Seven applicants are vying for one cannabis business license in Imperial Beach. Only one of the applicants, March and Ash, has an established retail presence in San Diego County. The six others see Imperial Beach as a way to break into the growing marijuana marketplace. “It’s a lot less saturated,” said applicant Brian Mitchell, CEO of the Shryne Group, a Los Angeles-based company with a dispensary in San Francisco. “The stores in San Diego do a higher volume of customers per day because there’s less of them,” he added. “You may have to drive 20 minutes between stores in San Diego while in L.A. you have a lot more.” This dynamic makes Imperial Beach an appealing place to open a dispensary. The city passed cannabis business regulations last year that limited the number of licenses to one. That means that whomever receives the license will have no local competition. “There’s a misconception nationally that there’s an … [Read more...] about Imperial Beach reviewing cannabis business license applications
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California towns at risk from fires often have few ways out
Updated 8:17 am PDT, Saturday, April 27, 2019 FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, file photo shows molten aluminum that flowed from a car that burned in front of one of at least 20 homes destroyed just on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, Calif., FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, file photo shows molten aluminum that flowed from a car that burned in front of one of at least 20 homes destroyed just on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, Calif., Photo: Reed Saxon, AP Photo: Reed Saxon, AP Image 1 of / 15 Caption Close Image 1 of 15 FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, file photo shows molten aluminum that flowed from a car that burned in front of one of at least 20 homes destroyed just on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, Calif., FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, … [Read more...] about California towns at risk from fires often have few ways out
Wildfire-prone California towns often low on escape routes
Updated 3:19 pm CDT, Thursday, April 25, 2019 FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, file photo shows molten aluminum that flowed from a car that burned in front of one of at least 20 homes destroyed just on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, Calif., FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, file photo shows molten aluminum that flowed from a car that burned in front of one of at least 20 homes destroyed just on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, Calif., Photo: Reed Saxon, AP Photo: Reed Saxon, AP Image 1 of / 15 Caption Close Image 1 of 15 FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, file photo shows molten aluminum that flowed from a car that burned in front of one of at least 20 homes destroyed just on Windermere Drive in the Point Dume area of Malibu, Calif., FILE - This Nov. 10, 2018, … [Read more...] about Wildfire-prone California towns often low on escape routes
When will a house burn? It may depend on when it was built
Updated 3:13 am PDT, Thursday, April 11, 2019 In this photo taken March 19, 2019, Dawn Herr and her son Liam, 8, visit their home in Paradise, Calif., that survived the Camp Fire. The Herrs' home, built in 2010, was scorched and had smoke damage inside so the family is living temporarily in nearby Chico. The Herrs credit the home’s survival to strict building codes and to gravel that encircled the building and kept the flames back. (Hector Amezcua/The Sacramento Bee via AP) less In this photo taken March 19, 2019, Dawn Herr and her son Liam, 8, visit their home in Paradise, Calif., that survived the Camp Fire. The Herrs' home, built in 2010, was scorched and had smoke damage inside so ... more Photo: Hector Amezcua, AP Photo: Hector Amezcua, AP Image 1 of / 5 Caption Close … [Read more...] about When will a house burn? It may depend on when it was built
In some Bay Area cities, making $200,000 a year means you’re middle class
The San Francisco skyline is photographed on the boat heading back from the Alcatraz Night Tour on Alcatraz Island, Calif., on Thursday, March 31, 2016. The night tour takes a few hundred visitors on activities not offered during the day. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) Robert Dolan, of Fremont, rides in a bike lane with a painted buffer zone along Fremont Boulevard near Walnut Avenue, in Fremont, Calif., on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. The city is planning to spend about $1 million on improving bike lanes around the city’s central district by adding buffer paint and narrowing traffic lanes. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group) Oakland’s Lake Merritt is seen here in an aerial photograph taken in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday Sept. 15, 2011. (Anda Chu/Staff) Boaters pedal across Lake Elizabeth in Central Park on Wednesday, July 5, 2017, in Fremont, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) Aerial view of the area of the Diridon Station near SAP Center, left, on the … [Read more...] about In some Bay Area cities, making $200,000 a year means you’re middle class