package<\/a> of preservation changes the City Council approved Feb. 24 that includes allowing the council to overrule the city\u2019s Historical Resources Board when the board designates a property historic.<\/p>\nThe package also allows developers to take advantage of the city\u2019s controversial Complete Communities incentive in Ocean Beach, as long as a property isn\u2019t the site of a historic cottage.<\/p>\n
SOHO says the city improperly relied on previous environmental impact reports analyzing other projects and proposals instead of creating a new one specifically for the preservation rule changes.<\/p>\n
SOHO also wants a judge to require the new EIR to analyze simultaneously a second, more robust package of proposed preservation updates that city officials plan to tackle this year.<\/p>\n
The second half of the package may include limiting property tax breaks for historic homes and eliminating automatic historical review for buildings when they reach 45 years old.<\/p>\n
The two packages together are called \u201cPreservation and Progress.\u201d<\/p>\n
The California Environmental Quality Act requires environmental impacts and mitigations for all parts of a project to be studied and approved together as the \u201cwhole of the action,\u201d SOHO argues in its writ.<\/p>\n
SOHO notes in the writ that the changes approved Feb. 24 were unanimously opposed by the Community Planners Committee, an umbrella group of neighborhood planning groups.<\/p>\n
\u201cHistoric places are an integral part of our environment and shared city identity,\u201d said Bruce Coons, the nonprofit\u2019s executive director.<\/p>\n
Developers and city officials praised the Feb. 24 changes as modest and sensible reforms that would boost the impact of dozens of pro-housing updates and policies the council has approved in recent years.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for City Attorney Heather Ferbert declined to comment, noting that Ferbert doesn\u2019t comment on pending litigation.<\/p>\n
For details on the approved and proposed historic preservation changes, visit sandiego.gov\/preservationandprogress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego\u2019s leading historic preservation group \u2014 Save Our Heritage Organisation \u2014 took legal action this week in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,2558,983,2559,3,111,79,2557],"class_list":["post-545716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-local-politics","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-science","tag-top-stories-sdut"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}