Category: Land Use

  • Tweet City Heights: Temporary Park Suggested for Stalled Redevelopment Site

    By Megan Burks A Quick Solution for Stalled Redevelopment Properties KPBS took a look this week at a plan by local architecture students to utilize vacant lots where redevelopment plans have stalled. The NewSchool of Architecture students designed a temporary park that could be moved when permanent projects move forward. They’d simply lease the land…

  • Why Lights Out Is the Norm in Some SD Neighborhoods

    By Liam Dillon Frank Gomez travels around San Diego every day as a building inspector, admiring the good homes in good neighborhoods, often in the city’s northern half. When day turns to evening, Gomez returns to his house in Encanto, where the difference between his neighborhood and others can feel like, well, night and day.…

  • When a Community Plan Isn’t Specific Enough

    The city could soon carve out a smaller planning area to help spur development along El Cajon Boulevard. By Andrew Keatts San Diego’s system of city planning could be in for a significant change if a proposal to use targeted “specific plans” in economically disadvantaged communities wins City Council approval later this year. The city’s…

  • Youth Report: City Heights Petitions for Free Student Bus Passes

    Amir Johnson, a youth reporter on the Media Arts Center‘s after-school news crew, put together this report on an effort bring free city bus passes to City Heights students. Mid-City CAN’s Improving Transportation in City Heights team began campaigning for the “youth opportunity passes” in 2011 after hearing from parents and students who said the…

  • City Funds Some Half Pipes in City Heights

    The city added about 6,000 square feet of skateboarding space to its Central Avenue Mini Park design after City Heights youth lobbied for a place to skate. | Photo Courtesy of the City of San Diego By Megan Burks The city will spend $846,000 to bring half pipes and skate rails to City Heights. The…