What We Learned About San Diego’s Future

There was loads of discuss this week about what the way forward for San Diego may appear to be. Not solely did metropolis workers suggest a well-liked bid for the Sports activities Enviornment website, however transportation leaders introduced they’ve settled on a brand new imaginative and prescient for the area’s transit hub — one that can, sure, join the trolley to the airport. 

Talking of the long run: Earlier than we get into our weekly recap, I want your assist. I’m engaged on a brand new publication collection for San Diegans who’ve simply moved to the area. The purpose is to provide them the within scoop on how the area works and what we predict they need to know to become involved and keep knowledgeable. 

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Now, let’s get to it. Listed here are 5 issues we realized this week that it’s best to know. 

1. A brand new report reveals metropolis workers imagine Halfway Rising, the group led by the housing developer Zephyr, ought to be given precedence for redevelopment of the Sports activities Enviornment website. The advice, which omits one finalist that beforehand bought the town’s blessing, exhibits how a lot Mayor Todd Gloria is prioritizing a brand new enviornment on the land. Learn extra on that right here.  

2. Regional leaders now not desire a large regional transit middle on the Navy’s NAVWAR campus in Previous City. As a substitute, they’re taking a look at a two-piece resolution that may lastly carry the trolley to the airport. Andrew Keatts defined the reasoning behind the shift and what it may appear to be right here. 

3. Fox Information pundit Tucker Carlson visited Awaken Church in San Marcos the place the group “erupted in applause” after he recommended that he hadn’t been vaccinated. Our intern Jakob McWhinney was there. 

4. Obstacles to voting are actual, however there are many different the reason why individuals don’t present up on the polls. Jesse Marx spoke with greater than two dozen Barrio Logan residents the morning of the eightieth Meeting District particular election who mentioned they thought their vote wouldn’t matter. Learn his column right here. 

5. And eventually, Voice editor Scott Lewis wrote a thought-provoking piece on how tents have modified all the pieces about homelessness in San Diego, and the way the town’s present strategy isn’t working. “When you’re dropping a battle and losing cash combating it, it might be time to rethink it,” he writes. 

On some homeless residents’ desire of tents over shelters … 

“I discuss with the homeless most days as I stay downtown. Most do desire a tent quite than a shelter as a result of it presents privateness, and a way of place. All of us want to acknowledge this and supply a secure tenting space. A couple of years again there was a parking zone close to the 5 freeway on the backside of Golden Hill – that labored out fairly properly with bogs and a few recent water.” – Mark E Mentges 

On why individuals don’t vote … 

“One device within the toolshed to assist repair voter disengagement is Ranked Selection Voting (RCV), the place we advance extra than simply two candidates to the final election so that folks see themselves represented they usually don’t have to carry their nostril and vote for the ‘lesser of two evils.’” – Kate 

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