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Years back, Mayor Todd Gloria — when he was not yet mayor — coined a term: “The San Diego Special.”
It was his way of describing a routine practice here, where large projects are endlessly debated, voted on, heard in court, delayed due to cost overruns, stalled in committee, but generally not completed so that leaders can move on to other issues.
San Diego Unified has a plan for that, as our Drew Sitton outlines in a new story.
Tasked with building attainable housing for 10% of its workforce, the district’s board has adopted a series of steps meant to San Diego Special-proof the effort.
For one, they’ve approved plans to build 3,000 units, even though just 1,350 are needed to hit its goal, in anticipation that some of its projects might not pan out. For another, they’ve struck deals with developers that explicitly say if anything goes awry, the second place bidder on the project can immediately take over.
They’ve also just diversified their bets overall. The district is building housing on six sites and they chose six different developers to do it. If they all go wrong at once, well, something very seriously went wrong.
In other news: The San Diego-based USS Boxer, including 2,200 Marines from Camp Pendleton, has deployed to the Mideast amid the ongoing war against Iran, as our Chris Jennewein reports.
Two San Diego-based littoral combat ships have docked in Singapore and could soon be headed to the Mideast for mine sweeping in the Strait of Hormuz
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Today’s top story
San Diego Unified enters the development game — and aims to avoid other public agencies’ struggles
By Drew Sitton • Times of San Diego
San Diego Unified overshoots its affordable housing goals so 10% of its workforce will still be housed if something goes wrong.
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Today’s opinion column
Opinion: Cesar Chavez betrayed Dolores Huerta — and all of us
In an instant, the Latino/Chicano community across the United States lost an icon, and we were suddenly left defending another.
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