By Katie Hyson / KPBS / January 28, 2025
The San Diego City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to repeal a controversial footnote in the city code. District 9 Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera was absent.
The 2019 footnote reduced minimum lot sizes for a certain zone of land, allowing denser housing — but only in neighborhoods in Southeastern San Diego. These neighborhoods were formerly redlined and remain majority Black and Latino and low-income.
On one lot in Emerald Hills, developers plan to build more than 120 homes where zoning would only allow 70 anywhere else in the city.
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Thank heavens for the cancellation of Footnote 7!!! Poor Mayor
Gloria must be rolling in his bed and falling to the floor!
And many, if not all, his Developer supporters & bosom buddies
may cut him off because of his possible turncoat behavior. I hope
our City Council recognizes that their most important voters are
homeowners!
It’s a little late for all those completed, illegal, 6 / 8 / 10/ 12 /14/ 17 unit projects lording over single family homes I hope all those piles of garbage are stopped in their tracks.
The behind the scenes is nothing but SLEAZE. I felt dirty talking to financier at one of the private funding firms involved in this program. Makes you wonder where they get the money. Kickbacks, kickbacks, kickbacks.
As a native San Diegan, I agree with Dave! Mayor Todd Gloria is simply a paid stooge of his developer friends & supporters! Like former
Mayor Falconer, he is simply following in his footsteps. Presumably,
when Gloria leaves his last elected office as Mayor, similar to Falconer’s exit, he will be given employment by his Developer friends,
fading into the vanishing sunset and obscurity! Future San Diegans will ask, MayorWHO???