I just got off the phone with Will Carless from Voice of San Diego. He made what appeared to be good rebuttals to Kelly Davis’ rebuttals to his affordable housing piece.
Confused yet? I certainly feel that way. Will says VOSD has sent a reply to SD CityBeat defending its piece. I’ve asked VOSD to send me a version that I can publish.When I get it, I’ll put it up here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKlWGZHEO7Q
To give one specific example of how VOSD dealt with a disputed point, Carless told me it’s not accepted practice to include a outdoor playground in square-footage calculations, because it’s not a building. If that’s true, then SD CityBeat got it wrong.
I apologize to Carless for not talking to him before, but as I saw no VOSD rebuttal, I assumed they didn’t have one. You know what happens when you assume!
I’m leaving the previous piece up because removing it would spread conspiracy theories that I was forced to. I was not, and Carless didn’t ask me to, implicitly or explicitly.
So consider this a placeholder until this gets sorted out. And it’s a lesson for me not to delve into complicated issues on Labor Day.