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  • Parking Lot Turns Into Park for a Day

    City Heights joined communities throughout the world for the annual Park(ing) Day. Participants transform parking lots into community parks for the day to demonstrate the benefits of having more open space in urban neighborhoods. | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Haga clic aquí para leer en español City…

  • Skatepark: Necessity or Disturbance?

    For Marcos Olascoaga, the push for a Mid-City skatepark is personal. He was hit by a car while skating two years ago. Above, Olascoaga explains how the incident motivated his work with the Mid-City Skatepark Advocacy Group. By Manny Jimenez, Oscar Perez, Trevor Seines, Beckett Browning, Eliana Weinthal, John Fields, Alex Angleman and Tia Hill…

  • SD Unified Serving Up Healthy Lunches

    Gary Petill, director of Food and Nutritional Services at San Diego Unified School District, and Vanessa Zajfen, specialist with the Farm to School program at SDUSD, talk to KPBS about school lunches. By Maureen Cavanaugh, Patty Lane, Monaliza Noor, Peggy Pico and Claire Trageser Click here to listen to the KPBS Midday Edition interview In accordance with…

  • Tweet City Heights: Governor Approves New Protections for Local Canyons

    By Megan Burks Governor Approves New Protections for Canyons KPBS reported this week Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 1169 into law, adding protections to San Diego’s canyons and other open space. The law allows San Diego to dedicate 10,666 more acres of land. Dedicated land requires a two-thirds vote by city residents before the…

  • Bike Sharing is Coming to San Diego

    By Andrew Donohue San Diego will join the growing group of urban areas across the country and world with bike-sharing programs by next spring if an ambitious plan by Mayor Jerry Sanders comes to fruition. And his office wants to put a new twist on it. While city officials say their metropolitan predecessors have had…