Editordude: We asked D2 candidate Nicole Crosby to send us a position paper and we’d publish it without edit (we also asked Richard Bailey the same) — but at this date, she has not. So, here is a lengthy statement from her campaign website:
Make San Diego More Affordable
Nicole’s vision is for stronger neighborhoods that keep longtime residents in and connected to the heart of our communities by focusing on projects that are community-centered, close to schools, work, recreational spaces, and other essential amenities.
Rein in the cost of living by focusing on projects that expand opportunity for home ownership and keep rents affordable.
Work with the San Diego Housing Commission to create programs that expand housing opportunities and subsidies for seniors and working families.
Programs that help support families and seniors access childcare, healthcare, and essential services needed to thrive in their neighborhoods.
Fix San Diego’s Potholes, Sewers, Sidewalks, and Roads
Our infrastructure in District 2 is in desperate need of repair. As your next Councilmember, she will work alongside our County and State partners to ensure execution of a one year, five year, and ten year roadmap that will deliver world class streets service and infrastructure to our communities. Nicole’s safe street priorities include:
Protecting our kids, whether they are crossing the street or riding their bike by supporting proposals to improve our crosswalks, lights, and road safety.
Repairs for our streetlights, potholes, sewers, sidewalks, and roads.
Ensuring pedestrian and biker safety in our neighborhoods.
Prioritize Public Safety and Prevent Gun Violence
As a mom, Nicole believes community safety must always come first. As a Chief Deputy City Attorney, she worked throughout her career to protect children from gun violence, prosecute hate crimes, and represent survivors of domestic violence. She led the team that implemented the nationally recognized Gun Violence Response Unit in San Diego. Nicole’s public safety priorities include:
- Protect our communities from increased wildfire risk by ensuring our firefighters are fully staffed, prepared, and trained to fight and prevent the next wildfires that hit our area.
- Ensure full staffing for our police to improve response times.
- Support public safety legislation that keeps illegal guns out of our neighborhood.
Get Our Homeless Neighbors Off the Streets and into Supportive Services
All San Diegans deserve to be treated with dignity and have access to housing. As a Chief Deputy City Attorney, she was part of a dedicated team that created the first program in the City for comprehensive contact, review, and support for our most vulnerable community members. Getting people housed with proper treatment and support makes our neighborhoods safer and healthier for everyone. Nicole’s priorities to address street homelessness include:
Develop partnerships with the County to deliver essential behavioral health services to our neighbors experiencing substance use and behavioral health disorders.
Support expanding shelter beds where needed and preventative homelessness measures.
Prevent our seniors from entering homelessness by building public senior care and housing facilities on government-owned land to prevent some of the City’s most vulnerable from ending up on the streets. In San Diego, the largest demographic entering homelessness is our seniors, who have been hit hardest by inflation and the rise in cost of living due to living on fixed incomes.
Protect our Environment
The natural beauty of District 2 is one of its greatest assets, but it’s under pressure. As your next Councilmember, Nicole will fight to protect our beaches, bays, and canyons from threats like pollution, overdevelopment, and illegal dumping. Her priorities for preserving our environment include:
- Protecting our precious coastline, Mission Bay, Mission Beach, and Ocean Beach, so families, surfers, and seniors can continue to enjoy them for generations to come.
- Holding polluters accountable and ensuring development respects the health of our bay and coastline.
- Preserving and maintaining our canyons as vital open spaces that clean our air, protect wildlife, and offer our community a place to explore nature without leaving the city.
As a mom, Nicole is personally invested in safeguarding these natural treasures for her daughter and all the children of District 2. Her commitment is clear: the beaches, bays, and canyons of District 2 aren’t negotiable; they are essential to our community and must be safeguarded for future generations.Nicole is committed to utilizing her legal expertise and experience to defend our communities against federal overreach.
Protect San Diegans from the Federal Government
As a prosecutor and public attorney, Nicole has spent her career upholding the Constitution. As your Councilmember, she will bring that same commitment to serve and protect every San Diegan.
On the Council, she will work to ensure that all residents, regardless of immigration status, race, or identity, are afforded their full constitutional rights, including due process and equal protection under the law. Nicole will defend reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ protections, strengthen San Diego’s sanctuary city policies, and ensure that local law enforcement resources are never used to facilitate ICE operations that violate the rights of our community members.
Nicole is committed to utilizing her legal expertise and experience to defend our communities against federal overreach.
Find Common-Sense Solutions to San Diego’s Housing Crisis
We must prioritize creating housing solutions that are affordable, safe, and accessible. This requires deliberate and smart planning to accommodate inevitable growth, while protecting the character of our existing neighborhoods. Nicole’s housing priorities include:
- Standing up against short-sighted ADU policies that create haphazard buildings, enriching predatory developers. ADU developments need to be held accountable when it comes to trash can pile-ups in our neighborhoods.
