Major Changes To San Diego's City Of Villages

28 September 2002 - 2:00pm

San Diego envisions a major shift in planning policy in its "City of Villages" plan.

This article reports on the latest developments of San Diego's"City of Villages" plan. In a huge shift in planning policy, theproposal aims to accommodate 349,000 more residents and 150,000 new homes over thenext 20 years. According to the article, if the plan is adopted, itwouldreplace guidelines for future development that have governed the city'sgrowth since the 1970s. It would form the basis for updating the city'sentire Progress Guide and General Plan, which was adopted in 1979 as thebasis for regulating local land use.

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, September 22, 2002
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