At last count, the newly formed San Diego Community Coalition comprised 25 San Diego communities plus multiple organizations that have united to exert concerted pressure on elected San Diego officials to address two intersecting issues: 1) Overbuilding incompatible ADU complexes and towers in residential neighborhoods; and 2) City Hall’s flagrant disrespect for constituents and communities.
The popular OB Rag serves as the platform for the San Diego Community Coalition, posting accessible news and updates. You can also follow timely news on its Facebook page HERE.
Stay tuned for news on our upcoming protests, including one planned against the 14-story high-rise in Midtown at 3677 Columbia Street. Click HERE for more information about this highly contested Complete Communities project.
Our next general and public meeting will be held on Saturday, July 26th from 10 to noon, at the Pacific Beach Library in the community room at 4275 Cass St San Diego 92109 .
Custom t-shirts sporting the San Diego Community Coalition logo will be available for sale at the public meeting. Stay tuned for details on how you can purchase yours!
Join the July 19th Rally in Pacific Beach to Protest the 23-Story Turquoise Tower
This Saturday starting at 5:30 p.m., community activists from across San Diego will gather at 5180 Mission Boulevard, in the Dunn-Edwards parking lot, and march toward 970 Turquoise Street — site of the proposed 23-story “Pencil Tower” that would exceed the 30-foot coastal height limit and set a dangerous precedent for more skyscrapers along our coastline.
The proposed project, encompassing 210 apartments and 139 hotel rooms, would:
- Increase traffic congestion and pollution
- Strain existing services and utilities
- Create street parking nightmares
- Overload the designated evacuation street, which is already 400% over capacity
- Provide just 10 affordable units
- Let builders build taller while making taxpayers pay to upgrade infrastructure and services
- Stack housing laws to build 3-4 times more apartment units near nonexistent transit stops
Let’s support our Pacific Beach neighbors by helping them fight this towering monstrosity, especially since there were no public hearings nor local vote allowed. Bring friends, signs and your voices to send a message to the City of San Diego that this project must be stopped. For more information, visit Neighbors for a Better California’s website at www.NFABC.org.
(Much of the above was taken from an email blast by our friends at www.ucpeeps.org another member group of the Coalition.)
Support Protect Point Loma Against 52-Unit Project at Rosecrans and Talbot
The Coalition also supports Protect Point Loma in their efforts to halt the monstrous project at Rosecrans and Talbot.
See this post on those efforts.
All these projects are void of any legal requirement or obligation to actually furnishing or even building affordable housing on the site of their project, nor anywhere else for that matter. Once again it can never be repeated enough.
The City is compensated by the State for “issuing permits” for affordable housing NOT for the “actual construction” of affordable housing onsite, or not.
Projects mentioning affordable housing benefit from the State compensation so that the construction can be given top priority, fast-tracked through the planning commission. These obscenely lucrative projects come replete with tax subsidies so tremendous, that Corporate Land Barrons can offset their own self inflicted revenue losses incurred by all of their empty, vacant units due to maintaining artificially high rents for years and years. (This frees up more money for important things, like coercive political bribes, or I mean “contributions”, by design.)
These obnoxious High Density Soviet Bloc Housing projects do NOTHING to increase the tax base. They provide nothing beneficial to the community, no new fire stations, police officers, pothole repair staff, waste, water waste treatment, zip, nada, nothing for years to come.