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Opinion: San Diego Needs to 'Walk the Walk' and Create Pedestrian-Friendly Neighborhoods
Skip to content Home » Opinion » Opinion: San Diego Needs to ‘Walk the Walk’ and Create Pedestrian-Friendly Neighborhoods Envision your ideal neighborhood. Imagine the kinds of businesses there, the entertainment spaces, the homes. Now, in your perfect neighborhood, how far do you have to drive for essential services? How many miles to the nearest grocery store? Are the children living there walking to school, or do get dropped off in a long line of cars?
New Balboa Park Projects Lack Transparency and Design
Food trucks line Balboa Park on Friday nights throughout the summer. / Photo courtesy of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership Balboa Park is a jewel in continuous need of attention and stewardship. It suffers from years of deferred maintenance with the estimated shortfall of $285 million and rising. Recent projects and improvements have become controversial, and the reasons are perhaps twofold. First, there’s no clear public process to discuss park proposals.
Public deserves a voice in planning Mission Valley stadium site
The war over the future of San Diego’s Mission Valley stadium may be over, but the real battle has just begun. Voters rejected the 2,300-page SoccerCity initiative by a decisive 70-30 percent margin. They approved the competing SDSU West measure by a considerably smaller 55-45 percent count.
Dear San Diego Officials: Embrace the Scooter
A motorized scooter in San Diego. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz I have seen the future of downtown transportation, and it is fun. The electric scooters from Bird and Lime are the greatest mode of travel in San Diego since my grandma rode through Balboa Park in a convertible or cruised Broadway in a hot rod. The value of scootering is three-fold. First, getting around the city faster, easier and cheaper than in the old expensive convertible or gas-guzzling sports car is a big deal.
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space
DC's Martin Luther King Library back in the day... The Life and Death of a Masterpiece: What went wrong with a 1988 park by the late Dan Kiley, and what can we learn from its imminent demolition?" from Landscape Architecture). Even though the North Carolina National Bank Plaza was designed by a master, masters don't always create practical projects.
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