Opinion: University City community plan updates can make our neighborhoods and businesses healthier [Opinion]
to San Diego’s success in accommodating current and future travel demand and serves as a catalyst for future business and residential development.
San Diego, like all cities, has planning and development regulations that govern the location and intensity of development in a given community. The University City community plan determines what can be built in University City, Sorrento Valley and the Torrey Mesa, and it plans for bicycle, pedestrian and bus facilities for the community. Thehas been nearly built out and is now prohibiting the community from realizing the full benefits of the Mid-Coast Trolley Extension.
The current plan limits development of new homes and commercial space, including life science laboratories and offices — the exact types of places that drive San Diego’s prosperity. Pedestrians and bicyclists are also negatively impacted by this outdated plan as the infrastructure surrounding most trolley stations is not conducive to walking or cycling and will require long-range planning to accommodate these alternative modes of transportation.
The University Community Plan Update — a public process that has been ongoing for over five years — is critical to enable the growth of the community and the necessary public improvements needed to accommodate this growth. In addition to accommodating future development and growth of both, industry and housing, the community plan update will provide a safe street network for bicyclists and pedestrians and ensures buses can operate quickly and efficiently.
The San Diego Association of Governments spent $2.2 billion to create the Mid-Coast Trolley Extension and the city — as the most important member of the association — has an obligation to taxpayers to realize its full potential and ensure we build upon these investments as it continues the University Community Plan Update process.
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