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The Middletown Hillside high rise – pictured in flyer — is working its way through San Diego’s Developmental Services Department as a Ministerial Review only (no community review).
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Why is free street parking more important than new housing during a housing crisis?
“Disrespecting the neighborhood” – spare us your entitlement please.
Paul, we don’t have a housing crisis, we have an affordable housing crisis. Wow, “free” street parking. I wonder what property owners and renters would say about that. Who do you think pays for street maintenance? You and your Circulate friends actually carry around a certain entitled attitude — we know what’s best for the rest of you peons and racists.
Frank – I totally agree. It is a matter of affordable housing and not a housing crisis. One sees in most communities apartment complexes with vacancy signs. The fact we as residents don’t have say so in what happens in our communities – is like taxation without representation
That property doesn’t belong to you, therefore you don’t deserve a say. Perhaps you could gather your nimby friends and purchase the property yourself- that way you can guarantee nothing will be built!
Will, your mindset is so medieval, I have to say. With this view, no renter in any community has anything to say about anything. Nice. Don’t let those peasants speak their mind!
The most important part of this: “Ministerial Review.” There is no possibility of Appeal. No neighborhood input. Zero. It’s done. The permit is granted after an initial informal City review. I haven’t seen it, but I expect it is not yet “formally” on the City’s Accela system. This IS the new system.
As a neighborhood resident, where do I go to join the push-back against this developer-appeasing, horrible project? Joel is correct. This is taxation without representation. Telling existing San Diegans to get lost because our government needs to bend over for big money special interests that serve no one but themselves. Hell no!