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payer funds to the Spanos family, let them. But the people of San
Diego should go to school about their past mistakes — a la the Bruce Henderson saga so well documented by Mr. Potter — and tell the billionaire Spanos fam- ily they can put their new stadium anywhere they like as long as it’s on their own nickel, just like most other American business men and women have been doing since 1776!
Mike MacCarthy Clairemont
Hillcrest Is the Solution Great article on Hillcrest (City Lights, February 11, “Hillcrest Hashes High-Rise Housing Heights”). You did a good job in presenting both sides of the issue. Hillcrest won an award from the American Plan-
ners Association a few years ago for being one of the top ten neighborhoods in the United States. It was praised for its balance of housing density, walkability, green space, and amenities. But for some strange reason, outsiders are constantly demanding that Hillcrest change. The reasons they give are that it is not dense enough, not sustainable, etc. This is nonsense. What is really going on is
that we have some property owners who think they are entitled to downtown prices for uptown land. And since they can’t sell their property for that amount of money, they pressure the city to rezone Hillcrest for higher densities — which means high-rise buildings — and then try to convince the gullible that this will result in more affordable housing. News flash: High-rises
are not affordable housing. They are expensive housing, and are only profitable for developers if they provide
luxury units. We who live in Hillcrest
value the beauty of our community. That beauty depends on front and back yards with landscaping. All of that would disappear with dense in-fill development where buildings took up the whole lot. If that happened, Hillcrest would no longer be walkable and beautiful, and people would no longer want to live here. It is also a fact that Hill-
crest has very few “through” streets because we are sur- rounded by canyons. So, increasing the population of Hillcrest by almost 50% would result in traffic grid- lock — which is already bad right now. Developers are not going to build high-rises without parking. So, “build- ing up” will not mean that people get out of their cars and take public transit. It is not Hillcrest that is
the problem when it comes to “smart growth” and cli- mate change. Hillcrest is the
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