{"id":102655,"date":"2025-12-20T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/102655\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:31:07","slug":"why-believe-mayors-promises-on-future-of-college-area-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/102655\/","title":{"rendered":"Why believe mayor\u2019s promises on future of College Area? \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cS.D. OKs plans for College Area and Clairemont\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/12\/16\/a-missed-opportunity-san-diego-oks-sweeping-neighborhood-plan-for-college-area-more-modest-vision-for-clairemont\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dec. 17<\/a>): It\u2019s beyond disappointing that our City Council approved an ill-conceived plan to more than triple the College Area\u2019s population.<\/p>\n<p>Housing units would quadruple, to 34,000, with no assurances of much-needed fire and police stations, parks, an elementary school, more library parking and other basic infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Elo-Rivera, who represents the College Area, acknowledged the inequity but claimed he is satisfied by Mayor Gloria\u2019s \u201cassurances\u201d that those critical needs will be built somehow, some way, some day.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an absurd and transparently false promise, but only Raul Campillo had the integrity to oppose the plan.<\/p>\n<p>Our city has a $6 billion infrastructure deficit.<\/p>\n<p>City Hall can\u2019t balance its operating budget, despite imposing wildly unpopular fees for public parking and trash pickup.<\/p>\n<p>And just this week, La Jolla residents started a \u201ccrowdfunding\u201d campaign to replace a damaged rec center bench and play structure, because there\u2019s no funding available for that project.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Krueger, Talmadge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cS.D. OKs plans for College Area and Clairemont\u201d (Dec. 17): It\u2019s beyond disappointing that our City Council&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-102655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}