Ocean Beach residents are beginning to wonder when – or even if – their community’s landmark pier will ever be replaced.

The old pier was closed to the public since October 2023 because of its deteriorating condition. “Us old-timers would like to see the pier rebuilt in our lifetime,” said Mark Winkie, a former member of the now-disbanded Ocean Beach Pier Task Force. “That would be a good goal.”

Noting he “used the pier almost every day,” when he first moved to OB in the ‘80s, Winkie added that the pier is special to OB residents.

“It gives people who can’t get out on the ocean an experience of connecting to the water and the natural environment: It’s a public resource,” he said, “It’s one of the crown jewels of the city and county.

“We want to see it rebuilt and put back to its former

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