In July, Peninsula Community Planning Board heard residents\u2019 concerns about the San Diego Unified Port District\u2019s master Plan update.
\nThe board also formed a subcommittee to respond to the San Diego Housing Commission\u2019s proposed five-acre redevelopment of the property at Famosa and Nimitz.
\nThe San Diego Unified Port District was created in 1962 to manage 34 miles of San Diego Bay waterfront along Chula Vista, Coronado, Imperial Beach, National City and San Diego including Shelter Island. The lands are to be used to benefit the statewide public in enhancing commerce, navigation, fisheries and recreation.
\nLesley Nishihira of the Port of San Diego presented on the the ongoing port\u2019s master plan update noting the plan calls for La Playa Trail enhancement in the Peninsula, as well as creating more hotel rooms on Shelter Island.
\n“No on new hotel rooms in Shelter Island,” argued one audience member.
\nAnother Peninsulan warned restroom improvements in the master plan could “attract drug use.”
\nOne resident labeled a proposal to waive height limits to build more hotel rooms as “obscene with no parking.”
\n“Put them on Harbor Island, nobody goes over there,” reacted another Peninsulan half-jokingly.
\n“This document is not set in stone, we\u2019re looking for your feedback on the process,” answered Nishihira.
\nWhen asked what the public benefits were in the master plan update, Nishihira said, “increasing public access to our shoreline and creating public pathways and walkways.”
\n“We\u2019re trapped at the end of the most dangerous peninsula in San Diego,” said board member Margaret Virissimo. “Point Loma is the Mecca for events. We\u2019re trapped here, congested. We don\u2019t need anything else.”
\n“Increasing the height limit is absurd,” said board member Robert Tripp Jackson. “What about maintaining crosswalks and lighting? Let\u2019s concentrate on stuff like that.”
\n“The district\u2019s mission is to provide different uses on state lands,” said board member Jim Hare.
\n“The 30-foot, voter-approved height limit, everybody is really serious about that,” pointed out board member Lucky Morrison.
\nJuly 31 was the deadline for public comment on the Port Master Plan Update. In other action
\n\u2022 Roberto Garcia from the U.S. Census Bureau presented on the upcoming 2020 Census. By law, a census head count of population everywhere in the country is done every 10 years. The information gleaned is used for things like reapportioning political and school districts based on population.
\n“The census is the bedrock of our democracy,” Garcia said. “People not counted do not get political representation.”
\nGarcia added about a quarter million San Diegans are considered hard to count. He said postcard Census questionnaires will be sent out to everyone in the general population. A citizenship question will not be on the 2020 Census, Garcia added.
\n\u2022 Board chair Robert Goldyn said he could not comment at present on ongoing litigation by board member Don Sevrens filed against the planning group in June over a controversy involving allegations of promoting candidate slates in the March elections in opposition to the group\u2019s bylaws. Sevrens sued, naming PCPB board members as defendants in an alleged violation of First Amendment and civil rights. His lawsuit also challenges provisions in City policy 600-24 governing community planning groups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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