“An Injury to one community is an injury to all.”
The San Diego Community Coalition– which has been in existence a little over 3 months — will hold its second public meeting on Saturday, July 26. Members will be meeting in the community room at the Pacific Beach Library at 4275 Cass Street, from 10 am to noon.
The network of community activists and leaders include people from 25 neighborhoods across San Diego, from Encanto to University City, from OB and Point Loma to Talmadge and Linda Vista. In addition, some members are from Neighbors for a Better San Diego and SOHO, Save Our Heritage Organization.
Initially spurred to action to fight against the city’s abusive Bonus ADU program, it is now focused on giving support to individual projects that are threatening neighborhoods, like the 23-story Turquoise Tower in PB and the 17-story tower proposed for Columbia Street in Middletown. In fact, the Coalition is helping to sponsor a protest rally against the Columbia Street project on Saturday, August 2. And at least 30 members of the Coalition attended the July 19th rally in Pacific Beach.
“An injury to one community is an injury to all,” is a slogan the Coalition lives by. The Coalition is guided by a steering committee that operates on a consensual basis with the goal of having it made up of representatives from each community group that has mobilized in their respective neighborhoods.
Its founding meeting was in a North Park pizza parlor during the spring and was anchored on being galvanized by over-development in San Diego and its consequences, plus the disrespect shown neighborhoods by City Hall. Some members have also been mobilized because of how the Mayor and city have sought to destroy community planning groups.
The Coalition does indeed support affordable housing and understands San Diego does not have a housing crisis but has an affordable housing crisis. It also wants to push for affordable housing in both the Midway Rising redevelopment project and in the Navy’s NAVWAR redevelopment project.
In a sign of maturity, the Coalition now offers T-shirts and has a Facebook page.
Members of the non-partisan network understand they are not competing with the individual groups that have formed to fight against ADUs but are here to offer assistance, the sharing of information and coordination.
Perhaps it’s time you check out this growing network and see for yourself what it’s up to.
Any chance this can be on Zoom too?
you could have better attendence if one knew of the meeting before it occurs…. just opened todays OB Rag to learn of what occured.
FYI, The Coalition facebook page has been announcing the meeting for days.
We had a great turnout, between 40 to 50 people and there was lots of energy. The Rag hopes to post a report from the meeting within the next day or 2.