On Valentine\u2019s Day, Midway Community Planning Group nixed proposed relocation of a recycling center into their neighborhood, while questioning numerous items in an inches-thick environmental report for Midway\u2019s Community Plan update.
\nOn Feb. 10, a rally was held at Stump\u2019s Family Marketplace in Point Loma opposing Prince Recycling center being there, advocating the recycler move to Midway District behind Big Lots off Rosecrans Street. State law requires recycling centers to be located within a\u00a0convenience zone, typically a half-mile radius circle with the center point originating at a supermarket.
\n“There is a movement to remove the recycling center from Stump\u2019s because of the homeless\/criminal issues they\u2019re having, and their solution is to dump it in Midway,” said MCPG chair Cathy Kenton. “That\u2019s nimbyism at its worst.”
\nKenton was miffed Peninsulans suggested moving the center to Midway “without asking for any comment from us, just arbitrarily picking a location which is outside their required (half mile) radius.”
\nPeninsula Community Planning Board liaison Jim Hare pointed out Prince Recycling Center at Stump\u2019s “has never been an agenda item.”
\nKenton noted proponents of moving the recycling center are lobbying Assemblyman Todd Gloria to expand the radius of convenience center recycling to allow Prince\u2019s Recycling at Stump\u2019s to be moved.
\nKenton asked for the board\u2019s approval to write a letter to the Peninsula Community Planning Board to “let them know we\u2019re not in favor of this. We\u2019re not a dumping ground.”
\nMCPG board member Judy Holiday asked, “Is there anyone on the board who feels this would be a good thing for our community?”
\nNo board members responded, after which the city advisory group unanimously voted to oppose moving Prince Recycling near Stump\u2019s from Point Loma to Midway.
\nThe second half of the Midway planner\u2019s meeting was devoted to vetting the draft environmental impact report released for the community\u2019s ongoing community plan update, scheduled to go to the City Council for final review and approval this summer.
\n“We appreciate the opportunity to provide input on the environmental effects of a plan for our community and recognize this unique opportunity to help shape the future of our planning area,” said MCPG in a letter to the city.\u00a0“Our comments have two primary objectives: to comment on the adequacy of environmental analysis; and equally important, to point out issues we\u2019ve identified.”
\nPoints MCPG made about the environmental document included: questioning whether it meets city objectives to improve the environment; expressing concern that a redevelopment plan for the Sports Arena, a critical component of the plan update, “has not come forward yet”; questioning the validity of the EIR\u2019s impact analysis, when traffic counts associated with it were done six years ago, prior to commercial development at Liberty Station; challenging proposed creation of new street segments that would be below acceptable operating standards; failure to factor in the new trolley line and potential traffic reductions as a result; asking why bus routes and other alternatives are not being implemented until 2035; questioning why MCRD is now being included in Midway\u2019s plan area when it wasn\u2019t before; asking why a dedicated dog park has not been proposed for Midway; and questioning if the La Playa Trail should be more predominantly identified in the plan and the EIR. In other action:
\n\u2022 In March board elections, Midway planners George Diaz, Judy Holiday, Tod Howarth, Cathy Kenton, Dawn Reilly, Kurt Sullivan and Mike Swanston are all up for re-election. There is also one open vacate seat available.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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