Meanwhile, Micahel Zucchet, the general manager of MEA, also backed his man.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe work well with Gerardo at City Hall and have found him to be effective and responsive, and we think he will be a great councilmember,\u201d Zucchet said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City Hall Is Kinda Busted<\/p>\n
City Hall just can\u2019t seem to catch a break.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of this year, one or more of the four various elevators that serve the building have been out five times so far this calendar year. One is out currently.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nicole Darling, a city spokesperson, said it\u2019s because of the aging building and its aging systems. City Hall was built in the 1960s and \u201crequires ongoing maintenance to address systems that are beyond their service life,\u201d she wrote in an email.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There\u2019s long been talk of moving or replacing City Hall. But Darling said budget constraints have put those plans on hold.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conversations about the future of Civic Center Plaza remain alive<\/a> \u2014 but any redevelopment seems years away.\u00a0<\/p>\n Other buildings that make up the plaza like the city operations building have been riddled with plumbing, HVAC, and elevator breakdowns for the last decade<\/a>. The aging downtown buildings were a big reason why city officials tried to move city employees into 101 Ash \u2014 but as we know that didn\u2019t work out so great.\u00a0<\/p>\n Critter Corner: Porcupette Hot Out the Oven<\/p>\n Seems like the critters over at the San Diego Zoo can\u2019t stop getting busy. A pair of prehensile-tailed porcupines named Gracie<\/a> and Picante<\/a> recently gave birth to an as-of-now unnamed porcupette (yes, that\u2019s what they\u2019re called). This new porcupette is the happy couple\u2019s second bebe<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n These porcupines are native to South America and spend most of their time in trees. Their prehensile tails can function almost like a fifth limb, curling tightly around tree branches for balance or even to hang upside down to grab some tasty fruit.\u00a0<\/p>\n San Diego Unified Employee Housing Gets NYT Treatment<\/p>\n Next time you speak to your cousin who moved to the Big Apple, you may have something new to brag about. The New York Times recently ran a piece profiling San Diego Unified\u2019s unprecedented slate of affordable employee housing projects<\/a>. The Gray Lady described the effort to build about 2,500 units of housing as \u201cthe largest project of its kind in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n As is frequently the case when national media comes parachuting in, we were about eight months early on this<\/a>. And as the NYT reporting suggests, it\u2019s hard to overemphasize how big of a deal San Diego Unified\u2019s projects could be. The district genuinely is pioneering a new approach to affordable workforce housing. Officials hope it won\u2019t just lessen the financial burden on teachers, but also lead to a housing paradigm shift.\u00a0<\/p>\n See Jessica? San Diego\u2019s not just about weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/T2026_0316_051-1024x683.jpg\")
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