San Diego Metro News | SignOnSanDiego.com -- Residents angry over assessment on city job
SAN DIEGO – A La Jolla homeowners association is assessing its 597 members $2.4 million – $4,000 apiece – for emergency repairs to a canyon eroded by runoff, even though in April it won a court ruling that the damage was the city's fault. Many members of the Alta La Jolla Homeowners Association are angry at their board of directors, which passed the emergency assessment July 31. The board took the action after narrowly failing to win a community vote for a much larger assessment of $8 million to undertake more comprehensive repairs while pursuing the next round of its suit for damages and reimbursement from the city.