“are just ideas that have
been suggested.”
“They haven’t been
blessed,” he said.
In April, board members
directed staff to explore
alternative uses for Surfside
Race Place, an approximately
100,000-square-foot satellite
wagering facility built in
1991 to accommodate 5,000
people.
A decrease in offsite betting
has resulted in an average
daily attendance of only
about 350.
“It’s a woefully underutilized
facility that we spent a
Finally!
lot of money constructing,”
board President Adam Day
said.
Directors support a private/public
partnership as
long as there is always space
for off-track betting, there are
no parking impacts during
the fair and horse race seasons
and the activities are
“sympathetic and compatible
with the community.”
A request for interest
and qualifications was available
for about 30 days,
Shewmaker said.
“People had shown
interest but at the end of the
day we only received two pro-
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posals,” he said. “With the
uniqueness of situating something
in the middle of a race
track and fair we didn’t
expect a lot of responses.”
Both companies will be
invited to each give 15minute
presentations. The
proposals were slated to be
presented during a special
June 17 meeting to discuss
the proposed joint powers
authority between the 22nd
DAA and the county for governance
of the fairgrounds,
however, that has been canceled.
Public comment on the
proposals is welcome.