Sadly for many first time visitors to San Diego the first thing they see as they go to pick up their rent-a-cars is the blighted and dilapidated section of Pacific Highway from Barnett St at Spawar and MCRD to the prison-like Port building at Sassafras St. The rusted fencing and trash strewn weed patches at Washington St make the improvised skateboard park under the overpass look charming by comparison. Once a hub of war-time manufacturing and a historically significant preparation area for troops and equipment entering WW2, Korea and Vietnam,this area has been largely overlooked and abandoned by the surrounding businesses and especially by the Federal government which owns much of the land. MCRD's answer was to put up concrete K-rail and hang tarps over the fences along the highway to partially block the view of all the RV's and boats stored along the Eastern boundary of the base. All the other boundary fences are attractive and have well maintained fencing and landscaping. The Port District's best use for the land was to open a giant rent-a-car storage lot visible for miles and from the air. The majority of the cars stored there in the dust bowl never seem to move. Caltrans and the city both treat that section of highway like an unwanted step-child providing zero maintenance or even basic trash removal. Signage and guard rails are bent and damaged and remain that way indefinitely. The hillsides and vegetation are strewn with trash and debris. Weeds do require only the bare minimum of water so if that was the plan it's working well as that is the only thing growing in that area. The only green we see is in the spring for about thirty days. Maybe a large onion patch would be appropriate. MTS and the Coaster both figure that if they move the trolley and trains through fast enough no one will cast any glances in their direction or at all the graffiti on the abandoned buildings along their tracks. The Mission Brewery Plaza building stands alone; a proud building, knee deep in refuse and blight. A monument to poor urban planning and poor inter-agency coordination. You only get one chance to make a good first impression and we make a poor one with this onion patch. Let's show visitors and potential investors that we can get agencies to talk and implement planning ideas that work for San Diego. Cleaning this area up will act as an economic stimulus by drawing businesses to the area and with it, jobs for San Diegan's.