Daily Business Report: October 12, 2026
College Area residents fear developer is steering library future, want city – or mayor – to step up
By Drew Sitton | Times of San Diego
The site of a monthly community meeting in the College Area was significant. It took place at a local union hall rather than the library, and the agenda only had one action item, to discuss ideas to keep the library accessible.
It was also significant who attended – and who didn’t – as residents grappled with the effect of a major construction project on the library.
The audience questioned a representative for Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera and the city’s library director. But no one from Mayor Todd Gloria’s office or the developer behind the project attended, an absence noted by both residents and Elo-Rivera’s representative alike.
The Fine Print in the Countywide Sales Tax Hike Pitch
by Lisa Halverstadt | Voice of San Diego
If a countywide sales-tax hike passes in November, it won’t have an expiration date.
That’s just one key detail of Measure B getting less attention than its goals of combatting Trump administration health and food benefit cuts, addressing the Tijuana sewage crisis, plus funding public safety and child care.
We dug into those details and other fine print on the measure.
Where did San Diego County’s roadside motor lodges go?
by Debbie L. Sklar | Times of San Diego
A city directory can tell you where a motel stood. A postcard can show you what it looked like. A photograph can put it back on the street for a moment.
The harder question is what happened afterward.
Across San Diego County, roadside motor lodges were built around a simple idea: Travelers arrived by car, pulled into a convenient parking space and stayed close to the road.
By the 1950s and 1960s, that formula had transformed places such as Mission Valley, San Ysidro, Pacific Beach, Carlsbad and Oceanside.
