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April 24, 2024 at 7:38 pm on City Council Committee Sides With Upstart Planning Group in Uptown and With Existing Group in La JollaTook the words right out of my mouth, kh – literally and figuratively, from almost three years ago: https://obrag.org/2021/11/another-assault-in-the-war-on-san-diegos-community-planning-groups/
April 24, 2024 at 6:15 pm on Students at PLNU Are Angry With Administration For Disrespecting Gay Community and Chilling Free SpeechNot to excuse the administration, but why did these students choose a school with a known anti LGBTQ stance due its religious affiliation?
April 24, 2024 at 5:55 pm on ‘Hey You! Get Up! We’ve Outlawed Sleeping in Public!’Not making false pipedream promises would be a start. I wish I could locate that press release from Todd Gloria as a councilmember where he...
April 24, 2024 at 5:03 pm on Planning Groups Forced to Pay New $1,000 Fee to Appeal Projects Stifles Community DemocracyThis is great info. Last week at the PBPB meeting their planner was talking about the new $1000 appeal charge and why the city thinks...
April 24, 2024 at 4:47 pm on ‘Hey You! Get Up! We’ve Outlawed Sleeping in Public!’Getting back to the original comment, which was what Larry Turner would do to reduce homelessness, I am still not sure what he means or...
April 24, 2024 at 3:34 pm on ‘Hey You! Get Up! We’ve Outlawed Sleeping in Public!’Exactly, land gets more expensive the closer to the coast generally speaking. The same standard doesn't apply everywhere.
April 24, 2024 at 3:32 pm on Students at PLNU Are Angry With Administration For Disrespecting Gay Community and Chilling Free SpeechParents spend so much $$$ to send their kids to PLNU because they weren't accepted elsewhere.
April 24, 2024 at 3:10 pm on Planning Groups Forced to Pay New $1,000 Fee to Appeal Projects Stifles Community DemocracyI agree, these are land use issues heard at community planning meetings, by volunteers. There is a $500 stipend offered by the City for the...
April 24, 2024 at 11:35 am on Students at PLNU Are Angry With Administration For Disrespecting Gay Community and Chilling Free SpeechBut isn't that why the parents pay so much $$$ for this education? So their little darlings can be protected from the 'evils' of the...
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Be sure to copy any comments (up to 200 words) to the Rules Committee. You’ll need to use their webform (link below), check June 10 – Item-1 – Agenda Comment, and submit before 1:45PM tomorrow if you want it to be read at the meeting, https://www.sandiego.gov/form/rules-committee-public-comment-form
An agenda item number is needed to submit a comment. Please, if anyone knows the number put it in comments here so we can use it.
Sorry about that. I see now that it is item 1.
I absolutely think the Sports Arena area is appropriate for dense housing over the existing height limit. No one is talking about expanding that to the coast. It provides better opportunities for affordable housing, and more density that will lend itself better to public transportation. The Sports Arena area is already packed with concrete; it’s not like this was going to be returned to the Mission Bay ecosystem.
Actually, the city is talking exactly about expanding dense housing to the coast: look at the zoning map on page 299, Figure 4.1-1 Area B here, https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/final_peir_for_complete_communities_housing_solutions_and_mobility_choices.pdf.
Almost all of Ocean Beach is being re-designated as a “Housing Program Eligible Area,” “Mobility Choice Program Improvement Area,” and a “Transit Priority Area” under the new Complete Communities scheme written about here, https://obrag.org/2020/06/ocean-beach-planning-board-to-review-mayors-controversial-complete-communities-proposal/
The developers and their hires are hoping you’ll think the two proposals are separate, so they can kettle opposition into a cul-de-sac. If they succeed, then in the near future any objections made by the OB and other Community Planning Groups will be dismissed out of hand as being superseded by this new reality.