8 San Diego Reader February 23, 2017


NEWS NEIGHBORHOOD Continued from page 6 “The citizens’ concerns and anger are


valid,” said mayor Juan Manuel “El Patas (the Feet)” Gastelum at a press conference on February 9th. “I’m not here to cry about it; I’m here to work.” The mayor also explained that Tijuana


will have to do without garbage collection for more than a month, since the issue cannot be resolved in a day. He blamed the previous administration for leaving dumpster trucks in poor condition and claimed only 30 out of 130 trucks were operable. He invited citi- zens to bring their garbage to city hall, where they placed extra dumpsters. This resulted in a protest on Saturday, February 11th, with dozens of citizens throwing their waste at city hall’s front doors. City workers promptly cleaned up. Gastelum faces other issues. Protests over


gasoline prices and higher transportation costs have resulted in the occasional blockage of the San Ysidro border crossing (mostly on Sundays). There’s been a spike in violent robberies, and 103 homicides were reported in January. A member of Gastelum’s cabinet, Luis Torres Santillán, was arrested in San Diego


ment in front of his Normal Heights house, Kevin G. used the city’s Get It Done app to ask the city to fix the street. But nothing happened and the complaint was closed. So he found a City of San Diego road crew and asked how to actually get it done. The supervisor he spoke with told him that


the spot was on the list of major repairs, but it wouldn’t be done until the utility under- grounding scheduled for the street was com- pleted. When would that be? Kevin says he called the city’s undergrounding department to find out. What he heard made things weird. “They told me they don’t know when it


Juan Manuel “El Patas (the Feet)” Gastelum


on December 16th on money-laundering charges. And the governor of the state and fel- low political party member, Francisco “Kiko” Vega, is being investigated for enrichment via public funds as well as dealing with mas- sive protests demanding his resignation in Mexicali, the capital city of the state of Baja. MATTHEW SUÁREZ


NORMAL HEIGHTS Street repair must wait Decades-long wire-undergrounding project goes first After a particularly hard crunch was suffered by his car’s front end on the really bad pave-


will be done,” Kevin said. “They’ve scrapped the master list and are setting up a new sched- ule in meetings over the next year. So no one knows.” Friends, a neighbor, and even a Normal


Heights planning-group member heard the same thing in the past month. The city has been working on more than


a thousand miles of city streets, putting utili- ties — SDG&E, SBC, AT&T, TimeWarner, and Cox Cable — underground since the 1970s. The project is slated to go on until 2063 and has been progressing in segments submitted by each council district and drawn up in a master plan that was last updated in 2009. The project aims to do about 15 miles of roadway per year, according to the city. The


2009 master plan was scrapped in late 2016. “The 2009 master plan was operating


using the old [city council] district bound- ary lines,” said city spokesman Anthony Santacroce. “Additionally, the program has new methods for making undergrounding projects more efficient, including a smarter prioritization sequence.” Santacroce said that the new master plan


will focus on residential areas first and will schedule segments to try to avoid construc- tion fatigue in the neighborhood where the work is being done. Kevin said he was told that the master


plan became unwieldy with scheduled sec- tions dropping out and being replaced by others, with jobs that went faster or slower than the plan and with community requests for delays. The eight-year-old master plan for a thousand miles of work done 15 miles at a time became useless, he said. So far, the city has held three meetings to


get public involvement. All the comments will lead to a draft plan expected to go to the city council for final approval in late fall of this year. In the meantime, the city’s Department of Transportation & Stormwater appears to be focused on street slurry and pothole filling, steering clear of the badly damaged roads that require major demolition and reconstruction. MARTY GRAHAM


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