Tag: Land-Use
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Filner Wants Students to Ride City Transit for Free
By Kyla Calvert Mayoral candidate and Congressman Bob Filner believes San Diego Unified students should be able to ride the bus or trolley to school for free. He joined other candidates in offering some specifics on what he would do to improve city schools as mayor. A monthly youth pass for San Diego’s buses and trolleys costs $36. That…
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Where Being Able to Vote (and Cross the Street) Is a Big Deal
The story of Ernestina Diaz drives home the one storyline hovering above everything in San Diego’s newest City Council district. She’s lived here for 34 years, since her mother and father immigrated to the United States when she was a young girl. She calls City Heights home, and for a long time owned the piñata…
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Crossing the Street in City Heights Might As Well Be a Sport
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Saynab Dahir jokes that she’s become a speedwalker, thanks to the quick signals at many City Heights intersections. But the resident and UC San Diego urban planning student points to a more serious problem for her and her neighbors. Post-war planning in the…
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Making it Easier to Walk and Roll in City Heights
Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Megan Burks Time-lapse: Boundary Street to 54th Street in Three Minutes | Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego Haga click aquí para leerlo la en Español Earlier this month, a group assembled by the City Heights Community Development Corporation’s Built Environment Team…
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A Brief History of Mid-City Transit
By Brian Myers We asked the candidates for District 9 Monday how they would work to improve transit options for City Heights residents. Transit riders and community advocates say the neighborhood hasn’t gotten a fair shake from transportation authorities, who sliced the community in two with Interstate 15 in the 1990s. Above, Maria Cortez…