11/11/2024 - NFABSD
Encanto and Emerald Hills residents will turn out in force tomorrow at San Diego City Hall to demand detailed information about how neighborhoods in Southeast San Diego were rezoned to allow higher density with no input from the community planning group or neighbors.
Residents are appealing a multi-unit project made possible by a still-mysterious footnote in the city's planning code that reduced the minimum lot size from 20,000 square feet to 5,000 square feet.
"We're identified as an environmental justice-affected community," said Encanto resident Rob Campbell. "And so we don't see how paving over what green space we have will increase our air quality or will decrease the heat island effect that we suffer from."
That four-fold increase in density applies only to Southeast San Diego.
“With this footnote, the City is essentially saying, 20,000 means 20,000 to everyone in the city except you folks in Southeast. For you folks in Southeast, 20,000 means 5,000. A dollar means a quarter, because we said so,” said Andrea Hetheru, chair of the Chollas Valley Community Planning Group.
The Encanto neighbors raised $1,000 to appeal the multi-unit "Klauber Development."
They will be demanding answers from City Council members at tomorrow's 2 pm Council meeting and are asking for a citywide show of support. This appeal is the last item on the agenda, item #334.
Organizers are requesting that residents attend the meeting and cede time. More information can be found HERE.