- Creating new home ownership opportunities. By prioritizing gentle density such as townhomes, making space for families on existing land, and offering affordable homeownership that is free from ADU policies and maintains existing onsite parking requirements.
- Ensuring housing is built for San Diegans and not corporate entities. Nearly a quarter of housing in San Diego is bought by corporations, blocking our young families from becoming home owners. Nicole will pursue policy reforms that eliminate tax incentives for large companies to swoop in and buy up residential neighborhoods, as well as put a 100-day waiting period for large corporate bidders.
Rein in Short-Term Vacation Rentals
Neighborhoods should be where our residents thrive. In San Diego, there are almost 6,000 entire-home short-term rentals that sit empty roughly half the time. That vacancy presents a real threat to small businesses, hotels, and schools.
When we allow entire homes to become hotels full-time, we send families packing and force our teachers, nurses and firefighters into long commutes far from communities they serve. We have already seen the consequences. The loss of permanent residents in neighborhoods saturated by these short-term rentals has been tied to declining school enrollment and even school closure. Short term-rentals also overburden our first responders, costing tax payers and increasing emergency response times. As your Councilmember, Nicole will fight to keep neighbors in our neighborhoods by:
- Pursuing common-sense reforms to improve the lives of long-time residents, such as extending San Diego’s current two-night minimum stay to match standards set by cities across our nation. These policies will encourage owners to convert these entire-home rentals back into long-term housing that local residents can afford.
Deliver Affordable, Accessible Public Transit That’s Neighborhood Convenient
We must invest in transit that supports people who do not have access to it in San Diego. From Nicole’s home in Clairemont, she has to walk over a mile to get to a bus stop with infrequent service. One of the two routes is through a hilly canyon with no sidewalk or streetlights. People in the community with children and jobs, who want to take public transportation, and the individuals whose very survival is based on public transportation, need to be met where they are. With increased gas prices and the impacts of climate change, the city needs to invest in public transportation as an affordable travel option for those who depend on it. We must prioritize safe and accessible transportation as we make a better San Diego for our future.
Hmmm, I was hopeful, she would have some ideas on how to accomplish her wish list, I don’t think she has a clue how to do what she wishes for.
At least Richard Bailey has some hands on experience to do and/or instruction Dept. Heads on how to start, manage, and complete projects on his goals.
Bailey had a city manager as a mayor of Coronado, population only about 20,000, from 2016 to 2024, during which time the city’s population increased by just 1% while city staffing rose by 27%
Todd gloria bumped up his staff numbers more than 50% as did the Council Reps. And that’s only two Depts.
I see a lot of unicorns and rainbows, keeping in mind what is really attainable or relatable in conjunction with a city council seat.
But, my question is, do you have room in your car trunk for a lectern to do a pop up news event chastising corporations while ignoring municipal bathrooms?
UnConstitutionally Constitutional
Just keep saying it’s legal, until it sticks
Mockery of the justice system
Cruelty with death
Have another civil talk about being acceptably unlawful and accept cooperate money that attacks it’s own citizens
While I consider Bailey and Crosby to be the best of the elections we had in the primary, perhaps “least worst” is a better description.
Maybe I’m missing something, but I have yet to see anything approaching a concrete plan to address the issues we face in District 2 from either Crosby or Bailey.
The first problem is that one vote on the City Council does not amount to much. So when someone says they’re going to do this or that, I start thinking “Yeah ? You and what army?”
Likely the best we can hope for is someone who can at least try to hold the line until Gloria is replaced, but I don’t see much of substance coming from either candidate.
If someone commissioned a survey of District 2 residents, asking them to list their Top 5 concerns, and this data were published, would anyone else find that useful or interesting ?
And if such a thing took place, and a candidate said “I am addressing these issues, in the order of importance as dictated by my constituents”, would you vote for that person ? Would you campaign for that person ?
Not to worry, no one will try this, at least not in my lifetime.
Representational democracy. Nice theory.
Yes, Robert, you’re right. One voice on the Council isn’t going to get changes. BUT there are going to be new Council Reps, in other Districts, that may side with D2 winner. And if they’re still not on the same page, one thing a vocal, experienced, finance council member CAN do is bring whatever seems a little or lot shady, to the light and let the public know, and the public can make changes, like they’ve been doing.
pats – Agreed.
Plus, we have to start somewhere.
One voice of dissent is far better than none, it can possibly inspire others to stand up to the status quo.
Jack: Thank you for your reaction. & opinion. Given the makeup of our City Council,
we need an experienced , talented person to represent District 2. Our current Council D2
person is semi-retired and because of her age & physical condition should have retired!
