{"id":448809,"date":"2026-08-31T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448809\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T12:42:10","slug":"plan-to-create-walkable-bikeable-neighborhoods-is-flawed-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/448809\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan to create walkable, bikeable neighborhoods is flawed \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 27 years in Kensington and now an older adult, I have returned to my old neighborhood of Hillcrest. As others have stated, the rapid, high-rise construction of leased units without parking is astounding.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the need for \u201cgrowth, housing and change,\u201d yet if the city is creating walkable and bikeable neighborhoods, it should include services such as affordable grocery stores or bodegas, a pharmacy, a library, etc., within walking distance.<\/p>\n<p>Many of us were hoping for some of these ground-floor services in these huge and high-rent buildings. We have enough gyms. How about considering the needs of the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ann Rubenstein, Hillcrest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 27 years in Kensington and now an older adult, I have returned to my old neighborhood of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-448809","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\/448809","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=448809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}