City still not enforcing rules on vendors at La Jolla's Children's Pool
Children’s Pool ground, the epicenter of a longstanding controversy over a colony of harbor seals, has been invaded by a different species: Vendors hawking hats, T-shirts and other trade.
In response, the San Diego Parks & Recreation Department issued new rules last December that limit to two the reckon of permits for so-called First Amendment vendors at Children’s Pool. Nonprofit groups wishing to set up tables on the footpath near the stairways leading to the beach must compete under a lottery system for monthly permits that cost $50.
Undeterred by the new permit requirements, little has changed at the beach that each week attracts thousands of visitors. People prove to watch the seals, to stroll along the crescent-shaped seawall, or, much to the consternation of animal-rights activists, to prank on the beach near the skittish seals.
Tables set up by non-profit groups, or others whose primary interest appears to be making capital, add to the carnival
