[CPEO-IRF] San Diego Broadway Complex (CA) surprise clause

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Got power?
Fine print might give City Council surprise authority over bayside Navy
development


by Eric Wolff
San Diego City Beat (CA)
August 18, 2006


Conventional wisdom makes the Doug Manchester-led development of the Navy
Broadway Complex seem like a runaway train, a boulder rolling downhill or
any other irresistible force metaphor one can imagine. Even San Diego City
Council members believe they have no power to stand in the way beyond
raising such a huge public ruckus that Manchester radically revises the
plans. The Centre City Development Corporation (CCDC) might decide to vote
down the design at their Sept. 27 meeting, but, then again, they might not.

Maybe San Diegans need to reread the fine print on their deal with the
Navy, and with CCDC. Because the 1992 development agreement says only CCDC
can vote down the design submitted to them. And CCDC�s contract with the
San Diego Redevelopment Agency says they have to do what the agency says.
And the Redevelopment Agency board of directors is�brace yourself�the
City Council. So, then, does the City Council have a genuine say after all,
or are they merely reduced to the role of populist noisemakers so many seem
to think?

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=4686

 
-- 
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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