Category: Land Use
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What’s Rising in City Heights
The Copley Family YMCA will move from its 29,000-square-foot facility on Landis Street to a 53,000-square-foot facility on El Cajon Boulevard. | Photo Credit: Jamie Scott Lytle By Megan Burks and Bianca Bruno Former Mayor Bob Filner’s more wholesome legacy – shifting the focus from downtown development to the city’s deteriorating neighborhoods – has already…
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How Planning Groups Can Jump-Start Involvement
By Megan Burks Planning Director Bill Fulton called San Diego’s process for bringing neighborhood voices into budget talks “a truly extraordinary one” last week. He was talking with a diverse group of residents, mostly from neighborhoods south of Interstate 8, at a Community Budget Alliance training designed to stoke community engagement in city planning. The…
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The 5 Best Ways Communities Can Lobby for Infrastructure
Ryan Jackson, 19, took two buses and his skateboard to a community planning training hosted by the Community Budget Alliance. He says he wanted to find out how to bring more transportation options to his Skyline Hills neighborhood. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks By Megan Burks The new fiscal year started about a month ago,…
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Voices: Weighing In On the SR 94 Project
By Brian Myers The State Route 94 Express Lanes Project was presented to the Fairmount Park community by the City of San Diego, Caltrans and SANDAG Monday. They are proposing to connect the Interstate 805 South Express Lanes to downtown by constructing two express lanes on SR 94 and a new connector between SR 94…
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Pedestrians, Bikes to Take Over Streets Sunday for CicloSDias
By Megan Burks A 5.2-mile-long block party will close streets to vehicle traffic in five San Diego neighborhoods Sunday for the city’s very first CicloSDias. “It’s a bicycling-, walking-, strolling-, rolling-, connect-with-your-community event,” said Andy Hanshaw, executive director of the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition. Hanshaw said San Diego is joining an open streets movement…