Tag: Land-Use

  • Loosening Restricted Airspace for Backyard Bees

    By Brian Myers San Diego City Council is expected to vote on changes early next year to its ordinances that regulate farming within city limits. The proposed changes would relax regulations on farmers’ markets, retail farms, backyard chickens, miniature goats and honeybees. Currently, space restrictions mean few households within city limits can keep farm animals.…

  • New Advocacy Group Seeks Free Bus Passes for Students

    By Megan Burks Mid-City CAN added a new advocacy team to its lineup, this one aimed at improving transportation options for City Heights residents. The Improving Transportation in City Heights Momentum Team made its first impression last month when it called on the San Diego Community College District to support an initiative to offer free…

  • Call This Bike Advocate a Spokes-woman

    Samantha Ollinger recently quit her job as an accountant to focus full-time on advocating for bicyclists in San Diego. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido In 2008, Samantha Ollinger and her husband mounted their bicycles in Philadelphia and pushed off toward a new home in San Diego. They pedaled about 2,000 miles before…

  • Field Guide: Reclaiming City Heights Streets for Pedestrians

    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 Pedestrian Accidents per 1,000 residents from 2002-2007: City Heights: 4.9 San Diego: 2.7 Click Bicycle Crashes per 1,000 residents from 2002-2007: City Heights:…

  • New Market Revives Concern About Dangerous Crossing

    A new grocery store in City Heights has revived a sense of urgency among advocates to do something about a dangerous intersection at University Avenue and 54th Street that many pedestrians have to cross to get there. Curving right turns make it hard for drivers and pedestrians to see each other. | Photo Credit: Sam…