Category: Land Use

  • The People’s Budget: An Interview With Christie Hill

    Christie Hill | Photo via Twitter By Andrew Keatts Each year, San Diego’s adopted budget brings calls from groups of underfunded and overfunded programs, evidence of priorities out of whack at City Hall. One group in town is looking to address the issue by putting some of those decisions directly in residents’ hands. For two…

  • Mid-City’s ‘Year of Funding’

    A City Heights resident and member of community nonprofit Mid-City CAN advocates for funding during a June 2013 budget hearing. | Photo Credit: Adam Ward, Mid-City CAN By Megan Burks Council district and mayoral elections made 2012 the year of campaign promises in City Heights. District 9 Councilwoman Marti Emerald and former Mayor Bob Filner…

  • Meet San Diego’s New Neighborhoods Chief

    By Liam Dillon In October, the city of San Diego’s top managers made a startling admission. The city had become, “a reactive organization lacking proper oversight to ensure that taxpayer dollars were being appropriately and effectively managed,” a report to the City Council said. To remedy that, the Council approved a dramatic City Hall reorganization…

  • San Diego’s Sidewalk Problems, By the Numbers

    3400 block of Marlborough Avenue in the city of San Diego. | Photo Credit: Joe Austin, courtesy of The Stumblr. By Liam Dillon Monday’s long-awaited discussion on San Diego’s illogical sidewalk rules ended with a promise for another long wait. Council members on the city’s infrastructure committee pledged to deal with the policy once a…

  • Students to Begin Citywide Sidewalk Survey Next Month

    3400 block of Marlborough Avenue in the city of San Diego. | Photo Credit: Joe Austin, courtesy of The Stumblr. By Liam Dillon By the middle of next month, the city of San Diego will unleash two dozen local college students onto its sidewalks. They’re part of a $1 million study to document San Diego’s…