Ok, we get it. San Diego is awesome. What are some things you'd like to see improved within 10 years? (San Francisco: real estate, apartments)

[The Flying Dutchman]

I'm not running for mayor [yet], but after all these threads raving about San Diego and/or ranting against it, my question goes out to you guys:

Please state the area you live in and what you'd like to see accomplished in the next decade regarding neighborhoods, jobs, infrastructure, etc.

Example:

I currently live in East Village. I would love it if more developers came to that side of town and built job centers/public parks/community areas/etc. Basically I would like it to become the San Francisco of the South. (wishful dreaming, but hey, it's a start.)

Dare to dream big, San Diego...

-TFD

[kettlepot]

I live in Talmadge. I would like our neighborhood of 8000 to have a park, and a neighborhood coffee shop or cafe.

More broadly, I would like Mid-City to have direct access to the Trolley. It really is silly that the most densely populated part of San Diego is the area the Trolley decided it wouldn't build a route. Though I read a route is planned for around midcentury.

Tear down the Huffmans - by any means necessary.

[oddstray]

I live in RP. I would like some decent public transportation up here. I'm tired of having to get in the car to do anything at all.

[NYSD1995]

Infrastructure investment - parks, roads, transportation, etc
Some sort of economic development plan that doesn't revolve around real estate development and tourism

[skeke]

Trash picked up regularly along our freeways. Roads resurfaced in so many residential areas.

[echo42]

I advocate slow to no growth in housing. I would like to see San Diego (city and county) curtail housing starts along the I 15 corridor and the continuing development of Otay Lakes Road. I would like to see the focus put on improving the existing infrastructure we have as opposed to creating more. Wider freeways, better transportation, parks, more safety..etc.

I know you cant do these things without growing the tax base, so if building was a necessity, I would focus on building out our urban potential. Going up instead of side ways. San Diego has been very conservative with it's sky line. If there is room for growth, that is what I would suggest. Go up. Not out and preserve our open space.

I know somebody really smart is going to say none of this is possible, but it is just my utopian plan.

[malcorub16]

I live in Lakeside and I wish the trolley passed in front of my house. and went non-stop into Mission Valley for me. or maybe to the airport like the light rail in Seattle.

It's great to have a trolley in Santee only 6-7 minute drive from my house, but I still have to drive there and it takes about 30 minutes to get into Mission Valley and 35 minutes to get into downtown. Even if I lived right on the trolley line, driving is still faster and in most cases less expensive depending on the number of passengers and if I have to pay for parking.

I do however use the trolley a few times a year for leisure for games, visiting downtown...etc. For those of you that wished for the trolley coming into your neighborhood, would you really use it to commute?

I wish our taxis were not so expensive, this might cut down on DUI fatalities and DUI's all together. A taxi ride from the border to downtown once cost me $35 dlls, the reason I took it, I missed the last trolley. So I also wish for 24 hour trolley service.

[SEAandATL]

Mass transit options. That would improve quality of life a lot. Most of my frustration when I lived in San Diego came from driving and finding parking. I hate living in places where you need a car to get around. I love cities like Tokyo and London.

[Think4Yourself]

In the next 10 years I'd like to see the density go up in the downtown area so that it becomes more like a real city instead of just a place for tourists to visit and that means we'll have to have more high rise apartments AND office buildings so people can both live and work downtown. I'd like to see light rail expanded especially the trolley expansion to UCSD/UTC (and maybe even to Sorrento Valley). Also we need to work on our urban parks so that they provide both better habitate for wild life as well as more recreational opportunities for residents. An excellent idea is the San Diego Canyon Lands Regional Park (Canyon Enhancement Planning (CEP) Program ); we have a lot of little undeveloped canyons which together make up a large amount of area but most of them are no longer connected because they've been bisected by roads so reconnecting them with pedastrian tunnels or bridges could reconnect these fragmented parts created a very large, contiguous, and very useable wild lands park right in the heart of the city. This park would also connected fragmented habitats for wildlife making them into one large and thus more sustainable place for wildlife populations.

[Think4Yourself]

Originally Posted by echo42

I advocate slow to no growth in housing.

One of the biggest problems for our region is that so many people can't afford housing and, sadly, we're now out of room to expand out so we're going to have to expand up. In other words, San Diego is going to have to become a real city other wise we're going to become a place where only the wealthy elite can live and we won't be able to find people to work in those blue collar jobs every city needs to stay alive.