How did this happen?… Who will represent you on the Peninsula Community Planning Board? Vote today from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Hervey/Point. Loma Branch Library on Voltaire Street. At stake, are: • the current/future loss of long-established quiet residential zones; • open spaces; parks, views and your property values. Please don’t allow the best parts of the Peninsula, cherished by both long-established families and newcomers alike, to disappear. Why? Because many current PCPB members vote against these interests for “moneyed” ones. Our Peninsula faces many challenges that include: • Airport expansion: The City Council secretly traded a faulty EIR for offsite traffic-funding promises. Lindbergh Field’s land-use compatibility plan, noise study and delayed variance are short-term fix-its with no regional long term plan. • NTC build-out: Including a 650-suite resort hotel with a 100,000-square-foot waterpark, shared use of Bldg. 623 that is still not open. Additional Shelter and Harbor Island hotels add to our existing traffic and emergency service access impacts • City/community planning board’s update of our Peninsula Community Plan: Including policies affecting redevelopment along Rosecrans Street from Lytton Street to Talbot Street east to Bay, higher-density infill of developments/conversions regardless of the Peninsula’s missing code-required infrastructure and diminishing amenities. (As past PCPB?boards), always doing right for the Peninsula — our plan’s purpose — respecting owners and neighbors to projects, we helped applicants consult directly with neighbors to work out acceptable compromises for both sides. Not so with a remaining majority (of the board). Only 1 of 10 board members — it used to be 1 of 15 — is not affiliated with the real estate, finance or development industries. Being apathetic in this election will permit special interests to force higher density with negative impacts, costing you, the taxpayer, more. Planners, financiers, architects and developers fast-track projects, omitting traffic, parking and fire safety requirements, even for our children. New buildings lack normal code setbacks and violate height restrictions. Seeking extra privilege, they bypass the law. Under-the-radar approvals result in out-of-character homes, surrounding bulk and scale inconsistent with mostly single-family residential neighborhoods, unsafe roads and pedestrian/bike paths. Violating our community plan long held in high regard for its charm, attractiveness and livability, past City Councils approved variances against PCPB’s advisory votes. 24/7 microwave transmitters placed next to your bedroom window (for city profit) are the mayor’s short-term solution to its budget deficiency. Poor planning has left the Peninsula with costly infrastructure repair and unsafe conditions in San Diego’s second-oldest community. Electing quality local volunteers 6-7 years ago, we: • attempted to require additional mitigation to overredevelopment; for example, the Rock Church, when 3,500 members on their application in truth was over 10,000. Now much of the community is inconvenienced or negatively impacted; • insisted Corky McMillin Cos. contribute $450,000 from a proposed channel-front fountain to community pools at Liberty Station. This yet to come to fruition as the city shifts finances; • kept Shelter Island’s public parking free (versus North Harbor Drive’s 100 spaces that were voted by the current PCPB to be Ace Parking’s paid spaces); • kept public-view corridors on Del Monte and Nichols streets through publicly vetted, concerned appeals to the city; • made neighborhood safety, traffic and health concerns priorities; we found “lost” city-owned lands for a pocket park to reduce the Peninsula’s large deficiency and placed safe traffic and parking modifications. Your vote tonight will count. Please, reserve a few minutes on Thursday to VOTE wisely for individuals who care. Be aware of candidates with special interests. PCPB is not a chamber of commerce or a business marketing group! We live here. You do, too. Shouldn’t you know who you’re voting for? What’s the present board done for the benefit of our community? For more information, please call (619) 665-3210, and thank you for taking the time to VOTE! — Cynthia Conger is a past chair of the PCPB, serving in that capacity for five of her six years on the board.