Peninsula planners nixed a map waiver to convert four apartment units under construction into condos and approved flashing crosswalks near Silver Gate Elementary School, as well as hearing a comprehensive report from the Unified Port of San Diego updating its long-range vision.
\nThose were the highlights of the Peninsula Community Planning Board\u2019s (PCPB) Jan. 16 meeting.
\nClaude-Anthony Marengo, representing developers American Coastal Properties, gave a presentation on a project under way at 3102-3104 Avenida De Portugal and 1120-1122 Locust St. requesting planners\u2019 approval of a map waiver to allow a change of building type.
\nMarengo said the project is merely “following the regulations to meet the (building) code.”
\nRoseville neighbor Gale Barlow, who lives near the project, said she opposed the map waiver. “Anyone can fudge,” she said, given less stringent height regulations for apartment-to-condo conversions. “We have many condos [already] in Point Loma. We don\u2019t need any more.”
\nBarlow said if one were to drive around the neighborhood, “there\u2019s nothing that looks like this.”
\nAnother neighbor complained that allowing this apartment-to-condo conversion would “open up the floodgates” to other similar development projects “obstructing view corridors.”
\n“This project is a fait accompli,” said planner Norm Allenby. “They\u2019re already building it. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything we can do.”
\nOther planners were not so sure about it being a done deal.
\n“We can vote in opposition,” disagreed planner Jarvis Ross, who said laws favoring condo conversions in areas not conducive to them “need to be addressed.”
\nPCPB chairwoman Julia Quinn also expressed reservations.
\n“It\u2019s kind of like a Taj Mahal in the middle of Roseville,” said Quinn.
\nThe PCPB board voted 11-1 for a motion finding the conversion project didn\u2019t conform with community character. A second motion specifically on the map waiver \u2014 which required a majority vote to carry \u2014 resulted in a 5-5-2 vote. The action fell short to pass the waiver.
\nIn other action, the advisory group voted unanimously in favor of a motion to support placing flashing crosswalk lights at the corner of Catalina Boulevard and Orchard Avenue for traffic-calming measures to protect pedestrians.
\n“Parents at Silver Gate Elementary School have asked the city to come out with many different options and this is the option that\u2019s best with a push-button [system] activating the light,” said PCPB secretary Nicole Burgess.
\nIn other developments, Keith Walzak of the Unified Port of San Diego spoke on the Port District\u2019s 50-year vision plan.
\n“Over the next two to five years, the Port District is updating its long-range master plan,” Walzak said.
\nWalzak said the Port District\u2019s mission includes protecting the tidelands trust and the resources within it, creating a “balanced approach to the maritime industry, tourism and environmental stewardship of water and land resources, including public safety.”
\n“The majority of our jurisdictional area is actually water-based,” Walzak said. The idea, he said, is to do a long-range master plan, rather than “piecemealing things together.”
\nWalzak said the port\u2019s visionary plan will be conducted in numerous phases over a number of years.
\n“We\u2019re doing outreach to get a lot of ideas from a lot of people in order to develop guiding principles and a vision statement,” he said. We need to think of economic development opportunities throughout the entire bay area.”
\nThe PCPB meets the third Thursday of every month at 6:30 p.m. at the Point Loma\/Hervey Branch Library at 3701 Voltaire St.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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