Land issues
Opinion: Midway Rising Plans Affordable Housing, but There’s No Guarantee
By Christine Smith, Point Loma resident and member of the Peninsula Community Planning Board. The views expressed in this column are her own. (Previously published by The Times of San Diego.) Midway Rising goes before the Land Use and Housing Committee in October and City Council later this fall. It’s billed as a major affordable […]
Midway Sinking – Sports Arena Under Water
Warnings from the City and County of San Diego make it clear that we need to prepare for potentially catastrophic flooding in the weeks and months ahead. Forecasts indicate that a strong El Niño could seriously affect San Diego, potentially causing beach erosion, bluff collapses, and coastal flooding driven by large swells, high tides, and […]
SB344 Proves That Deception by Politicians is Alive in California – Corruption That Drives Developer Projects
When elected officials disagree with their constituents, scientific evidence, and court rulings on serious environmental issues, the answer should not be to weaken the very safeguards designed to protect the public. SB344 does exactly that. It undermines critical environmental review protections and shifts the consequences onto the Californians who will be left to live with […]
Midway Sinking to Make Way for Water Table Rising?
Town Hall Meeting Held to Save and Protect CEQA By Patty Ducey-Brooks This past week, a town hall meeting was held at the Point Loma/Hervey Library to discuss efforts to preserve the California Environmental Quality Act, known as CEQA, and to raise concerns about how proposed changes could affect the Midway Rising redevelopment and other […]
NAVWAR – A Bad Idea for Too Many Reasons – A Future Catastrophe
Five years ago, many of us from throughout the city of San Diego and county, made a decision to not support the major development of the NAVWAR site, which is on Pacific Highway in Old Town. It literally backs up to the most western part off Old Town San Diego. Though over 5,000 people from […]
