How Do You Pay For A City Of Villages?
For San Diego's 'City of Villages' concept, dollars, not density, are the real obstacle.
This editorial looks at San Diego's City of Villages blueprint,which "remains an essential plan for the future of San Diego." Despitethecitywide aversion to density, the general plan includes up to 108,000newhousing units by 2020. However, the real challenge, the editorial notes,isfinding the funds to build and fix needed infrastructure, such as theparksand libraries that would become the centerpiece of the envisionedvillages.With no new local revenue sources, the city will have to get creativeand"cobble together redevelopment money, community development block grantsand other funds while coordinating transportation, school and parkprojectsto produce village core revitalization."
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