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I also attended a conference recently with people from out of town and out of the country, and they were hesitant to leave the hotel to go to restaurants etc downtown because of all the homeless. Someone from India even said it’s looking worse than Mumbai. This isn’t good for our city. I sympathize with people who are on the street through no fault of their own (layoffs, medical/mental problems, etc) and there is no easy solution. As a more than decade long resident of East Village, my view is the quality of life has gone down, not up. Nothing significant has been built here in the last decade that benefits residents. We’ve been taunted with tales of various larger retail coming to the area for more than a decade, and it never materializes. Even Horton plaza is gone which at least was in walking distance. It seems like the only options downtown are either geared towards short term visitors (ballgame goers, conventions, etc) or homeless encampments. I honestly don’t know why anyone would want to live down here anymore. I’m trying to leave but it’s going to take awhile because housing is so expensive. I don’t mean to add a ton of negativity to this board, but I really hope the city planners do something to change the trajectory. I was so excited when I first moved downtown about 15 years ago. There was so much energy and excitement for the potential. But very little of that materialized, and now it’s a depressing collection of fleeting/failing businesses and urine soaked sidewalks. It’s extremely depressing and a huge missed opportunity. |
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Homelessness is going to take a long time to untangle, for sure.
But in the short term the city could do a lot more to address the overall cleanliness of downtown. I'm frequently shocked at just how filthy our core is. It's very common to see windblown trash, piles of soiled clothes, food waste, Starbucks cups, dog/human waste.. Frankly, it's embarrassing, and I don't understand why the city doesn't do more to clean up the core. |
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Regarding Lindbergh reaching capacity, what is the feasibility of all cargo activity being shifted to Brown Field? That would take a partial load off of SAN if things got too congested. Brown Field has a long run way and plenty of room to expand facilities. I wonder what % of takeoffs/landings are UPS, FedEx, and DHL?
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As it stands, Brown Field's runway is only 8000' long, too short for any serious cargo flights. The airport would acquire the junkyards to the west and east and extend the runway up to 11,000'. The problem came up with the ILS system, which lets aircraft land in bad weather. The airspace requirements for these things are huge, it forms a cone centered on the runway, 9 1/2 miles long and 3 1/4 miles wide at the far end. The cone slopes upward at 34:1, which puts a height limit of about 1500' at the far end. You also have to keep other aircraft out of the cone entirely, which will come up in a minute. Otay mountain is 6-ish miles from Brown and over 3000' feet tall, so an ILS approach from the east is out of the question. It's actually so tall and so close most aircraft can't safely descend fast enough to reach Brown after flying over it, which leads most to coming from the west and doing a tight 180 right before landing, not the sort of thing you'd really like seeing a loaded cargo plane do (although I've seen a few do it, and let me tell you it's quite a sight). That was figured out at the time, so the plans done up had the ILS pointing in the other direction. But that ran into the issue of NAS Imperial Beach, which is about 6 miles away to the west. You'd basically have to shut down the airbase every time a cargo plane landed. Naturally, the Navy wasn't very interested in shutting down "the busiest military airport in the nation" and the "the busiest helicopter airport in the world". This being San Diego the military is king, so that idea was pretty much dead. Without an ILS insurance and logistics became insurmountable issues for the major cargo carriers. There is a current project to revamp Brown Field which would include some cargo elements, but nothing with FexEx, UPS or the like. Anyway, it wouldn't actually do that much. Cargo is a lot more flexible than pax in terms of scheduling, they're very willing to be shifted around towards the least busy times, including landing at 3am (FYI the curfew only applies to takeoffs and passenger flights). Last study I saw showed removing all cargo from Lindbergh would only gain you a handful of percentage points in terms of capacity. |
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At the rate things are going, it seems like there is a greater chance of advances in aircraft technology allowing for greater capacity and adjusting the height limit downtown than relocating, but planes haven't physically changed that much for a long while... |
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Honestly, I think we gave up in the 90s, after the joint US-Mexico Twinports proposal collapsed in the midst of the War on Drugs and it became clear Miramar wasn't going to be closed by BRAC. The last real study I saw was from the late 90s, looked at every scrap of land in the County west of the coastal range. The only rules were you couldn't interfere with the military, couldn't require moving more than 3 million tons of earth, and would relocate more than 30,000 people. Just for comparison on those last two points, that's a similar amount of earthmoving and relocation as it takes to build major freeways and the like. And we still couldn't find a suitable spot. The 2006 referendum was more about getting the Airport out from under the Port, which had been using it as a piggybank for decades, and putting an end to the public debate over relocation so we could finally stop neglecting the airport we have. Very few people at the newly formed Authority expected it to pass. Quote:
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Honestly; enough about the airport and its effects on our skyline!
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Wow sounds like Hillcrest is going to be the new Hollywood lol. Maybe all the old boomers who constantly battled density in HC have thrown in the towel.
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Does anybody know what's going up on Home Ave and Gateway Dr I think?
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Do you guys think Peter Seidler's death will affect the Padres masssive development on the parking lot behind Petco? I wonder if it is too late for Stan Kroenke to do an arena there instead if the Padres are no longer interested in moving forward with those residential towers. I would much prefer a nice World Class arena there than in the Midway District. I haven't heard any updates on this project has anyone else? Maybe the higher interest rates are hurting its chances. :shrug:
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Saw a permit online for twin 40-story towers with a 23 story along with it in UTC just south of Costa Verde.
https://aca-prod.accela.com/SANDIEGO...howInspection= See "More Details" and then "Application Information". Kind of surprised by the height. I thought UTC was more impacted by MCAS Miramar. Anyone have any news or thoughts on this? |
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