[CPEO-IRF] Navy Broadway viewpoint (San Diego, CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Doug Is Not the Problem
If you're concerned about the plans for the city's crown jewel of 
potential developments, don't blame the developer. City leaders brought 
us here and they're shrugging their shoulders now.

Scott Lewis
Voice of San Diego (CA)
October 16, 2006

As readers of the Scott Lewis on Politics, or SLOP, blog know, I've been 
spending time these last couple of weeks trying to educate myself about 
the Navy Broadway Complex and the difficult decisions that are being 
made about it right now.

This is the city's front porch -- or at least part of it. It's an 
incredibly valuable plot of land that may in fact be one of the most 
attractive development opportunities along the entire California coast. 
On the edge of downtown, its prime placement has provoked many San 
Diegans to dream about what it could be -- whether it could be 
transformed into a gathering place worthy of the acclaim of some of the 
great waterfront cities of the world.

But it's the Navy's property right now, and the city signed a deal with 
the Navy long ago that governs what will happen to it.

A Jan. 1 deadline on that agreement is fast approaching. City leaders of 
all stripes are struggling with the decision about whether to miss the 
deadline and toss the future of the complex into the air, or whether to 
meet the deadline and allow developer Doug Manchester to proceed with 
his plans for the area.


...

For the entire column, see
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2006/10/16/opinion/01lewisnbc.prt

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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