{"id":253407,"date":"2018-07-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/guest-editorial-neighborhood-planning-groups-are-not-closed-off-to-new-voices-3\/"},"modified":"2018-07-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T07:00:00","slug":"guest-editorial-neighborhood-planning-groups-are-not-closed-off-to-new-voices-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/guest-editorial-neighborhood-planning-groups-are-not-closed-off-to-new-voices-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial invitada: Los grupos de planificaci\u00f3n vecinal no est\u00e1n cerrados a nuevas voces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Vernita Gutierrez, Stephanie Jennings and Kate Callen<\/p>\n<p><em>[Editor\u2019s note: This editorial first appeared in the Voice of San Diego on June 28. View the original article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/opinion\/neighborhood-planning-groups-are-not-closed-off-to-new-voices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bit.ly\/vosd-planning-groups<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hasta ahora, 2018 ha sido el a\u00f1o en que los grupos de planificaci\u00f3n comunitaria de San Diego se convirtieron en una especie en peligro de extinci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Las juntas asesoras de voluntarios, establecidas en 1966 para involucrar a los ciudadanos en las decisiones que afectan a sus propios vecindarios, han sido criticadas en los \u00faltimos seis meses por ser antiprogresistas, antiinclusivas, antidemocr\u00e1ticas, sin escr\u00fapulos y demasiado viejas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The siege began with a Jan. 19 Union-Tribune story titled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/business\/growth-development\/sd-fi-ranking-20180119-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSan Diego slips to 32nd in builder interest: Planning groups at fault?\u201d<\/a> It featured complaints from two real estate leaders that advisory groups impede growth because members are \u201cmostly \u2026 white and gray hairs\u201d and \u201chousewives who walk dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Circulate San Diego entered the fray with a Feb. 12 report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.circulatesd.org\/democracyinplanning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cDemocracy in Planning,\u201d<\/a> charging that planning groups too often are cabals that \u201care closed off to new and diverse voices,\u201d \u201cmake it difficult for new residents, often renters, [to participate]\u201d and \u201cshort-change the housing needs of younger generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The County Grand Jury joined in with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegocounty.gov\/content\/dam\/sdc\/grandjury\/reports\/2017-2018\/SanDiegoCommunityPlanningGroups.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an April 18 report<\/a> that planning groups have so many flaws \u2014 from lax recruitment to slow deliberations \u2014 that they need close monitoring and probably should be consolidated.<\/p>\n<p>Merging these 43 groups into a central panel hand-picked by elected officials is a popular idea at San Diego City Hall. But it doesn\u2019t play well in communities where planning groups, whose members are elected, represent the front line of self-government.<\/p>\n<p>Lo sabemos porque somos tres de los cofundadores de una organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro para los residentes de Golden Hill y North Park. Nuestro grupo se lanz\u00f3 en 2016 porque nuestros vecindarios enfrentaban una densidad de viviendas de alto impacto y quer\u00edamos mantenernos informados al respecto.<\/p>\n<p>Nuestros grupos comunitarios, el Comit\u00e9 de Planificaci\u00f3n de Greater Golden Hill y el Comit\u00e9 de Planificaci\u00f3n de North Park, son modelos de democracia. Los miembros soportan h\u00e1bilmente una monta\u00f1a de trabajo, desde analizar borradores de pol\u00edticas hasta revisar estudios ambientales y solicitar aportes de la comunidad.<\/p>\n<p>Esta primavera, por primera vez desde que se recuerda, los comit\u00e9s de planificaci\u00f3n de Golden Hill y North Park dieron a los votantes del grupo de planificaci\u00f3n el mismo acceso a los candidatos que los habitantes de San Diego siempre han tenido en las elecciones de condados y ciudades. En los foros preelectorales, los candidatos del grupo de planificaci\u00f3n explicaron su posici\u00f3n sobre temas clave. Los intercambios de ideas y puntos de vista resultantes mostraron el papel vital que juegan los grupos en el proceso democr\u00e1tico.<\/p>\n<p>The County Grand Jury report\u2019s list of interviewees included members of city departments and \u201crepresentatives of development contractors\u201d but no community residents nor representatives of resident-run groups. To correct that omission, we offer the following insights from our conversations with millennials who rent, working-class families who staked everything to buy their homes, fixed-income retirees living in the same homes for decades, and immigrants in affordable \u201970s-era apartments.<\/p>\n<p>La densidad de viviendas es inevitable. Pero los funcionarios de la ciudad y los constructores deben tomarse en serio la mitigaci\u00f3n de los impactos de la densidad, especialmente en el tr\u00e1fico y el estacionamiento. No vemos planes para aumentar la infraestructura suficiente para acomodar nuevas viviendas, y esto es siniestro.<\/p>\n<p>Trying to pit renters against homeowners, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/opinion\/fellow-progressives-embrace-need-build-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seniors against millennials<\/a>, shows a complete unfamiliarity with residential quality-of-life issues. If the natural light that streams through a window is blocked by a four-story condo tower, the resulting darkness will be just as depressing for renters in their 20s or owners in their 60s. And weekday commuters of all stripes will suffer equally when new housing stacks up traffic and further clogs rush-hour roads.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest hindrance to affordable housing is the ease with which builders buy their way out of sensible set-aside requirements for lower-income units. And let\u2019s not forget how many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/opinion\/fate-affordable-housing-rests-san-diego-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">existing affordable units will be razed<\/a> to make way for market-rate projects.<\/p>\n<p>Los urbanizadores que buscan proyectos futuros en Golden Hill y North Park deben pensar detenidamente en la construcci\u00f3n r\u00e1pida de b\u00fankeres de gran tama\u00f1o que estropear\u00e1n el car\u00e1cter hist\u00f3rico y la escala humana de estos vecindarios.<\/p>\n<p>En los intercambios del foro entre candidatos y votantes, surgieron ideas sobre c\u00f3mo las personas con puntos de vista dispares sobre los problemas de crecimiento pueden encontrarse en alg\u00fan punto intermedio. El objetivo era que los participantes se fueran con la sensaci\u00f3n de que, si seguimos hablando de manera constructiva y respetuosa, podemos encontrar formas de aclarar las leyes de uso de la tierra, generar consenso y evitar batallas prolongadas sobre proyectos controvertidos.<\/p>\n<p>En las elecciones posteriores, los votantes eligieron miembros del grupo de planificaci\u00f3n que son diversos en edad, antecedentes, intereses y experiencia de vida. Estamos ansiosos por trabajar con estos representantes en nombre de los vecindarios que amamos.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Vernita Guti\u00e9rrez y Kate Callen son residentes de North Park. Stephanie Jennings es residente de Golden Hill. Los tres forman parte de la junta directiva de SoNo Neighborhood Alliance, un grupo que informa e involucra a los residentes sobre problemas de calidad de vida.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Vernita Gutierrez, Stephanie Jennings and Kate Callen [Editor\u2019s note: This editorial first appeared in the Voice of San Diego on June 28. View the original article at bit.ly\/vosd-planning-groups.] So far, 2018 has been the year when San Diego\u2019s community planning groups became an endangered species. 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