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January 23, 2012 at 4:26 PM #736624January 23, 2012 at 4:57 PM #736627enron_by_the_seaParticipant
What are our priorities as a city?
1. repair our roads and transport?
2. Fund our schools and colleges?
3. Build new transport to commute in the city?
4. Solve our water problem?
5. Improve quality of living for citizens?
6. Get rid of structural budget deficit without gimmicks?OR
Start another mega-project with legally questionable means, based on laughable studies performed by people with conflicted interests that only benefit the mega-rich in the city based on an editorial of a paper who was bought out by developer?
This while we already have an example of another project similar to this completely ruining the fiscal health of the city less than 10 years ago.
I don’t know about you but they say fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me!
January 24, 2012 at 6:36 AM #736645EconProfParticipantGood 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? -
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