SANDAG Board of Directors to Meet Friday

1. The San Diego Association of Governments’ board of directors will meet Friday from 9 a.m. to noon in downtown San Diego. The agenda includes an implementation plan for the Los Angeles-San Diego-San Luis Obispo Rail Corridor. A PDF of the agenda is attached to this story.

2. President Barack Obama will visit Los Angeles and San Diego next week during a West Coast presidential campaign swing. The president will arrive in Los Angeles Monday and later that day fly to San Diego, a White House statement said. The West Coast swing also includes a visit to Seattle.

3. The fall quarter started Thursday for about 29,000 students at UC San Diego. The student body includes an estimated 3,400 incoming freshmen, who had a combined high school grade-point average of 3.96, and a record 2,750 transfer students. The students moved into new on-campus housing, which includes 805 additional beds in The Village—a cluster of dormitories that has a new table-service restaurant and sushi bar—and recently completed apartments at John Muir and Revelle Colleges. The school will open a restaurant with a vegan/vegetarian menu near John Muir College later this fall.