Mayor Gloria outlines largest investment in city history

SAN DIEGO — San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria highlighted the most important funding in infrastructure in San Diego historical past Thursday.

“We all know that San Diegans are uninterested in ready, we’ve got heard you and we’re taking motion,” Gloria mentioned.

Gloria is proposing to speculate $809 million in repairing among the metropolis’s crumbling infrastructure. The proposed finances focuses on enhancing metropolis parks, hearth stations, storm and sewer drains, streetlights, sidewalks and visitors circulate. The extra $14.3 million could be used for avenue resurfacing, to do away with these pesky potholes.

“All of you’re mad about potholes? I do know, I’ve heard,” Gloria mentioned.  

One of many largest initiatives presently within the works is “Pure Water San Diego.”

“By 2035, Pure Water San Diego will provide almost half of our cities ingesting water and scale back the quantity of handled sewage that we discharge within the ocean for about 50%,” Gloria mentioned.

The mayor together with different metropolis leaders made the announcement in Mountain View Park in Southeast San Diego – which is in determined want of repairs.

“That modifications this yr, that modifications with our able to rebuild finances,” Gloria mentioned.

Metropolis leaders say the funds are coming from Proposition H, which was voted by San Diegans again in 2016, that required the town to speculate funds in infrastructure. Funds additionally shall be coming from state and federal budgets.

“Resolve issues, hold you secure, spend money on our communities and most significantly: get issues accomplished,” Gloria mentioned.