Category: Land Use
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Restoring a Canyon and Creek, With Some Help From the Neighbors
By Adrian Florido John Stewart’s house is perched at the edge of Radio Canyon. From his backyard he looks out over a lush, gaping chasm that separates his southeastern San Diego neighborhood of Emerald Hills from the Encanto neighborhood. He’s lived there since 1961, so he’s watched the canyon evolve. “A lot of people used…
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Tweet City Heights: Transportation Bill Would Slash Funding for Transit
By Megan Burks House Transportation Bill Would Strip Funding for Transit, Bikes The House of Representatives passed a transportation bill last week that would significantly reduce funding for transit authorities and safe streets programs. The bill proposes directing all revenue from a federal gasoline tax to highways; currently, 2.86 cents of the 18.4-cents-a-gallon tax go…
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Video: A Redevelopment Obituary
A California Supreme Court decision late last year hammered the final nail into redevelopment’s coffin. Redevelopment workers must pack up their desks by Feb. 1 and hand over remaining approved projects to the city to manage. In City Heights, those projects include $220 million worth of new street lights, sidewalk repairs and new mixed-used developments.…
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Field Guide: The Redevelopment Ruling and City Heights
By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX What is redevelopment? A funding mechanism that allows local governments to keep a portion of property tax money for development in blighted communities.…
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Will Loss of Redevelopment Funds Hurt Affordable Housing?
By Alison St John, Patty Lane and Megan Burks Finding an affordable place to live in San Diego is a challenge. More and more people are being priced out the market which is why it is so important to keep building affordable housing projects. There are laws defining how much affordable housing must be built…