Today, there’s a good number of depressed residents from two of San Diego’s neighborhoods, Hillcrest and University City. It was yesterday, June 13, that the key City Council Land Use & Housing Committee bulldozed over their concerns and unanimously approved plans that would literally double the number of residents within their communities.
Now that the committee approved the plans — without any changes — they will go before the City Council and likely be okayed by the full nine-member council in July.
Under the plans approved yesterday, University City would see more than an additional 64,200 residents, nearly doubling the neighborhood’s current population of 65,400, with an influx of just over 30,000 housing units. And many of those new units will be in high-rises.
The city plan for Hillcrest would swell the population of Uptown — a wider area that also includes University Heights, Mission Hills and Bankers Hill — from about 40,000 to more than 100,000 by 2050. This would be accomplished by the addition of 17,000 new homes, some of them in buildings with 20 stories or more.
Those residents from both neighborhoods had their concerns about gentrification, congestion, evacuation routes, insufficient parks and major street changes just quashed, with the vote being simply a rubber-stamp of Mayor Gloria’s grand plan for the city.
The issue that San Diegans should have the right to vote on creating a municipal utility — even if the idea is not good — is reverberating around our fair city. And reporter Paul Krueger is promoting this view.
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It’s fairly unmitigated rubbish to think the City of San Diego is planning a workshop on their significant proposals to mitigate sea level rise in Ocean Beach and Point Loma not in those communities, but in Pacific Beach.
As part of the city of San Diego’s 
“Bike and Walking Path,” Permanent Dunes, One-Way Street for Section of Sunset Cliffs Proposed — Plans Workshop in Pacific Beach
In some great satirical news, UC San Diego is offering space for on-campus housing during Comic-Con International, held in San Diego this year from July 25 through July 28.
It’s no secret that 
It is an important acknowledgement — but it didn’t go far enough, however. On Monday, June 10, the San Diego City Council formally recognized that the city sits on unceded Kumeyaay land and it passed a resolution honoring the tribe — but without ceding them any land.
The San Diego Land Use & Housing Committee will hold a public hearing on three major land use proposals all on the same day — Thursday, June 13 at 1:00 pm.
Dear Council members:
The Callen Report
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There’s a lot of different spellings of a “native” resident of Ocean Beach. Yet, a decade ago — in 2014 while the OB Community Plan was going up for renewal, a decision was made of the proper spelling.
June 20, OBHS Presents- Dialogue: Q&A with SOHO’s Bruce Coons and David Goldberg
After being closed for remodeling, La Playa Books is back up and running in a more spacious, freshened space with a new floor in Point Loma Village.
In reviewing the brand new budget for the City of San Diego for the next fiscal year, I could not help but notice there are no funds for a new lifeguard station for Ocean Beach, although there is $120,000 for a “long-awaited” lifeguard station in Pacific Beach.
Here’s a brief outline of the city’s new $5.8 billion budget for the next fiscal year, passed unanimously by the council on Tuesday, June 10. A final vote will take place before the end of the month.
Twenty years ago, Green Day’s seventh studio album “American Idiot” was released to uproarious critical praise. The self-described “punk rock opera” serves as an epic that follows Jesus of Suburbia, an adolescent American anti-hero, as he contends with the tumultuous early 2000s. In an era defined by the Iraq War, 9/11, and the Bush administration, it’s no wonder that the politically charged record is as relevant as it ever was.
by Khari Johnson / 
What the Council Could Do Given the Jockeying by the 2 Main Factions
by Ernie McCray
By Judi Curry
Lighthouse Closed from June 5 – late August; Whale Outlook and Oceanside Trail Still Accessible
Food 4 Less/Foods Co. Workers Announce Strike Authorization Votes as Contract Expires
Roll up for Cannabis Equity
Thousands of demonstrators surrounded the perimeter of the White House in a sea of fabric Saturday, saying they were drawing a red line for President Biden and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.
The County still has an 
By Colleen O’Connor
Don Carter. A local musician – loved by many.
Chris on Proposals to Double Densities in Hillcrest and University City Are Bulldozed Through Over Residents’ Concerns: “That individual was probably Gene.” Jun 16, 14:12