Our D2 Representative should be someone who is proactive, consults the voters of D2
and has the motivation & energy to WORK as our representative! When our D2 Council person. disagrees with the apparent sentiment of the district, the voters of D2 should be informed, by mail or email. Hence, we need an energetic, articulate person, who consults the district voters and pro-actively listens to the district!
Both candidates don’t really don’t start their official campaigns until September 18. That’s when Nicole takes leave from her city attorney position and is doing her first OB Meet and Greet at Pizza Port, Sep 22, 6-7:30 pm in the PP pkg lot. Please approach her again Frank and I’m betting she will give you an interview.
Same script being read in most of the main counties.
Homeless people are illegal non-citizens
Mexicans are unwelcomed
Ice is unConstitutionally Constitutional
Reopened a fair judicial decision
Rerouted the 8th Amendment verdict
Right in front of everyone
And this is acceptable
Not long before the impeachment
And bolted down
Forcing gender confusion on to elementary school kids
And abusing homeless people and chasing them until they die is acceptable and “Constitutional”
This is your brain
This is your brain
On Narcissistic dictator abuse
What’s even more cumbersome
Is the minor majority going along with this
and overriding the majority
While
Sowing community strife (which God hates)
while calling themselves “Christian”
and people actually buying into that
While pushing the poor off the cliff
It’s unconstitutional even if you say it it’s constitutional
You people are really sickening liars
Okay…..but WHAT will she do?.
Sounds like business as usual with lots of generic catch-phrases. It doesn’t sound like she has a plan to tackle some issues head-on with reforms. Some statements don’t make a lot of sense: “We must invest in transit that supports people who do not have access to it”. Well, yeah, how would a Dist. 2 councilmember do that when MTS doesn’t have the money to fulfill the concepts already in the Regional Transp. Plan? As for: “Nicole will pursue policy reforms that eliminate tax incentives for large companies to swoop in and buy up residential neighborhoods” – so she wants to change the Federal Census Tract map? Change the Opportunity Zones? Change Complete Communities Muni Code? What? She’s a lightweight with the usual blah blah blah.
Protect from overdevelopment. That is exactly what Midway Sinking is. The size of the project will gridlock parts of District 2 along with NAVWAR. Your stance?
I’m encouraged by this aspect of Nicole’s agenda. At least she’s taking a public position that aligns with common-sense land use policies, something Jen Campbell (and Steve Whitburn, Sean Elo Rivera, and Vivian Moreno) refuse to do.
“Standing up against short-sighted ADU policies that create haphazard buildings, enriching predatory developers. ADU developments need to be held accountable when it comes to trash can pile-ups in our neighborhoods.
Creating new home ownership opportunities. By prioritizing gentle density such as townhomes, making space for families on existing land, and offering affordable homeownership that is free from ADU policies and maintains existing onsite parking requirements.
Ensuring housing is built for San Diegans and not corporate entities. Nearly a quarter of housing in San Diego is bought by corporations, blocking our young families from becoming home owners. Nicole will pursue policy reforms that eliminate tax incentives for large companies to swoop in and buy up residential neighborhoods, as well as put a 100-day waiting period for large corporate bidders.”
What does she say about Midway Rising?
Times of San Diego – “Nicole Crosby, a deputy city attorney living in Clairemont, said that Midway Rising needs to happen to revitalize the area, but it needs to have transportation baked into the plans.” How can anyone claim to be a champion of sensitive gentle density while conditionally supporting an environmental nightmare like Midway Rising? As experienced political consultants advise, for the general election you run for the middle. We need a revolution at City Hall, currently only Raul Campillo will stand up and say “enough”. This is our chance to have Two.
I like Campillo also but that church project and multi story apartment building being planned right around the corner in his district are going to jamb up College Ave & 8 even more than SDSU already does.
Compare candidate bios. One – she’s very transparent – experience, skills, leadership. The other uses vague terms of perceived importance, and years of political maneuvering. No matter how you vote, Red, Blue or Other, ask yourself, when has a career politician ever truly represented the needs of their constituents?
I don’t dislike the lady but she is simply an acolyte of Todd Gloria! I did not vote for his re-election and would probably never vote for him again! We need smart, informed, articulate, and unabashedly assertive, experienced people on our city council. Hence, I will vote for Richard Bailey. who will not hesitate to speak up and has the experience to question
actions of the Mayor & his sycophantic city council.
Richard, you are listening to the misinformation campaign. It’s her only real opponent. She doesn’t personally support his policies, and hasn’t asked for his endorsement. There’s simply no record of it. I agree TG is not popular nor competent, but don’t conflate her party affiliation with being an acolyte. From one 30 year retired vet to another vet…be objective and check the facts.