Tag: Land-Use

  • Who’s the Establishment Candidate in San Diego Council District 9?

    By Megan Burks The neighborhoods that make up San Diego’s City Council District 9 have stark differences. Low-income residents in City Heights and Southcrest share their council member with upper-middle class residents in Kensington and the College Area. The four Democrats running in the June 7 election to represent those communities aren’t as distinctive, yet…

  • Lot on El Cajon Boulevard May Soon Be Vacant No More

    Beryl Forman and Tootie Thomas discuss plans for an empty lot along El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights, April 14, 2016. By Megan Burks The state’s redevelopment program to invest in blighted communities left behind a lot of successes when it dissolved in 2012. But it also left behind a lot of empty lots —…

  • Emerald Wants Zombie Redevelopment Dollars for City Heights

    By Andrew Keatts Councilman David Alvarez calls it the Catch-22 of San Diego development. Where development is economically viable, it isn’t politically viable. And where it’s politically viable, it isn’t economically viable. In the end, you’ve got developers desperate to build in areas that don’t want it, and areas desperate for development that developers won’t…

  • Karen Community Looks Forward to a Safe Crossing at Altadena and El Cajon

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers Residents this month rallied at the intersection of Altadena Avenue and El Cajon Boulevard, where a man was seriously injured last August when he was struck by a car while crossing the five lanes of traffic. A study by city traffic engineers found…

  • Fossils Unearthed Along State Route 15

    San Diego Natural History Museum paleontologist Rodney Hubscher holds a bed of mussels and a scallop shell taken from the hillside along state Route 15 north of Adams Avenue, March 15, 2016. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks, KPBS By Megan Burks A small whale bone sticking out from a sandstone bluff alerted Caltrans crews working…