Good points Enron, but I would add to your list of priorities reforming San Diego’s looming pension disaster.
The proposed bayfront project faces another hurdle I haven’t seen anyone address: transportation getting to the new high density venues. Look at an overhead map of the area and you have to ask, how will people get there? In most cities, cars (or buses, or trains, etc.) can converge on a location from all directions–think Phoenix, Dallas, or Las Vegas. In San Diego, with our glorious waterfront closing off half of the entrypoints (ignoring the possibility of ferries), customers must travel through either downtown or along the already congested waterfront NE or SE of the destination. What impact will this have on the rest of the area and its residents? And shouldn’t any increased spending on transportation improvements be added to the cost side of the proposed projects?
