Category: Land Use

  • Monroe Clark Middle Goes Green With Campus Garden

    A new community garden at Monroe Clark already is bearing fruit…er, vegetables.| Photo Credit: Christina Chomut By Julia Richardson Haga clic aquí para leerlo en Español At first glance, photography and gardening may not appear to have much in common. But at Monroe Clark Middle School in City Heights, an effort aimed at having students…

  • Community Mourns Closing of Urban Greenspace

    A nursery on 44th Street near University Avenue has closed despite community support because the operation violated city zoning laws. | Video Credit: Brian Myers By Brian Myers A group of volunteers and patrons of Antonio’s Nursery got together one last time to recall the good times of the short lived micro farm on 44th…

  • Help the City Draft an Infrastructure Budget

    Avery the dog on the 3500 block of Polk Avenue | Photo Credit: Dan Shelley, courtesy of The Stumblr By Megan Burks Councilman Mark Kersey wants your help drafting the city’s infrastructure budget. He kicked off a series of meetings this week designed to let the community weigh in on what gets built and when.…

  • City Council to Consider Raising Fee That Funds Affordable Housing

    By Andrew Keatts The city of San Diego charges developers a fee on new commercial buildings, which it uses to help pay for subsidized housing units in the city. Advocates are asking the City Council to raise the fee on Nov. 4. Since it was implemented in 1990, it’s been called a “linkage fee” –…

  • Teen Producers: The Changing Face of El Cajon Boulevard

    Teen Producers Project New businesses bring new people and new people transform a neighborhood. That’s the premise behind the latest video by the Teen Producers, a a group of youth filmmakers at the Media Arts Center. Their piece centers on El Cajon Boulevard near 30th Street in North Park, which, for the past couple decades,…