[quote=AN]…I’m a established resident and I’m excited about the master plan. Not only will the master plan brings more parks and trails to the area, they will also bring in retail. Which means more restaurant options. Due to increase demand, this will, hopefully bring in more high end and more mom and pop restaurants. The masterplan is zoned in a way that bring the building up to the side walk, which will encourage walking. The retail will be mixed in with the residential to support both the residential and the workers working at the commercial areas.
Also, because of these two development, the main Mira Mesa park (corner of New Salem and Mira Mesa) will be completely rebuilt. It’s a $25M project and 2/3 of the cost will be footed by these two development. So, that’s a big improvement in quality of life for the current owners.[/quote]
AN, for you and your family’s sake, I hope the proposed developments turn out to be the assets to MM that you think they will be. Truly …. I DO!
But it sounds to me here as if you may have been lured into drinking from Big Developments’ lemonade stands. Chipping in $17M for a “community park” isn’t near enough consolation to a fairly small urban community for putting up with 9K+ more resident-vehicles, IMHO. The development(s) may very well be built as “walkable” communities but that doesn’t mean the tenants who rent there won’t own 1-2 vehicles per unit. Obviously, all these units will have to have parking. Hopefully, it will be underground. If most of the new residents will work in SV or the Golden Triangle, as everyone seems to think, than what’s the advantage of MM residents not needing to use freeways for their daily commute to work? All of them (incl the 9K or so EXTRA workers/vehicles) will be using the same surface streets during rush hours!
Maybe after MM is all built out with 6800 more units, lining up for the “two-vehs-per-green” fwy ramps will look like the better bet :=0
