Opinion: As University City grows, the community will need more multi-family housing near transit [Opinion]
is the executive director of Our Time to Act United, a youth-organizing nonprofit, and a junior at UC San Diego studying political science. He lives in University City.Planning the future of our community can be a high-stakes ordeal. The University City community has been locked into a community plan that was made in 1987, over 35 years ago.
Youth are stakeholders of the current plan process because we are the tenants and homeowners of new developments decades into the future. Beyond that, we also have the ability to reimagine our lived environment in a way that can benefit all of us. Youth residents do not presume to know exactly what this community will look like over 35 years from now, but what we do know is that our diverse family of San Diegans is growing. For what it’s worth, I welcome all of the new residents who come seeking the vast opportunities, rich culture and beautiful scenery San Diego has to offer. And whether our community as a whole welcomes them or not, they will come. What we hope to do is create a plan that will embrace our current and future neighbors.
That is why an intergenerational group of community members is coming together to seek change. We often hear about some of the drawbacks of multi-family, mixed-use housing, but we don’t hear about the transformational impact this type of housing can have on our quality of life, economy and climate. Growing up in both single-family and multi-family homes, my own experience has informed my enthusiastic support for multi-family, mixed-use housing. Surprisingly, the origin of many of the problems we face traces back to the car and our nation’s dependency on it. Many view the car as a symbol of freedom — personally, I only felt like an “adult” when I drove alone for the first time instead of when I turned 18.
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