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This Month at North Park Planning Committee

 


No September Meeting

 
For the second time in four months, NPPC has canceled its meeting due to “a lack of information/action items.” To prevent future cancellations, we’d like to reiterate earlier community requests that these three information items be placed on future agendas:

Map Waiver/Dual Tracking Permits: The deceptive practice of allowing developers to flip building permits mid-construction from apartments to condos has helped deplete the affordable housing stock. NPPC Boards have publicly objected to this bait-and-switch for years, and community members have demanded an explanation. Let’s bring in a staffer from the Development Services Department to make a presentation and take questions.

Usage and Impacts of 30th Street Bike Lanes: Even supporters of the bike lanes have called for surveys to measure bike traffic in the new lanes. Businesses are reporting decreased sales, and traffic backups on 30th grow worse. Let’s invite presenters with differing views to engage in a discussion of measurable outcomes of the bike lanes.

Proliferation of Affordable Dwelling Units (ADUs):  An intense public education campaign by Neighbors for a Better San Diego (NFBSD) has prodded District 9 Councilmember Sean Elo-Rivera to ask Mayor Todd Gloria for revisions to ADU regulations (see item below). NFBSD has made compelling presentations about ADU impacts to the Community Planning Committee and to 14 community planning groups with 6 more scheduled (including Golden Hill). North Park needs to hear this presentation at a future NPPC meeting.

Inquiring minds want to know:  Can community members request that information items be placed on meeting agendas? Or is the Chair the only person who can place items on the agenda? The NPPC bylaws don’t address this.


Revising San Diego’s ADU Regulations
to Mitigate Impact

 
 Citing “unintended negative consequences,” Sean Elo-Rivera has presented Mayor Todd Gloria with a list of revisions to San Diego’s ADU regulations, which exceed state guidelines by allowing more small housing units on single-family lots. The revisions include:

— Increased Affordability: Most ADUs are market-rate rentals.
— Urban Tree Canopy Preservation: ADU construction has wiped out mature shade trees and other neighborhood landscaping.

— Privacy: Neighbors of multi-story ADU buildings could install taller fences and trees.

— Enforcement: A more robust enforcement model would target “serial bad actors that have taken advantage of lax enforcement” (including “large corporate enterprises”) “to the significant frustration of the neighbors of those neglectful property owners.”

— Speculation Mitigation: To address how San Diego ADU regulations have generated “giveaways for corporate investors looking to maximize their profits with no care for their impact on the neighborhood,” Development Impact Fees (DIFs) would be reinstated for ADU builders that are not owner-occupiers.

— Parking Policies: “Residential parking permits for all single-family zones in Transit Priority Areas would limit the number of permits provided to any one parcel, regardless of the number of ADUs on that parcel."

Neighbors for a Better San Diego thanked Elo-Rivera for taking this first step but emphasized that San Diego’s negligent ADU regulations need more drastic revisions: “We must continue the fight to shape the scope and nature of those amendments so they will better protect our neighborhoods from ADU projects that are out of scale with single-family neighborhoods.”
 

TWO ACTION ITEMS
YOU CAN TAKE IN TWO MINUTES

 

All of us need to speak out and stand up for our neighborhoods. Please take a minute to:

Ask the NPPC Board to include more informational agenda items of interest to the communityEmail: info@northparkplanning.orgaria.pounaki@gmail.com 

Urge our District 3 Councilmember Stephen Whitburn to join forces with Elo-Rivera in pursuing ADU regulation revisions.
Email: StephenWhitburn@sandiego.govRDarsey@sandiego.gov 

*SoNo Neighborhood Alliance is a non-profit that informs and engages residents of North Park and Golden Hill/South Park about neighborhood quality-of-life issues that include:​ ​​land use and development, traffic, green space, parking, and code compliance.​


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