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Good News About Kensington’s Historic Streetlights
November/December 2023
The neighborhood group fighting to save Kensington’s historic streetlights recently reported an important breakthrough with the City of San Diego.
The city engineer in charge of replacing Kensington’s streetlights has directed his staff to start processing a change order that will allow Streetlight Restoration Specialists, Inc. to take control of the historic streetlights, instead of sending them to the dump.
Once that change order is complete, the historic lights will be loaded into shipping containers so that they can be restored, rewired, and reused in the next phase of the Kensington’s streetlight project.
Additionally, as the group recommended, they will be fitted with new LED lights and demonstrate how restoration can preserve this important element of Kensington’s historic character, and provide long lasting, efficient light.
“While our goal was to restore all of the lamps in their current locations across the remaining circuits in Kensington, we're grateful that we can now restore some of the oldest lights in our community and not lose them to a scrap yard,” wrote Jim Kelley-Markam, who has fueled the group with his decades of expertise as a (now retired) preservation architect and a SOHO member.
Read Kelley-Markham’s earlier common-sense, inexpensive recommendations to the city—from a screw-in fixture to new wiring—at this Our Heritage eNews article online.
Perhaps it’s a coincidence, but this good news reached SOHO mere days after we released the 2023 Most Endangered List of historic resources, which includes San Diego’s historic streetlights. See the entire list online
Read the entry on the historic streetlights
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