SAN DIEGO – With public officials lined up against his proposal from Imperial Beach to Washington, D.C., Frank Gallagher has been spending several days a week talking to groups large and small about the virtues of Proposition B. “I'm gone so much that my wife doesn't think I live here,” Gallagher joked last week. Gallagher is the ebullient point man for the ballot measure that, if passed on Nov. 4, would change the character of the downtown bayfront. The initiative seeks to change the San Diego Unified Port District's master plan to allow construction of a 40-foot-tall deck over the port's 10th Avenue Marine Terminal, just south of the San Diego Convention Center. The 96-acre deck would cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build but would be paid for with private funds, proponents say. They say it could accommodate a...
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