December 5, 2023
Excessive surf on the Ocean Seashore Pier. Courtesy OnScene.TV

On Saturday, June 10, town of San Diego will host the second in a sequence of neighborhood workshops to share details about the Ocean Seashore Pier Renewal mission and collect enter from San Diegans from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Metropolis workers and engineering consultants will share a abstract of the general public enter acquired thus far through the mission, search concepts for potential alternative pier options and supply an replace concerning the present standing of the 56-year-old pier at Liberty Station Convention Heart 2600 Laning Highway, San Diego.

Public enter gathered through the workshop will probably be utilized by the engineering consultants to develop a number of design options for the potential alternative of the pier. Different components that will probably be thought of in creating the design options embrace neighborhood impacts, environmental allowing, sustainability, operational utilization, value, and historic significance.

The design options are anticipated to be offered to the general public this fall and the popular design various is predicted to be chosen in early 2024. 

The Ocean Seashore Pier Renewal mission goals to supply a long-term answer for the pier by way of a possible alternative. A 2018 research decided that the pier has reached the tip of its service life. In consequence, town has determined that pursuing a possible alternative of the pier is the best choice contemplating the continued prices of repairs, the necessity to modernize the prevailing facility, and the anticipation of future sea stage rise.