After months of research, dozens of interviews, many tours, and two public hearings, I am so excited to announce the Housing Innovation bill package!

There were so many people out on bikes today. Obviously a Sunday and was perfect out, but felt like it was noticeable.

Beautiful art and message from the visionary CageFree account on IG

People dropping $$$ sipping Aperol spritzes next to someone with two DUIs driving the worst sounding engine you’ve ever heard… India shut down on weekends shouldn’t even be controversial. The cars are the worst part of Little Italy.

Thanks for providing. That was the last piece I couldn’t find.

There’s a non-zero chance that’s the reason 🫠🫠🫠

I can’t really tell what happened w/ the cap. Looks like it may have never actually been enacted. By that point the subprime mortgage crisis was in full effect & the policy wasn’t needed.

It’s not in the muni code today and there’s no ordinance number in the amendment history showing it ever was 🤷‍♂️

The city settled, capped conversions at 1,000 units/year & cut a $75k check to plaintiffs’ attorneys. The City Attorney had issued a memo agreeing w/ the plaintiffs that the city needed to study the impacts.

Then the Great Recession hit & a judge ruled condo conversions are CEQA-exempt 😜 Classic.

Lawsuits were brought forward by… Citizens for Responsible Equitable Environmental Development (CREED) on the grounds of… you guessed it… CEQA 😵‍💫😵‍💫

Claiming the city did not do proper traffic, parking, and environmental analysis of condo conversions.

Been doing some reading on San Diego’s condo conversion muni code. Found out that in 2007 the City was sued by “housing advocates” & entered into a settlement to limit condo conversions to no more than 1000 units/year bc of concerns about the number of rental units being converted to for-sale….

Best of luck sir

Cost to finish overdue East Village Green park in downtown San Diego grows by $4.6M Money from downtown funds will be used to pay for costs associated with construction delays and complete the park’s performance pavilion as originally envisioned.

The 175 parking spaces at this 2 acre park is costing the city $35M. The total project cost was $83M.

$200k/spot. 42% of the total project cost.

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RHNA/Housing Element process definitely needs reform and HCD needs to be empowered to pushback on cities. Way too complicated of a process to simply plan for housing. Simplify process, reduce “planning” paperwork burden on cities, strengthen HCD enforcement.

Theoretically yes. But in reality I don’t think it’s a driving factor. Half the elected officials in these cities don’t fully understand the RHNA process, I don’t think they are thinking that strategically. General “soft”NIMBYism w/out immediate reprimand from the State plays larger role in behavior

When HCD (in coordination the local COG) is developing the methodology for the RHNA cycle, “existing need” includes unmet RHNA from the previous cycle.

Did DeMaio say he had the sigs for it?

The true twilight zone of San Diego urban neighborhoods

‘Rental market is largely frozen’: San Diego rent prices fall in national rankings National rents are down 2% annually but Zumper said Southern California is seeing more of a slowdown because of increased supply.

San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works.

Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop.

This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible.

Want sustained affordability? Keep building.

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Will be interesting to see what the negotiating team comes up with. None of these options have been mentioned by the Mayor. I understand these are relatively new state laws, but if they really cared about reactivating the site, anything to make redevelopment faster/cheaper should be considered.

Additionally because Parkway Plaza was identified within El Cajon’s Housing Element as a developable site, I think they should be able to use SB 131 to exempt the rezoning action itself.

I believe the fastest way to reactivate Parkway Plaza and build the most affordable housing would be to utilize AB 2243/AB 2011 CEQA exemptions…
OR utilize the AB 130 CEQA exemption by phasing the redevelopment on individual 20-acre parcels.

As soon as that interview started I knew he was dropping a Steve Jobs quote

All of San Diego’s city-operated golf courses are profitable.. in fact they are more profitable than the privately-operated city-owned courses. If the City needs new revenue, maybe look here… 👀

Got it. I usually walk to the park and take the 215 downtown in the morning, so I’ve never seen that queue. Change seems not great for transit riders.

This is the part of the bus lane going away from the zoo… it doesn’t even make sense…

What. Why did they do that?

Not a single project awarded in San Diego County???

AI could never…

It does, they explicitly use the term “pension”. Here is the expenditure for city employees’ retirement.

Because I’m a sicko, I peruse old digitized City of SD planning documents. I stumbled upon the 1938-39 Annual City Budget Report. How do we bring back this graphic design freedom when communicating the city budget??? Feel like it might help clear some things up.