San Diego City Council will finally be receiving the growth plan for the city that has taken eight years and hundreds of public meetings and formal hearings.
Unparalleled in San Diego's history, the combined participation of input from as many as 50 community planning groups has finally been completed and has generated a new San Diego city plan to be next presented to the city council to buy into the wisdom of the plan as well as taking the fundamental actions necessary to implement it.
This new plan also represents another milestone in San Diego's history. For the first time, the growth plan consists more of redevelopment and infill as opposed to new development and infrastructure.
Critics of the new plan, called the new plan chock-full of well-meaning platitudes that lacks in assurances that the needs and services of the older communities making up San Diego, will have priority over new development.
The financing plan from the city planners that would normally accompany the new growth plan will not be ready for quite some time, maybe as much as six months off. But the good news is that the plan is ready and will be reviewed soon by the city Council in hopes that they will take the appropriate action to implement it.
I applaud the efforts of the planning groups and I can certainly appreciate the work effort that has gone into this plan. Tomorrow, I will be posting the keys parts of the plan and what is hoped will be achieved with it. The development of this plan started the year I was president-elect of the San Diego Association of REALTORS, 1999 and I am personally so pleased to finally see all the work from the many community planning groups and other individual participants that gave input to the new plan. No city can thrive without a road map for its future. San Diego continues to make daily progress in restoring its good name as the America's Finest City.
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