Residents to Demand Answers Why There Was No Community Input and More on “Footnote 7”
Encanto and Emerald Hills residents will turn out in force tomorrow, November 12th, at San Diego City Hall to stop a high-density housing project and demand detailed information about how residential zones in Southeast San Diego were up zoned with no input from the community planning group or neighbors.
“We’re identified as an environmental justice-affected community,” said Encanto resident Rob Campbell. “And so we don’t see how paving over what green space we have will increase our air quality or will decrease the heat island effect that we suffer from.”
The residents are appealing a multi-unit project made possible by a still-mysterious footnote in the city’s planning code that reduced the minimum lot size from 20,000 square feet to 5,000 square feet.
That four-fold increase in density applies only to the Southeast San Diego area.
“With this footnote, the city is essentially saying, 20,000 means 20,000 to everyone in the city except you folks in Southeast. For you folks in Southeast, 20,000 means 5,000. A dollar means a quarter, because we said so,” said Andrea Hetheru, chair of the Chollas Valley Community Planning Group.
The Encanto neighbors raised $1,000 to appeal the multi-unit “Klauber Development.”
They will be demanding answers from City Council members at tomorrow’s 2 pm council meeting, at San Diego City Hall, and are asking for a city-wide show of support. You can help by attending the meeting and ceding your speaking time to the organizers, and filling the council chambers.
Click to access CC%20Notice%20-%20Appeal%20Klauber%20November.pdf.pdf
You can also express your support by calling in to the meeting — go here.
