Opinion: San Diego has long needed a new City Hall and our new elected leaders can make it happen

And citizens who need to access the City Administration Building or City Operations Building — for a building permit, to pay a bill or to address their City Council — are similarly subjected to conditions not becoming of this great city. We can and must do better. It is time.

While the bad news is that not much has seemed to change for the last 25 years, the good news is that positive progress is afoot. We have a new mayor and City Council who are not afraid to make difficult decisions and fix the deferred messes left to them by their predecessors. Mayor Todd Gloria’s Civic Center Revitalization Citizens Committee is working to deliver recommendations on how the city should use its existing property Downtown to develop both a new City Hall and critical affordable housing. The mayor and City Council seem poised to support both goals.

The time is right to do something for San Diego, its employees and citizens. There is no time to waste. The elevators at the operations building went out last month and the contractor was challenged to fix them because it is difficult to find parts for systems of that vintage. Building a new City Hall is about all of us: The citizens who access their local government and the employees who deliver the city’s essential services. It is also about common sense. The arguments made to the San Diego City Council Rules Committee in 1997 were true then and have been true ever since. The thing that is different now — hopefully — is that elected officials and the citizens they serve are less inclined to spite their face.

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